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The yield of Taiwan's semiconductor industry has reached the mark of NT$900 billion in year 2002 after two decades of efforts. In fact, Taiwan has ranked the world fourth in production scale of semiconductor and played a crucial role in this industry worldwide. Mainland China is with the advantages of significant domestic market, inexpensive labor, and productive land. Moreover, preferential tariff, therefore, it is a market with great incentive to the general public. The semiconductor industry is in an early stage in Mainland China. However, international corporations are willing to invest and build up semiconductor industry there, therefore, it is a market with potentials. Taiwan's semiconductor industry is with industrial cluster effect and with sufficient experience in manufacturing process and business operation. That operation is beyond the reach of Mainland China. Taiwan and Mainland China share the same culture. Therefore, Taiwan understands Chinese market and management better than Europe, America, and Japan. Mainland China represents a great opportunity to Taiwan. However, it may become a threat if a responsive strategy is not formed properly.

In the early stage, the fixed exchange rate policy was established in Taiwan, with focus on the exchange of NT Dollar to US dollar. After undergoing the changes of flexible exchange rate system, the regulation of exchange rate gradually renovates. On January 30, 1991, the exchange rate system changed to a managed floating system that allows the exchange rate to be more liberal. The spot USD trading price is no longer restricted by the upper or lower limit among banks, and the negotiation of trading price is completely free. As the exchange for NTD to USD becomes more liberal, the issue of the factors behind the price fluctuation on NTD to USD has become an interesting subject to study. This paper investigates Taiwan¡¦s foreign exchange market in order to discover the factors that cause the price volatility, whether it is private information or macroeconomic news announcement of public information. This study examines the exchange rate occurred every 15 minutes during January 5, 1992 to November 27, 2001. Given the result that the increase of macroeconomic news announcement does not increase the volatility, the volatility in Taiwan¡¦s foreign exchange market is mainly caused by private information, not public information. Although the return variance is comparatively higher than the return variance in other normal time period during the macroeconomic news announcement, the highest return variance before the trade close does not occur at the time of public news announcement. It represents that the occurrence of volatility is not affected by the macroeconomic news announcement. If foreign exchange volatility is not affected by macroeconomic news announcement of public information, then private information might be the major factor affecting the price volatility. The findings are as follows: 1. The volatility in trading period is much higher than the volatility in non-trading period, demonstrating the existence of ¡§exchange message effectiveness¡¨. Meanwhile, it also states that public information is not the only information existing in the market. Even at the most efficient market, the informative pricing has reflected all the public information. The macroeconomic news announcement of public information would not affect the price volatility, the asset pricing volatility is affected by the private information. 2. Trading time become longer which makes the informed trader not necessary to trade in a hurry, diverging the volatility of transaction. 3. The volatility at closing period increases because of the occurrence of private information. It may downgrade to public information during non-trading period. People holding valuable private information would trade before the market is close. Concluded from above, it can be discovered that the private information has played an important role incurring the large volatility in Taiwan¡¦s foreign exchange market.

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In this dissertation, three essays are presented that apply recent advances in time-series methods to the analysis of inflation and stock market index data for Taiwan. Specifically, ARCH and GARCH methodologies are used to investigate claims of increased volatility in economic time-series data since 1980. In the first essay, analysis that accounts for structural change reveals that the fundamental relationship between inflation and its variability was severed by policies implemented during economic liberalization in Taiwan in the early 1980s. Furthermore, if residuals are corrected for serial correlation, evidence in favor of ARCH effects is weakened. In the second essay, dynamic linkages between daily stock returns and daily trading volume are explored. Both linear and nonlinear dependence are evaluated using Granger causality tests and GARCH modelling. Results suggest significant unidirectional Granger causality from stock returns to trading volume. In the third essay, comparative analysis of the frequency structure of the Taiwan stock index data is conducted using daily, weekly, and monthly data. Results demonstrate that the relationship between mean return and its conditional standard deviation is positive and significant only for high-frequency daily data.

Since year 2004, the advantage of low material cost in Southeast Asia and Mainland China have enabled them to hold standard fastener market. Taiwan¡¦s manufacturers have thus changed and even lost their competitiveness on standard fastener parts due to the increasing cost. The only way to face this global trend is to keep away from the price competition and adopt an active marketing strategy such as making use of fasteners¡¦ association and convenient internet. These two advantages not only integrate Taiwan¡¦s suppliers but allow them to do a long-term marketing strategy to their customers, provide them with better service and further satisfy customers¡¦ needs. The standard parts have been the main products of big manufacturers since post 80s as the market demand a bigger quantity of the standard parts than the special ones. For that reason, big manufacturers lacked the experience of producing nonstandard parts. They concerned about utilization ratio, so they spent less time in researching and developing special parts. On the contrary, the facility restriction made small manufacturers incapability of making big quantities of standard parts, then forced them to spend more time developing special parts. However, they were not capable of selling their products overseas but to depend on trading companies to push their products all over the world. This in-depth research generalizes company A¡¦s marketing integration strategy, which satisfy its customers and keep its growth rate without being threatened by low-cost countries like Southeast Asia and Mainland China and so on. This strategy includes relationship marketing plus support of suppliers. Based on trust and commitment, Company A gets to connect and build a long-term beneficiary relationship with its customers. In addition, the ability and integration of suppliers play an important role in fulfilling the marketing integration strategy.

In this dissertation, three essays are presented that apply recent advances in time-series methods to the analysis of inflation and stock market index data for Taiwan. Specifically, ARCH and GARCH methodologies are used to investigate claims of increased volatility in economic time-series data since 1980. In the first essay, analysis that accounts for structural change reveals that the fundamental relationship between inflation and its variability was severed by policies implemented during economic liberalization in Taiwan in the early 1980s. Furthermore, if residuals are corrected for serial correlation, evidence in favor of ARCH effects is weakened. In the second essay, dynamic linkages between daily stock returns and daily trading volume are explored. Both linear and nonlinear dependence are evaluated using Granger causality tests and GARCH modelling. Results suggest significant unidirectional Granger causality from stock returns to trading volume. In the third essay, comparative analysis of the frequency structure of the Taiwan stock index data is conducted using daily, weekly, and monthly data. Results demonstrate that the relationship between mean return and its conditional standard deviation is positive and significant only for high-frequency daily data.

This study reviews the changes in Taiwan's newspaper industry during its current period of transition. Contemporary newspaper development in Taiwan after the lifting of martial law in July 1987 is evaluated in relation to transformations in the newspaper marketplace, journalistic practices, labor relations, and freedom of expression. This study concludes that changes in Taiwan's newspaper business are closely related to changes in the country's political atmosphere. The lifting of the Ban of Newspaper brought freedoms for which journalists had fought for decades; however, journalistic quality has not improved at the same speed. Changes will continue in the journalism industry; whether it grows in a healthy way is a topic for future study.

台灣電影在不同的時期，負有不同的意識型態任務，早期的政策電影用來凝聚國民黨「正統中國」的意識，並有打擊台獨與反共的重要責任。隨著社會的開放，政策電影漸被淘汰，八○年代新電影興起，對過去「中國」論述具有汰舊換新的作用，將台灣本土意識的抬頭帶進電影中，並在八○年代末期的台灣電影中出現多元的國族論述。九○年代台灣電影活躍於國際影展，成為新的國族寓言，但也不免為了迎合西方的口味而加強自身的「東方形象」，逐漸有「中心化」的趨勢。

Since 1996, the president of Taiwan's implementation of universal suffrage since 2010 in 14 years, There have been twice to replace the regime of peace, Taiwan's policy toward mainland China in the political division of the two major political parties - the KMT and DDP and also so the identity of the ruling and opposition parties quickly converted twice. Taiwan's political environment has undergone an unprecedented rapid changes. This article by David Easton's system theory as a general theory and approaches, Looks forward to further establishing a political party as the core of the local theory, Analysis of Taiwan's political parties since 1996 in the "internal and external environment ¡÷ demand and input ¡÷ feedback and output ¡÷ re-enter to the internal and external environment" and what role in the political process? As well as how the policies of mainland China affected? ¡@This article has found, political parties in the system theory are not only pressure groups for Political authority, And active in the political system's internal, external and boundary, And can be further repression of political authority, the completion of its own expectations of mainland policy. Political parties, both ruling party or opposition parties or unified government or divided government, the political parties can control congress, congressional paralysis, cooperation with other political system, increased support by social mobilization, the creation of political controversy and use other methods to pressure on the political authority. Finally, this article believes that with the cooperation of the KMT and the China Communist Party platform, the KMT has similar status of political authority in Taiwan's policy toward mainland China.