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Financing Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in Thailand
Panarat Anamwathana; Huff, Gregg - In: Financial history review 29 (2022) 1, pp. 1-28
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"By a silken thread" : regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2012
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …
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North Korea : the last transition economy?
Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020
. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea …
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China’s Great Convergence and Beyond
Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 333-362
A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical account of China’s rise, fall, and...
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Size and dynastic decline: The principal-agent problem in late imperial China, 1700–1850
Sng, Tuan-Hwee - In: Explorations in Economic History 54 (2014) C, pp. 107-127
This paper argues that China's size was one reason behind its relative decline in the nineteenth century. A ruler governing a large country faces severe agency problems. Given his monitoring difficulties, his agents have strong incentives to extort the taxpayers. This forces him to keep taxes...
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From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History behind China's Economic Boom
Brandt, Loren; Ma, Debin; Rawski, Thomas G. - In: Journal of Economic Literature 52 (2014) 1, pp. 45-123
China's long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable challenge to economic historians. The Qing Empire (1644-1911), the world's largest national economy before 1800, experienced a tripling of population during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with no signs of diminishing per capita...
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BEYOND IRAQ:The Future of World Order
Acharya, Amitav (contributor); Katsumata, Hiro (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
How does the Iraq War affect the future world order? What kinds of problems has this war brought about, and what is … essays exploring these issues, written by leading scholars in their respective fields. Importantly, the Iraq War has caused … numerous long-term security and economic problems in Iraq (Chapter 1) and in the Middle East (Chapter 2). In addition, this war …
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The More Divergent, the Better? Lessons on Trilemma Policies and Crises for Asia
Aizenman, Joshua; Ito, Hiro - In: Asian Development Review 31 (2014) 2, pp. 21-54
This paper investigates the potential impacts of the degree of divergence in open macroeconomic policies in the context of the trilemma hypothesis. Using an index that measures the extent of policy divergence among the three trilemma policy choices—monetary independence, exchange rate...
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New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Goetzmann, William; Rouwenhorst, K. Geert; Frehen, Rik G.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The first global financial bubble in stock prices occurred 1720 in Paris, London and the Netherlands. Explanations for these linked bubbles primarily focus on the irrationality of investor speculation and the corresponding stock price behavior of two large firms: the South Sea Company in Great...
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Myopia or strategic behavior? Indian regimes and the East India Company in late eighteenth century India
Oak, Mandar; Swamy, Anand V. - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 352-366
Mysore War, and find that the Company's allies were not myopic. The British parliament had, in 1784, passed Pitt's India Act …
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