(horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan's cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century. We find that …

evidence that Japan exported low quality manufactured goods to new, low-income destinations. Instead, reductions in trade costs … helped Japan augment market share. Exit is relatively rare but appears to be determined by market-specific demand …

Japan's successful industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th century largely exhausted its then abundant … resources curse that undermined its prior state-led industrialization strategy. Japan's post-WWII reconstruction relied little … natural resources. Rather than exemplifying rapid development in the absence of natural resources, Japan shows how laissez …

An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected …

industrialization in 8 developed countries. Because earlier efforts have been stymied by lack of reliable measures of mortality, the … net nutrition during the growing years. Based on this measure, health improved uniformly during industrialization in … deterioration, especially in England, Australia, and Japan. Public health policy, diets, and business cycles were also important for …

of finance-led industrialization …