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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459015
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Trade and Empire
Mitchener, Kris James - 2008
Although many modern studies find large and significant effects of prior colonial status on bilateral trade, there is very little empirical research that has focused on the contemporaneous impact of empire on trade. We employ a new database of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464882
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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present
Demetriades, Panicos O. - 2010
We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that the government expenditures and international trade did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462195
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AI and the Economy
Furman, Jason - 2018
We review the evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is having a large effect on the economy. Across a variety of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453031
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The Link Between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development
Keller, Wolfgang - 2013
The paper introduces a framework for studying the hierarchy of growth factors, from deep to more immediate. The specific setting we examine is 18th and 19th century Germany, when institutional changes introduced by reforms and transportation improvements converged to create city growth. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459845
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Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
We study linkages between financial development, international trade, and long-run growth using data since 1880 for seventeen now-developed "Atlantic" economies and a set of cross-country and dynamic panel data models. We find that finance and trade reinforced each other before 1930, but that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461634
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Australian Growth : A California Perspective
McLean, Ian W. - 2001
economy that remained a region in a much larger national economy with one that evolved into an independent political unit …
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The decline of Latin American economies : growth, institutions, and crises
Edwards, Sebastian (ed.) - 2007
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China’s Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
. Employing several outcome measures, we show that Western influence generated significant benefits to China's economy, and the …The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481413
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Introduction to "China's Growing Role in World Trade"
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2009
Over the last three decades, the value of Chinese trade has approximately doubled every four years. This rapid growth has transformed the country from a negligible player in world trade to the world's second largest exporter, as well as a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463931