Ko, Chiu Yu; Koyama, Mark; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We … argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe … faster population growth during peacetime than in Europe. But it also meant that China was relatively fragile in the event of …