I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East …

measures "simultaneously" supporting industries in different development stages from labour and capital-intensive to high …-reduction-oriented labour-industry promotion vs overall productivity increase; and complementary role of IT services for industrial …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, highlighting its persistent effect on … development, it has had a detrimental effect on standards of living in the long-run. Exploiting exogenous source of regional …

China's growth path and the growth paths of other East Asia economies at a similar stage of development. The growth paths of …

development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic … lower economic development only during the Second Industrial Revolution, but not before. Schooling appears to be the key …. Religious education, in turn, was negatively associated with industrial development about 10 to15 years later, when school …

determined by the industrial development triggered by changes in domestic demand, increases in FDI, intensive innovation efforts … examines the applicability of the development stage theory for explaining the growth dynamics of industrial production in Asian …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …