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 …

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

Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of …

, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio …

peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …