A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical account of China’s rise, fall, and...

China's long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable challenge to economic historians. The Qing Empire (1644-1911), the world's largest national economy before 1800, experienced a tripling of population during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with no signs of diminishing per capita...

We model a game to show that the taxation level in an autocracy reflects the state¡¯s coercive power relative to people¡¯s capacity for violence. The model also specifies the mechanisms through which various factors affect relative state power. The model predicts that taxation level...

This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly...

This paper presents findings from a content analysis of all 460 Dear Lawyer Bao (DLB) legal advice columns ever published in its ten-year history (1989-98) in the Beijing Evening News. While much sociolegal research has focused on the exercise of power in the legal process through the control of...

Legal systems throughout East Asia are in the midst of rapid and potentially fundamental change, across a range of legal fields. This paper, prepared for a conference on the potential effects of 9/11 on legal and social change in East Asia, examines East Asian legal reforms in the areas of...

Despite the opening of the market and partly privatisation of state-owned companies in China, the state still represents the controlling shareholder in larger companies. By analysing the weaknesses of Chinese corporate governance we illustrate the framework for harmful corruption. China is...

The Long Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) was one of the most aggressive lenders to real estate developers during the 1990s. Its financing activities covered the Pacific, including Australia, Vietnam, Saipan and Hawaii, as well as parts of the continental United States. Once one of Japan's three...

Through analysis of two recent cases, one Israeli and one British this paper advances a deliberative paradigm with which to understand emerging global, meta-constitutional norms, such as prohibition against torture, enforced through transitional adjudication. More specifically, this paper...