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The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020
Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824549
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Unified China and Divided Europe
Ko, Chiu Yu - 2017
This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We argue that a severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered centralization in China while Europe faced a wider variety of smaller external threats and remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973583
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Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence : A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850
Koyama, Mark; Moriguchi, Chiaki; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - 2015
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132189
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Geo-Political Disputes between India- China
Suresh, Devare - 2015
Sino-Indian relationship also called Indo China relations refers to international relationship between the ‘Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of India. The economic and diplomatic importance of China and India which are two of the oldest civilization and have coexisted in peace for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132306
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A Chinese Amphibious Invasion of Taiwan : An Estimate of Military Feasibility
Eremenko, Paul - 2006
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has a long-standing territorial claim on the Republic of China (ROC), more commonly known as Taiwan. This document is an analysis of the potency of the Chinese threat to launch an amphibious invasion across the Taiwan Strait with the objective of annexation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056972
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Unified China; Divided Europe
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 faced a wider variety of smaller external threats and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107666
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Poisoned Milk and the Poisoning of Democracy : Some Cautions about China Trade and Taiwan Sovereignty
Kopel, David B. - 2015
-government - has been significantly enhanced by investment from Taiwan itself. China's trade policies are directed for political … problem, Taiwan should make sure that all trade policy decisions are made with long-term security considerations foremost … possible steps to promote trade with Taiwan's non-Chinese regional neighbors. Look for ways to orient Taiwan's Foreign Direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213396
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Land, men, taxation : an application to pre-modern China and Europe ; Erik Jones' European miracle revisited
Blankart, Charles B. - 2014
Eric Jones has found that excessive taxes were detrimental for pre-modern China's economic growth whereas moderate taxes were conducive for Europe's economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible...
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From Exclusion to Exclusivity : Chinese American Property Ownership and Discrimination in Historical Perspective
Szto, Mary - 2018
Chinese investors are now the largest number of foreign investors in US residential and commercial real estate. Many buy in upscale, exclusive markets. It is little known, however, that in the past Chinese faced severe property discrimination in the US. This paper traces three eras of Chinese...
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The Costs of Freedom : New Institutional Comparison of China's and the U.S.'s Responses to the Financial Collapse
Davis, Kent - 2013
Starting with the framework of New Institutional Economics, this Comment examines the institutional arrangements of Chinese and U.S. governance, and then scrutinizes their respective policy responses to the financial collapse of 2008. The latent thesis is that, notwithstanding differences in...
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