We analyze the relationship between pre-colonial warfare and long-run development patterns in India. We construct a new geocoded database of historical interstate conflicts on the Indian subcontinent, from which we compute measures of local exposure to pre-colonial warfare. We document a...

We test the reproducibility and replicability of Dincecco et al. (2022), which reports a positive relationship between pre-colonial interstate warfare and long-run development patterns across India. Overall, we confirm that all of the study's estimates are computationally reproducible by using...

The state-business relationship in the 1960s and 70s was a vertical one where the state led the private sector. The government made the plan, provided the necessary resources, and later evaluated the performance of the entrepreneurs who executed the plan. In the 1980s, however, the relationship...

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Japan experienced a period of rapid economic growth comparable to that of many other Asian countries today, government fiscal policy was largely facilitated by the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program ("FILP"). This paper examines whether it would be...

The paper is an English draft version of the text previously published in Chapter 8 in the book "Institucionalnye ogranichenia sovremenogo ekonomicheskogo rosta" - Institutional Constraints on Modern Economic Growth – “Delo” Publishing House Moscow, 2011 In this chapter, the authors tried...

We show that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) experienced significantly faster growth in counties occupied by the Japanese Army than those garrisoned by the Kuomingtang (KMT) during the Sino-Japanese War (c. 1940-45), using the density of middle-to-upper rank Communist cadres (5.4%) and the...

In this paper we investigate the impact of Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century on later economic development in China. We use a unique prefecture-level dataset on containing civil war intensity to assess whether the war damage led to persistent economic effect. We compare the heavily...

China has created an economic miracle since its economic reforms began in the late 1970s, becoming the fastest growing economy in the world. The tremendous success of China’s economy has attracted worldwide attention. But at the same time, it has raised concerns as the country’s enormous...

This paper briefly introduces the special preferential economic policies implemented by the Chinese government in ethnic minority areas. For statistical comparison and analysis, the authors divide China into ethnic minority economic zones and non ethnic minority economic zones. In some analyses,...

This paper presents a two-sector small semi-open economy Ramsey growth model involving foreign aid as an input in the production function. An activist government allocates this input endogenously across sectors and optimizes policies in a non-standard way. Once calibrated, mainly on countries...