trade and Nagasaki merchants: structure of investment and capital injection -- Macao and the Namban trade: the "maritime …The Portuguese in the East Asian seas in the 16th century -- The structure and content of Namban trade -- The Namban … loan" debt problem -- Religion and power in Macao -- The Jesuits and trade after the prohibition of Christianity in Japan …

predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in the functioning of markets and the economy. The … fact that China has succeeded therefore should lead us to question our textbook doctrines of development. Much of this …

In this paper I re-examined the trade enhancing effects of ethnic Chinese networks, found by Rauch and Trindade (2002 … networks on international trade can be generalized beyond the ethnic Chinese, and the ’cohesiveness’ of the ethnic network … and statistically significant. I also compared the effects of two different ethnic Japanese networks, i.e., the networks …

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in …

, drawing out the lessons for Europe regarding the development of broadband infrastructure, which provides the basis for the …Data on broadband performance shows that Japan and Korea are significantly ahead of the USA and Europe. Korea is by far …

, drawing out the lessons for Europe regarding the development of broadband infrastructure, which provides the basis for the …Data on broadband performance shows that Japan and Korea are significantly ahead of the USA and Europe. Korea is by far …

if China's relative presence continues to rise in the regional trade. …