Preindustrial businesses: the time of the merchant -- The many paths to industrialization -- British and German … businesses during industrialization -- Big and small businesses in industrializing America -- Japanese and Chinese businesses … during industrialization -- American, British, and German businesses in the interwar period -- Japanese and Chinese …

China (PRC), the United States (US), and the other large Asian economies have changed over the past 20 years with the … industrialization of the PRC economy. We use time-varying spectral methods to decompose the links between seven advanced Asian economies …