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Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development : Evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017
Railroad access can accelerate the technological progress in the industrial sector and therefore induce structural change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the context of Japanese railroad network expansion and modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957313
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Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development : Evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2019
Railroad access may accelerate technological progress in the industrial sector and induce structural change and urbanization - the two common features of modern economic development. By digitizing novel datasets of factories and railroad networks in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japan and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865177
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Railroads, technology adoption, and modern economic development : evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017
Railroad access can accelerate the technological progress in the industrial sector and therefore induce structural change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the context of Japanese railroad network expansion and modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638910
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The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India
Allen, Robert; Allen, Robert C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper uses the adoption and invention of the spinning jenny as a test case to understand why the industrial revolution occurred in Britain in the eighteenth century rather than in France or India.  It is shown that wages were much higher relative to capital prices in Britain than in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047777
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Institutions and Public-Private Partnerships: Learning and Innovation in Electronics Firms in Penang, Johor and Batam-Karawang
Rasiah, Rajah - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 1 (2009) 2, pp. 206-233
Using the systemic quad model, this paper seeks to examine the extent to which electronics firms are linked with the critical pillars of basic infrastructure, high tech infrastructure, global integration and network cohesion, and their impact on knowledge depth and technological capabilities in...
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On Welfare Reducing Technological Change in a North-South Framework
Benchekroun, Hassan - 2010
Northern firms with patented technology can export goods to Southern markets and incur tariff costs or choose FDI and avoid the tariff. We examine the welfare effects of intellectual property protection under this scenario. When it is beneficial to do so, the Southern government offers patent...
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Infant Industry Protection and the Growth of Canada's Cotton Mills: A Test of the Chang Hypothesis
Hinton, Michael N.A. - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2012
I argue that the 19th century Canadian cotton textile industry was an extremely successful infant industry. Judging the industry’s performance by seven widely-employed measures of success – growth in output, contemporary opinion, size, the use of the most modern machinery, exports, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561586
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Trade Liberalization and the Geography of Production: Agglomeration, Concentration and Dispersal in Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry
Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002
lead to increased regional inequalities. We examine the spatial concentration of manufacturing in Indonesia between 1980 … and 1996, a period when Indonesia substantially liberalized its trade regime. The high concentration has not decreased and … spatial concentration in Indonesia and conclude that a host of factors including the spatial configuration affects the outcome …
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Cluster-based industrial development in contemporary developing countries and modern Japanese economic history
Hashino, Tomoko; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 30 (2013) C, pp. 19-32
What are the similarities and dissimilarities in the pattern of cluster development between contemporary developing countries and modern Japanese economic history? This study attempts to examine the relevance of the Sonobe–Otsuka model, which is designed to explain the long-term process of...
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Mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Balakrishnan, Uttara - 2014
Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …
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