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Railroads, technology adoption, and modern economic development : evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017
change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the … mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638910
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Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development : Evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017
change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the … mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957313
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Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development : Evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2019
urbanization - the two common features of modern economic development. By digitizing novel datasets of factories and railroad … instrument, I find that the distance from railroads in 1892 accounts for 38 percent of the growth in steam power adopted by … factories from 1888 to 1902. I also find that proximity to railroads induced a structural change and changed the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865177
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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN MINIATURE:THE SPINNING JENNY IN BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND INDIA
Allen, Robert C. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2007
This paper uses the adoption and invention of the spinning jenny as a test case to understandwhy the industrial revolution occurred in Britain in the eighteenth century rather than inFrance or India. It is shown that wages were much higher relative to capital prices in Britainthan in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870138
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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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Urbanized and savvy: Which African firms are making the most of mobile money?
Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars; Kodom, Michael - 2024
Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015066217
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Urbanized and savvy : which African firms are making the most of mobile money?
Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars - 2024
Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063472
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Sectoral Development in Southeast Asia : Agriculture, Non-Renewable Natural Resources, Manufacture, and Services
Samphantharak, Krislert - 2019
This paper discusses the development of four production sectors of the economies in Southeast Asia since the end of the Second World War: agriculture, non-renewable natural resources, manufacturing, and services. First, although Southeast Asia has experienced sectoral transformation toward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893505
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Technical Flaws in the Application of the U.S. Antidumping Law : The Experience of U.S.-Korean Trade
McGee, Robert W. - 2016
The U.S. antidumping law suffers from a series of defects in its implementation, resulting in the unwarranted finding of illegal predatory pricing by foreign companies. In light of the existing technical flaws outlined in this Article, it is clear that the U.S. antidumping law is merely a form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980608
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The Flying Geese Paradigm: A critical study of its application to East Asian regional development
Kasahara, Shigehisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
It is often claimed that what is popularly known as the "flying geese paradigm" of dynamic comparative advantage has accurately depicted the East Asian catching-up process. This paper presents a critical study of the paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543780