What is the impact of international trade on cities and rural areas within a country? Existing studies on this topic are based on new economic geography models, which focus on the effect of international trade on the change in the balance between agglomeration and dispersion forces of the...

Japan's mid 19th century transition from 200 years of self-imposed autarky to open trade is the main success story of East Asian integration into the world economy during the first wave of globalization (1850-1914). This article reviews the economic, institutional and normative changes within...

Chao and Yu (2002) study immigration impact in a host country in the presence of imperfect competition. In their two sector model, when the monopolized non-traded service sector is skilled labor intensive, skilled labor immigration improves the welfare of the host country residents but unskilled...

Japan's mid 19th century transition from 200 years of self-imposed autarky to open trade is the main success story of East Asian integration into the world economy during the first wave of globalization (1850-1914). This article reviews the economic, institutional and normative changes within...

What is the impact of international trade on cities and rural areas within a country? Existing studies on this topic are based on new economic geography models, which focus on the effect of international trade on the change in the balance between agglomeration and dispersion forces of the...

The centre of economic activities in Japan was once in western Japan. Since the mid-nineteenth century, however, economic activities within Japan have been continuously shifting towards the east side of the country including Tokyo. Conventional wisdom associates the end of the Tokugawa feudal...

Using a comprehensive micro dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a systematic investigation of the relationship between financial structure and firm growth in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the former. It finds that financial structure does matter for firm growth...