Taiping RebellionEconomic DevelopmentModern ChinaCivil WarIn this paper we investigate the impact of Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century on later economic development in China. We use a unique prefecture-leSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Notably, public spending promotes economic performance via the mediated impact of private investment. Taken together, our paper generally contributes to the literature on the long-run effects of state capacity and how state capacity channels economic growth through various channels. Piano (2019) has ...
What was the real trend of GDP, and sectoral GDP of the late Qing China? Second, what was the effects of exports and imports on the late Qing growth? Are there any certain effects of skill-intensive or unskilled-intensive trade on GDP? To answer the first set of questions, I have ...
We take the size of domains in China and Japan as exogenous in our analysis. Given the high agency costs, one may ask if China’s vast size was ever optimal. In a broader framework, such as Alesina and Spolaore (1997), the ruler determines the size of his domain by balancing the a...
(2011) detect strong negative effects of territorial size on the rule of law. Giroud (2013) shows that a reduction of travel time (a proxy for monitoring costs) between company headquarters and plants has positive effects on plant-level productivity and profits. Campante and Do (2014) provide...