• Economic Development of China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Economy of the People's Republic of China I , George Washington University
  Analysis of organization, operation, policies, and problems of the Chinese economy since 1949.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Economy of the People's Republic of China II , George Washington University
  Continuation of prerequisite course "Economy of the People's Republic of China II." Examining critical problems of economic development in China. Includes a research seminar.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Foreign Trade and Investment in China , Xiao, Geng
  This course examines the reform and growth of China's foreign trade and investment sector and their implications for domestic economic reform and growth as well as for regional and global economic dynamics. Basic economic principles are used to explain the structural, institutional, and policy dimensions of China's integration into the global economy. Institutional economics are used to examine the legal, financial and regulatory risk of investing in China. The aim is to help students of diverse backgrounds to develop systematic frameworks and ways of thinking for assessing the constant changes in China's external sector and their consequences for local and global economies. Major topics include: 1. China in the world economy: a historical perspective 2. China's domestic economic problems 3. Reform and growth of China's foreign trade and investment 4. Impact of China's opening on the global economy 5. Legal, financial and regulatory risk of investing in China 6. Next stage of China's institutional reform
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0602.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Graduate Seminar: Political Economy of Reform in China , Stanford University
  The content, process, and problems of China's post-Mao reforms comprise this class, taught by Professor Jean Oi. Changes in property rights, markets, credit, and the role of the state in economic development are explored. Further, the course encourages comparative insights about reform in the Chinese communist system that distinguish it from the experience of regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/676/ - September 21, 2004

• Introduction to the Economy of the People's Republic of China , George Washington University
  Background, organization, and operation ofÊChina's economy. Appraisal of performance and analysis of problems of development.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/ug_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Political Economy of Reform in China , Stanford University
  This graduate course covers changes in property rights, markets, credit, and the role of the state in economic development. Comparative rights about reform in the Chinese communist system that distinguishes it from the experience of regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Readings in Chinese and English. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of the government and politics of post-1949 China.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/759/ - September 21, 2004

• The Economic System of Hong Kong , Luk, Y.F.
  This course aims to provide a basic but comprehensive understanding of the salient aspects of the Hong Kong economy. The emphasis will be on both economic analysis and institutional arrangements of the major economic sectors and related policies. More attention will be given to topics of recent public concern. After some preliminary discussion on national income accounting and historical development, the course will go on to the following topics: the monetary system and exchange rate regime, financial markets and institutions, public finance and fiscal policy, external trade and foreign investment, economic relations with the Mainland, the labour market, employment and income distribution, the property market and housing policy, regulation of public utilities and competition policy, industrial development and policy, etc. These are all important areas of study about the Hong Kong economy, but the extent of coverage of each will have to depend on the amount of time available. Some topics may even be skipped under the time constraint.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0603s2.pdf - August 6, 2004

• A Basic Analysis on the Poverty Problem in China , Kiminami, Lily Y.
  This paper discusses the poverty problem in China in terms of recognition of the poverty situation, cause of poverty and counter-poverty policies. As for recognitionof the poverty situation, concepts of poverty and its various estimatingmethods are surveyed, and related opinions are summarized. In terms of causes of poverty, statistical and empirical analyses are conducted for rural and urban areas, respectively, causes of poverty are specified, and necessary counter-poverty measures for such areas are discussed. As for counter-poverty measures, the historical evolution, relation with various systems, and differences between urban and rural areas, etc., are taken into consideration, and the actual situation of counter-poverty measures is shown. Based on the above analysis, problems in the current counter-poverty measures are pointed out, and a future research agenda on poverty is suggested.
  www.fasid.or.jp/english/publication/occasional/poverty.html - November 16, 2004

• Abnett, William , The National Bureau of Asian Research
  William B. Abnett, Senior Advisor to The National Bureau of Asian Research, has over 20 years of public and private sector experience in the field of U.S.-China business, economic, and political relations. Mr. Abnett worked in the Reagan White House, where he served as Director for Chinese Affairs in the Office of the United States Trade Representative and was responsible for developing and coordinating the Administration's trade policy toward the PRC.
  www.nbr.org/staff/abnett.html - October 25, 2004

• Advancing Intellectual Property Rights: Information Technologies and The Course of Economic Development in China , Oksenberg, Michel; Potter, Pitman B.; and Abnett, William B.
  The contributors to this issue of the "NBR Analysis" suggest an alternative, cooperative approach to effecting change in China's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime. The authors, Michel Oksenberg of Stanford University, Pitman B. Potter of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and William B. Abnett, chief China trade negotiator in the Reagan Administration, assess the conditions that help to nurture respect for intellectual property in China as well as the obstacles to effective IPR protection, and recommend that American corporate executives and policymakers cooperate with Chinese leaders to assist them in developing China's nascent IPR regime. Many Chinese leaders, particularly at the national level, are beginning to understand the need to protect intellectual property rights in order to integrate China into the international economy. Supporters of IPR within the leadership are buttressed by a developing domestic coalition that will have a vital stake in the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
  www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol7no4/v7n4.pdf - January 1, 1996

• Behind the Open Door: Foreign Enterprises in the Chinese Marketplace , Rosen, Daniel
  This study describes the experiences of foreign-invested firms in the mainland Chinese economy and discusses the implications of those experiences for the foreign commercial policies of the industrial countries, including the United States. It draws on extensive interviews with expatriate managers and other professionals currently at work in China. Whereas recent books on Chinese marketplace conditions focus on a single firm or issue or lack a discussion of policy conclusions (because they are prepared for a commercial audience), this study is distinguished by the breadth of industry interviews and its concern for policy implications. Rosen makes a rare attempt to deduce the policy implications of current experiences of foreign firms in China, presenting conclusions that go beyond those found in today’s usual policy debate. Behind the Open Door is a must for China specialists and should be read by anyone with general or business interests in China or the Asia-Pacific region. The book is an ideal text for MBA programs that focus on the region, and for political science and Asian studies courses on China.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=23 - March 24, 2005

• Changing the Rules of the Game: Macroeconomic Recontrol and the Struggle for Wealth and Power , Naughton, Barry
  The intensification of China's effort since April 2004 to reassert macroeconomic control has triggered a scramble for money and resources, as businesses and local governments faced an abrupt and unanticipated change in the overall economic climate. The scramble for resources has contributed to strains among regions and within the top leadership. It has also touched off conflicts among different business sectors—including state and private—as they maneuver to avoid the worst effects of reasserted macroeconomic control. The ultimate impact of the current imposition of macroeconomic control is still highly uncertain, and new consequences continue to ripple outward from this policy choice. The Fourth Plenum of the 16th Central Committee, scheduled for mid-September 2004, will bring these issues to a head, as the economic and political implications of macroeconomic recontrol become apparent and are worked through.
  www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/20044/bn.pdf - September 1, 2004

• China and the WTO: the theory and practice of complicance , Gerald Chan
  This item requires a subscription to International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Online. Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, attention has turned to the issue of whether or not China is a responsible member of the organization and how compliant China is with WTO rules. This article discusses the difficulties faced by China, as a responsible rising power, in trying to adjust itself to global trading norms. It examines the theory of compliance in international relations from the perspectives of neo-realism, liberal institutionalism and social constructivism, and then tests these perspectives by examining the mechanisms used to gauge China's compliance, both bilaterally by the United States and multilaterally through the Dispute Settlement Mechanism and the Transition Review Mechanism of the WTO. The result is mixed: different opinions exist as to how compliant China has been but, on the whole, most monitors agree that China has tried hard to comply with WTO requirements in various areas, though much remains to be done. The most severe tests will come in the next few years when China's financial and service sectors will have to face fundamental changes to the way they operate.
  irap.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/4/1/47 - February 1, 2004

• China Enters WTO , Yamazawa, Ippei; Imai, Ken-ichi, ed.
  On the eve of China’s accession to the WTO, experts on China and the international economy from Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and the U.S. present in-depth analysis of the impacts of the accession on China itself and on the economies that surround the country.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/021.html - November 16, 2004

• China in the World Economy , Lardy, Nicholas R.; Daniel Rosen, H.
  China is playing a growing role in the world economy. It is one of the world\'s fastest growing countries and is the tenth largest exporter. China is also a significant recipient of foreign aid and a major borrower on international capital markets. Even more significantly, it is attracting vast amounts of foreign direct investment—over $11 billion in 1992 alone. This study examines the implications of China\'s emergence as a major player in the world economy. Its integration into the international economic order poses major difficulties for the rest of the world. These problems include bringing China\'s mixed market/centrally planned economy into the GATT, adapting to competition from labor-intensive Chinese exports, encouraging further market-oriented reform, and accommodating its demand for international capital. But China\'s participation in the global economy also offers important opportunities for trade, investment, and international cooperation to promote world prosperity and stability. Dr. Lardy anticipates that China will continue on a rapid growth path, thus magnifying the policy challenges and opportunities for its trading partners. He recommends a series of steps to facilitate China\'s full participation in the world economy.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=24 - March 24, 2005

• China on the Threshold of a Market Economy , Saich, Tony
  This essay examines China's progress in economic growth and the future challenges regarding further economic and political transition in the 21st century.
  www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/research/a.saich_cbg_china.threshold.pdf - March 1, 2001

• China Standard Time: A Study in Strategic Industrial Policy , Linden, Greg
  China’s industrial policy for high-technology industries combines key features of the policies pursued elsewhere in East Asia such as opening to foreign investors and supporting domestic firms. Leveraging its large market size, China has gone further than other developing countries by promoting standards for products that compete in China with products controlled by major electronics companies. This paper analyzes the experience to date of this Chinese policy in the consumer optical storage industry in the context of China’s evolving national innovation system. China’s standard-setting policy is politicized but ultimately pragmatic, which avoids imposing excessive costs on the economy. It may also have dynamic learning benefits for Chinese firms who are starting to compete in global markets.**It is possible that you may be restricted from viewing this article if you are not connecting from an institution that has site license to this publication.
  www.bepress.com/bap/vol6/iss3/art4/ - January 1, 2004

• China's Changing Role in the Global Economy , Bottelier
  Reviews the dramatic changes in international trade and investment patterns unfolding in Asia and the world as a result of China's rapid growth and opening up. Analyzes changing bilateral economic relations between China and the United States, the EU, Japan, Russia, Taiwan and other Asian countries, as well as implications of proposed regional trade agreements. Includes discussion of China's exchange-rate policy, its compliance with World Trade Organization principles and accession terms, its role as a manufacturing hub for other nations, its participation in international capital markets, its policies to attract inward and promote outward foreign direct investment and its membership in multilateral agencies such as WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Discusses implications for China and the international commodity markets of China's growing import dependency for oil, gas and other key commodities. Reviews the likely distribution of costs and benefits among various countries as a result of China's integration into the global economy.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/china/chinacourses.html#Anchor8 - January 4, 2005

• China's Economic Reforms Since 1978: Domestic and International Challenges Ahead , Bottelier, Pieter P.
  The course reviews China's economic reforms in a national and international context, making comparisons with other transitional economies; analyzes the sources of China's rapid economic growth; assesses development prospects; and identifies critical reform challenges.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/china/chinacourses.html - September 20, 2004

• China's Economic System and Reforms , Keidel, Albert
  The cource covers China's modern economic system and reforms, with an emphasis on the system and reforms emerged since 1978. In addition to presenting the principal events, statistical trends, policies and controversies, the course links China's experience to basic principles of Economic development.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/ChinaEconomicSystemsandReformsKeidel.pdf - September 20, 2004

• China's Income Distribution over Time: Reasons for Rising Inequality , Perloff, Jeffrey M. and Wu, Ximing
  From the author\\\'s abstract: \\\"We use a new method to estimate China’s income distributions using publicly available interval summary statistics from China’s largest national household survey. We examine rural, urban, and overall income distributions for each year from 1985-2001. By estimating the entire distributions, we can show how the distributions change directly as well as examine trends in traditional welfare indices such as the Gini. We find that inequality has increased substantially in both rural and urban areas. Using an inter-temporal decomposition of aggregate inequality, we determine that increases in inequality within the rural and urban sectors and the growing gap in rural and urban incomes have been equally responsible for the growth in overall inequality over the last two decades. However, the rural-urban income gap has played an increasingly important role in recent years. In contrast, only the growth of inequality within rural and urban areas is responsible for the increase in inequality in the United States, where the overall inequality is close to that of China. We also show that urban consumption inequality (which may be a better indicator of economic well-being than income inequality) rose considerably.\\\"
  repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=are_ucb - March 21, 2005

• China's New Market Economy , Brown, William B.
  The course looks at theoretical issues that remain to be solved before China's transition to market economy can be considered complete, along with practical issues related to doing business in a country in the midst of major change.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/00fa/701-009.htm - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Business Enterprise in a Global Context , University of Pennsylvania
  The intent of this course is to help students to gain a better understanding of the Chinese business enterprise worldwide. Our consideration of Chinese business will extend an analysis of its cultural, historical and philosophical roots to look at the actual structure, strategies, and practices of Chinese enterprises. Through this analysis of the specificities of Chinese business, the course aims to move from a comparative to an integrative perspective which considers the Chinese business as a basis for rethinking the structure and possibilities of enterprise in the new global economy. Articles, cases, in-class reports and other readings.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Chinese Econ-Transition , Duke University
  This course studies the evolution of the Chinese economy since 1949. Exposition of alternative economic systems, the commune, incentive problems, and state enterprises. Analysis of recent reforms and their effects on economic efficiency: agricultural growth, changes in ownership structures, financial markets, reforms and inflation, privatization, gradualism, and shock treatment. Through a research project students develop expertise in one aspect of the Chinese economy. Prerequisite: Economics 1 or 51, and 2 or 52. Instructor: Yang
  www.aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=ECON&course=142S&sem=0820 - August 22, 2004

• Chinese Economic Development , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Chu, Tianshu , East-West Center
  Dr. Chu\'s previous affiliation was visiting assistant lecturer, Department of Economics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis, 1999-2000. Dr. Chu\'s publications include her doctoral dissertation: \"Import Substitution and Export Promotion: In Search of a Theory of Economic Development.\" Current research Projects include: China\'s new economy; poverty alleviation, rural development, and trade; the future of tourism in Asia and the Pacific Islands.
  www.eastwestcenter.org/about-dy-detail.asp?staff_ID=350 - October 28, 2004

• Commerce And Culture: A Reader on Japan , Indiana University
  A report produced in conjunction with the second conference in the Culture & Commerce in Asia series sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center and the Global Center for International Business (GCIB) at Indiana University.
  www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/resources/commerce_culture/index.htm - January 27, 2005

• Consuming Literature , Kong, Shuyu
  This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine.
  www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=4939%204940 - February 22, 2005

• Contemprorary Chinese Development , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Note: In order to access the course description, select the course from the list. This course traces the development of political and economic institutions in China since 1949, and gives special emphasis to features since the rise of Deng Xiaoping in 1978. It begins with an examination of Chinese historical events following the Communist victory, and considers the policies and legacies of Mao Zedong. It then examines issues of reform in the areas of industry, education, the environment, the military, and foreign policy. The course concludes with a focus on China's "renegade province", Taiwan, to see an alternative development model for the Chinese people.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/courses_next_sem.html - January 13, 2005

• Dealing with the Bad Loans of the Chinese Banks , Bonin, John and Huang, Yiping
  This discussion paper was authored by John Bonin, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Wesleyan University and Yiping Huang, Fellow, Economics Division, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, The Australian National University. The paper discusses the fragile state of China\'s banking sector and the Chinese government\'s introduction of a set of reform measures meant to reduce financial risks and build a strong banking system. The authors also make recommendations for modifying the current proposals drawing from experiences and lessons learned from the Resolution Trust Corporation in the United States and bank restructuring in Central European transition economies.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/business/apec/publications/boninhuang.pdf - July 1, 2000

• Economic and Social History , University of British Columbia
  Economic and Social History of Modern China. Changes and continuities in Chinese society and culture from the late Imperial Period to the present; rural and urban life, social stratification, social movements and ideology, family and community, poplur beliefs and cultural values.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Economic Development of China , Xiao, Geng
  This course provides an analytical study of economic development and reform in China since 1949. Applying basic economic principles, including economics of institutions, it introduces first China's experiments of socialist economic development and central planning during 1949-1978 and then examines China's economic opening and market-oriented reforms since 1978.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0601s2.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Economic Development of China , University of Pittsburgh
  China's large and dynamic economy has enjoyed two decades of spectacular and unexpected growth. China's recent economic experience raises central questions about the outcome of socialism, the transition from plan to market, the nature of market systems, and the future impact of China and other Asian nations on the world economy. This course engages these issues by examining the development of China's economy since 1800, with particular emphasis on studying China's experience under different forms of economic organization: market economy, central planning, reformed system combining plan and market, and on comparing China's development with the achievements of other nations.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/econ.htm#1630Economic%20Development%20of%20China - January 16, 2004

• Economic Estimate of the Impact of WTO Accession by Taiwan , Mastel, Greg
  For this study, an attempt was made to measure the potential increase in imports in each of the aforementioned industrial and agricultural sectors40. This exercise required data for the top-7 imports for each sector in 1998; tariff rates at accession and the liberalization timetable; the incorporation of non-tariff measures; and own-price elasticities for each product. Assumptions about endogenous import demand during the phase-in period were also required.
  ekm92.trade.gov.tw/BOFT/web/report_detail.jsp?data_base_id=DB010&category_id=CAT434&report_id=260 - December 2, 2004

• Economic History of China , Leung, Patrick
  This course will discuss an overview of China's economic historical development, economic revolution in the Song/Yuan era, China and Europe compared in the early modern period - in the rise of capitalism - in ecological constraints and sustained industrial growth, China's role in global trade and the flow of silver and gold 1400-1800: Ming/Qing China's fiscal crises, and finally the modern era and the future.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0605.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Economic History of Premodern China , Deng, Kent
  China has the longest continually recorded history in the premodern world. For economic historians, it makes sense to begin with the formation of China’s national economy in the wake of China’s unification in 221 BC under the Qin. The year 1800 AD coincides with the beginning of the end for China’s premodern era, which was hastened by the First Opium War (1839–42). Hence, the time span of this article is two millennia.
  eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=deng.china - March 3, 2005

• Economic Organization and Development of China , Columbia University
  An analytical survey of the economic organization of China, with reference to population and land resources, agricultural industries, transportation, trade, and finance. The social and cultural forces affecting the economic development of the country.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Economies of China and Vietnam: Transition , University of Cincinnati
  A detailed analysis of the economic reforms that occurred in China and Vietnam which led to the adoption of market systems. Theories of economic transition are used for the basis of the analysis, focusing on the institutions necessary to operate a market system which are absent in a planned economy. The structure of and current problems in these economies will also be discussed.
  asweb.artsci.uc.edu/economics/undergrad/ugcourses.html#500 - January 19, 2005

• Economy Of China , Reynolds, Bruce
  The course reviews China's economic growth since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in particular since the move toward the use of market mechanisms in 1978. The theme of the course is that for China, changing economic institutions partly explain growth performance in these years.
  etg08.itc.virginia.edu/cod.pages/20043/ASF/ECON.html - August 26, 2004

• Foreign Direct Investment in China: Effects on Growth and Economic Performance , Graham, Edward M. & Wada, Erika
  In this article, the authors account for one of the major economic success stories of the past 10 years, foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.
  www.iie.com/publications/wp/2001/01-3.pdf - April 1, 2001

• Investments in Human Capital and Their Impacts on Regional Disparities in China , Du, Yang and Wang, Meiyan
  Using statisical analysis and empirical data, these researchers from China\'s Academy of Social Sciences assess the effects of health, education and fertility onÊregional disparities in growth and human capital development. They apply this analysis in providing recommendations for relating human capital development to economic growth in China. Simplified Chinese text software will facilitate reading this report, as some of the authors\' supporting data is provided only in simplified Chinese.
  www.cass.net.cn/chinese/s06_rks/chrrsite/paper/working%20paper%2017.PDF - March 23, 2005

• Keidel, Bert , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Bert Keidel joined the Carnegie Endowment in September 2004, after serving as deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. His work at the Endowment focuses on issues relating to China's economic system reforms, macroeconomy, regional development, and poverty reduction strategy.
  www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=230 - October 21, 2004

• Lardy, Nicholas R. , Lardy, Nicholas R.
  Dr. Nicholas R. Lardy, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2003 and also served as interim director of Foreign Policy Studies in 2001. His areas of expertise include Asia, in particular China, and economics of transition. He has written numerous articles and books on the Chinese economy. His current major project analyzes the strategic implications of deepening China-Taiwan economic relations.
  www.iie.com/publications/author_bio.cfm?author_id=24 - October 22, 2004

• Law and Economic Reform in Contemprorary China , University of Pennsylvania
  For nearly a quarter-century, China has been engaged in a sweeping, if fitful, process of market-oriented economic reforms that have made the Chinese economy one of the largest and fastest growing in the world. From the beginning of this period, legal reforms have been high on the political agenda and have played a central role in these economic developments. After a brief survey of classical and other pre-1949 Chinese thought on law and the economy, major Western theories of law and economic development and regulation, and pre-1978 economic law and regulation in the People\'s Republic, the course examines in greater depth selected topics in reform-era economic law, such as: contract law, management reforms, taxation and financial reforms, bankruptcy and ownership reform, company law, \"economic crime\" and corruption, administrative law constraints on economic regulation, institutions of economic legislation, and the special regimes for foreign trade and investment (and related issues of international law and U.S. foreign relations law).
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Measuring Costs of Protection in China , Yansheng, Zhang; Zhongxin, Wan; Shuguang, Zhang
  China was steeped in the concepts and ideology of a planned economy for 30 years until reforms began in 1978. Although the country is now well on its way to becoming a market economy, its trading system remains shackled by its centrally planned past. Measuring the Costs of Protection in China analyzes some of the costs of trade protection and the corresponding benefits of liberalization for 25 highly protected sectors in China. The book begins with a description of the development of China\\\'s trade administration system, sketching the obstacles to and prospects for further liberalization. The authors analyze the structure of Chinese trade protection and present their estimates of its static costs. They then offer an in-depth analysis of the country\\\'s trade regime and of the administrative barriers to rationalization and liberalization.The final chapter presents the authors\\\' recommendations for improving China\\\'s trade system. They conclude that the short-term costs of trade liberalization for goods examined in the study will be substantial in terms of lost domestic output and lost jobs. The long-term benefits, however, would provide some $35 billion worth of consumer benefits. Five appendices provide greater technical detail on the modeling and methodology applied in this study, as well as a brief description of some peculiarities of the Chinese trade regime-including copious levels of smuggling and monopolistic market structures.The study was conducted by a team of Chinese economists at the independent Unirule Institute in Beijing, whose president is the prominent reformer, Mao Yushi. It is part of the Institute\\\'s series on the costs of protection in several major countries, which has previously produced publications on the United States, Japan, and Korea.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=31 - March 24, 2005

• On the Chinese State-Owned Enterprises' Reform in the Post-Communism Perspective , Yu, Ren-Shou
  This is a Master's thesis in interdisciplinary studies examining the Chinese state-owned enterprises\' reform in the post-communism perspective.
  etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0512100-121803 - June 30, 1999

• Park, Albert , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Park completed his doctorate in Economics at Stanford University in 1996 and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1997. His research interests are in economic development, comparative institutions, and applied microeconomics. Much of his research focuses on the Chinese economy, including current survey projects on rural poverty, rural education, and urban labor markets. He also has affiliations with the UM Population Studies Center and the William Davidson Institute.
  141.211.136.209/ccs/FacultyListDetail.asp?ID=33 - October 29, 2004

• Political Economy of Chinese Reform , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  This course focuses on China's transition from plan to market. What has the trajectory of institutional change in China been, and how has growth been achieved? Is that growth sustainable? Subject examines specific aspects of reform (enterprise, fiscal, financial, social welfare), and the systemic consequences of interaction between various reform measures. Additional topics include the interaction between political and economic change, the transformation of state-society relations, and the generalizability of China's reform experience. Graduate students are expected to explore the subject in greater depth.
  ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-552Political-Economy-of-Chinese-ReformSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm - September 19, 2004

• Rawski, Thomas , University of Pittsburgh
  Professor of Economics and History, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh His research focuses on the nature and implications of recent developments and long term changes in the economy of China.
  www.pitt.edu/~tgrawski/tgrawski.htm - November 8, 2004

• Rural Urban Income Gap and Critical Point of Institutional Change , Cai, Fang
  From the author\'s abstract: \"By employing an analytical framework based on institutional economics, this paper intends to investigate the rural urban income gap and its critical points for change. The level of rural urban income gap in 1978 broke the institutional equilibrium on which the traditional rural urban relationship relied, leading to overall reform in rural China. In the post-reform period, utilizing their superior influence on policy-making, urban residents have so far succeeded in maintaining urban biased government policies, deterring rural labor from migrating to cities permanently. The urban residents’ major lobbying mechanism is through their “vote” and “voice”, something in which their rural counterparts are lacking. However, farmers have a way to “get around” the urban biased policies which are unfavorable to them. This “voting with their feet” eventually will drive the policy change. When the rural urban income gap increases to the level of 1978, a critical point for institutional change will have been reached. The timing and conditions will be ripe for reform of the whole policy package on which the present rural urban divide has been built.\"
  www.cass.net.cn/chinese/s06_rks/37wp.pdf - March 23, 2005

• Society & Economy in China A: Historical Development , The Australian national University
  This course starts by looking in a non-technical way at conceptions of what is meant by the term ÒeconomyÓ. It studies how ÒeconomicÓ analysis has been incorporated into the models of society developed by some major social theorists. Then it moves on to examine ways in which these ideas have been taken up and used by historians examining the evidence about Chinese society. It looks closely at some debates about the nature of long-term developments in the economic dimensions of Chinese society down to the early modern period. It presents ways in which ideas derived from economic thinking have been used to analyse more general topics in the history of Chinese society, such as its regional and spatial organisation. Lastly, it looks at the arguments about the condition of the Chinese economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. What were the effects of imperialist pressure and the imposition of an open trading regime?
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6018.asp - August 9, 2004

• Sociological Dimensions of China's Economic Transition: Organization, Stratification, and Social Mobility , Walder, Andrew
  Despite skepticism about official economic statistics, there is little doubt that China since 1978 has undergone an economic transformation of historic proportions. This outcome stands in stark opposition to arguments that were once widely accepted in several scholarly communities, and which are still highly influential even today. In the early 1980s there was wide agreement that "partial" reform, under a single party dictatorship that sought indefinitely to preserve public ownership, was a recipe for failure. China specialists, students of comparative economic systems, and economists who advised governments and international agencies about postcommunist restructuring in Eurasia were initially in broad agreement on this point. Faced with the reality of two decades of rapid economic development, critical arguments about China have begun to shift. Some changed their position, and now suggest that the kind of growth one observes in China is somehow unhealthy a "hyper-growth" that is unbal-anced, destabilizing, and exploitative, certain to give rise to increasing levels of inequality, massive social disruption, and imminent political instability. Others argue that China's path is not sustainable that the policies and practices of the first decades will soon outlive their usefulness and lead to economic stagnation. A third group posits that while China may have achieved some success in the early years, the recent trend toward privatization and restructur-ing finally vindicates the original arguments of those who urged a rapid movement to private ownership and a radically diminished role of the party-state in economic management. There may be some merit in each of these arguments (though I am least sympathetic to the third). However, they all avoid the question of why such sustained and rapid growth occurred in the interim despite widespread agreement that the Chinese Communist Party was going about it all wrong. Economic growth of such historic magnitude should not be taken for granted, even if analysts correctly point out the ways in which China's political and economic institutions remain flawed and limited. The continuing critical commentaryreflects an unspoken consensus that reform and economic development are essentially about institutional design. But this reveals a large gap in thinking about economic reform. Identify-ing better institutions is only the first step. The hard part is figuring out how to move from the admittedly flawed institutions of central planning to more serviceable onesÑand whether or not severe hardship will accompany the process. Thinking about economic reform has always contained strong but largely unexamined assumptions about the structure of the polity, economy, and society in which it takes place, especially about the capabilities and interests of political elites. Many of these assumptions have proven poor guides to the past twenty years of Chinese economic history. My purpose in this paper is to identify the assumptions that have fallen by the wayside, and to show how this has helped China to escape some of the negative consequences predicted for its approach to economic reform.
  iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20208/Walder_Sociological.pdf - April 1, 2003

• SOE Reform: the road ahead , Zhang, Shuying
  China's Banking sector is known to harbor an enormous amount of bad debt, that makes China's financial system extremely fragile. The SOEs' low efficiency is considered as one of the most fundamental causes of this problem. After the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 China has increased the pace of the SEO reform. After three years since start of the campaign aiming to make the most loss-making SOEs profitable, SOEs' profitability improved in 2000. It indicates a limited success of the campaign. As a consequence, the share of stated-owned sector in the country's economy is shrinking, while the non-state sector is expanding rapidly. Despite these developments, though, Chinese SOEs still face enormous challenges. This article seeks to present a broad review of issues faced by the SOE reform, and to offer several measures to tackle them.
  www.cass.net.cn/chinese/s30_rbs/english/publication/zhangsy-e2.htm - November 9, 2004

• South China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Emerging Colossus , Columbia University
  This course provides an understanding of the current and historical development of the southern Chinese region, including the extraordinary economic growth of the past two decades and the associated economic relations between South China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The course focuses on political, economic, and social developments beginning in the late 1970s and the 1980s with the institution of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the PRC, the process of democratization in Taiwan, and Sino-British agreement on the 1997 reversion of sovereignty over Hong Kong.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - August 30, 2004

• The Cause and Cure of China's Widening Income Disparity , Chang, Gene H.
  In this article, Zhang uses an in-depth analysis of the Gini coefficient to determine the true cause of theÊsevere income disparity between rural and urban Chinese. While he admits that this problem is a serious one that cannot be easily resolved, he implies that in the long-run, China may be better off not addressing the sources of poverty directly, such a the huge labor surplus in agricultural areas. Instead, China needs to continue development of its urban areas, including job creation and urbanization, and prepare not to fight poverty but to provide welfare to those who are already suffering from this disparity.
  www.utoledo.edu/~gchang/publication/ChinaIncomeGap.pdf - March 21, 2005

• The Chinese Economy , Xiao, Geng
  This course reviews the economic transformation of the People's Republic of China and its implications. China's experiences are subjected to theoretical and empirical analysis of modern economics. The course covers structural and institutional changes as well as current debates on reform and policy. Topics include history, geography, population, rural reform, industrialization, urbanization, enterprise reform, foreign trade and investment, financial system, and regional development. The objective is to gain understanding on the working of the Chinese economy and its relations with the global economy. The course provides opportunities for students to apply economic theories to real world problems.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ6031s2.pdf - August 6, 2004

• The Chinese Economy , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• The Economic History of Taiwan , Olds, Kelly
  The article is a very good introduction to history of Taiwan\'s developmentÊfrom the aboriginal times to the nationalist rule.
  eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=mosk.japan.final - March 7, 2005

• The Effect on the Financial Market Development from the Perspective of the Mainland China's State-owned Propoerty Rights , Lin, I-Chuan
  This is a Master's thesis, written in traditional Chinese, studying the effect on the financial market development from the perspective of the Mainland China's state-owned property rights.
  etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0510100-131545 - May 10, 2000

• The FDI Paradox: China's Socialist Market Economy and the "Develop the West" Campaign , Saalman, Lora
  "The FDI Paradox: China's Socialist Market Economy and the "Develop the West" Campaign." Authored by Lora Saalman, May 23, 2004. Monterey Institute of International Studies
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/SaalmanPaper_2004-05-23.pdf - July 16, 2004

• The Main Points of Preparing the Opening to Private Banks in Mainland China , Wang, Chien-Chung
  After the 11th National Conference of China in December 1978 and the reform of economic policy of China, the private enterprises have dramatically changed the economic scale and industrial structure of Mainland China. The timing for opening to private banks. The risks for China�fs state-owned business banks are too concentrated, the pace for reforms in China�fs state-owned business banks is slow, the lack of adequate competitive environment is the main reason for state-owned business banks�f lack of motivation for reforms. Competition mechanism can be gradually established in China�fs financing area�CIt is a way that do small and medium-sized private enterprises find it very difficult to secure a loan when the balance is great between the interest rates for depositors and those for borrowers in bank. It is exist definitely after calculated the fund gap of private enterprises, and will the adverse impacts be on China�fs financial industry upon China�fs entry into WTO. To know the relationship between private banks and opening of financial sector. Pose the main points of prepare opening to private banks in Mainland China
  etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search-c/view_etd?URN=etd-0625103-161116 - December 3, 2004

• The Rise of Greater China: Issues and Topics , University of Toronto
  This course looks at China in regional perspective, including issues of Taiwan, Hong Kong and People\'s Republic of China economic integration. The role of overseas Chinese communities globally and in Southeast Asia also receives attention. The form and focus of the course varies according to class and instructor interests.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS345H1 - January 17, 2005

• Topics in Economic Development: Chinese Economy , University of Pennsylvania
  This course surveys the development of the Chinese economy in the last half century with emphasis on the economic reform in the last two decades. The course will examine the current hybrid economic system that combines markets and planning in the context of China\'s social and economic history and cultural background.Ê The course will compare the Chinese economy with the economics of other former socialist countries and with the experience of industrialization in other nonsocialist Asian economies.The course will examine the agricultural sector, collective enterprises, and the financial and tax systems to understand the impact of economic reform on the Chinese people and China\'s position in the world economy.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Topics in Economic Development: India and China , University of Pennsylvania
  This course examines the pre-reform economies of China, India, and to a lesser extent Bangladesh, Pakistan and Taiwan, from 1947 until various efforts of economic restructuring were undertaken. The pre-reform period takes about 1/3 of the course, the demographic-education-health and agricultural structures another 1/3 of the course, and the financial, industrial and international reforms take up the remainder of the course.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Wang, Xiaojun , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Wang is Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Hawai'i. Professor Wang's main research interests include macroeconomics, econometrics, and the Chinese economy. In particular, he has been working on recent labor market reforms in China.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/wang_xiaojun.html - November 8, 2004

• Wei, Shang-Jin , The Brookings Institution
  Dr. Shang-Jin Wei is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is an expert in international finance, U.S.-China economic integration and trade and in reform strategies in developing and transition economies. He has published widely in a number academic journals and is author, co-author, or co-editor of several books. Mr. Wei holds a PhD in economics and M.S. in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
  www.brookings.edu/scholars/swei.htm - October 22, 2004

• Zhu, Wenhui , Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
  Dr. Wenhui Zhu is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His expertise is in the areas of China's WTO accession, China trade and FDI issues, China economy and regional development, China-Taiwan relations, and China-Hong Kong relations.
  www.brookings.edu/scholars/fellows/wzhu.htm - October 18, 2004

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• Advanced Topics in Finance: Japanese Financial Management , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Major current financial issues and problems. (C) Japanese financial management; (D) portfolio management theory; (E) capital asset analysis; (F) stocks, bonds, and modern instruments. Pre: BUS 617 or consent.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/fin.htm - September 18, 2004

• Economy of Japan , George Wahington University
  Analysis of Japanese economic institutions and their contribution to Japan's development.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Introduction to the Economy of Japan , George Washington University
  Analysis of the structure and growth of the Japanese economy.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/ug_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Political Economy , Boston University
  No course description at this site.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Liew, Leong , Griffith University
  Associate Professor, Department of International Business & Asian Studies, Griffith University East Asian, especially Chinese and Japanese Political Economy International Business and Finance Applied Economic Modelling
  www.gu.edu.au/school/gbs/ibas/staff/leong_liew.html - November 11, 2004

• A Clash of Capitalisms: Foreign Shareholders and Coporate Restructuring in 1990s Japan , Ahmadjian, Christina L.; Robbins, Gregory E.
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This paper examines the conflict between stakeholder- and market-based business systems that resulted from an increase in foreign portfolio investment in the Japanese economy in the 1990’s. As foreign institutions, which were more interested in investment returns than in long-term relationships, replaced domestic shareholders, one of the fundamental pillars of Japan’s stakeholder capitalism began to crack, and Japanese firms began to adopt practices more characteristic of Anglo-American market economies. In an analysis of 1626 listed Japanese firms between 1990 and 1997, we found that foreign shareholders increased a firm’s propensity to downsize and divest assets. The effect of foreign shareholders was strongest among firms less integrated into the existing Japanese system—those with lower levels of shareholding by domestic corporations and financial institutions. There is little evidence that foreigners exerted pressure directly through shareholder activism. Rather, as firms’ resource dependencies shifted from domestic to foreign capital, their behavior shifted accordingly.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Adams, Gerard F. , Northeastern University
  McDonald Professor, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University Geographic Regions: Japan, Thailand Research Areas: macroeconomics, growth, development, planning, fluctuations, quantitative economic methods and data, trade and economic relations, finance, foreign aid, investments, industry, agriculture, natural resources, energy and mineral issues.
  web.cba.neu.edu/~fgadams/ - November 17, 2004

• Aggarwal, Raj , Kent State University
  Firestone Chair in Finance, Graduate School of Management Kent State University Geographic Regions: ASEAN, Northeast Asia, Japan, South Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Thailand Research Areas: banking, business issues, economics, finance, foreign investment, financial institutions and markets, industry, management, political economy, technology transfer, trade and economic relations
  business.kent.edu/dean/firestone/ - November 11, 2004

• Alexander, Arthur J. , Japan Economic Institute
  Arthur J. Alexander, President of the Japan Economic Institute in Washington, D.C. writes on topics such as Japan's civil aviation industry, Japanese technology, economic growth and international economic policy. Dr. Alexander holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
  jei.org/AboutJEI/About_staff.html - October 11, 2004

• Aliber, Robert , University of Chicago
  Professor of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: external impact of policies, finance, financial policy and practices, growth, international economics
  portal.chicagogsb.edu/portal//server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_332_207_0_43/http%3B/portal.chicagogsb.edu/Facultycourse/Portlet/FacultyDetail.aspx?&min_year=20044&max_year=20053&person_id=151824 - November 11, 2004

• Anchordoguy, Marie , University of Washington
  Associate Professor, Chair, Japan Studies Jackson School of Interenational Studies, University of Washington. Courses: Readings in the Political Economy of Japan Japanese Business and Technology.
  faculty.washington.edu/anchor/ - October 6, 2004

• Anders, Gary Carson , Arizona State University West
  Professor, School of Management, Arizona State University West Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: economics, business issues, competitiveness policies, firm microeconomics
  www.west.asu.edu/icgca/ - November 11, 2004

• Asako, Kazumi , Hitotsubashi University
  Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University Specialization Macroeconomics, Japanese Economy Current Research: Macroeconomics and empirical analysis of the Japanese economy. He is currently involved in projects on monetary and fiscal policies, statistical issues in identifying business cycles, and the sustainability of government deficits. His other areas of interest include: accumulation of social overhead capital, global warming, and policy measures for increasing the population of younger generations.
  www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/asako.html - November 8, 2004

• Asano, Yukihiro , Yokohama National University
  Faculty of Business Administration Yokohama National University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: finance, economics
  www.business.ynu.ac.jp/kyoju/asano/index_e.html - November 11, 2004

• ASEAN-Japan Competitive Strategy , Yamazaka, Ippei; Hiratsuka, Daisuke, ed.
  IDE-JETRO and research institutes from ASEAN 5 plus Vietnam conducted a joint study. This volume analyses current status of ASEAN economies and Japan in terms of industrial competitiveness and presents tasks that each country has to tackle for industrial upgrading.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/023.html - November 16, 2004

• Asia Pacific Fusion: Japan's Role in APEC , Funabashi, Yoichi
  Japanese journalist Yoichi Funabashi has written the first in-depth study of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum based on extensive interviews with heads of state and government officials in the region. A key force behind APEC, he argues, is a potential \"fusion\" of Asia-Pacific civilizations propelled by the region s dynamic economic integration. He recounts APEC s six-year history, assesses its potential, and examines the power politics of the region. Released just before the Osaka summit hosted by Japan in November 1995, this book looks closely at Japan\'s interests in APEC and its relations with countries in the region. It provides an intellectual framework for the future evolution of APEC itself and for Japan\'s role in that institution.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=21 - March 24, 2005

• Baxter, James C. , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research, Center for Japanese Studies Specialized Fields: Modern Japanese history Current Research Themes: Financial history; private-sector banks in modern Japan
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/James_C_BAXTER1_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Beagles, J.W. , Center for Strategic & International Studies
  Senior Associate, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC Expertise: U.S.-Japan relations, international trade and finance
  www.csis.org/experts/4beagles.htm - March 31, 2005

• Beechler, Schon K. , Columbia University
  Associate Professor, School of Business ; director of the Senior Executive Program Professor Beechler is currently involved in two major research efforts. The first is a project to measure the impact of executive education training on the global strategic leadership and management competencies of global senior executives. The second is entitled “Organizational Competitiveness: Exploring the Roles of Human Resource Management and Organization Culture in Multinational Corporations,” and is funded by the National Science Foundation.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/beechler.html - January 17, 2005

• Beresford, Martin D. , Nichibei Associates
  President, Nichibei Associates, San Francisco Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: foreign investment, trade and economic relations
  www.nichibeiamerica.com/pages/Beresford.html - November 17, 2004

• Bienen, Henry S. , Northwestern University
  President, Northwestern University Expertise: U.S.-Japan Policy
  www.northwestern.edu/president/ - November 21, 2004

• Bones, Bombs and Break Points , Davis, Donald R.; Weinstein, David E.
  Note: In order to access the paper, select publications from the Menu on the left and choose Working Papers. We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories: increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the distribution of regional population in Japan from the Stone Age to the modern era. We also consider the Allied bombing of Japanese cities in WWII as a shock to relative city sizes. Our results support a hybrid theory in which locational fundamentals establish the spatial pattern of relative regional densities, but increasing returns may help to determine the degree of spatial differentiation. One implication of our results is that even large temporary shocks to urban areas have no long-run impact on city size.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• Branstetter, Lee , Columbia University
  Associate Professor of Business, Finance and Economics Division He conducts research in the fields of international economics and industrial organization, with a special focus on the economies of East Asia, particularly Japan . He also maintains a strong interest in the economic analysis of technological innovation. His recent research papers have examined foreign direct investment, international technology diffusion and technology promotion policy.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/branstetter.html - January 17, 2005

• Brinton, Mary C. , Harvard University
  Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Research interests: Gender stratification, labor market organization, education, economic sociology, and Japanese society. She is currently working on a comparative project on the high school-work transition in Japan and the U.S., based on original field research and data collection in Japan. The project uses historical materials, interviews with high school teachers, survey data from employers, and a variety of quantitative data to analyze how the Japanese school-work transition system operates and to assess it from the viewpoints of meritocracy and labor market efficiency.
  www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/brinton/ - November 10, 2004

• Center on Japanese Economy and Business , Columbia University
  Columbia University established the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at the Graduate School of Business in April 1986 under the direction of Professor Hugh Patrick. The central mission of the Center has been to enhance understanding of the Japanese and Asia Pacific economies and their business, financial and managerial systems. An important focus is on Japan's international economic and business relationships in bilateral, Asia Pacific regional and global contexts. The website contains director and staff biographies, events, sponsorships, publications, resources, annual report, faculty in print, and alternative investments.
  www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - January 18, 2005

• CEO Compensation and Firm Performance in Japan: Evidence from New Panel Data on Individual CEO Pay , Kato, Takao; Kubo, Katsuyuki
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” studies on Japanese executive compensation have been constrained by the lack of longitudinal data on individual CEO pay. Using unique 10-year panel data on individual CEO’s salary and bonus of Japanese firms from 1986 to 1995, we present the first estimates on the performance sensitivity of Japanese CEO compensation. Specifically we find consistently that Japanese CEO’s cash compensation is sensitive to firm performance (especially accounting measures), and that the sensitivity of CEO’s cash compensation to ROA is 1.3 to 1.4, which is in general agreement with prior estimates elsewhere. As such, our estimates do not support that Japanese corporate governance is unusually defunct with regard to the significance and size of the sensitivity of CEO compensation to accounting profitability. On the other hand, to be consistent with the literature on Japanese corporate governance that tends to downplay the role of shareholders and stress the role of banks and employees, we find that stock market performance tends to play a less important role in the determination of Japanese CEO compensation. Finally, we find that the bonus system makes CEO compensation more sensitive to firm performance in Japan. The finding is in contrast to the literature on compensation for regular employees in Japan which often argues that bonus is a disguised base wage.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Changing Japanese Corporate Governance , Ahmadjian, Christina L.
  Note: In orderÊ to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This paper examines the rhetoric and reality of corporate governance reform in post-bubble Japan. I argue that the process of corporate governance reform in Japan is neither one of convergence to a \"global standard\" nor one of inertia, and rather reflects the theme of permeable insulation taken up by other contributors to this volume. Japanese firms are increasingly adopting practices long associated with U.S. corporate governance: small boards, independent directors, and stock options. While these changes have attracted much publicity, they signify relatively little for corporate governance. Boards remain insider-dominated, and the authority of boards of directors vis a visÊthe CEO has been unchanged. Despite the spread of stock options, executiveÊcompensation is only minimally tied to the stock market, and disclosure of executive pay remains far from transparent.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• Choices for Japanese Fiscal Policy , Inoue, Kengo
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This essay will attempt to make a critical assessment of the debate and to put Japanese fiscal policy into some sort of perspective. In doing so, we look at specific arguments byÊ focusing on the following five headings which are examined in turn.Ê1. Has the effectiveness of fiscal policy been permanently eroded in recent years compared with earlier periods? 2. Does the neutrality theorem -which states rational people react to government fiscal policy in a way that offsets the policy thrust-apply in Japan? 3. Is the Japanese fiscal position so precarious that priority should be give to reducing the deficit? 4. Can there be any means to improve the way public expenditures are allocated? 5. Does an expansive fiscal policy delay necessary structural adjustments?
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Cole, Robert , Cole, Robert
  Member of the East Asian faculty. Professor Cole's research interests include: Japanese work organization, quality, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational transformation.
  www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/cole.html - February 22, 2005

• Cole, Robert E. , University of California Berkeley
  Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Japanese work organization, quality, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational transformation.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/cole.html - January 20, 2005

• Corbett, Jenny , The Australian National University
  Professor of Japanese Studies, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Australian National University Research interests/expertise The Japanese economy, particularly banking, macro-economic policy and corporate governance. Banking and financial crisis.
  apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/jcorbett.php - October 6, 2004

• Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan , Henning, C. Randall
  International monetary coordination among the Group of Seven countries periodically falls into disrepair, due partly to the processes and institutions by which each government determines exchange rate and monetary policy. This study outlines the differences in how international monetary policy is made in the United States, Germany, and Japan, and examines how those differences complicate international policy coordination. The factors that affect exchange rate policymaking include inputs from the private sector, central bank autonomy, and the role of each country in the international system. Recommendations are made for institutional reforms that can improve cooperation. Particular attention is given to how the European economic and monetary union will affect monetary cooperation among the United States, Europe, and Japan.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=15 - March 24, 2005

• de Brouwer, Gordon , The Australian National University
  Professor, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University Research interests/expertise Open-economy macroeconomics International finance Economies of Japan, Australia and East Asia Monetary policy and central banking International relations Current Projects Future Financial Arrangements to Support Development in East Asia Monetary policy and central banking in Australia and East Asia Japan economy International and regional financial architecture.
  apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/gdebrouwer.php - October 6, 2004

• Dekle, Robert , University of Southern California
  Professor of Economics, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California Research Interests Professor Dekle studies international finance, open-economy and development, macroeconomics and the economies of Japan and East Asia.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/100.html - January 7, 2005

• Destler, I.M. , University of Maryland
  Professor; Director, Ph.D. Program & Director, Program on International Security and Economic Policy He is a scholar who specializes in the politics and processes of U.S. foreign policymaking. His American Trade Politics (Institute for International Economics and Twentieth Century Fund, third edition, 1995), won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the AmericanPolitical Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy.
  www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/papers/destler/destler.html - November 27, 2004

• Distribution Keiretsu, FDI and Import Penetration in Japan , Flath, David
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” An independent wholesaler with many different upstream suppliers is likely to be better at market coverage than if it were the subsidiary of just one supplier. But where wholesale efforts are focused on resolving externalities (by establishing and administering a directed marketing channel), efforts at expanding market coverage have greater marginal cost and will be commensurately retrenched, so independent wholesaling has a smaller payoff. This suggests that directed marketing channels?in Japan known as distribution keiretsu?are more likely than others to be headed by a primary wholesaler that is vertically integrated with the manufacturer. We demonstrate the empirical validity of this by showing that foreign direct investment in Japanese wholesaling is heavily concentrated in marketing channels with relatively high incidence of distribution keiretsu. These same marketing channels tend to have a slightly lower rate of import penetration which is indirect evidence that impediments to inward foreign direct investment still existed in Japan in 1997, our year of observation.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Downsizing and the Deinstitutionalization fo Permanent Employment in Japan , Ahmadjian, Christina L.; Robbins, Gregory E.
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This study examines the process by which the Japanese permanent employment system was increasingly deinstitutionalized and replaced by downsizing among publicly listed companies in Japan between 1990 and 1997. We found that although economic pressure triggered downsizing, social and institutional pressures shaped the pace and process by which downsizing spread. The greater a firm’s legitimacy and visibility, and the more it depended on organizations and institutions that supported the institution of permanent employment , the more hesitant it was to abandon that practice, even when it had much to lose financially. Specifically, large, old, and high-reputation firms were resistant to downsizing at first, as were firms with high levels of human capital, as reflected by high wages. In contrast, firms with high levels of foreign ownership were more likely to downsize. We found that these social and institutional pressures, however, diminished as downsizing spread across the population. We argue that this is due to a \"safety in numbers\" effect. As downsizing became more prominent, the actions of any single firm were less likely to be noticed and criticized. This is one of the first studies to concurrently examine social and economic influences on deinstitutionalization in a pooled data set. It responds to the call for \"longitudinal studies of institutional activities under conditions of declining performance\" (Oliver, 1992) and adds to the empirical research on deinstitutionalization and population level organizational change.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• Eco HST JAPAN 1850-Pres , Duke University
  The economic achievements and problems of Japan in their historical and comparative context. The prewar and wartime economy; postwar and current issues. How economic development has transformed ordinary people's lives. Instructor: Partner
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0980/ECON/120/ - August 22, 2004

• Economic Development of Japan , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Analysis of growth from Meiji period to present. Problems of population change, capital formation, income distribution, industrial structure.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/econ.htm - September 18, 2004

• Economic History of Japan , University of Pittsburgh
  Between 1868 and the 1990s, the Japanese economy grew from a primarily agricultural one into a sophisticated modern industrial one. In 1868, the average Japanese was a poverty-stricken peasant; in the 1990s, his great -grand children had one of the highest standards of living in the world, complete with VCRs, cellular phones, up-to-date automobiles, laptop computers, world-class health care, and regular trips to London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong. The point of this course is to investigate how this remarkable transformation took place. In order to do so, we shall look at the early modern preconditions to economic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the beginnings of the process of modernization between 1868 and World War I, the successful rise of capitalism and its concomitant democracy in the 1920s, the world depression and the rise of militarism in the 1930s, the destruction of Japan's economy during World War II, and then Japan's "miraculous" recovery between 1945 and today. One of the major questions asked in the course will be to what extent did Japan become an economic power because of government guidance, and to what extent because of free market forces?
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/hist.htm#0401Modern%20East%20Asian%20Civilization - January 16, 2004

• Economic Organization and Development of Japan , Columbia University
  The course examines the growth and structural changes of the post-World War II economy; its historical roots; interactions with cultural, social, and political institutions; economic relations with the rest of the world.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Economic Regulation in Japan: Seminar , Harvard University
  This seminar will both introduce students to Japanese economic regulation and train them to use Japanese-language legal materials. During the fall, students will read a variety of materials on Japanese regulation in both English and Japanese and begin their own research projects. During the spring, they will then lead a class discussion (and complete a paper) on their research subject. Students should have at least two years of language studies or the equivalent; the class is not open to native speakers of Japanese.
  www.law.harvard.edu/academics/registrar/catalog/electives.html - August 24, 2004

• Economics of Japan , University of Pennsylvania
  The major characteristics of the Japanese economy. After a brief description of history, aspects of economic activities of the country will be examined: labor markets, financial markets, international trade, corporate decision making, etc., with special reference to comparison with the United States.Also analyzed are government policies including fiscal policy and taxation, monetary policy and, especially, industrial and trade policy.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Economics of Japanese Legal Institutions (The) , Harvard University
  In this course, we explore the legal structures that shape the Japanese political, economic, and social environments. Among the topics we address are the logic behind and the effect of: the organization of the legal services industry, the dynamics of adjudication and regulation, and patterns of finance and governance at Japanese firms. All readings are in English-we assume no knowledge of Japanese or of Japanese law. Although much of the analysis will be economic, we also assume no prior knowledge of economics. Because of the overlap between this course and Introduction to Japanese Law, students who received credit for that course may not register for The Economics of Japanese Legal Institutions.
  www.law.harvard.edu/academics/registrar/catalog/electives.html - August 24, 2004

• Economy Of Japan , Michener, Ronald
  This course reviews Japan's economic development from the Tokugawa Era onward, and then explores different sectors and issues of the modern Japanese economy.
  etg08.itc.virginia.edu/cod.pages/20043/ASF/ECON.html - August 26, 2004

• Elder, Mark A. , Michigan State University
  Assistant Professor of Political Economy,ÊÊMichigan State University Research Interests: Japanese and East Asian politics and political economy, comparative and international political economy, comparative economic policy making, comparative politics, business-government relations.
  www.msu.edu/~elderm/ - October 20, 2004

• Elements of the Development of the Japanese Raw Silk Industry: An Explanation by the NK Model , Togo, Ken
  This paper seeks to explain the development of the Japanese raw silk industry through a comparison of three of its major silk producing areas: Suwa, Maebashi, and Usui. The study focuses on the systemic interrelationships between elements of technology, production structure, finance, and market technology. This study highlights the importance of coordination and institutions which strengthen complementarities between elements.
  www.fasid.or.jp/english/publication/occasional/elements.html - November 16, 2004

• Evolving Corporate Governance in Japan , Patrick, Hugh
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” Like the United States, managers of Japan\'s large companies since the early 1950s have had great autonomy because shareholding is dispersed. However most Japanese companies have a s significant portion of their shares stably held by other friendly financial institutions and businesses, a significant component of the integrated, synergistic \"postwar economic system\" embodied in the permanent employment system of industrial relations, the main bank systems, and management independence. Employees rather than shareholders are the main potential constraints, so managers have given strong priority to employee interests.ÊJapan\'s mediocre economic performance since 1991, and a range of publicized corporate scandals is now undermining this system. Government policies and public pressure have improved corporate disclosure and transparency, and have made corporate governance through capital markets feasible. While managers in the future will place greater weight on shareholder interests, only a few companies are likely to adopt the Anglo-American corporateÊgovernance model. More likely is the gradual development ofÊa hybrid approach in which management retainsÊconsiderable autonomy and employee interests remain important.Ê
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - February 28, 2005

• Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Financing Constraints, Hedging, and Exports: Evidence from Firm Level Data , Dekle, Robert; Ryoo, Heajin
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.”Ê An important puzzle in internatio nal macroeconomics is the exchange rateÊ disconnectÊ puzzle. Nominal exchange rates seem to be unrelated to other macroeconomic variables,Ê for example, export quantities. This paper uses Japanese firm level data to examine whetherÊexchange rate fluctuations are strongly related to the export quantities of firms. We build a simultaneous nonlinear structural model with external financing costs, and estimate the model on 14 separate Japanese 4 digit level industries. We find that export volumes at the firm level are significantly affected by exchange rate fluctuations. We find higher elasticit ies of exports with respect to exchange rates than in previous work. Our results cast some doubt on the prevailing wisdom that exchange rates have no effect on trade. Finally, we find in our data that financing constraints play an important role in affecting the sensitivity of exports to exchange rate fluctuations. Firms that are less financially constrained -for example,Êkeiretsu firms- tend toÊhave lower exchange rate elasticities, which is consistent with our model.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Flath, David , North Carolina State University
  Professor and Director of Graduate Program, Department of Economics, College of Management, North Carolina State University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: economy, industrial organization, microeconomic theory
  www.mgt.ncsu.edu/faculty/economics/dflath.html - November 17, 2004

• Flynn, Michael S. , University of Michigan
  Research Scientist, Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Studies of the automotive industry, including industry structure, manufacturer-supplier relations, global strategies, market developments, information technology, technology and economic forecasts; comparisons of North American and Japanese companies and/or industries
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=11 - February 18, 2005

• From Cozy Regulation to Competative Markets: The Regime Shift of Japan's Financial System , Patrick, Hugh
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” The Japanese banking and financial systems are substantially along the transformation process of shifting from one regime to a new one. The “postwar” financial regime was characterized by extraordinary high priority placed by the Japanese regulators on financial system safety. To that end they restricted capital market development, and established the conditions in which no bank could fail: deposits and loans to business as the predominant financial instruments; wide interest rate spreads; no entry and no exit mechanisms; close, informal, opaque, administrative guidance by the Ministry of Finance with little disclosure, is what evolved into a cozy, collusive, nontransparent relationship between regulator and those regulated…in other words, the cliché “bank convoy system.” This protected system gradually dissolved once growth in the Japanese economy in the mid-1970s shifted from being supply constrained to inadequate aggregate demand constrained. With credit becoming easily available, deregulation began its very slow, piecemeal, gradual process, evolving to the new financial system regime today based in principle on open, free, competitive financial markets. The transformation was complicated and made much more expensive by the stock and urban real estate bubbles of the late 1980s, the bursting of which destroyed the collateral value of loans, compounded by Japan’s miserable economic performance of the 1990s. Today Japan’s financial system rates on highly competitive capital and loan markets, with Japanese financial institutions weak and engaged in consolidation, and many major foreign financial institutions as active players in many Japanese wholesale financial markets.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• Garnaut, Ross , Australian National University
  Professor of Economics, Division of Economics, Australian National University Research Interests: China's economic reforms and internationalisation; Asia-Pacific economies' development and international economic relations; Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region; domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development.
  rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/garnr_econ.php - January 23, 2005

• Gerlach, Michael , University of California Berkeley
  Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Japan, international business, strategy and policy.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/gerlach.html - January 20, 2005

• Greaney, Theresa , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Associate Professor of Economics, Faculty, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa Recent Publications: "An Analysis of Japan's Changing Import Behavior." In Japan's Economic Recovery: Commercial Policy, Monetary Policy, and Corporate Governance "Do US-Japan Bilateral Trade Agreements Affect International Trade?" "Promoting Imports to Appease Trade Partners: Japan's New Trade Policies." "Assessing the Impacts of US-Japan Bilateral Trade Agreements, 1980-1995."
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 13, 2004

• Hagen, James A. , Cornell University
  Professor, Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University Professor Hagen's research centers on inter-firm relations, especially factors that enhance or limit trust. He also combines his trust scholarship with the study of foreign market entry. A case study he wrote on the role of trust in entering the Japanese market is one of the most widely used case studies at business schools around the world. Hagen's international research focuses largely on Japan, where he has lived, and other parts of Asia.
  aem.cornell.edu/profiles/hagen.htm - December 26, 2004

• Hamada, Koichi , Yale University
  Professor of Economics, Economic Growth Center, Yale University Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: economics, finance, foreign investment, foreign relations, intellectual property rights, international monetary reform, international trade, law, political economy
  www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/hamada.htm - November 27, 2004

• Hamao, Yasushi , University of Southern California
  Professor, Department of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California Dr. Yasushi Hamao, associate professor of finance and business economics, is actively involved in research in international finance, especially on Japanese and Asia-Pacific financial markets and corporate finance.
  www.marshall.usc.edu/web/FBE.cfm?doc_id=1403 - January 7, 2005

• Has Japan's Innovative Capacity Declined? , Nakamura, Yoshiaki
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This paper examines Japan\'s R&D performance since the early 1980s using several complementary modes of analysis. First, we examine evidence from aggregate economic statistics concerning changes in Japanese corporate R&D. Second, we analyze comprehensive data on R&D inputs and outputs for a panel of nearly 200 Japanese firms. Microeconometric analysis of this data set allows us to examine where any downturn in R&D activity is concentrated, what Japanese firms are themselves doing to rectify the downturn in performance, and what effects these steps have had to date. Third, we relate the results of interviews with corporate R&D managers and informed industry observers concerning their perceptions of changes in Japanese innovative capacity and the reasons for these changes. We find evidence, at the micro level and the aggregate level, of a slowdown in the growth rate of Japanese research productivity in the 1990s.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Hashimoto, Masanori , Ohio State University
  Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, Ohio State University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: labor markets, human capital
  www.econ.ohio-state.edu/Nori/nori.html - November 17, 2004

• Hayashi, Ryouzo , Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
  After having a distinguished career with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of JapanÊ(MITI), Mr. hayashi is currently a consulting Fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
  www.rieti.go.jp/users/hayashi-ryozo/index_en.html - October 21, 2004

• Helleiner, Eric , Trent University
  Associate Professor Department of Political Studies Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: political economy, finance
  www.trentu.ca/politics/faculty/helleiner.htm - November 21, 2004

• Hutchison, Michael M. , University of California Santa Cruz
  Interim Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Hutchison's research centers on topics related to international finance and open economy macroeconomics, including exchange rate regimes, international banking and financial systems, Japanese monetary and financial policies, and the economics of European economic integration. His most recent work is on the costs of financial crises, the effects of IMF programs and the effectiveness of official foreign exchange market intervention.
  econ.ucsc.edu/~hutch/ - October 27, 2004

• Idiosyncratic Risk and Creative Destruction in Japan , Hamao, Yasushi; Mei, Jianping; Xu, Yexiao
  Note: In order to access the paper, select Publications from the Menu on the left and choose Working Papers. The dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese equity market provides us with a unique opportunity to examine market-and firm-specific risks over different market conditions. Contrary to the U.S. experience, we document a surprising fall in firm-level volatility and turnover in Japanese stocks after the market crash. Accordingly, correlations among individual stocks have increased and the number of stocks needed to achieve a given level of diversification has declined. As a consequence, we suggest that it has become more difficult over the past decade for both investors and managers to separate high-quality from low-quality firms, making the Japanese market less efficient. Moreover, changes in firm-level volatilities are positively related to corporate bankruptcies, indicating that improvements in information efficiency occur when regulations on corporate bankruptcies are relaxed. These results suggest that the sharp fall in firm-level volatility during the 1990-1996 period could be due to a lack of corporate restructuring. This is more evident for firms with business group and main bank affiliations, whose firm-level volatility is less dependent on economic conditions than that of firms with no affiliations. Thus, we argue that a lack of "creative destruction" may have led to Japanese market inefficiency and a vicious cycle of capital misallocation.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Inflation Targeting Discussions in Japan - unconventional monetary policy under deflation: How People Have Argued; Why the BOJ Opposes Adoption , Fujiki, Minako
  Inflation targeting has been adopted by many centralÊbanks all over the world, and has brought about the successful result of reducing inflation rates and enhancing the central bank’s independence, transparency and accountability. Could this regime also effective work in Japan, whose economy has been suffering from deflation, by creating inflationary expectations? Krugman\'s suggestion in 1998 that Japan introduce as unconventional monetary measure to get out of a liquidity trap by fueling inflation triggered the debate about inflation targeting. A number of economists, policymakers, journalists and central banker both inside and outside Japan have hotly argued the policy and their opinions range from the mundane to the esoteric. This paper seeks to examine both sides of the inflation targeting argument and tries to sort through the confusing discussions.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - February 28, 2005

• Inoki, Takenori , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Labor economics; Japanese economy; history of economic thought Current Research Themes: Comparative studies on bureaucracy, human resource development of white collar workers
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/INOKI_Takenori2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Introductory Course to the Japanese Economy , Lincoln, Edward J.
  The course is a basic introduction to the Japanese economy, with a focus on contemprorary institutions and issues.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/JapneseEconomyLincoln.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? evidence from Japan's FDI in the U.S. , Branstetter, Lee
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international \\\"spillovers\\\" of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I useÊthis framework to directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms’ FDI and innovative activity, I find evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spilloversÊ both from and to the investing Japanese firms.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• Janow, Merit E. , Columbia, University
  Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Director of the Master of International Affairs (MIA), Director, Program in International Economic Policy, Co-director, APEC Study Center    She has a unique international career that spans academia, government and business. Her background combines international trade and antitrust law and policy with extensive international experience, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. She grew up in Tokyo Japan, and speaks Japanese.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/RESEARCH/bios/mj60.html - January 31, 2005

• Japan and the Pacific Rim: Developmental Perspectives , University of Pennsylvania
  Examination of the economic trends and resulting social changes in the countries of the Pacific Rim. It focuses on the effects of globalism, especially in the urban environment.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Japan Financial Report , Fukao, Mitsuhiro; Harada, Nobuyuki
  The report discusses the Profitability of Japanese Industries: Non-financial Sectors, Banks and Life-Insurance Companies.
  www.jcer.or.jp/eng/ - November 18, 2004

• Japan's Economy in the New Century: A New Vision for Growth , Miyagawa, Tsutomu; Ito, Yukiko
  In order for Japan to liberate itself from these recurring crises, the country needs not only a short-term policy, but and medium to long-term vision of economic growth. If Japan can undergo a structural reform that will make efficient use of its accumulated stock of R&D and social capital, under a continuous environment of a depreciating yen, then Japan will grow at an average rate of 1.6% per year by the year 2025. A surplus will be attained in the primary balance in 2011, due to the reduction in public investment and srastic reform in the social security sector on the fiscal scale.
  www.jcer.or.jp/eng/ - November 18, 2004

• Japan's Financial Crisis and Its Parallels to US Experience , Posen, Adam; Mikitani, Ryoichi
  Japan is only one of many industrialized economies to suffer a financial crisis in the past 15 years, but it has suffered the most from its crisis—as measured in lost output and investment opportunities, and in the direct costs of clean-up. Comparing the response of Japanese policy in the 1990s to that of US monetary and financial policy to the American Savings and Loan Crisis of the late 1980s sheds light on the reasons for this outcome. This volume was created by bringing together several leading academics from the United States and Japan—plus former senior policymakers from both countries—to discuss the challenges to Japanese financial and monetary policy in the 1990s. The papers address in turn both the monetary and financial aspects of the crisis, and the discussants bring together broad themes across the two countries’ experiences. As the papers in this Special Report demonstrate, while the Japanese government’s policy response to its banking crisis in the 1990s was slow in comparison to that of the US government a decade earlier, the underlying dynamics were similar. A combination of mismanaged partial deregulation and regulatory forebearance gave rise to the crisis and allowed it to deepen, and only the closure of some banks and injection of new capital into others began the resolution. The Bank of Japan’s monetary policy from the late 1980s onward, however, was increasingly out of step with US or other developed country norms. In particular, the Bank of Japan’s limited response to deflation after being granted independence in 1998 stands out as a dangerous and unusual stance.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=319 - March 24, 2005

• Japan's Internal Debt , Beim, David
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” Does internal debt matter? Japan’s yen-denominated public debt now totals 140% of GDP, and this number continues to rise rapidly. What constraints will this growing debt finally encounter? I argue that finance can postpone but not eliminate payments owed by the government to the private sector. The combination of continuing Keynsian budget deficits, bleeding banks, over-leveraged municipalities and massive pension liabilities will ultimately bring into question the credibility of the government’s many promises. The result could be a massive issuance of new currency.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Japan's International Trade and Technology , Yoshida, Phyllis Genther
  The course examines Japan's emergence as one of the world's most advanced economies.  It provides a foundation for understanding Japan's science, technology and trade policies, and effectively applying that understanding to current policy issues.  It highlights how Japan responded to economic and technological challenges and, in turn, how the United States altered its perception of its own global competitiveness to address Japan's challenge.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/00sp/718.htm - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Economic Development , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Japanese Economy , University of Pennsylvania
  The purpose of this six-week mini-course is to provide students with a basic but comprehensive understanding of main features of the contemporary Japanese economy and its relations with the United States. The course will cover most important issues such as persistent external imbalances, high yen/weak dollar, the hollowing-out of Japanese manufacturing, banking crisis in Japan, business practices, FDI-trade linkages, etc.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Japanese Economy and Economic Policy , Fujii, Eiji
  This course is designed to introduce students to the operation and management of the Japanese economy and its impact on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Stress will be given to the analytic and policy interest in the operation and management of an economic system built on different social and institutional foundations from that of our own and the interaction between the Japanese economy and other economies, particularly the Australian economy.
  ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=ECON2008 - August 5, 2004

• Japanese Economy and Economic Policy , Fujii, Eiji
  This course will introduce students to the operation and managment of the Japanese economy and its impact on the interational economy, including Australia and the Australia-Pacific region. Stress will be given to the analytic and policy interests in the operation and management built on different social and institutional foundations from those in Australia.
  ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=ECON8008 - August 5, 2004

• Japanese Industrialization and Economic Growth , Mosk, Carl
  Japan achieved sustained growth in per capita income between the 1880s and 1970 through industrialization. Moving along an income growth trajectory through expansion of manufacturing is hardly unique. Indeed Western Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States all attained high levels of income per capita by shifting from agrarian-based production to manufacturing and technologically sophisticated service sector activity. Still, there are four distinctive features of Japan\'s development through industrialization that merit discussion: proto-industrial base, investment-led growth,Ê and total factor productivity growth. The author analizes these stages and provides a useful analytical framework for understanding Japan\'s industrial development. Ê
  eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=mosk.japan.final - March 3, 2005

• Kato, Takao , Colgate University
  Professor and Presidential Scholar, Department of Economics, Colgate University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: labor market, industrial relations, human resource management
  people.colgate.edu/tkato/ - November 17, 2004

• Kato, Tetsuro , Hitotsubashi University
  Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University Geographic Regions: Japan, Germany, Russia Research Areas: political economy, economics, modern history, politics (domestic issues)
  www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~katote/Home.shtml - November 28, 2004

• Katz, Richard , The Oriental Economist
  Richard Katz is the Editor-in-Chief of The Oriental Economist Report (TOE), with responsibility for coordinating the newsletter's coverage of the Japanese economy. He is also a special correspondent for the Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese weekly business magazine published by Toyo Keizai. A veteran journalist, Mr. Katz has been writing about Japan and US-Japan relations for 25 years. His articles have appeared in both Japanese and American national publications. For several years, Mr. Katz was a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.
  www.orientaleconomist.com/staff_katz.html - November 10, 2004

• Kawaguchi, Hiroshi , Waseda University
  Professor, Department of Economics, Waseda University, Japan Research Interests: History of Japanese economic activity and thought
  www.waseda.jp/seikei/english/faculty/pages/kawaguchi-hiroshi-e.html - January 15, 2005

• Kawahito, Kiyoshi , Middle Tennessee State University
  Professor of Economics and Director Japan-U.S. Program,  College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University Geographic Regions: Japan, US-Japan comparative education systems Research Areas: economic relations with US, business practices
  www.mtsu.edu/~kawahito/ - November 17, 2004

• Kawakatsu, Heita , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialization: Comparative socio-economic history
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/KAWAKATSU_Heita2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Keio Frontier Research & Education Collaborative Square (K-FRECS) , Keio University
  Innovation is essential to society, and to promote new approaches K-FRECS was established in 2001 at three Keio locations: the Shin-Kawasaki Town Campus of Keio, the Tsuruoka Town Campus of Keio (TTCK) in Yamagata Prefecture, and at the Nowton Court Campus of Keio (NCK) in the United Kingdom. It is at these locations where the various faculties of Keio University can come into direct contact with the local community. Under the auspices of both local industry and government, Keio University\'s superior academic and human resources are applied to leading-edge research activities in the form of collaboration that transcends the traditional barriers that surround academia.
  www.keio.ac.jp/05/07.html - November 11, 2004

• Lim, Linda , University of Michigan
  Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, School of Business, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Japan\'s economic relations with Southeast Asia
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=23 - February 18, 2005

• Limitations and Side Effects of Using Fiscal Policy to Adjust Business Cycle: Lessons from Japan*1 , Zhang, Shuying
  The discussion paper is made up of three parts. The first part covers the perios after World War II. It analyses the fiscal policy of Japan regarding adjusted business cycle, examining its policy basis from a historical perspective. The second part analyses public finance and how it had an adjusted effect on prosperity in Japan. The third part analyses the economic side-effects of the public investment.
  www.cass.net.cn/chinese/s30_rbs/english/publication/zhangsy-e1.htm - November 9, 2004

• Lincoln, James R. , University of California Berkeley
  Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: International business and management, particularly Japanese management; organizational design, interorganizational networks, organizational theory and research methods; labor and industrial relations.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/lincoln.html - January 20, 2005

• Masahiko, Aoki , Stanford, University
  Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies (Emeritus), Stanford University Research Interests: The theory of the firm, Japanese economy, comparative economic institutions. Current Research: Why do different institutional arrangements develop in different economies and what are their implications?
  www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/aoki.html - October 6, 2004

• McKinney, Joseph A. , Baylor University
  Professor of International Economics,Department of Economics, Baylor University Research Areas: business issues, development, economics, international trade policies, regional economic cooperation, trade and economic relations, US policy toward
  business.baylor.edu/Joe_McKinney/ - November 3, 2004

• Measuring the Costs of Protection in Japan , Sazanami, Yoko; Urata, Shujiro; Kawai, Hiroko
  This is the companion volume to Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Kimberly Ann Elliott\\\'s Measuring the Costs of Protection in the United States (1994). It assesses Japanese trade barriers by identifying price differentials between imports and their (imperfect) domestic substitutes and then calculating the welfare effects of the implied trade barriers. The authors find that import barrier in place in 1989 cost Japanese consumers $105 billion, about 3.6 percent of GNP. If all such barriers were removed, Japanese imports could increase by $47 billion. The authors believe that the cost of import protection has increased in recent years. The book contains an overview chapter which describes parallels and differences in the US and Japanese structures of protection and compares the aggregate results.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=32 - March 24, 2005

• Milhaupt, Curtis , Milhaupt, Curtis
  Curtis J. Milhaupt is the Fuyo Professor of Law and director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. He holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Law Review. Prior to joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 1999, Professor Milhaupt practiced law in New York and Tokyo, principally in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and international finance, and began his academic career at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Milhaupt has served as visiting professor of law at University of California at Los Angeles, visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, and Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has also served as a member of an international team of scholars advising on Korean unification, where he was responsible for designing a privatization plan for North Korean state-owned enterprises. His principal areas of research interest include comparative corporate governance; financial regulation; Japanese law, particularly corporate and banking law; law and economics; and institutional economics. Professor Milhaupt has written on a broad range of comparative law topics, including venture capital, deposit insurance, and organized crime, and is coauthor of Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics. Professor Milhaupt published \"On the (Fleeting) Existence of the Main Bank System and Other Japanese Economic Institutions\" in Law and Social Inquiry (spring 2002). He is currently editing a volume entitled Global Markets, Domestic Institutions: Corporate Law and Governance in a New Era of Cross-Border Deals (forthcoming, Columbia University Press, 2003). This volume grew out of a major project he directed, which included two conferences on corporate governance held at the Law School in 2001-2002, culminating in a major public conference that drew corporate and finance scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - February 28, 2005

• Motono, Eiichi , Waseda University
  Professor, Department of Economics, Waseda University, Japan Research Interests: Socio-economic history of Asia History of Sino-British relations Sino-Japanese relations
  www.waseda.jp/seikei/english/faculty/pages/motono-eiichi-e.html - January 15, 2005

• Mun, Se-il , Kyoto University
  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University Research Interests: Urban Economics, Transport Policy
  www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mun/ - February 17, 2005

• Nakamura, Masao , Sauder School of Business
  Dr. Nakamura is Chair and Professor of Konwakai Japan Research as part of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching interests include Japanese and Asian economies and he has published numerous books and articles concerning international business issues and economies in Asia.
  pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/nakamura/ - October 22, 2004

• Nakamura, Osamu , International University of Japan
  Associate Professor, International Relations Progtram International University of Japan Research Interests: 1) Productivity in the geriatric economy in Japan 2) Income distribution and economic growth 3) Decentralized systems and sustainable economic growth in the Japanese regional economies.
  www.iuj.ac.jp/web/iuj_section.cfm?item=130807 - October 6, 2004

• Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro , Tokyo University
  Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: finance
  www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~okuno/index_e.html - November 17, 2004

• Ouchi, William , University of California Los Angeles
  Professor, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA Research Interests: Management in Japan Management Theory (Theory Z)
  www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Ouchi.htm - January 20, 2005

• Parallel Imports and the Japan Fair Trade Commission , Flath, David; Nariu, Tatsuhiko
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” We review the facts pertaining to some recent antimonopoly cases in Japan involving interference with unauthorized imports, so-called parallel imports, and propose economic explanations for the behavior of the foreign manufacturers in these cases. The intellectual property law of Japan provides a mechanism for private obstruction of parallel imports but under the antimonopoly law of Japan as implemented by the Japan Fair Trade Commission such obstruction is per se illegal. To the extent that price discrimination is the rationale for obstruction of parallel imports the JFTC policy hasÊÊpromoted lower prices and increased economic welfare in Japan. But we argue that in several of the cases we examine the rationale for obstructing parallel imports was to preserve incentives for distributors to invest and innovate and to preserve efficient marketing arrangements that depended upon resale price maintenance.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Parker, Paul , University of WaterlooResearch Areas: energy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, environment, Environmental Policy, automobile industry, foreign investment, technology transfer
  Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: energy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, environment, Environmental Policy, automobile industry, foreign investment, technology transfer
  www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/Faculty/parker.html - November 17, 2004

• Patrick, Hugh , Patrick, Hugh
  Hugh Patrick is Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School, Co-Director of Columbia\'s APEC Study Center, and R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus at Columbia University. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1984 after some years as Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1951, earned M.A. degrees in Japanese Studies (1955) and Economics (1957) and the Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1960. He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, University of Tokyo and University of Bombay.Professor Patrick\'s current research is in three areas. One is Japanese corporate governance in comparative perspective, specifically considering the systems and practices in the United States, Korea, and Indonesia. A second is his ongoing research on Japanese banking and the financial system. Third, he is engaged as one of the five members of the organizing committee with Professors David Weinstein of Columbia, Takatoshi Ito and Mariko Fujii of the University of Tokyo, and Tokuo Iwaisako of Hitotsubashi University on a major project titled \"Solutions for the Japanese Economy.\"
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - February 28, 2005

• Patrick, Hugh T. , Columbia, University
  Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School    Research: Japan's macroeconomic performance and policy, banking and financial markets, government-business relations, and Japan United States economic relations.
  www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/director/ - January 31, 2005

• Policy Challenges and the Reform of Postal Savings in Japan , Scher, Mark J.
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This paper discusses the current policy challenges to the existence of Japan\'s postal saving system, the main repository for Japan\'s household savings.Some critics have erroneously conflated the investment function of mobilized funds that occurred under the government\'s managed by the Ministry of Finance, with the collection mechanism managed separately by the Ministry of Posts. Critically reviewed are the efficacy and wisdom of the search for market-oriented investment policies in view of the public\'s real fears for the safety of their savings; current proposals to privatize, not only the postal savings system but also the post delivery system itself and the potential loss of essential services to rural populations.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Problems of the Japanese Economy , Columbia University
  The course is primarily intended for Ph.D. students who want to specialize in Japan. Salient issues of the Japanese economy that have attracted considerable academic attention.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Public-Interest Corporations in Japan Today: Data-Scientific Approach , Sakasawa Peace Foundation
  This article describes the results of a statistical survey for public-interest corporations in Japan Today. First the brief introduction of position of public-interest corporations in non-profit organizations in Japan is given. Then, the probability sampling design and the methods to heighten the quality of data are shown with its evaluation. The multifarious features of public-interest corporations are depicted by various methods of data analysis. The characteristic features of public interest corporations, which are hidden in data, are revealed by a sophisticated method of data science. The Japanese characteristics of public-interest corporations are also elucidated.
  www.spf.org/e/special/p_interest.html - November 9, 2004

• Putting E-Commerce to Work: The Japanese Convenience Store Case , Rapp, William; ul Islam, Mazhar
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.”Investment of IT (Information Technology) came to be positively advanced in various industries after 1980. However, in the late 1980s, as for the improvement in the productivity by the investment of information systems, the economist Robert Solow developed the \"paradox of productivity theory\" which claims that the introduction of information systems does not lead to higher productivity. On the other hand, as a result of good strategy on the development of IT industries, the U.S. economy after 1991 was in good condition over a span of 10 years, until 2001. The Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan came to suggest \"the New Economy theory\", which is caused by the investment of IT. It posed a problem in the1980s about investment of IT in the industries and the companies; it is not clear whether or not it made a good impact on corporate management. In this paper, we have measured the economical effects of IT investment by industries in Japan. Consequently, in Japan, the effect of IT investment in most industries will be low or minus in the first half of the 1990s, compared with the second half of the 1980s. However, the effect of IT investment is again changed to a rise or plus after 1995. This has a big relation to the advancement of IT, such as evolution of an information network, and there is also change in the management of IT itself. These results will support our objective which is to consider the directions of more effective IT investment, as well as to give the right direction of corporate management for the future in Japan.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Quarterly Forcast of Japanese Economy , Ishida, Kazuhiko; Nagamachi, Rieko; Iiduka, Nobuo
  The periodical provides a comprehensive analysis of trends in Japanese economy.
  www.jcer.or.jp/eng/ - November 18, 2004

• Rosenbluth, Frances , Yale University
  Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: political economy, comparative political economy, regulatory and electoral politics, liberalization and internationalization of financial markets, government-business relations
  www.yale.edu/polisci/rosenbluth/cv.htm - December 8, 2004

• Saijo, Tatsuyoshi , Institute of Social and Economic Research
  Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University Research Areas: Japan's economics and environment
  www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/~saijo/index-e.html - November 3, 2004

• Sakai, Yoshihiro , Center for Strategic & International Studies
  Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC Expertise: Financial markets, monetary policy, banking systems, U.S.-Japanese economic relations, macroeconomics, Japan
  www.csis.org/experts/4sakai.htm - March 31, 2005

• Sato, Yoichiro , Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
  Dr. Yoichiro Sato is an Associate Professor and an expert in international and comparative political economy of the Asia-Pacific region and Japanese foreign policy. He is also interested in international fishery law and negotiations, as well as general international security issues in Northeast Asia. He joined the center in 2001 after teaching at the Auckland University, Department of Political Studies. He has also taught at University of Hawaii and Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College.
  www.apcss.org/BIOS/Faculty0704/sato0704/yoichiro_sato.htm - October 18, 2004

• Saxonhouse, Gary , University of Michigan
  Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Japanese economy; international economic relations; economic history; econometrics.
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=34 - October 6, 2004

• Schaede, Ulrike , University of California, San Diego
  Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, IR/PS Department. Professor Schaede is an authority on business and management in Japan; Japanese financial markets and venture capital; financial regulation; antitrust and industrial policies; and corporate strategy in Japan.
  www-irps.ucsd.edu/academics/f-schaede-es.php - October 10, 2004

• Seike, Atsushi , Keio University
  Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University Research Interests: economics, labor
  www.fbc.keio.ac.jp/l3estaff/FBC0128e.html - November 3, 2004

• Shimazaki, Hiroshi , University of Lethbridge
  Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: management, cultural geography
  people.uleth.ca/~shimazaki/ - November 21, 2004

• Simeon, Roblyn , San Francisco State University
  Associate Professor, Department of International Business, College of Business Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan Research Areas:International business strategy, banking behavior, organizational learning,cross-cultural management, network business structures, internet research and market strategies, human resource practices of high technology firms, and small business entrepreneurial activity.
  userwww.sfsu.edu/~rsimeon/ - November 11, 2004

• Special Topics: Japan's Economic Crisis , Alexander, Arthur J.
  This course addresses the Japanese economic miracle and crisis in the broader perspective of economic growth and the Asian crisis. The first part of the course reviews what the recent research tells us about economic growth, the second dwells on Japan in the 19th century, when its modern development began. From there, the course moves to the post-1945 experience and consider a few specific topics such as trade and technology. The last session will consider Japan's future.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/99fa/701_52152.htm - September 21, 2004

• Storz, Cornelia , Philipps-University of Marburg
  Professor for Japanese Economy, Philipps-University of Marburg Research Areas: small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), economics, political economy, science and technology, technology transfer, standardization
  www.uni-marburg.de/japanz/mitarb/storz_engl.htm - November 8, 2004

• Suematsu, Chihiro , Kyoto University
  Associate Professor, Kyoto University  Graduate School of Economics Dr. Suematsu became well known by predicting Japan\'s move away from mainframe computers toward the open system architecture, in his first book, Open Systems Renovation (1990) and is the author of more than 12 books. Five have been bestsellers, and several are translated into other Asian languages. His recent bestseller book, \"how does the Net change the whole financial industry?\" which describes the business applications of the Internet for financial institutions has been giving the strategic direction to the industry. He continuously pursues the subjects, open standards and systems, including organization, information systems, management systems/structures, standards and creative problems solving. Collaboration on the Internet is one of his recent important issues.
  www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suematsu/index.html - February 17, 2005

• Takeuchi, Kazuo , Tokyo Keizai University
  Professor of Management Tokyo Keizai University Geographic Regions: Japan, US Research Areas: comparative human resource management
  www.tku.ac.jp/~ktakeuti/kazuoEng.htm - November 21, 2004

• Terpstra, Vern , University of Michigan
  Professor Emeritus, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: International marketing; business issues; Japanese firms\' international activities; American firms in Japan
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=39 - February 18, 2005

• The "Hidden" Side of the "Flying-Geese" catch-up Model: Japan's Dirigiste Institutional Setup and a Deepening Financial Morass , Ozawa, Terutomo
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” Akamatsu’s original \"flying geese (FG)\" growth model is often used as a frame of reference for both further conceptual elaborations and empirical explorations. So far have only the positive side and results of FG development been focused on and emphasized in connection with Asia’s phenomenal growth in the pre-crisis period. The Japanese economy, supposedly Asia’s lead goose, is in the eleventh consecutive year of stagnation. How has such a once successful lead goose come to be stricken by financial woes? This paper points out that Japan’s once miraculous FG growth was made possible because it established an effectiveÊdirigiste catch-up regime in the early postwar period but that Japan’s present financial predicament is paradoxically a path-dependent outcome of such an FG strategy. The institutional, especially financial, dimension of FG strategy needs to be taken into account to explain why such a strategy once proved effective but later culminated in a deepening financial morass. The FG model should encompass not only the industrial dimension of catch-up but also its institutional, particularly financial, dimension.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• The 30th Medium-term Forecast of the Japanese Economy , Masubuchu, Katsuhiko; Takeuchi, Fumihide
  The report covers two major features of the medium-term ecnomic forecest: the demand creating effects of structural reform and a concrete suggestions regarding creating a path for financial rebuilding.
  www.jcer.or.jp/eng/ - November 18, 2004

• The Difference in Taxation on Financial Transactions Between Japan and the United States , Kawakami, Naotaka
  The income taxation systems on financial transactions in Japan are much different from those in the U.S.; they adopt withholding and separated taxation systems on interest and capital gains from security transactions. These current systems reflect two characteristics of the Japanese society - an excess savings economy and the restriction of tax implementation. The U.S. comprehensive income taxation system has long been a model since Japan had an overall tax reform based on the recommendations by Columbia Professor Shoup in 1950, but recently, many proposals of overall tax reform in the U.S. seem to deviate from the conventional idea of comprehensive income taxation and prefer a consumption tax or a broad-based income tax like the Comprehensive Business Income Tax (CBIT). Also in Japan, deviating from the idea of comprehensive taxation, the Dual Income Taxation (DIT) in the Nordic countries, which taxes all capital income ay the proportional corporate tax rate lower than that on labor income, seem to attract more interest from tax specialists. Japan had major reforms of taxation on capital gains from security transitions in 2001. Focusing on teh argument over the capital gains taxation and the overall taxation on capital income, this paper surveys the arguments of U.S. economists over them and their implications, evaluates the recent reforms of capital gains taxation in Japan, and argues about the desirable future taxation system in Japan.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - February 28, 2005

• The Economy of Japan: Fluctuations , University of Cincinnati
  Review of Japan’s economic performance from the end of WWII to the present using the major theories of economic fluctuations. Special attention is paid to the institutions particular to the Japanese economy and their influence on economic decisions.
  asweb.artsci.uc.edu/economics/undergrad/ugcourses.html#500 - January 19, 2005

• The End of "Lifetime Employment" in Japan? Evidence From National Surveys and Field Research , Kato, Takao
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our recent field research, this paper provides evidence on the recent transformation of Japan’s celebrated practice of “lifetime employment” (or implicit long-term employment contract for the regular workforce). Overall, contrary to the popular rhetoric of “the end of lifetime employment,” evidence points to the enduring nature of such practice in Japan. Specifically, we find little evidence for any major decline in the job retention rates of Japanese employees from the period prior to the burst of the bubble economy in late 1980s to the post-bubble period. In general, our field research corroborates the main finding from the job retention rates by describing vividly that large firms in Japan have been doing everything that they can to avoid laying off their workers. However, the field research also points to a potentially important measurement issue with the job retention rates wich may cause job retention rates to overstate the importance of long-term, employment in recent years. Lastly, the burden of downsizing appears to fall disproportionately on young workers and middle-age workers with shorter tenure. Ê Ê
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan , The Institute of Energy economics
  The aim of its establishment is to carry on research activities specialized in the area of energy from the viewpoint of the national economy as a whole in a bid to contribute to sound development of the Japanese energy-supplying and energy-consuming industries and to the improvement of people's life in the country by objectively analyzing energy problems and providing basic data, information and reports necessary for the formulation of policies. This site contains research papers, outlooks/forecasts, statistics, newspaper and magazine articles, press releases, publications, forum on research works, seminars and symposiums, and a library.
  eneken.ieej.or.jp/en/index.html - October 2, 2004

• The Japanese Distribution Sector in Economic Perspective: The Large Store Law and Retail Density , Flath, David
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” This paper compiles facts on the distribution sector of Japan and puts them in historical and international context, expresses in a coherent way the conventional view that the peculiar features of Japan?s distribution sector are due to distorting government regulations, and provides new evidence that bears on the truthfulness of that proposition. We find that regulation has indeed mattered, but that fundamentals like Japan?s geographic centricity, lack of private cars and smallness of dwellings have had a larger effect. A myriad of small stores is the crucial characteristic of the Japanese distribution sector, from which other peculiarities such as the complex wholesale marketing channels with multiple steps and ubiquity of vertical restraints also follow. And regulations inhibiting stores with large floor space, in particular the Large Store Law, have been identified by many as the fundamental reason for Japan?s proliferation of small stores. That law was relaxed in 1994 and in 2000 was completely replaced by a new law that shifts responsibility for regulating large stores from the national government to the prefectures. The new law may well lead to a perpetuation of regulatory barriers. But the regulatory limits on large stores have probably mattered a lot less than many suppose. Estimates presented here show that in the period 1985 to 1997 the variation in the number of stores per person across prefectures and over time exhibited little sensitivity to variation in the numbers of large stores per person. Japan?s proliferation of small stores is fundamentally due, not to regulation, but to its relative lack of private cars and to its small dwellings. Regulatory limits on large stores are themselves the result of the ubiquity of small stores, not the other way around. The Large Store Law could survive politically precisely because its distorting effects were small (There were bound to be a lot of small stores in Japan even without government protection). This is now changing. Increased private car ownership and suburbanization in Japan are favoring large specialty super stores and convenience stores and undercutting the small, family-owned non-self service stores. This process is not only reducing the overall number of stores in Japan, it is also enlarging the distorting effects of regulatory limits on large stores, and to just that extent it is eroding the political viability of such policies.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• The Japanese Economy , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Analysis of Japan's growth past and present. Does Japan's economy look different in terms of its international trade structure, industrial structure, labor market, savings patterns, government policies, etc.? Does it matter? Pre: 120 or 130 or consent.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/econ.htm - September 18, 2004

• The Japanese Economy , Georgetown University
  The cource focuses on development of quantitative and analytical understanding of the Japanese economy. Among the topics examined are: economic history, post-WWII growth, savings behavior, fiscal and monetary policies, MITI, industrial policy, the labor market, corporate culture, the distribution system, deregulation, trade imbalances and conflicts, exchange rate fluctuations, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, foreign investment, the Heisei recession, and restructuring.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/133courses.html - September 21, 2004

• The Japanese Economy , Kansas State University
  The course analyzes Japan's growth, productivity change, income distribution, government policies, agriculture, industrial structure, labor relations, education and technology, and international trade and finance. Emphases will be on U.S.-Japanese competition and comparisons.
  courses.ksu.edu/catalog/undergraduate/as/econ.html - September 23, 2004

• The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan , Kato, Takao
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.”Using both qualitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from a field research, this paper provides evidence on the responses of Japanese firms in their use of participatory employment practices to the economic slowdown in the 1990s in general and the recent financial crisis in particular.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• Tilton, Mark , Purdue University
  Mark Tilton's teaching and research interests include comparative political economy, East Asian politics, international trade, and theories of comparative politics.His current research looks at the effects of Japanese, German and American anti-trust policy on international market access in the steel and telecommunications industries. His publications include Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan's Basic Materials Industries (Cornell University Press, 1996), Regulation and Regulatory Reform in Japan: Are Things Changing? , co-edited with Lonny Carlile (The Brookings Institution Press, 1998) and Informal Market Governance in Japan's Basic Materials Industries in International Organization
  www.polsci.purdue.edu/Directory/Faculty/tilton.html - October 13, 2004

• Tward ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership , Yamazawa, Ippei; Hiratsuka, Daisuke, ed.
  This volume presents a board overview of ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership, whose framework has been agreed in November 2003. Part I analyses economic effect of AJCEP over ASEAN and Japan. Part II illustrates viewpoints of ASEAN countries toward AJCEP.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/024.html - November 16, 2004

• Uriu, Robert , University of California-Irvine
  Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California-Irvine Professor Uriu's research interests are in the field of international political economy, with an emphasis on all aspects of Japan\'s political economy and U.S.-Japan relations.  His current research concerns how new policy ideas have influenced the formulation of American trade policy toward Japan during the Clinton administration.   He has previously written on state-society relations and industrial policy in Japan.
  hypatia.ss.uci.edu/ps/personnel/Uriu/uriu.html - December 8, 2004

• Wakabayashi, Naoki , Kyoto University
  Associate Professor of Organizational Analysis, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University He is conducting the research about changes in information networks within and between organizaztion from the viewpoints of organizational sociology.
  www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wakaba/english/e-index.html - February 17, 2005

• Weinstein, David , Columbia, University
  Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Department of Economics at Columbia, Vice-Chairman, Economics Department, Associate Director of Research, Center for Japanese Economy and Business, Research Associate and Director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Teaching and Research interests: Corporate finance, international trade, the Japanese economy, and industrial policy.
  www.columbia.edu/~dew35/ - January 31, 2005

• What does the consumption tax mean to Japanese society and the U.S. society? , Kawakami, Naotaka
  The Japanese tax system reflects the characteristics of postwar Japanese society. The emphasis on an equal income distribution, the concern for assets - especially land, and the dominance of corporations as a form of business are the consistent trends. More recent are the realities of the aging society and the transformation from insufficient savings to express savings. Combined with the restriction of tax implementation these two trends were the main motives for the introduction of the current Consumption Tax and the current separated taxation on a large part of capital income in the 1987-88 reform. Based on different backgrounds, the priorities of tax reforms in Japan and in the U.S. are also different. One confusing thing from a Japanese perspective is that a consumption tax also seems to attract many U.S. economists and policymakers. Mainly surveying the arguments over the consumption tax, this paper shows what is common and what is different between the debates on overall tax reforms in the two countries. While there are many problems unique to the Japanese Consumption Tax, there may be something in the U.S. arguments over a consumption tax the Japanese should learn from.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - February 28, 2005

• Yagi, Kiichiro , Kyoto University
  Professor of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan Research Interests: Evolutionary Economics, Institutional Economics Marxian Economics Academic Activities: Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics The Japanese Society for The History of Economic Thought Japan Society of Political Economy
  www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yagi/yagilabnew/aboutme.htm - November 10, 2004

• Yamamura, Kozo , University of Washington
  Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Teaching Specializations: Economic Development of Japan, Economic Histroy of Japan, Comparative Economic Development and History, Industrial Organization  
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/cv/faccv/q-z/yamamura.html - February 11, 2005

• Yamashita, Takashi , University of Nevada Las Vegas
  Assistant Professor, Economics, UNLV His research includes macroeconomics (savings and consumption), development economics, the economics of aging, and urban economics (housing).  He has received awards from rhe National Institute of Aging through RAND, as well as the Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development from the Japanese government.  He has worked as a financial analyst in Washington DC, New York City, Tokyo, and Manila.
  liberalarts.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/TakashiYamashitatextAsianStudies.html - January 23, 2005

• Yoshida, Kazuo , Kyoto University
  Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: economics, finance
  www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.en.html - March 31, 2005

• Yoshimori, Masaru , Yokohama, University
  Professor, Yokohama National University, Yokohama Japan He teaches Comparative Management (Japan, USA, Europe), International Management and studies of the European Union. He is specializes in the comparison of the Corporate Governance systems of Japan, the United States and Europe.
  www.business.ynu.ac.jp/kyoju/yosimori/ - November 10, 2004

• Yuki, Kazuhiro , Kyoto University
  Assistant Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan Fields of Interests: Economic Growth and Development, Income Distribution, Consumption and Savings
  www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuki/english.html - November 10, 2004

• Ziemba, William T. , University of British Columbia
  Alumni Professor of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization, Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: business issues, economics, finance, foreign investment, international economics, trade and economic relations
  www.interchg.ubc.ca/ziemba/ - November 27, 2004

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• Cha, Myung Soo , Cha, Myung Soo
  Professor Cha teaches at the Department of Economics at Yeungnam University. He is author of multiple publications on economic history of Korea. His current research interests include real interest rates in Korea, and tendenciesÊinfluencing capital formation and capital stock.
  ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~mscha/ - March 2, 2005

• Changes in the South Korean Agricultural Structure in the 1990's (Summary) , Kuramochi, Kazuo
  This paper uses government statistics to analyze and examine changes in the South Korean agricultural structure in the 1990's.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• Choi, Inbom , Choi, Inbom
  Dr. Inbom Choi is currently the Chief Economist and Advisor to CEO at the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI). He is also teaching at the Sogang University as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to his appointment at the FKI, from 1999 to 2002, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE) in Washington, DC. During this period, he was also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and a consultant to the World Bank. From 1995 to 1996, Dr. Choi served as Assistant Secretary to the President for Economic Affairs in the Office of the President (Blue House) in Korea. In the Blue House, he also functioned as the Director of International Economic Policy. During 1997-98, he was the APEC Education Foundation’s Managing Director of Grants and Programs, promoting trade and investment liberalization within tthe APEC region. Prior to his appointment at the office of the President, Dr. Choi worked for five years as a research fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), which is a thinktank advising the Korean government on international economic issues. Dr. Choi also worked at the World Bank in 1985-89, and taught at Georgetown University 1982-83.
  www.sogang.ac.kr/~gsis/faculty23.html - March 24, 2005

• Economic Development in North and South Korea , Columbia University
  Examines economic development in North and South Korea from historical and comparative perspectives. The course surveys a general development experience of the two Koreas, and discusses major issues in political economy using the Korean development experiences. Topics include socialist and capitalist economic systems, North (self-reliance) and South (East Asian) Korean development models, origins of communism (North) and capitalism (South), patterns of Korean development, agricultural development in North Korea, impacts of industrialization on state-society relations in South Korea, and the economic crisis in North and South Korea in the 1990s.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Economic History of Korea , Cha, Myung Soo
  Two regime shifts divide the economic history of Korea during the past six centuries into three distinct periods: 1) the period of Malthusian stagnation up to 1910, when Japan annexed Korea; 2) the colonial period from 1910-45, when the country embarked upon modern economic growth; and 3) the post colonial decades, when living standards improved rapidly in South Korea, while North Korea returned to the world of disease and starvation. The dramatic history of living standards in Korea presents one of the most convincing pieces of evidence to show that institutions -- particularly the government -- matter for economic growth. The paper analyzes these period in detail.
  eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=cha.korea - March 3, 2005

• Economoic Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula , Babson, Bradley O.
  There has always been an undercurrent of ambivalence in U.S. attitudes towards economic cooperation with the Democratic Peoples\' Republic of Korea (DPRK). On the one hand, an economically weak DPRK is inherently less capable of waging war and developing weapons of mass destruction than an economically strong DPRK. From this perspective, the economic distress of the 1990\'s clearly has altered the security balance in favor of U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) interests. On the other hand, an economic collapse in DPRK could lead to potentially highly destabilizing developments, including large-scale population movements across borders and the risk of the leadership initiating armed conflict as an act of desperation. Similarly, continuing economic distress could force DPRK to revert to dependence on China and Russia, perpetuating its isolation and inhibiting the creation of a new security architecture for Northeast Asia that better suits the interests of all Big Powers concerned than continuation of the status quo. The author further explores this argument and offers some interesting theories about the US involvement in North Korean development.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Babson.htm - February 24, 2005

• Facts and Myths about Korea's Economic Past , Cha, Myung Soo
  The orthodoxy in South and North Korean historiography states that Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910 wrought havoc on indigenous economic development and started an era of exploitation lasting until 1945. Recent studies show the claim to be based less upon facts than upon Marxist dogma and nationalist sentiment. During the nineteenth century, Korea was not on the verge of modern economic growth, but in demographic and economic decline. Living standards improved and industrialisation occurred in the context of rapid pop-ulation growth during the colonial period due to transfer of capital and advanced technology from Japan.
  ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~mscha/ - March 3, 2005

• Free Trade Between Korea and the United States? , Choi, Inbom; Schott, Jeffrey J.
  Free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating in the Asia-Pacific region. For the first time, Korea is pursuing such accords as part of a strategy to restructure its economy and sustain the recovery from its 1997-98 economic crisis. Should it open talks with its largest trading partner, the United States? This study examines the economic and political benefits and challenges of pursuing bilateral FTA negotiations, the impact of a prospective pact on other trading partners, on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, and on the multilateral trading system.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=326 - March 24, 2005

• Korea before 1945 , Cha, Myung Soo
  Korea had suffered a long history of stagnation before Japan colonized and began to modernize the country in 1910.Ê So concluded the Japanese scholars, who pioneered during the colonial era (1910-1945) modern research into Korea’s economic past.Ê Denouncing this picture as a misrepresentation intended to defend the colonial rule, post-colonial historians in both South and North Korea presented a more optimistic view that “sprouts of capitalism” emerged in Korea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Ê Accumulating evidence on living standards indicates neither of the two assertions is entirely correct.Ê The standard of living fell in Korea for at least a century before improving from around 1900.Ê What explains the long swing in the Korean living standards?
  ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~mscha/ - March 3, 2005

• Korea in the World Economy , Il SaKong
  This study examines the factors that have contributed to the \\\"Korean Miracle\\\": an active role by government in managing the economy; an outward-oriented trade policy; market and nonmarket factors, including culture, rapid physical and human capital accumulation rates; and macroeconomic and exchange rate policy, and international borrowing. Despite Korea\\\'s outstanding performance since 1962, the author argues that his country is now at a crucial policy juncture. Competition in the world economy and the welcome movement toward democracy in Korea will require new strategies and political consensus to promote growth and equity. The author provides policy recommendations for how Korea can meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Special attention is focused on Korea\\\'s growing stature in the world economy and the role Korea can play to promote international economic cooperation in Asia and at the global level. He also addresses the question of whether the \\\"Korean model\\\" is relevant to other countries.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=29 - March 24, 2005

• Korean Politics and Economy , Claremont McKenna College
  Compares the political systems and economic policies of South Korea and North Korea. Special attention will be given to an in-depth study of competing ideologies, political leadership, political participation, policy-making processes, military organizations, and economic performance.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - January 19, 2005

• On the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the ROK (Summary) , Kook, Joong-Ho
  This paper provides an overview of the intergovernmental fiscal relations, or the local public finance adjustment system, in ROK, using a model of this system to examine public finance adjustment and the regional equalization effect.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

• The Dynamics of Korean Economic Development , Soon, Cho
  One of Korea\'s most distinguished economists and teachers offers a new and critical appraisal of his country\'s postwar development. Dr. Cho argues that Korea\'s development strategy since 1960 achieved extraordinary growth rates, but it also contributed to structural imbalances that will impede Korea\'s entry into the ranks of the advanced industrial countries unless they are corrected. These structural problems include concentration of economic and political power in large industrial conglomerates, retarded development of small and medium-sized enterprises essential for entrepreneurship and technological innovation, an inadequate private financial services sector, and costly labor strife. Dr. Cho concludes that Korea must undertake a \"great transition\" in order to sustain growth and democratization. He recommends policies to reduce industrial concentration, establish a competitive pricing system (particularly in the financial sector), promote small and medium-sized enterprises, improve labor-management relations, and encourage investment in human capital.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=25 - March 24, 2005

• The Effect of the Financial Crisis on Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises in the ROK , Kwon, Oh-kyoung
  This paper analyses the way in which the problems faced in the past by small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in the ROK have altered amid the significant changes to the structure of the ROK's economy that have resulted from the financial (sic) experienced by the country.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

• The IMF Crisis and the ROK's Trade (Summary) , Jeong-Guen, Seo
  This is an analysis of South Korea's trade unit surpluses and deficits following the 1997 IMF crisis. This paper may be useful for students and researchers who want a brief overview of the ROK's resulting trade policies.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• The Korea-United States Economic Relationship , Bergsten, Fred C.; Il SaKong
  In 1996, Korean and US officials, academics, and businessmen met in a frank, closed-door discussion of recent political, economic, and cultural developments affecting their two nations. These discussions came at a critical juncture in Korean-US relations as shifting international conditions have rapidly altered the environment in which both countries must interact. This volume highlights the topics discussed at the Twenty-First Century Council, which focused on Korea’s reform and globalization efforts, Korean-US security ties in a changing regional political environment, and the economic and political consequences of Korean unification.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=30 - March 24, 2005

• The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy , Bergsten, Fred C.; Choi, Inbom
  Koreans living in the United States have generated an increase of about 15 to 20 percent in trade between the United States and Korea. This is one of the surprising conclusions reached in this special report, which, upon the 100th anniversary of the migration of Koreans from their homeland, looks at the impact of the 6 to 7 million people who make up this diaspora on both South Korean and overseas economies. No country in history has ever succeeded in building a developed and high-income economy without participating in the global economy; globalization is imperative for economic success. And one of the largest elements of globalization, in addition to international trade and investment, is migration. In The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy, experts hold up South Korea as one of the most dramatic examples of that experience, having gone from being a poor, underdeveloped country fewer than 40 years ago to becoming a postwar economic success story. This report also looks at South Korea’s role as a regional trading partner and its present and future relations with North Korea.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=365 - March 24, 2005

• The Korean Economy and Its Institutional Environment , Columbia University
  Provides a general overview of the current issues in the Korean economy with an emphasis on institutional perspectives. It surveys issues that Korea is confronting today, including the structure of the financial market and the role of the government, the workings of the labor market, corporate finance and corporate governance, innovation and venture capital, corporate diversification and antitrust, corporate bankruptcy mechanism, and the future of the North Korean economy.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• The ROK Economy at the Starting Line of the 21st Century (summary) , Jonghwan Choi
  While focusing on major macro-economic indicators and trends in major sectors in the ROK economy since the 1990's, this paper considers the economic variables relating to these, as well as various problems and issues in each sector, and attempts to examine the future economic growth path of the ROK.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

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• Mongolia's New Strategic Vision , Noerper, Steve
  This aritcle provides an analysis of the strategic direction Mongolia's new government is taking as it assumes control of the country's future.
  www.csis.org/pacfor/pac0448A.pdf - November 8, 2005

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• The Economy of Soviet Russia , Boston University
  Economic development of Soviet economy since 1917; emphasis on structure of industry, agriculture, finance, theory and techniques of central planning of output and income, and realized rates of economic growth.
  www.bu.edu/econ/ugrad/courses/major.html - September 22, 2004

• Agriculture, Food Production and Food Trade in the Russian Far East , Russian Far East Advisory Group
  A comprehensive special report on the status of food production and trade in the Russian Far East. Included are articles on agriculture and food production, changes in the RFE food import business, agricultural reform and the feasibility of buliding a large size grain terminal in the RFE. 16 pages.
  www.russianfareast.com/specpub.html - March 7, 2005

• Current Economic Problems of the Former Soviet Union , Columbia University
  The course covers current economic events are dealt with in a nontechnical fashion. Topics include economic performance, industrial reforms, technology issues, agricultural problems, and foreign trade planning and prospects.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Economic Development in Post-Communist Countries , Milanovic
  Examines key issues of economic development posed by the transitions in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet states: price liberalization and fiscal discipline, increased income inequalities, variations in public support for reform, problems of corporate governance and state capture, the spread of corruption and the operation of land markets. Combines theoretical discussion of the issues with applied analysis of country and case studies.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/courses.html - September 20, 2004

• Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula , Noland, Marcus
  The North Korean economy cannot sustain its population. Absent fundamental economic reforms, it will never be able to do so. Hence North Korea will require sizable external support for the foreseeable future. South Korea, China, Japan, and the United States have been willing to provide this support because they fear a collapse in the North or, even worse, a lashing out that would unleash war on the peninsula and put millions of people in Asia in jeopardy—including thousands of US troops stationed in South Korea and Japan. The status quo is thus closer to extortion than charity. In this volume, a diverse group of contributors analyze prospective developments on the Korean peninsula. The authors first address the three broad strategic possibilities of war, collapse, and gradual adjustment. Four immediate policy issues are then considered: the current economic conditions and policies in the North, the food crisis, the nuclear energy/nuclear weapons issue, and the possibility of large-scale refugee flows. Finally, the volume considers several longer-run issues concerning the inevitable integration of the peninsula: the potential relevance of the German experience, the costs and benefits of economic unification between North and South Korea, and the possible role of the international financial institutions in funding the new arrangement. The volume concludes with recommendations for policymakers, especially in the United States and South Korea, from the preceding analyses.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=26 - March 24, 2005

• Economic Research Institute , Economic Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
  Web site of the Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Khabarovsk, Russia.
  www.ecrin.ru - October 5, 2004

• Energy Development in the Russian Far East , Thornton, Judith
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.  
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200005Thornton.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Eurasia Foundation Russia Far East Reagional Office , Eurasia Foundation
  Russia Far East Regional Office serves the Russian Far East, including Sakhalin, Buryatia, and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The Eurasia Foundation Vladivostok office supports local initiatives in the region extending from Russia\'s Pacific coast to Lake Baikal. The web-site contains useful information regarding the programs and grant opportunities in the Russian Far East.
  www.eurasia.org/russian-fareast.html - March 7, 2005

• Formation of Financial Base of Region , leonov, S.N.; Ivanchenko, O. G.; Renzin, O.M
  In the book the features of formation, distribution and use of financial resources of the subjects of Russian Federation are analyzed. The analysis of the key financial and economic proportions of the development of the regions (in particular, - economic complex of Khabarovsk territory) is done. The book is intended for scholars, the experts in the field of the regional finance, specialists who involved in state and regional management, post graduate students.
  www.ecrin.ru/articles.asp?id=152 - November 11, 2004

• Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation , Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation
  The Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (FRAEC) is a non profit organization founded in 1989 to foster expanded economic ties between Russia and the United States, with a special focus on building bridges between the Russian Far East and U.S. West Coast. Originally focusing efforts to assist U.S. companies to conduct business in Russia, FRAEC has expanded its reach to a broad range of sectors, including economic development, civil society, and social services, among others.
  www.fraec.org/About.htm - March 7, 2005

• Institutional Reform in Post-Soviet Economies , Lieberman
  Focusing on the industrial sector in Russia, Ukraine and selected countries of Central Asia, addresses key issues such as legal and judicial reform, privatization, corporate restructuring and corporate governance, bankruptcy procedures, banking and financial sector reform, energy policy and the business environment. Includes both group and case exercises; therefore, significant student participation is expected. Prerequisite: Economic Development in Post-Soviet States or the instructors' permission.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/courses.html - September 20, 2004

• It's Value that's Virtual: Bartles, Rubbles, and the Place of Gazprom in the Russian Economy , Woodruff, David M.
  The article analyzes role of the major energy supplier in the Russian economy. The trends of soviet and post-soviet energy consumption and the it's role in inflation of the currency rate are described and considered in great detail.  
  www.csis.org/ruseura/ponars/workingpapers/011.pdf - February 7, 2005

• Ivanov, Vladimir , Economic Research Institute of Northeast Asia
  Senior Economist, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA), Niigata, Japan Geographic Regions: North Pacific, Northeast Asia, Russian Far East, Southern Kurils/Northern Territories problem, Russia-Japan relations Research Areas: economics, energy, foreign relations and policy, politics (domestic issues), defense and security issues.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/search-f.htm - November 10, 2004

• Japanese Investment & Trade Programs in the Russian Far East , Ohashi, Iwao
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.  
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200010Ohashi.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Japans Policy toward Russia , Tanaka, Nobuaki
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200002Tanaka.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Objective Factors of Corruption in teh Exercise of Procesures of Financial Recovery of Enterprises , Vasiliev, Dmitri
  This publication presents a report prepared as part of the Corruption and State Reform project of the Carnegie Moscow Center. The report reviews the objective prerequisites for corruption in the activity of the Russian Federal Service of Financial Recovery of Enterprises, analyzes the current reform projects of this Service, and proposes measures for eliminating or reducing objective corruption-breeding factors.
  pubs.carnegie.ru/workpapers/2002/wp0902.pdf - December 2, 2004

• Pacific Russia Oil and Gas Report , Russian Far East Advisory Group
  Pacific Russia Oil & Gas Report covers:Ê-Ê Sakhalin projects currently underway: Offshore Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 and onshore projects led by Rosneft-SMNG, Petrosakh, ANK Shelf, and Sakhalin Petroleum- Sakhalin projects planned for the future: Sakhalin-3, -4, -5, and -6- Projects in the other regions of the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia: the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiia), Chukotka, and the gas projects of the \"Irkutsk Corridor\"- Major Players and Major Contractors including background and contact information- Updates on related infrastructure and logistical developments affecting both upstream and downstream production
  www.russianfareast.com/pacruss.html - March 7, 2005

• Ports of the Russian FAr East , Russian Far East Advisory Group
  Second edition, completely revised. This special report covers topics including: activities and trends at the major ports of the RFE (Vladivostok, Vanino, Vostochny, Nakhodka, Sakhalin, Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Sovetskaya Gavan), the decline of RFE northern ports, and petroleum handling in the RFE. Detailed data on infrastructure and contact information for each of the major ports. Detailed maps -- 15 total. 28 pages.
  www.russianfareast.com/specpub.html - March 7, 2005

• Problems and Prospective of Natural Resource Potential Use in Khabarovskiy Krai and Development of Industries Utilizing These Resources , Sheingauz, Alexander S.
  The state of main nature resources in the Khabarovsk Krai is considered: forest, fish, mineral and fuels-energetic. The state of utilizing them industries is analyzed and trends of the krai nature-resource sector improvement and development are proposed. Intended for management and producing units staffs, for business persons, researchers, university and college readers and instructors, post-graduate students and students.
  www.ecrin.ru/articles.asp?id=148 - November 11, 2004

• Public Attitudes toward Energy Development in Sakhalin , Akaha, Tsuneo and Vassilieva, Anna
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200006Akaha-Vassilieva.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Rabushka, Alvin , Stanford University
  David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Expertise: Taxation in the United States and abroad; economic development in the Pacific Rim countries, Israel, and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, especially Russia
  www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rabushka.html - January 11, 2005

• Rise and Fall of Soviet Economy , University of Cincinnati
  Course examines the economic performance of the Soviet economy from its Marxian foundation through the industrial success of the 1950s and 60s; the stagnation of the 70s and 80s; the collapse; the efforts to turn from central planning to the market.
  asweb.artsci.uc.edu/economics/undergrad/ugcourses.html#500 - August 13, 2004

• Signs of Alienation: Insights from the Sakhalin Survey/Interviews , Vassilieva, Anna
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200007Vassilieva.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Soviet and Post-Soviet Political Economy , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Seeks to put today's radical transformations in the countries of the former Soviet Union (primarily Russia) into a historical context. Begins with review and analysis of main stages of Soviet development, then explores topics relevant both to the system's evolution and the current political scene. Key topics include: state power and bureaucracy; politics and organization of the Soviet economy; role of the Party; causes of the Soviet collapse; conceptions of the post-Soviet transition; politics of economic reform; and center-regional relations. Additional work expected of graduate students.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.570 - September 19, 2004

• The Current Economic Situation in the Russian Far East , Minakir, Pavel
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200003Minakir.pdf - September 29, 2004

• The Economic and Political Rationale for the Integration of the Russian Far East in the Northeast Asian Economy , Wishnick, Elizabeth
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200004Wishnick.pdf - September 29, 2004

• The Political Economy of Growth in Russia , Popov, Vladimir
  The author offers detailed analysis and critique of the recent economic reforms in Russia. The aim of the epublication is to identify the most important barriers to economic growth; provide evidence that such barriers are too serious to be eliminated within a short period of time; contribute to the discussion of how such barriers could be overcome eventually.
  www.csis.org/ruseura/ponars/workingpapers/017.PDF - February 8, 2005

• The Problems of Economic Policy in the Russian Far East. Proceedings of an international scienticif-practical conference. , Economic Research Institute
  The volume contains abstracts from the papers presented at the scientific-practical conference "The Problems of Economic Policy in the Russian Far East," which was held in Khabarovsk on February 28 - March 1, 2001. The conference was devoted to discussing the concept of strategic development of the economy of the Russian Federation and the Russian Far East for the period of up to 2010, as well as the economic policy aimed at its realization. Papers were presented concerning the problems of formation of a strategy for the development of the Far East and its constituents - the subjects of the Federation, the economic policy in key sectors of the region's economy, social development of the Far-Eastern territories, financing of the regional development, international cooperation and the prospects for the integration of the Far-Eastern economy with APR countries. The proceedings of the conference cover a wide range of outlooks of the Far-Eastern scholars and central Russian scientific organizations, practical workers, on the current problems of development of the Far-Eastern region. The volume is intended for the specialists, educators, post- graduate students and students dealing with the problems of development of the Russian Far East.
  www.ecrin.ru/articles.asp?id=153 - November 11, 2004

• The Russian Far East: A Business Reference Guide , Russain Far Ast Advisory Group
  Compiled by the editors of the well-known business newsletter, Russian Far East Update, this book is for business people, travelers, and researchers. Its 270 pages focus on current industrial trends and economic developments in Russia\'s Pacific coastal regions -- giving detailed information that can be used in business planning, project evaluation, and market research. \"Our purpose,\" says Elisa Miller, Editor and Publisher, \"in preparing the fourth edition was to provide the reader with a sense of how the region works ten years after perestroika. The Russian Far East is very far from Moscow, but very near Japan, China, and the Koreas. Moscow wields influence, yes, but so do the region\'s Asian neighbors, and so do each of the region\'s governors.\" The book (17 chapters) covers politics and economics in the ten administrative units that comprise the Russian Far East. This includes oil-rich Sakhalin Island, the gold-rich Magadan territory, and the diamond-rich Republic of Sakha. Chapters cover foreign investment in the region, the plight of the former state industrial enterprises, and local banking and finance. Special sections cover the region\'s main industries: fishing, mining, forestry, and oil and gas. Chapters highlight the large multilateral and multinational projects. Data on industrial output, foreign trade, and cargo movements give a clear picture of the region over the last decade as it searches for a modus operandi -- with or without Moscow\'s help. Other sections include a listing (with telephone and fax numbers) for all of the region\'s government officials, a recommended Hotel Guide, and 27 detailed maps
  www.russianfareast.com/fourthed.html - March 7, 2005

• The United States and Northeast Asia Current and Future Issues , Scalapino, Robert
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200001Scalapino.pdf - September 29, 2004

• US Investment & Trade Programs in the Russian Far East , Rickerman, Lysbeth
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200009Rickerman.pdf - September 29, 2004

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• An Analysis of the Economic Effects of Japan-Korea FTA: Sectoral Aspects , Nakajima, Tomoyoshi
  Contains a brief history of recent Japan-Korea FTA negotiations and in depth analysis using various economic models.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• An International Logistical Network in Northeast Asia , Tsuji, Hisako
  This paper outlines the current status of existing and planned transportation corridors in Northeast Asia, as well as their characteristics and inherent problems.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• Aoki, Masahiko , Stanford University
  Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Economics Department, Stanford University Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: economic development, government, banking systems
  www.stanford.edu/~aoki/ - November 17, 2004

• Capitalism in Contemprorary Asia: Telecommunication and the Internet in China, Japan, and Korea , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  This course examines key issues of the growth and development of telecommunications and the Internet in China, Japan, and Korea over the past decade. It focuses on areas such as E-commerce, the digital divide, and the role of the East Asian governments in fostering the growth of domestic communications networks. It also considers the economic, political, and social implications of the network developments for each of the three countries under study. The class is organized along a seminar format, with student discussion and participation forming an integral part of the course.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/626.html - January 13, 2005

• Carey, W.P. , Arizona State University
  Director, College of Business International Programs, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Geographic Regions: China, Japan, Russia Research Areas: finance, firm behavior, foreign relations and policy, international economics
  wpcarey.asu.edu/ - November 28, 2004

• Gao, Bai , Duke University
  Associate Professor, Duke University Durham, NC Geographic Regions: Japan, Northeast Asia, China Research Areas: socioeconomic issues, modern history, political economy, economics
  www.soc.duke.edu/dept/faculty/bagao.html - November 11, 2004

• Growing International Use of the Trans-Siberian Railway: Japan is Being Left Out of the Loop , Tsuji, Hisako
  This paper examines Japan's diminishing presence in international container shipping via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• Iijima, Ken , Takushoku University
  Executive Director, Center for Pacific Business Studies, Sakura Institute of Research, Professor, Faculty of International Development Takushoku University Geographic Regions: APEC, ASEAN, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: development, economics, international business and trade, industry, trade and economic relations, regional economic cooperation
  www.find.takushoku-u.ac.jp/staff/iijima/iijima.html - November 11, 2004

• Institute for International Economics , Institute for International Economics
  The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems. The Institute attempts to anticipate emerging issues and to be ready with practical ideas to inform and shape public debate. Its audience includes government officials and legislators, business and labor leaders, management and staff at international organizations, university-based scholars and their students, other research institutions and nongovernmental organizations, the media, and the public at large. It addresses these groups both in the United States and around the world. In addition, the publications and research of the institute cover the issues related to the countries in Northeast Asia.
  www.iie.com/homepage.htm - March 24, 2005

• Lim, Timothy C. , California State University-Los Angeles
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University-Los Angeles Geographic Regions: Korea, Japan, Northeast Asia Research Areas: development, government, human rights, labor, US policy toward, sociopolitical issues, economics, socioeconomic issues, democracy and democratization, trade and economic relations, modern history
  instructional1.calstatela.edu/tclim/ - November 12, 2004

• Myers, Ramon H. , Stanford University
  Senior Fellow, East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University; Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (North), Korea (South), Taiwan, China-Taiwan relations Research Areas: agriculture, agricultural economics, economics, foreign relations and policy, government-business relations, history, industry, political economy, political and social modernization, politics (domestic issues), social science
  www-hoover.stanford.edu/BIOS/myers.html - January 11, 2005

• North Asia , Department of Foreign Affaurs and Trade
  The site publishes official reports and working papers on important medium to long-term economic and political developments and issues within the region. These reports draw on a wide range of data and information sources, including reports from Australia's diplomatic and trade missions in Asia.
  www.dfat.gov.au/geo/na/ - February 8, 2005

• Qian, Yingyi , University of California Berkeley
  Professor of Economicsm, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley Geographic Regions: China, Japan Research Areas: economics, banking and finance, enterprise reforms, institutions
  elsa.berkeley.edu/~yqian/ - November 17, 2004

• Singh, Nirvikar , University of California, Santa Cruz
  Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Cruz Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, South Asia, India Research Areas: international water disputes, technology and innovation, public policy and administration, federalism, energy, business issues, development, economic reform, technology transfer, electronic commerce
  econ.ucsc.edu/Faculty/facSingh.shtml - November 28, 2004

• The Japanese and Korean Political Economies in Comparative Perspective , Calder
  Examines the organization and functioning of Asia\'s two largest and most advanced capitalist political economies. Begins with a survey of underlying similarities and differences in structure and performance, including political party competition, industrial-group structure, regionalism, business-government networks, industrial policy, labor relations and economic performance. Considers historical and international reasons for prevailing profiles and prospects for future national evolution and bilateral interdependence.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/japan/japancourses.html - January 4, 2005

• The Tumen River Area Development Programme: Its History and Current Status as of 2004 , Tsuji, Hisako
  The article provides a chronology of the Tumen River project and a detailed analysis of the iniatives and outcomes in each country. It also examines the development and problems concerning the transportation corridors.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

• Wong, John , National University of Singapore
  Research Director, National University of Singapore Research Interests: Economic Development of China, Asian NIEs, and ASEAN Economies. Other Economic issues of East Asia.
  www.nus.edu.sg/NUSinfo/EAI/RD.htm - November 11, 2004

• Zhou, Kate Xiao , University of Hawaii-Manoa
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii-Manoa Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan Research Areas: agriculture, arms control, business issues, defense and security, democracy and democratization, development, economics, foreign relations and policy, government, government-business relations, politics (domestic issues), reform, socioeconomic and sociopolitical issues
  www2.hawaii.edu/~katezhou/kate.html - December 1, 2004

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• Development Economics, with Special Reference to East Asia , Stanford University
  Professor Lawrence J. Lau's course analyzes the macroeconomic aspects of economic development using illustrations from the economic development experiences of East Asia, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/671/ - September 21, 2004

• East Asian Political Economy , Choi, J.W.; Ken, Wang Q.; and Chu, Cindy Y.W.
  Note: In order to access the course descriptions, select \"Courses Offered\" from the menu on the left and follow the links to corresponding Undergraduate courses. This course aims to examine the political processes that underlie the rapid economic transformation of East Asian countries. We will mainly cover Japan and the newly industrializing economies, namely Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, but comparisons with China and other emerging economies such as Malaysia and Thailand will also be made. We will first introduce the salient features of the East Asian model of development and we will then analyze the pattern of political development, the relations between the state and other political actors, the development of administrative system, as well as the impact of international relations and strategic factors on the domestic political and economic processes of these cases.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - August 6, 2004

• The Macroeconomics of Economic Development with Special Reference to East Asia , Stanford University
  The macroeconomic aspects of economic development: structural transformation, resource utilization, mobilization, and allocation; the sources of economic growth; intersectoral transfers; the role of the external sector; money and finance in development; stabilization in closed and open economies; strategies for economic development; the role of intangible capital; and endogenous technical progress. Illustrations from the economic development experience of East Asia, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/790/ - September 21, 2004

• Trade, Investment and Development in East Asia , Fung, K.C.
  This seminar focuses on current economic issues facing selective East Asian economies. The economies we consider include China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The economic issues include economic development and growth, international trade, free trade areas, foreign investment, industry structure, technology, exchange rates, etc.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ6014.pdf - August 6, 2004

• An Asian FTA and Japan's Agricultural Policy , Nakajima, Tomoyoshi
  An analysis of Japan's trade policy changes concerning GATT, WTO, and newly emerging regional Free Trade Agreements (FTA).
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

• APEC, the WTO and Aisa-Pacific Leadership for Global Trade and Investment Liberalisation , Garnaut, Ross
  A paper for the panelÊdiscussion in the Conference "Japan, Asia and the United States: Economic Interactions and Business Inteerests." It discusses the trade relations in Asia and theÊrole of theÊWTO.Ê
  www.columbia.edu/cu/business/apec/first.htm - December 2, 2004

• Biggart, Nicole Woolsey , University of California-Davis
  Professor of Management and Sociology Graduate School of Management University of California-Davis Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan, Korea (South), Taiwan Research Areas: business issues, management, trade and economic relations
  www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Biggart/ - November 21, 2004

• Brandt, Loren , University of Toronto
  Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto Geographic Regions: China, Japan Research Areas: development, economics
  www.economics.utoronto.ca/brandt/ - November 28, 2004

• Clemons, Steven C. , New America Foundation
  Executive Vice President, New America Foundation Geographic Regions: APEC, ARF, ASEAN, Northeast Asia, Japan, China, Korea (South), Korea (North), Former Soviet Union, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, US policy toward Research Areas: arms control, business issues, defense and security relations, economics, foreign relations and policy, government, government-business relations, history, intellectual property rights, international economics, military issues, nationalism, nuclear issues, political economy, politics (domestic issues), regional economic cooperation, security, science and technology, technology transfer, trade and economic relations
  www.steveclemons.com/ - November 28, 2004

• Contemporary East Asian Economics , Boston University
  An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Contemporary East Asian Economics , Grimes, William
  An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
  bu.edu/wgrimes/IR368syllabus.html - August 12, 2004

• Cooper, Richard N. , Harvard University
  Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge MA Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, WTO, China, Japan, Korea (South) Research Areas: economics, energy, environment, finance, foreign investment, foreign relations and policy, international economics, trade and economic relations
  post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/cooper/cooper.html - November 10, 2004

• Development Economics, with Special Reference to East Asia , Stanford University
  Professor Lawrence J. Lau's course analyzes the macroeconomic aspects of economic development using illustrations from the economic development experiences of East Asia, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/671/ - August 22, 2004

• Doing Business with the Three Dragons , Indiana University
  The site contains a large number of articles on the various aspects of doing business with Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. A large emphasis is put on cultural aspect.
  www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/resources/threedragons/intro.htm - January 27, 2005

• Dorn, James A. , CATO Institute
  Cato's vice president for academic affairs James A. Dorn is editor of the "Cato Journal" and director of Cato's annual monetary conference. His research interests include trade and human rights, economic reform in China, and the future of money. He directed Cato's Project on Civil Society from 1993 to 1995. From 1984 to 1990, he served on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He has edited ten books, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications. He has lectured in Estonia, Germany, Hong Kong, Russia, and Switzerland and has directed international conferences in London, Shanghai, Moscow, and Mexico City. He has been a visiting scholar at the Central European University in Prague and at Fudan University in Shanghai and is currently professor of economics at Towson University in Maryland.
  www.cato.org/people/dorn.html - October 22, 2004

• Drysdale, Peter , The Australian National University
  Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in Policy and Governance, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. Until 2002 he was Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre. His main areas of expertise are international trade and economic policy; Australia's economic relations with East Asia and the Pacific; the East Asian and Japanese economy and economic policy. This work includes developments in Asia Pacific economic cooperation, including relations between East Asia, Europe and APEC. His research work also extends to Chinese and Korean economies.
  apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/pdrysdale.php - October 6, 2004

• East Asia's Dynamic Economies , University of Pittsburgh
  Despite recent financial crises and current economic disarray, East Asia dominates the list of nations that have experienced rapid output and income growth since World War II. East Asia's dynamism creates challenges as well as opportunities for the United States. East Asia's experience generates new views about the economic prospects for poor nations, the relationship between government management and economic growth, the risks and benefits associated with globalization, and the nature of capitalism. This course investigates these issues by reviewing the development of individual East Asian nations, comparing patterns of economic growth within Asia, highlighting institutional differences between East Asia and the United States, and studying the global consequences Asian economic expansion. In 2003, the course will cover Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/econ.htm#0630 - August 26, 2004

• East Asian Development Experience , Yanagihara, Toru
  The volume discusses approaches employer and reasons for the rapid development in East Asia.ÊIt provides discussion on the lessons learned andÊways to share these lessonsÊwith other countries thourghÊdevelopment assistance.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/017.html - November 16, 2004

• East Asian Economic History , University of Pennsylvania
  No description is available.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• East Asian Economies: Development and Crisis , University of Cincinnati
   study the growth of the four Asian Tigers (Singapore, S. Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong) and other East Asian countries (Thailand, Malaysia, etc.). Also analyzes the Asian financial crisis (which adversely affected these economies) and trade associations (ASEAN, etc.) making the area a force in the global economy
  asweb.artsci.uc.edu/economics/undergrad/ugcourses.html#500 - January 19, 2005

• East Asian Financial Cooperation , Henning, C. Randall
  Since the financial crisis in the late 1990s, Asian governments have been considering strengthening regional monetary and financial cooperation. Proposals have ranged from the Asian Monetary Fund to common currencies. During the past two years, China, Japan, Korea, and the member-states of ASEAN have established a set of financial facilities under an agreement made in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) mobilizes a portion of the very large reserve holdings of its members for financial stabilization in a crisis. Organized under the \"ASEAN plus three\" grouping, these arrangements do not include the United States or other countries outside the region.The CMI thus raises several important questions: Under what terms will financing be extended on a regional basis? Is it likely to stabilize or destabilize international capital flows? What will CMI’s relationship be to the International Monetary Fund and other official financial institutions? How should governments build on these arrangements in the future? Could they provide the basis for broader integration of the East Asian region?This study examines the case for and against regional financial arrangements in East Asia, describes the CMI, compares it to financial arrangements in other regions, and recommends how the Initiative can preserve its complementarity to multilateral institutions and be strengthened in the future. The study specifically addresses the concerns of Americans, Europeans, and multilateral organizations, assessing the pros and cons of such regional financial arrangements for the global system.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=345 - March 24, 2005

• Economic Development in East Asia , Perkins, Dwight
  This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic changes that have occurred in East and Southeast Asia in the latter half of the twentieth century. Emphasis will be on the underlying causes of these changes and the consequences of these changes. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of the government in the management of these economies and how that role of the government has declined over the years. All countries in the region from Korea to Burma are the subject of the course, but the greatest attention will be focused on China, South Korea, and Malaysia with frequent references to Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~ec1315/syllabus/syllabus05.pdf - February 1, 2004

• Economic Development of East Asia , University of Southern California
  Course schedule for all USC classes. Find ECON 343 (Economic Development of East Asia) in the ECON link.
  www.usc.edu/students/enrollment/classes/term_20043/index.html - September 21, 2004

• Economic Growth and Crises in East Asia , Rodrigo, G. Chris
  The course develops a critical appraisal of the high-growth economies of East Asia - Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea and the causes of the 1997-8 Asian crises. The problems of China and Japan will also be examined to some extent. The emphsis is put on technological development and proximate sources of growth.
  www.gmu.edu/departments/t-icp/course/syllabi/02fa/736-01.htm - September 21, 2004

• Friedman, Edward , University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Hawkins Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Geographic Regions: APEC, ARF, Northeast Asia, China, Bhutan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (South), Taiwan, US policy toward Research Areas: business issues, democracy and democratization, development, economics, foreign investment, foreign relations and policy, government, government-business relations, human rights, international political economy, nationalism, regional economic cooperation, rural development, trade and economic relations
  www.polisci.wisc.edu/facultystaff/faculty/ - November 17, 2004

• From Manufacturing to Knowledge-based Industries: Development Strategies for East Asian NIEs in the next Decade , Wong, Poh-Kam
  Dr. Wong will discuss the increasing importance of technological innovation and entrepreneurship, and the expanding role of the digital economy in global competition. He will present an assessment of the competitive performance of the four East Asian Newly Industrializing Economies (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) in these areas and suggest development strategies for the future.
  ads.bookpark.ne.jp/ads/get.asp?site=SPFV&file=SPFV00063.pdf - November 9, 2004

• Hart-Lansberg, Martin , Lewis and Clark College
  Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Department of East Asian Studies, Lewis and Clark College He specializes in the study of economic development and international economics with emphasis on Korea and Japan.
  www.lclark.edu/faculty/marty/ - January 26, 2005

• Hsieh, Chang-Tai , University of California Berkeley
  Associate Professor, Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley Research Interests: East Asian growth and development.
  emlab.berkeley.edu/users/chsieh/ - January 20, 2005

• Kim, Sunwoong , University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  Professor of Economics and Chair, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Sunwoong Kim is a specialist in urban and human resources economics. He is also interested in political economy and development in East Asian countries, particularly in Korea. He is the Co-Editor of International Economic Journal.
  www.uwm.edu/~kim/ - November 10, 2004

• La Croix, Sumner , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Professor and Chair, Department of Economics University of Hawaii, Senior Fellow, East West Center Expertise: Economic History, Developmental Economics, Industrial Organization
  www2.hawaii.edu/~lacroix/ - November 8, 2004

• Lamont, Douglas F. , DePaul University
  Managing Director, Douglas Lamont and Associates, Visiting Professor, Depaul University, Chicago, IL. Geographic Regions: Japan, China Research Areas: foreign investment, global marketing, international business strategy, joint ventures with Japanese firms, wireless Internet
  condor.depaul.edu/~dlamont/ - November 21, 2004

• Lau, Lawrence J. , Stanford University
  Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Expertise: Economic theory, economic development, applied microeconomics, econometrics, agricultural economics, industrial economics, East Asian studies
  http://www.stanford.edu/~ljlau/ - January 11, 2005

• Law, Capitalism and Power in Asia: The Rule of Law and Legal Institutions , Jayasuriya, Kanishka ed.
  Some governments in East Asia claim that the rule of law is a distinctive characteristic of their political system. Major multilateral agencies such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank spend considerable resources on the provision of legal reform projects. There is an assumption that the rule of law will result in a transition to market-based economies and even democracy, but is this really true for Asia? In this challenging and provocative new study the authors contest that the liberal notion of the rule of law regulating the exercise of power is unlikely to come about in much of East Asia. Indeed, they argue that the rule of law is more likely to provide political elites with the means to control civil society more closely. In this broad-ranging volume a comparative approach is used to examine the major states of East Asia in both civil and common law jurisdiction.
  wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/publications/jayasuri.shtml - November 30, 2004

• Lincoln, Edward J. , Council on Foreign Relations
  Senior Fellow, Asia and Economic Studies, Maurice R. Greenberg Geoeconomic Studies Expertise: Japanese and East Asian economics and development; U.S. policy toward Asia.
  www.cfr.org/bio.php?id=3455 - November 8, 2004

• Mori, Kazuko , Waseda University
  Professor, Department of Global Political Economy, Waseda University, Japan Research Interests: Politics and foreign policy of contemporary China International relations in East Asia
  www.waseda.jp/seikei/english/faculty/pages/mori-kazuko-e.html - January 15, 2005

• Pax-Americana-led Macro-Clustering and Flying-Geese-Style Catch-Up in East Asia: Mechanisms of Regionalized Endogenous Growth , Ozawa, Terutomo
  Note: In order to access the paper, select “Publications” from the Menu on the left and choose “Working Papers.” Rapid growth in East Asia (despite the 1997-98 crises) has been unique as it is clustered so intensively only in that particular region. The flying- geese model of industrial upgrading is applied to the emergence of Pax-Americana- led growth clustering. The high propensity of the U.S. to transplant manufacturing overseas, Japan’s roles of structural intermediator and capacity augmenter, and catching- up economies’ public policies are the key co-determinants of regionalized endogenous growth in East Asia.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 1, 2005

• Senior Seminar: International and Comparative Political Economy: East Asia vs. Latin America , University of Richmond
  This course examines the causes and consequences of two perennial themes in international relations: "power" and "plenty," by bridging the gap between International Political Economy and comparative area studies of East Asia and Latin America - two dynamic regions whose divergent development trajectories have resulted in considerable scholarly interest and policy debates.
  polisci.richmond.edu/curriculum/currsemester.htm - August 12, 2004

• Suzuki, Yoshio , Suzuki, Yoshio
  Member of the House of Representatives, Tokyo, Japan Geographic Regions: Japan, East Asia, China Research Areas: macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial system, business cycle
  www.suzuki.org/ - November 17, 2004

• Tan, Guofu , University of Southern California
  Professor of Economics, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California Research Interests: A fellow of the Chinese Economists Society, Tan's economic research of East Asia, auction theory and industrial organization is widely published. Tan teaches microeconomic theory, industrial organization, game theory, managerial economics and economics of strategy.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/2251.html - January 7, 2005

• The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development
  Since its founding, ICSEAD has facilitated academic research on many issues in related to development in East Asia, thereby helping to improve the understanding of East Asia and contributing to Kitakyushu's economic ties with East Asia. ICSEAD's research staff conducts research on development in East Asia in the fields of business, economics, political science, and sociology, often collaborating with researchers from other universities and research institutions. This site contains public lectures and seminars, and information about the East Asian Economic Association (EAEA).
  www.icsead.or.jp/index_e.html - September 29, 2004

• The Macroeconomics of Economic Development with Special Reference to East Asia , Stanford University
  This course examines the macroeconomic aspects of economic development: structural transformation, resource utilization, mobilization, and allocation; the sources of economic growth; intersectoral transfers; the role of the external sector; money and finance in development; stabilization in closed and open economies; strategies for economic development; the role of intangible capital; and endogenous technical progress. Illustrations from the economic development experience of East Asia, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/790/ - August 22, 2004

• The Political Economy of East Asia , Fukuyama, Francis
  The course focuses on public policies related to economic development, and analyzes the respective roles of state, market, and culture/society as variables explaining Asia's growth.  It also covers the  Asian economic crisis of 1997-98 and the slowdown in Japan in the 1990s, and reasons why they occurred.  The major focus is on development strategies. 
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/01sp/701-014.htm - September 21, 2004

• US-Japanese Cooperation in the Energy Sector , Ivanov, Vladimir and Hamada, Mitsuru
  From US-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Conference Proceedings, Monterey, California, April 14-15, 2000. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. Center for East Asian Studies, September 20, 2000.  
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200013Ivanov-Hamada.pdf - September 29, 2004

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• 5 Percent/5 Years: Toward the Shanghai Goal , Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
  The Shanghai Goal aims at reducing transactions costs throughout the APEC region by 5% within 5 years. At the centre of this initiative are APEC’s trade facilitation goals including transparency, communications, consultations, and cooperation, non-discrimination, consistency, predictability, and due process, simplification, practicability, and efficiency, harmonization, standardization, and recognition, and modernization and the use of new technology. APEC member economies such as Canada, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and Singapore have already been successful in reducing trade-related transaction costs through various strategies. As part of the Shanghai Goal initiative, APEC has focused on capacity building in its developing economies, however some constraints remain. In the future, APEC will need to devise ways to measure decreases in transactions costs, make collective action plans more specific, and participate further in the development planning process if the Shanghai Goal is to be attained.
  www.asiapacific.ca/analysis/pubs/pdfs/toward_shanghai.pdf - November 11, 2004

• Advancing Corporate Governance Reform in Asia , APEC Study Center, Columbia University
  For decades, Asia's rapid economic growth served as a model for other developing economies. The Financial Crisis that devastated the region in early 1997 shocked policy makers and business leaders around the globe. Prior to the crisis, corporate governance was viewed by many in Asia as irrelevant, dismissed as a concern for more advanced (and largely Western) economies to consider at their leisure. Today, "Corporate Governance" verges on becoming a household world, not only in those economies hardest hit by the crisis, but thought Asia. On 15 February 2002, the APEC Study Center and The Asia Foundation, together with the Program in International Economic Policy, School for International and Public Affairs held a half-day panel discussion, presenting three speakers whose combined expertise reflects the diversity of approaches pursued in promoting reform.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/business/apec/first.htm - December 2, 2004

• APEC and the New Economy , Mann, Catherine; Rosen, Daniel
  Structural policies, networked information technologies, and flexible and skilled human resources transform old social and economic activities into new ones, which together increase economic growth in today’s \"new economy.\" In this study Catherine L. Mann and Daniel H. Rosen examine how this new phenomenon is affecting the economies of the member nations of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and whether APEC policymakers should have an action agenda toward it. The authors use macroeconomic models and distill case studies from selected APEC countries to illustrate both the potential rewards and the challenges faced by policymakers and businesses in enabling and embracing the dynamism of the new economy. The study also highlights the impact of new economy forces on trade competitiveness as well as the relationship between government and civil society. The authors conclude with a set of policy recommendations for APEC members, and for APEC itself to ensure that the benefits of the New Economy are widely shared in the region. The study was initially prepared for the Economic Committee of APEC for presentation to its annual ministerial and summit meetings in Shanghai in October 2001.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=356 - March 24, 2005

• APEC as a Pacific OECD Revisited , MacDuff, David and Woo, Yuen Pau
  The idea of a trans-Pacific institution created along the lines of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is almost as old as the OECD itself. With the creation of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in 1990, some scholars and officials believed that an embryonic Pacific OECD had come into being. By the mid-90s, however, and especially after APEC turned its focus to the Bogor targets of free and open trade by 2010/2020, the idea of APEC as a Pacific OECD had lost its appeal. Indeed the very mention of OECD as a possible benchmark for APEC was taboo as long as the regional forum imagined that it had a superior formula for cooperation, in the form of "concerted unilateral liberalization." It was only with the collapse of the early voluntary sectoral liberalization (EVSL) initiative in 1997/98 that doubts were raised about APEC's trade liberalization agenda. Accordingly, the renewed interest in institutional reform and strengthening can be seen as part of a deeper unease about APEC's main purposes and an unspoken quest for a new raison d'etre. This paper looks at specific aspects of the OECD model that may serve to reinvigorate APEC's economic cooperation mandate and suggests a number of practical measures towards a Pacific OECD. By using the OECD as a benchmark, the paper is not advocating institutional mimicry but is offering a reference point for APEC to map its own path. If a Pacific OECD is to emerge, it will be defined as much by its "Pacific" roots as by the Paris prototype.
  www.asiapacific.ca/analysis/pubs/pdfs/apecOECDg_14oct03.pdf - November 11, 2004

• APEC Review #10 , Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
  This 10th APEC Review publication provides an analysis of options to enhance APEC and WTO's cooperation in promoting trade facilitation. Other articles include: "China's WTO Entry and Its Implications for Taiwan's National Security Interests," as well as eleven other publications concerning APEC and WTO relations.
  www.tier.org.tw/ctasc/APECreview/APECreview10.PDF - December 3, 2004

• APEC: Cooperation for Sustainable Development , Itoga, Shigeru ed.
  The volume discusses the issues pertaining to energy and environmental cooperationÊin Asia-Pacific Region.ÊSome of the probelmes discusses: increasing energy consumption, population growth and food security, etc.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/018.html - November 16, 2004

• APEC: Cooperation from Diversity , Yamazawa, Ippei; Hirata, Akira
  Th evolume provides discussion of the positions of the countries-members andÊbehavior of such regional organizations as APEC and ASEAN.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/016.html - November 16, 2004

• Aronson, Jonathan , University of Southern California
  Professor and Director, School of International Relations University of Southern California Geographic Regions: APEC, Northeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: communications, foreign investment, foreign relations and policy, intellectual property rights, political economy, trade and economic relations
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/faculty/g-aronson.htm - November 21, 2004

• Asian Development Bank Institute , Asian Development Bank Institute
  The Asian Development Bank Institute was established in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan, to help build capacity, skills, and knowledge related to poverty reduction and other areas that support long-term growth and competitiveness in developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region. Their work covers applied research ,policy seminars to disseminate thinking about best practices, and a range of capacity building and training initiatives . This site contains FAQ's, key documents, employment, members, staff profiles, advisory council, and a library.
  www.adbi.org - October 2, 2004

• Australia / Asia-Pac Econ , Duke University
  This course examines the economic growth, development, immigration, foreign investment, deregulation, privatization, tax reform, and financial liberalization in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. ASEAN. Available only in the Duke-in-Australia Program. Instructor: Lodewijks
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0845/ECON/69/ - August 22, 2004

• Current Challenges in the Economics of Asia , The Australian National University
  The Asian region currently houses the world's most rapidly growing economies. The impact of these economies on global and regional economic systems is increasing seemingly unrelentingly. Simultaneously, the interactions between countries in this region bring extremely wealthy nations into contact with those facing challenges of poverty and underdevelopment. Yet, the very speed, diversity and dynamism of this growth generate problems for both local and international business and political leaders. This course presents students with the opportunity to work with Australia's leading experts in the fields of Asian economic change in developing insights into current challenges and future prospects facing the economies of the Asian Region. The topics offered in each year within this course reflect ANU's expertise in cutting-edge research on the dynamic Asian economies.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA8026.asp - January 12, 2005

• Economy and Finance of Pacific Rim Countries Department , Far Eastern National University
  English-language web site of the Department of Economy and Finance of Pacific Rim Countries at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=394 - September 30, 2004

• Ezaki, Mitsuo , Nagoya University
  Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University Geographic Regions: Asia-Pacific, China Research Areas: development, economics
  www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/outinfo/faculty/did/ezakm-en.html - November 17, 2004

• Findlay, Christopher , Australian National University
  Professor, Australia-Japan Research Centre/National Centre for Development Studies, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, Australian National University Geographic Regions:APEC, ASEAN, WTO, Australia, China, Japan, Asia-Pacific economy, Chinese economic reform Research Areas: agriculture, economics, finance, international trade, regional economic cooperation, trade and economic relations
  apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/cfindlay.php - November 28, 2004

• Hoshi, Takeo , University of San Diego
  Associate Dean and Pacific Economic Coop. Professor of Int. Economic Relations. Professor Hoshi is an authority on the Japanese economy, with a research focus on the financial aspects of the Japanese economy, especially corporate finance and governance.
  irps.ucsd.edu/academics/f-hoshi.php - October 2, 2004

• I.D.E. Development Perspective Series , Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization
  A new series in English for multi-faced studies of developing economies, principally based on a collective research of a specific subject. The majority of the papers covers issues faced by the developing countries in Asia-Pacific.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Idps/index.html - November 16, 2004

• Iida, Keisuke , Aoyama Gakuin University
  Associate Professor, School of International Politics, Economics, and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University Geographic Regions: Japan, Asia-Pacific, WTO Research Areas: foreign relations and policy, political economy, government, human rights
  www.sipeb.aoyama.ac.jp/~iida/english.htm - November 21, 2004

• McKibbin, Warwick J. , Australian National University
  Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University Research Interests: Global economic modelling; Asia-Pacific economic interdependence (with a focus on China and Japan); global environmental policy; international macroeconomic interdependence; global trade policy; global impacts of demographic change; Australian macroeconomic; environmental policy; macroeconomic consequences of changes in risk perception; role of international capital flows; globalization and disease.
  rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/mckiw_econ.php - January 23, 2005

• Mosk, Carl , University of Victoria
  Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., CANADA Current Research Interests: The Terms of Trade Urbanization in the Pacific Rim Nationalism, Regionalism and Multilateralism Human Development and the Biological Standard of Living Economic geography of the Pacific Northwest: Historical and Contemporary Aspects
  web.uvic.ca/~mosk/mosk-hp.html - October 27, 2004

• Overcoming Asia's Currensy and Financial Crises: A Theoretical Investigation , Kunimune, Kozo
  Because of globalization, a financial crisis in one part of the world can have far-reaching adverse effects; the crisis that started in Thailand in 1997 ultimately affected countries as far away as the Republic of Korea and Brazil. Thus more important than attempting to prevent these crises is the need to cope with currency and financial crises ex post and to develop the tools and methods for overcoming them after their occurrence. The present volume examines the high interest rate policy intended to stave off a currency crisis, banking policies for weathering a financial crisis, and corporate restructuring policies for revitalizing economic activity. Theoretical analyses were done using a wide range of analytical frameworks such as the overshoot model of exchange rates, time inconsistency, the agency approach for corporate finance, and comparative studies of financial systems.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Ops/039.html - November 16, 2004

• Ozawa, Terutomo , Colorado State University
  Current Research Theory of international production (by multinational corporations): How are the flows of foreign direct investment functionally related to the stages of economic development and competitiveness? How does the "flying-geese" paradigm of concatenated development apply to the Asian Pacific economies, as well as to the EU and Eastern Europe, and NAFTA and Latin America? Flexible production as a replacement for mass production: How and why did the new system originate, and how is it affecting the trade and investment patterns of the advanced and developing countries?
  www.colostate.edu/Depts/Econ/fac/bio/ozawa.html - November 17, 2004

• Pacific Rim Economic Development , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Rowen, Henry , Stanford University
  Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Expertise: International security, economic development, Asian economics and politics, U.S. institutions and economic performance
  www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html - January 11, 2005

• Sawada, Yasuyuki , University of Tokyo
  Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo Research Areas: Japan, Korea, Asia-Pacific, economics, development, foreign relations and policy
  www.kiss.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/users/sawada.htm - November 3, 2004

• Shkuropat, Anna V. , Shkuropat, Anna V.
  Personal web page of Anna Shkuropat, Director of the Center of Asia-Pacific Studies, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services.
  www.vvsu.ru/personal/Shkuropat/Index.htm - October 4, 2004

• Statistical Data Series , Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization
  It consists of statistical time series tables and commodity tables produced on the basis of statistical data, including trade, production and population figures collected and organized by IDE on developing countries, and the results of statistical analysis based on evaluation and processing of this data. The emphasis is made on Asian countries.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sds/index.html - November 16, 2004

• Survey on Customs, Standards, and Business Mobility in the APEC Region , Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
  Survey results of business people in the APEC region on 3 issues in APEC's trade facilitation agenda: customs procedures; standards and conformances; and mobility of business people. The survey was commissioned by the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).
  www.asiapacific.ca/analysis/pubs/pdfs/surveys/abacsurvey.pdf - November 11, 2004

• Trade Facilitation: A Development Perspective in the Asia Pacific Region , Wilson, John S., Catherine Mann, Yuen Pau Woo, Nizar Assaine
  This study uses a new gravity model and indicators that more closely match the complexity of the processes and transactions that affect trade. We find that improving port logistics has by far the highest elasticity and impact on APEC-wide trade. Harmonizing standards to APEC standards has a significant positive impact on trade in the APEC region, particularly for manufactured goods. The study also provides the most comprehensive analysis of APEC\'s past work on trade facilitation and recommendations on future directions. Here, we reviewed over 240 APEC projects and found that technical assistance, accounted for about 30% of APEC projects since 1993. Combining the modelling results obtained above with past work in facilitation, the study provides areas of focus for future capacity-building work that APEC can undertake in its developing member economies.
  www.asiapacific.ca/analysis/pubs/apec/apec_tf_report.pdf - November 11, 2004

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• Capitalism in Contemporary Asia , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Economic Development of China and Japan , University of Toronto
  Graduate course listings in economics at the University of Toronto. Course 2738H covers the 20th Century economic development of China and Japan.
  www.chass.utoronto.ca/~knapik/grad_cou.html#Development - August 5, 2004

• The Rise of Industrial Asia , Stanford University
  This unique undergraduate course, taught by APARC's core faculty and overseen by Professors Daniel I. Okimoto and Jean Oi, focuses on the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of industrial development and change in Asia as a region.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/516/ - September 21, 2004

• Ahmad, Jaleel , Concordia University
  Professor of Economics, Department of Economics Concordia University Geographic Regions: ASEAN, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka Research Areas: economics, international trade, finance, development, trade-related sectoral adjustment policies, exchange rates, capital flows, policy coordination for exchange rate stability.
  artsandscience.concordia.ca/economics/Ahmad.html - November 17, 2004

• Asia in the World Economy , Harvard University MPA/ID Program
  Focuses on comparative business-government relations in Asia to engage in current policy debates. Begins by examining alternative interpretations of the Asian economic miracle, the relative importance of business-government relations, and current crises that threaten to reshape the political economy of Asia. Next, analyzes national models of business-government relations in Japan, the four NIEs (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore), the ASEAN-4 (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines), China, and India. Moves cross-nationally to analyze the regionalization and globalization of input (capital and labor) and output (goods and services) markets as well as related policy issues ranging from regional competition for foreign investment to prospects for broader and deeper cooperation in regional integration, to the near absence of such cooperation in regional security policies. Concludes with a reexamination of our understanding of the Asian economic miracle. Throughout, academic readings, case studies, and policy briefs are supplemented by a highly interactive Web site to gain access to the most current data and analysis.
  www.ksg.harvard.edu/programs/mpaid/curriculum.htm - August 17, 2004

• Asia's Development Challenges , McCleery, Robert
  The purpose of this class is to examine the rapid growth in many Asian economies over the past twenty to thirty years, the recent financial difficulties facing many of the region\'s economies, and their growth prospects and challenges as of today. As we examine various explanations of both the rapid growth and current crisis, we will explore a number of competing hypotheses. Were Asia\'s recent problems a result of the earlier rapid growth? Do they represent a \"bump in the road\" or an indication that past development strategies are now ineffective? Are Asia\'s problems due to internal strains and inconsistencies or external forces? Does the solution lie in more government intervention or freer markets? How are solutions to Asia\'s challenges conditioned on economic structure, political structure, culture, geography, and other factors? Are there changes that should be made now to head off future problems? To address these key questions, we will look both at the best theories and prediction of Western economists and also writings from the region itself, in English. The course will touch on development, demography, political economy, trade and exchange rate determination, finance, macroeconomics, and money and banking. Both principles of economics and international economics are prerequisites for this class.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_AsiaDevChall.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Asian Development Outlook 2004 update , Asian Development Bank
  The Asian Development Outlook, 2004 Update features an overview of recent global economic trends and the region’s recent macroeconomic performance and prospects. It also analyzes economic trends, policy developments, and the outlook for 21 selected developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which were included in ADO 2004. In addition, the Update assesses different scenarios relating to the shortterm impacts of a PRC slowdown and sustained high global oil prices on the region’s economies. The ADO 2004 Update features an overview of recent global economic trends and the region’s recent macroeconomic performance and prospects. It also analyzes economic trends, policy developments, and the outlook for 21 selected developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which were included in ADO 2004. In addition, the Update assesses di.erent scenarios relating to the shortterm impacts of a PRC slowdown and sustained high global oil prices on the region’s economies.
  www.adb.org/documents/books/ado/2004/update/ado2004-update.pdf - December 2, 2004

• Asian Economic Dynamics: Past, Present and Future , Heginbotham, Erland
  Examines the sources and causes of Asia's rapid regional economic growth and integration (including Northeast, Southeast and South Asia). Evaluates the role of government policy, national growth models, enterprise forms, trade, aid and investment, culture and ethnicity and regional organizations. Examines the financial crisis of 1999-98 and subsequent developments to assess the prospects for Asia's economic future.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/asiareadinglists/AsianEconDevelopmentErlans.pdf - January 4, 2005

• Bergsten, Fred C. , Institute for International Economics
  Fred Bergsten has been director of the Institute for International Economics since its creation in 1981. He is chairman of the "Shadow G-8," which advises the G-8 countries on their annual summit meetings. He was chairman of the Competitiveness Policy Council, which was created by Congress, throughout its existence from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the APEC Eminent Persons Group throughout its existence from 1993 to 1995. He was assistant secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977-81); assistant for international economic affairs to the National Security Council (1969-71); and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1972-76), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1981), and the Council on Foreign Relations (1967-68). He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on a wide range of international economic issues, including Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy (2003), No More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship (2001), Global Economic Leadership and the Group of Seven (1996), The Dilemmas of the Dollar (2d ed, 1996), and America in the World Economy: A Strategy for the 1990s (1988).
  www.iie.com/publications/author_bio.cfm?author_id=33 - October 27, 2004

• Chinn, Menzie David , LaFollette School, Unversity of Wisconsin
  Quoted from Prof. Chinn's webpage: "Menzie Chinn is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin's LaFollette School of Public Affairs. His research examines macroeconomic interactions between countries, using econometric methods. Recent work focuses on how debt and fiscal policy affect interest rates, and the interaction between capital controls and financial development. Previous research has analyzed the determinants of exchange rate behavior among developed countries, with an emphasis on the role of productivity differentials."
  www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn - November 3, 2004

• Dawson, Steven M. , Center for Chinese Studies
  Steven Dawson is Professor of Finance at University of Hawaii. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, the National University of Singapore, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Michigan. His area of focus is stockmarkets in Asia. He has published studies on initial public stock offers, stock recommendations, and stock market efficiency in the markets of Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Malaysia.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/dawson_steven.html - November 5, 2004

• Dufey, Gunter , University of Michigan
  Professor, School of Business Administration, Center for Japanese Studies Faculty, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Integration of macro and micro aspects of international finance; change in Asian financial markets and impact on the international financial system; exchange rate variability and corporate financial policy; EURO: Impact on banking structures and competition
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=7 - February 18, 2005

• Dutta, M. , Rutgers University
  Professor, Department of Economics, Rutgers University Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, China Research Areas: globalization and regionalism, economic regionalism, European Union and the euro, direct foreign investment, US policy toward
  econweb.rutgers.edu/dutta/ - November 28, 2004

• East and Southeast Asia Trade and Investment , Brown, William B.
  This course provides an introduction to the major economies and markets of East Asia: Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Some attention is paid also to the major Southeast Asian countries. Their trade and investment relationships with each other and with the United States are investigated.  Development patterns among the rapidly industrializing economies are discussed with attention to specific issues raised for U.S. trade policy in the region. 
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/01su/771-C01.htm - September 21, 2004

• Economic Growth and Financial Crisis in Asia , Alexander, Arthur J.
  This course addresses the question of whether Asia's financial problems are linked by some broader model of economic development or whether they are more or less random examples of banking insolvencies that have plagued many of the world's developed and developing economies in the past few decades.
  www.gmu.edu/departments/t-icp/course/syllabi/98fa/701-1.htm - September 21, 2004

• Fesharaki, Fereidun , East West Center
  Born in Iran, he attended the OPEC Ministerial Conferences in the late 1970s in his capacity as energy adviser to the Prime Minister of Iran. Joined the East-West Center in 1979. The research interests of Dr. Fesharaki include: Energy policy and planning in Asia; OPEC and the global outlook; Oil and gas market analysis and the downstream petroleum sector. He has been an adviser to major oil companies, independent companies, trading companies, state-owned companies, and governments in the Middle East, Pacific Basin and Latin America, as well as the U.S. government. Served as 1993 President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), the key professional organization representing some 3,000 energy economists in more than 70 countries. Editorial board of the Energy Policy Journal, Hydrocarbon Asia, International Energy and Resources Law and Policy Series, Energy Economics, Mexican Outlook on the Pacific Basin, Journal of Energy Finance & Development; and Energy - The International Journal.
  www.eastwestcenter.org/about-dy-detail.asp?staff_ID=36 - October 21, 2004

• Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations , Liu, Li-gang; Robinson, Sherman; Wang, Zhi; Noland, Marcus
  The Asian financial crisis has precipitated significant changes in real exchange rates in the region that will substantially alter the volume and pattern of international trade. The crisis countries will increase their exports and, especially, reduce their imports. Japan, China, and the other non-crisis countries will experience more complex changes. The trade balances of the United States and Western Europe will deteriorate by about $40-50 billion as a result of the currency movements in Asia. This study, newly updated in August 1999, quantifies the impact of the currency changes on the individual countries in Asia, on the United States, on Europe and on other regions on a sector-by-sector basis. It analyzes the additional impact that might occur if China, thus far a relative bystander in the crisis, were to devalue its currency as well. It then examines potential trade policy responses to these developments including the risk of an upsurge in protectionist pressure in the United States.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=28 - March 24, 2005

• Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia , Noland, Marcus; Pack, Howard
  Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation—and it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the \"Washington consensus.\" But disappointing results in Latin America and transitional economies—plus the Asian financial crisis—have shaken the faith in Washington and elsewhere. One response has been to hark back to the more statist policies that the consensus marginalized. In this regard, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are promoted as the poster nations that have derived great benefits from increasing integration with the international economy, without surrendering national autonomy in the economic or cultural spheres, effectively beating the West at its own game. The fundamental questions addressed in this monograph are whether industrial policy was indeed a major source of growth in these three economies, and if so, can it be replicated under current institutional arrangements, and if so, is it worth replicating, or, would developing countries today be better off embracing the suitably refined orthodoxy?
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=358 - March 24, 2005

• Introduction to Asian Economic Histrory , Victoria University of Wellington
  A survey of Asian economic history from the mid-19th century to the present day. The topics covered include the causes of economic growth, the development of business structures and government-based relations, international economic relations including Asia\\\'s relations with New Zealand, and the origins of the economic crisis of the late 1990s. The course deals with Japan, China, other parts of east Asia, and India.
  www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/what-we-offer/asian-studies/courses/ASIA-206.aspx - February 16, 2005

• Kang, David C. , Dartmouth College
  Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College Research Interests: Political economy Business in Asia International relations Korean business
  www.dartmouth.edu/~dkang/ - November 11, 2004

• Katada, Saori , University of Southern California
  Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California. Professor Katada studies how relations among developed countries affect the political economy of development. Her special interests include international financial and monetary relations, foreign aid, and foreign investments that involve both the United States and Japan, as well as other countries in Asia and Latin America. Her most recent work focuses on the study of regionalism. She is also interested in the integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/211.html - October 10, 2004

• Khan, Haider A. , University of Denver
  Director, International Development Institute Graduate School of Economics, University of Denver Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Korea Research Areas: technology, energy, balance of payments, economy-wide modeling, environment, foreign aid
  www.du.edu/gsis/hkhan/index.htm - November 17, 2004

• Kramer, Kenneth L. , University of California-Irvine
  Director, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California-Irvine Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (South), India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand Research Interests: Use andÊ Impact of Information Technology in Organizations; Globalization of InformationÊ Technology Production and Use; Management of Information Systems
  www.crito.uci.edu/2/kraemer.asp - December 1, 2004

• Lee, Thomas K. , Lee, Thomas K.
  Thomas K. Lee is an expert in North and South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Southeast Asian countries; international business strategies, finance and trade; foreign direct investment; commercial, domestic, and foreign policies of Asian-Pacific governments; and conflict resolution.
  www.csis.org/experts/4lee.htm - October 21, 2004

• Matsui, Noriatsu , Yamaguchi University
  Professor, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Yamaguchi University Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: economic development, political economy
  www.eas.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/shokai/kyouin/matsui/matsui_e.htm - November 17, 2004

• McCleery, Robert , Monterey Institute of International Studies
  Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Policy Studies and Fisher Graduate School of International Business - Expertise: International economics; migration; trade and trade agreements; Asia and Latin America
  www.miis.edu/gsips-faculty.html?id=38 - October 2, 2004

• McKinnon, Ronald , Stanford University
  Professor of International Economics, Stanford University, Stanford California focused more on East Asia and the great currency crisis of 1997-98 affecting Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand on the one hand, and the foreign exchange origins of Japan's liquidity trap and more prolonged economic slump on the other. Together with Kenichi Ohno, McKinnon wrote Dollar and Yen: Resolving Economic Conflict between the United States and Japan (1997) and is currently working on a forthcoming volume, The East Asian Exchange Rate Dilemma and the World Dollar Standard. Establishing long-term dollar parities for exchange rates as a "nominal anchor" against fears of currency depreciation and inflation in the smaller East Asian debtor economies, and against fears of yen appreciation and ongoing deflation in Japan, the region's main creditor, are potentially of great mutual advantage.
  www.stanford.edu/~mckinnon/index.htm - October 27, 2004

• Money and Finance in Economic Development , Stanford University
  This course explores banking systems, interest rates, regulatory policies, and the productivity of capital in developing countries. Other topics covered include controlling inflation (fiscal and monetary policies for macroeconomic stability), currency crises, exchange rates, and the liberalization of foreign trade. Particular attention is paid to transitional socialist economies in Asia and Eastern Europe.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/520/ - January 12, 2005

• Noland, Marcus , Institute for International Economics
  Senior Fellow Marcus Noland's work encompasses a wide range of topics including the political economy of US trade policy and the Asian financial crisis. His areas of geographical knowledge and interest include Asia and Africa where he has lived and worked. In the past he has written extensively on the economies of Japan, Korea, and China, and is unique among American economists in having devoted serious scholarly effort to the problems of North Korea and the prospects for Korean unification.
  www.iie.com/publications/author_bio.cfm?author_id=26 - November 8, 2004

• Overholt, William H. , RAND Corporation
  William H. Overholt conducts research on Asia at the Center for Asia Pacific Policy in RAND's headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Previously Dr. Overholt was Senior Fellow at Harvard University. Before that, he spent 21 years running research teams for investment banks, including 16 years in Hong Kong. He served as Head of Strategy and Economics at Nomura's regional headquarters in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001, and as Managing Director and Head of Research at Bank Boston\'s regional headquarters in Singapore. Over 18 years at Bankers Trust, he ran a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984 and then was regional strategist and Asia research head based in Hong Kong.
  www.rand.org/news/experts/bios/expert_overholt_dr_william.html - October 29, 2004

• Politics and Markets in the Wake of Asian Crisis , Robinson, Richard; Beeson, Mark; Jayasuriya, Kanishka; Kim, Hyuk-Rae eds.
  The fallout from the crisis in Asia has been immense. Asia\'s position as the global economy's growth engine is now no longer tenable. As the political and economic regimes that defined 'Asian capitalism' struggle to survive, it is by no means clear whether free markets, transparent and accountable systems of governance and more vigorous civil societies will follow. The contributors to this book argue vigorously that processes of globalization are driven by complex political forces and that it is not enough to look at economic factors in isolation. Chapters focus on the different political and market forces being forged in the wake of the crisis: from the highly ordered responses of China and Singapore to the chaos and disintegration in Indonesia; the money politics of Thailand to the developmentalist juggernauts of Korea. They put the crisis in its global context, reassessing its impact on the configurations of power and interest shaping global markets and analysing the role of the IMF, the World Bank and the governments and financial institutions of the major Western Economies.
  wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/publications/robisonbeeson.shtml - November 30, 2004

• Politics of East-West Economic Policy , University of Georgia
  Course examines politics of economic relations between western market economies and eastern centrally-planned economies.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - August 26, 2004

• Prestowitz Jr., Clyde V. , Economic Stategy Institute
  President, Economic Stategy Institute, Washington, DC AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Globalization, Asia, Technology Policy, Business Strategy, Foreign Policy  Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think-tank influential in the areas of international trade policy and specialized in how key sectors of the US and world economy adapt to change, in particular the effects of globalization.
  www.econstrat.org/staff/cprestowitz.html - March 28, 2005

• Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free trade Agreement , Lardy, Nicholas R.; Daniel Rosen, H.
  Taiwan has a special status for the United States, as both a leading high-technology economic partner and a place of political and security concern. The authors look at both the quantitative and qualitative evidence on the potential effects of a US-Taiwan free trade agreement (FTA), both for maximizing US economic benefits and for securing a prosperous and secure future for Taiwan. Their analysis indicates that the direct economic benefits of a prospective FTA would be modest and that the FTA could be most valuable to the United States if it leads Taiwan toward greater regional integration.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=383 - March 24, 2005

• Reports of the 7th TEACOM Meeting and International Workshop on Global Change Studies in Far East Asia , Kasyanov, V.L.
  In "The Reports of the 7-th TEACOM Meeting and the International Workshop on Global Change Studies in Far East Asia" the presentations these two meetings which were held in Vladivostok in November 10-12 1997 within framework of the same program are published. The reports are mainly dedicated to the manifestation of environmental global changes in the Far East Asia region and consider such aspects as formation of climate, anthropogenous environmental impact, dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. The Reports could be interesting for biologists, ecologists, geographers, climatologists, teachers and students of biological departments.
  igbp-rnc.dvo.ru/e_page_009.htm - November 18, 2004

• Riess, Gordon , Intercontinental Enterprises, Ltd.
  President, Intercontinental Enterprises, Ltd. Geographic Regions: ASEAN, Caucasus/Central Asia, Australasia, Australia, Former Soviet Union, Georgia, Russia, Northeast Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (South), Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand Research Areas: business issues, development, health and medical issues, intellectual property rights, international business, management, science and technology, technology transfer, trade and economic relations
  www.internationalexpert.com/index1.html - November 21, 2004

• Sakai, Yasuhiro , Shiga University
  Professor, Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Japan Geographic Regions: Pacific Rim, ASEAN, NIEs, China, Japan Research Areas: development, business, trade relations, industry, social issues/sociology
  www.biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp/keizai/faculty/ysakai.htm - November 17, 2004

• Skanderup, Jane , Center for Strategic and International Studies
  Jane Skanderup is an expert in political economy of Asia, including trade and investment, economic reforms, particularly in South Korea; APEC; international and development economics, including Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. With the Pacific Forum CSIS since 1989, Jane Skanderup specializes in economic and political relations in the Asia-Pacific region. Skanderup's recent projects include a study of the OECD's efforts to conclude an investment agreement, which included a critique of the new foreign investment liberalization policies in South Korea. Skanderup is currently working on economic development in Okinawa and on Japan-Korea economic relations. She also works on APEC and comparative economic issues in Asia and Latin America.
  www.csis.org/experts/4skander.htm - October 21, 2004

• Strengthening Cooperation Among Asian Economies in Crisis , Yamazawa, Ippei ed.
  The volume diagnoses the Asian Financila Crisis, provided detailed analysis of the crisis\'s impact on the regional production and trade, and makes some predictions about the new dynamics.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Sympro/019.html - November 16, 2004

• The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Systemic Implications , Golstein, Morris
  The turmoil that rocked Asian markets after the middle of 1997 and that spread far afield was the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Korea suffered outright recessions in 1998. In an effort to contain the crisis, almost $120 billion was pledged in IMF-led official rescue packages. How could this happen to a group of countries that has been so highly regarded in the 1990\'s by private international capital markets? How could the crisis be overcome, and what changes are necessary to prevent it from happening again? Morris Goldstein provides the answers to these questions by first explaining how the Asian financial crisis arose and spread. He traces the crisis through its three interrelated origins: financial sector weaknesses; external sector problems; and the contagion that spread from Thailand to other countries. Goldstein then outlines what needed to be done in the ASEAN-4 economies, in Japan and China, and in the design of IMF-led official rescue packages to end the crisis. Goldstein\'s final remarks offer specific proposals for improving the international financial architecture.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=22 - March 24, 2005

• The Rise of Industrial Asia , Stanford University
  This unique course, taught by APARC's core faculty and overseen by Professors Daniel I. Okimoto and Jean Oi, focuses on the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of industrial development and change in Asia as a region.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/516/ - August 22, 2004

• Virtues and Vices of Political Economies of Asia , Oh, Kongdan
  The cource examines the dramatic economic growth of Japan and the "Four Dragons" of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea in the 1970s, the economic developments that took place since then, and the 1997 Asian financial crisis. 
  www.gmu.edu/departments/t-icp/course/syllabi/98su/701-804.htm - September 21, 2004

• Wolf Jr., Charles , Stanford University
  Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Expertise: International economic policy, economic development, the relationship between economic issues and foreign and defense policy
  www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/wolfjr.html - January 11, 2005

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• Agenda for Interenational Development , Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development
  The preiodicle represents a Japanese perspective on International Developmet and the multitude of issues targeted by it.
  www.fasid.or.jp/english/publication/research/agenda.html - November 16, 2004

• Ernst, Dieter , Ernst, Dieter
  Dieter Ernst is a senior fellow at the East-West Center. Dr. Ernst's previous affiliations include the OECD, Paris (as senior advisor), and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), University of California at Berkeley (as research director), the Center for Technology and Innovation (TIK) at the University of Oslo (as research professor), and the Copenhagen Business School (as professor of international management). Dr. Ernst co-chairs an advisory committee for the US Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to develop a new program on Innovation, Business Institutions and Governance in Asia. He serves on the Committee on Information Technology and International Cooperation (ITIC)of the SSRC. He also serves as International Advisor to the Committee established by the Prime Minister's Science Advisor to set up a National Science Foundation for Malaysia, and as scientific advisor to various institutions, including the United Nations University`s Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH), Maastricht, Netherlands; the Japan Foundation`s Globalization Project, Institute of Social Studies, University of Tokyo; the International Innovation Studies Network (IISN); the International Institute of Educational Planning, UNESCO, Paris; the Society for International Development, Rome; the Norwegian Research Council; the Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics (DRUID); the German Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main; and the United Nations Annual World Investment Report.
  www.eastwestcenter.org/about-dy-detail.asp?staff_ID=141 - October 12, 2004

• Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development , Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development
  The Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) was set up in March 1990. Its primary functions are to conduct education and training of a new generation of Japanese development professionals, and research on international development. FASID was established as a non-profit organization with the legal status accorded jointly b