Growth and productivity in East Asia
By: edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose.
Contributors: Itō, Takatoshi, 1950-; Rose, Andrew, 1959-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER-East Asia seminar on economics -- v. 13.; NBER-East Asia seminar on economics (Series) -- v. 13.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Industrial productivity -- East Asia -- Congresses; Economic development -- Congresses; Production (Economic theory) -- Congresses; East Asia -- Economic policy -- Congresses; East Asia -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Contains papers from the 13th annual East Asian Seminar on Economics, which took place on June 20-22 [2002], in Melbourne, Australia"--Intro.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Macro productivity. Ideas and education: level or growth effects and their implications for Australia / Steve Dowrick. Comments: John Leahy, Andrew K. Rose; title: Australia's 1990s productivity surge and its determinants / Dean Parham. Comments: Chin Hee Hahn, Francis T. Lui; title: Institutions, volatility, and crises / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson. Comments: Steve Dowrick, Dipinder S. Randhawa; title: GATT/WTO accession and productivity / David D. Li, Changqi Wu. Comments: Simon Johnson, Epictetus E. Patalinghug; title: The contribution of FDI flows to domestic investment in capacity, and vice versa / Assaf Razin. Comments: Kyoji Fukao, Dean Parham.; title: Part II. Micro productivity. Sectoral productivity and economic growth in Japan, 1970-98: an empirical analysis based on the JIP database / Kyoji Fukao, Tomohiko Inui, Hiroki Kawai, Tsutomu Miyagawa. Comments: Peter Drysdale, Keiko Ito; title: Foreign ownership and productivity in the Indonesian automobile industry: evidence from establishment data for 1990-99 / Keiko Ito. Comments: Muhammad Chatib Basri, Francis T. Lui; title: Productivity growth and R&D expenditure in Taiwan's manufacturing firms / Jiann-Chyuan Wang, Kuen-Hung Tsai. Comments: Tsutomu Miyagawa, Jungho Yoo; title: Bankruptcy policy reform and total factor productivity dynamics in Korea: evidence from microdata / Youngjae Lim, Chin Hee Hahn. Comments: Chong-Hyun Nam, Epictetus E. Patalinghug; title: Information Technology and firm performance in Korea / Jong-Il Kim. Comments: Chong-Hyun Nam, Dipinder S. Randhawa; title: How important is discrete adjustment in aggregate fluctuations? Andrew Caplin, John Leahy. Comments: Jong-Il Kim, Assaf Razin.