Circle of Fortune: The Long Term Impact of Western Customs Institutions in China

Konferenzbeitrag

This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British-driven institutional switch in part of China's customs stations in 1902, I find that counties that were more affected by the British customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and economic development.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2018: Digitale Wirtschaft - Session: Economic History ; No. D22-V2

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Asia including Middle East ; Economic Development: General ; Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Asia including Middle East ; Economic Development: General ; Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
• Thema: Institutions ; Economic development ; Treaty ports ; Chinese Maritime Customs Service (CMCS) ; China

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Jin, Gan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (wo): Kiel, Hamburg
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/181605
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ