Program

Asian Historical Economics Conference
Beijing, 19-21 May, 2010

Program
(As of 18 May, 2010)
[PDF: 44KB]

Venue: 201 Shunde Building, School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

PRESENTATIONS: Each paper has been allocated a 40 minute slot. Presentations by the authors should be limited to 25 minutes to allow 15 minutes for questions and discussion

• 8:10-8:40
• Registration
• 8:40-8:45
• Opening & Introduction
• by CCWE Director David Li
• 8:45-8:47
• Condolence for Angus Maddison
• by Professor Harry X. Wu, IER, Hitotsubashi University
• 8:47-8:55
• Welcome
• by Tsinghua SEM Dean Yingyi Qian
• 8:55-9:40
• Keynote Remarks
• (5-10 min each, with bilingual translation)
• 1. ZHANG Donggang, Vice Director General, Department of Social Sciences, Ministry of Education
  2. LIU Lanxi, Secretary General, China Association of Historical Economics, Speaks on behalf of WU Chenming, Prominent Scholar of Historical Economics, Former Chair of China Association of Historical Economics
  3. DONG Zhikai, Chair of China Association of Historical Economics
  4. HUANG Guitian, Associate Dean, Peking University School of Economics
  5. Professor Steve Broadberry, University of Warwick
  6. Professor Kyoji Fukao, Hitotsubashi University

• 9:40-10:20
• Paper 1
• Endogenous Tariffs and Growth: Asia versus Latin America 1870-1940
  [458KB]
• *Michael A. Clemens (Center for Global Development)
  Jeffrey G. Williamson (Harvard University and University of Wisconsin)
• 10:20-11:00
• Paper 2
• Relative Prices as Clues to Global Divergence, 1500-1870
  [616KB]
• Peter H. Lindert (University of California, Davis)
• 11:00-11:20
• Coffee and Tea
• 11:20-12:00
• Paper 3
• Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  [756KB]
• Bozhong Li (Tsinghua University)
  Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University)
• 12:00-12:40
• Paper 4
• A Study of Economic Growth and Structure in China's Ming Dynasty
• Guan Hanhui (Tsinghua University)
  David Daokui Li (Tsinghua University)
• 12:40-14:00
• Lunch

• 14:00-14:40
• Paper 5
• Indian GDP, 1600-1871: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain
  [214KB]
• Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick)
  Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)
• 14:40-15:20
• Paper 6
• Decomposition of Income Gaps between China, Japan and the United States for Circa 1935 by a Production PPP Approach
  [411KB]
• Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University)
  Harry X. Wu (Hitotsubashi University)
  Tangjun Yuan (Fudan University)
• 15:20-16:00
• Paper 7
• Factor Prices, Population, and Productivity in Korea, 1700-1900
  [476KB]
• Myung Soo Cha (Yeungnam University)
• 16:00-16:20
• Coffee and Tea
• 16:20-17:00
• Paper 8
• Unveiling Historical Occupational Structures and its Implications for Sectoral Labour Productivity Analysis in Japan's Economic Growth
  [632KB]
• Osamu Saito (Cambridge Group and Hitotsubashi University)
  *Tokihiko Settsu (Hitotsubashi University)
• 17:00-17:40
• Paper 9
• Regional Inequality and Industrial Structures in Pre-War Japan: An Analysis Based on New Prefectural GDP Estimates
  [1.3MB]
• Jean-Pascal Bassino (University of Montpellier III and Hitotsubashi University)
  Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University)
  *Ralph Paprzycki (Hitotsubashi University)
  *Tokihiko Settsu (Hitotsubashi University)
  Tangjun Yuan (Fudan University)
• 17:40-18:20
• Paper 10
• Agglomeration or Selection ?: The Case of the Japanese Silk-Reeling Industry, 1909-1916
  [796KB]
• *Yutaka Arimoto (The University of Tokyo)
  *Kentaro Nakajima (Tohoku University)
  Tetsuji Okazaki (The University of Tokyo)
• 18:50-20:30
• Dinner
• Remarks by One of the Co-organizers
• 20:30-21:30
• Launch of Asian Historical Economics Society
• executed by the AHEC Steering Committee.

• 9:00-9:40
• Paper 11
• Human Capital, Institutions, Settler Mortality, and Economic Growth in Africa, Asia and the Americas
  [136KB]
• Valeria Prayon (University of Tübingen)
  Jörg Baten (University of Tübingen)
• 9:40-10:20
• Paper 12
• Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans, 1300-1850
  [112KB]
• Carol H. Shiue (University of Colorado)
• 10:20-11:00
• Paper 13
• South Asian Economy During 16^th-18^th Centuries and the Great Divergence Debate
  [184KB]
• Najaf Haider (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• 11:00-11:20
• Coffee and Tea
• 11:20-12:00
• Paper 14
• Veterans and Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India
  [1.4MB]
• Saumitra Jha (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
  *Steven Wilkinson (Yale University)
• 12:00-12:40
• Paper 15
• Rethinking the Origins of British India: State Formation and Military-Fiscal Undertakings in an Eighteenth Century World Region
  [295KB]
• Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics)
• 12:40-14:00
• Lunch

• 14:00-14:40
• Paper 16
• Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914
  [354KB]
• K. Kivanç Karaman (Bogaziçi University)
  Şevket Pamuk (London School of Economics)
• 14:40-15:20
• Paper 17
• Government Ownership and Productivity: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways
  [855KB]
• *Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine)
  *Latika Chaudhary (Scripps College)
• 15:20-16:00
• Paper 18
• Indonesia's Regional Welfare Development, 1900-1990: New Anthropometric Evidence
  [271KB]
• *Peter Földvári (University of Debrecen)
  *Jozsef Gáll (University of Debrecen)
  *Daan Marks (Utrecht University)
  Bas van Leeuwen (Free University, Utrecht University, Warwick University)
• 16:00-16:20
• Coffee and Tea
• 16:20-17:00
• Paper 19
• Rice Price, Grain Wages of Carpenters, and Skill Premium in Kyoto ca. 1260-1600
  A Comparison with London, Florence, Istanbul, and Cairo
  [1.2MB]
• Jean-Pascal Bassino (University of Montpellier III and Hitotsubashi University)
  Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University)
  Masanori Takashima (Hitotsubashi University)
• 17:00-17:40
• Paper 20
• Commercialization as Exogenous Shocks: The Effect of the Soybean Trade in Manchurian Villages, 1895-1934
  [431KB]
• James Kai-sing Kung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  *Nan Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
• 17:40-18:20
• Paper 21
• Globalization, Trade & Wages: What Does History tell us about China?
• Kris James Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
  Se Yan (Peking University)

• 9:00-9:40
• Paper 22
• Determinants of Private Interest Rates in the Republic of China Period
• Chen Zhiwu (Yale University)
  Peng Kaixiang (Henan University)
• 9:40-10:20
• Paper 23
• A Mirror of History: Chinese Bond Market from 1921 to 1942
  [424KB]
• *Chun-Yu Ho (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Dan Li (Fudan Univeristy)
• 10:20-11:10
• Paper 24 & 25 (shorter presentations)
• The Diversification of Land Transactions in Late Imperial China
  [325KB]
• Long Denggao (Tsinghua University)
• Money and Prices in China on the Eve of Opium War: a Preliminary Report from Tong Taisheng Account Books (1800-1850)
• Debin Ma (London School of Economics)
  Weipeng Yuan (Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing)
• 11:10-11:30
• Coffee and Tea
• 11:30-12:10
• Paper 26
• China's Long-term Economic Growth: Retrospect and Prospect
  [348KB]
• Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)
  Debin Ma (London School of Economics)
  Thomas G. Rawski (University of Pittsburgh)
• 12:10-14:00
• Lunch

• 14:00-15:30
• A Round Table Discussion on historical economics in China and related issues, plus the prospects for collaboration between economic historians in China and abroad
• Part I
• 15:30-15:50
• Coffee and Tea
• 15:50-17:10
• A Round Table Discussion
• Part II
• 17:10
• End of the Conference