Economics Papers on Asian Growth

This page is an incomplete list of economic papers that are related to the economic growth of selected Asian countries. Inclusion of these papers here does not imply any kind of endorsement. Theoretical papers on economic growth in open economies are not included here, but a recent survey is in Long and Wong (1997) mentioned below.

If you have written academic papers on issues related to Asian growth, and would like to have your papers included here, please follow the procedures described at the bottom of this page.

Please also check the section on economics papers on the Asian crisis. [ Back to the Asian crisis home page. ]


Berthelemy, Jean-Claude, and Sylvie Demurger, 1997. "Foreign Investment and Economic Growth: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Application to Chinese Provinces (1985-94)," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Chand, Satish, and Kunal Sen, 1997. "Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing, " presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Chou, Win Lin and Kar-yiu Wong, 1997. "Economic Growth and International Trade: The Case of Hong Kong," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Chand, Satish, and Kunal Sen, 1997. "Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Deolalikar, Anil, 1997. "Human Resource Development and International Competitive in Asia," mimeo.

Dessus, Sébastien, 1997. "Total Factor Productivity and Outward Orientation in Taiwan: What is the Nature of the Relationship?" presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Dessus, Sébastien, Jia-Dong Shea and Mau-Shan Shi, 1995. Chinese Taipei: The Origins of the Economic 'Miracle', Paris: OECD.

Devereux, Michael, 1997. "Long Run Real Exchange Rate Determination: Alternative Explanations and Evidence from Asian Countries." presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Färe, Rolf, and Shawna Grosskopf, 1997. "Efficiency and Productivity in Rich and Poor Countries," in Bjarne S. Jensen and Kar-yiu Wong (eds.), Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: 243-263.

Findlay, Ronald, 1997. "Theoretical Perspectives on East Asian Growth," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Gapinski, James H. and David L. Western, 1997. "A Tiger in the Land of the Panda: Growth Prospects for Hong Kong under Reversion to China," presented at the joint sessions of Chinese Economics Association in North America and American Economics Association in the ASSA meetings, Chicago, January 1998.

Hua, Ping, 1997. "Exports, Foreign Investment and Economic Growth in China," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Kim, Jong-Il and Lawrence J. Lau, 1994. "The Sources of Economic Growth of the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries,'' Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 8: 235-71.

Kim, Jong-Il and Lawrence J. Lau, 1996. "The Sources of Asian Pacific Economic Growth,'' Canadian Journal of Economics, April, 39: S448-54.

Krugman, Paul, 1998. "What Happened to Asia?" for a confernece in Japan, January 1998.

Lee, Jong-Wha, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Steve Radelet, 1997. "Economic Growth in Asia," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Liang, Chi-Yuan, 1996. "Productivity Growth in Asian NIEs: A Case Study of the Republic of China, 1961--93,'' Taipei: Academia Sinica. Reprinted from APO Productivity Journal, Winter 1995.

Lin, Shuanglin, 1997. "Export Expansion and Economic Growth in China," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Long, Ngo Van and Kar-yiu Wong, 1997. "Endogenous Growth and International Trade: A Survey," in Bjarne S. Jensen and Kar-yiu Wong (eds.), Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: 11-74.

Lucas, Robert E. Jr., 1993. "Making a Miracle,'' Econometrica, 61: 251--272.

Pyo, Hak K., 1995. "A Time-Series Test of the Endogenous Growth Model with Human Capital,'' in Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger (eds.), Growth Theories in Light of the East Asian Experience, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 229-242.

Singh, Nirvikar, 1998. "Miracles and Reform: Policy Reflections for India," mimeographed, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sung, Yun Wing, and Kar-yiu Wong, 1997. "Growth of Hong Kong Before and After Its Reversion to China: The China Factor," presented at the joint sessions of Chinese Economics Association in North America and American Economics Association in the ASSA meetings, Chicago, January 1998.

Van, Pham Hoang, and Henry Y. Wan, Jr., 1997. "Interpreting East Asian Growth," in Bjarne S. Jensen and Kar-yiu Wong (eds.), Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: 265-286.

Wan, Henry, and Jason Weisman, 1997. "Hong Kong: The Fragile Economy of Middlemen," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

Young, Alwyn, 1992. "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore,'' in Oliver Jean Blanchard and Stanley Fischer (eds.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1992, 13-54. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Young, Alwyn, 1994. "Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A Contrarian View,'' European Economic Review, 38: 964-973.

Young, Alwyn, 1995. "The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience,'' Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 641-680.

Zhu, Zhen, 1997. "Trade and Growth Dynamics: A VAR Approach," presented at the international conference on Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, Hong Kong, July 1997.

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If you would like to have your papers related to Asian growth included here, please follow the following procedures:

  1. Your paper must be about Asian growth, either theoretical or empirical papers, either for closed economies or for open economies.
  2. Please send a hardcopy of your papers to Kar-yiu Wong, Department of Economics, Box 353330, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, U. S. A. Please include your name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and home page URL, if any.
  3. If your papers are published in a journal or a book, please indicate the source.
  4. If your papers are working papers, please send also an electronic file of them, if possible, either in a diskette or via e-mail to karyiu@u.washington.edu (formats accepted: MS Word, TeX, and Scientific Word, .pdf, .dvi, .eps).
  5. If your papers are available online and you would like to have your papers linked, please give me the URLs of your papers.
  6. If your papers are not available online at this point, and you would like to make it available online for your readers, I will be happy to include your papers on my home page. If this is what you want, please indicate clearly in your submission.

This page was last revised on March 16, 2008.