Japan and the Asian Divergence: Market Integration, Climate Anomalies and Famines during the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Keywords
Great Divergence; Famine; market integration; Tokugawa Japan; VAR; ECM;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I39 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Other
- N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East
- N35 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Asia including Middle East
- N45 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Asia including Middle East
- N75 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Asia including Middle East
- N95 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2019-04-01 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2019-04-01 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-SEA-2019-04-01 (South East Asia)
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