Portland State University
Department of Economics
Economics 448/548:
East Asian Economic Development (Fall 2016)
Course Time and Place: TTh 14:00 – 15:50 & Fourth Ave Building 46
Instructor: Hiro
Ito, Professor of Economics
Office: Cramer Hall 241-F
Email: ito@pdx.edu
Phone: x5 – 3930
Office Hours: TTh 13:00 – 14:00, or by appointment
There
is a required reading packet for
this course, that is available at Clean Copy, 1510 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR
97201 , (503) 221-1876.
We
will also use articles from Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). You will
receive an email from me that will show how to create an account with HBP. Once you
create an HBPaccount, you will have
access to the articles that are required for this course. Each article costs
about $4.
Other
lecture notes and copies of journals and newspaper/magazine articles are
occasionally distributed in class or posted on this website.
The HBP
articles are available from here.
The course syllabus is available here.
The information about the
presentation/term paper assignment is available here.
Lecture Notes
– Japan’s
experience 1: The Japan Model
– Japan’s
Experience 2: Bubble and Heisei Recession
– China’s
Economic Development
– China’s
Economic Development 2
– China’s
Economic Development 3
– Changes in
Industrial Structure
Important dates
October 27 (Thur.) First
take-home exam due
November 22 (Tues.) Second
take-home exam due
November 24 (Thurs.) Thanksgiving
November 29 (Tues.) Class
cancelled
December 8 (Tues.) Term
paper due (12pm)
Class schedule and
reading assignments
(“RP”
means the articles/papers can be found in the reading packet. “HBR”
means articles from Harvard Business
Review)
Week 1
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Introduction: Why
are we interested in East Asia? |
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Japan’s
experience |
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Flath, p.71 – 93
(RP) |
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Week 2 |
Japan’s
experience, continued |
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Ito
Ch.3
(RP), Mosk, Ch.11 & 12 (RP), Krugman,
“Japan’s Trap” (to be distributed) |
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Vietor, “Japan:
Deficits, Demography, and Deflation” (HBP) |
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Week
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Japan’s
experience, continued Korea,
Taiwan, and the East Asian model |
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Lau,
p. 17 – 126 (RP). |
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The Economist’s survey on Korea (10/26/2013) Alfaro and Kim,
“Transforming Korea Inc.: Financial Crisis and Institutional
Reform” (HBP) The
first take-home exam will become available on the course website |
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Week 4 |
Chinese Economic
Development |
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Chow, p. 9 – 67 (RP) |
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Week
5 |
Chinese
economic development |
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Chow, p. 9 – 86, p.281 – 319. Spar and Oi (2006) “China: Building ‘Capitalism with
Socialist Characteristics’” (HBP) |
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The Economist: Special report on the Chinese
economy, April 19, 2014 The first take-home exam will be due on October 29 (Thur.) |
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Week
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Chinese economic development, continued |
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Vietor, “China
Unbalanced” (HBP) |
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Week 7 |
East Asia and the Financial Crisis |
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Pill, et al.,
“Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-98” (HBP) Krugman,
“Asia’s Crash” (to be distributed) |
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Week
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Student
presentations November 19 Hugo Agusto Michael Burger |
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Week
9 |
Student
Presentations |
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The
Second take-home exam will be due on November 25 (Tues.) November 24 Handara Daniswara Gregory Glesener |
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Week 10 |
Student
Presentations December 1 Jeffrey Irvin Alan Webb |
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Term Paper Due at 2 pm on December
1 (Tuesday) |
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Updated on September 29, 2016