Portland State University
Department of Economics
Economics 448/548:
East Asian Economic Development (Fall 2016)
The second take-home midterm exam is available here
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
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Japan’s experience 1: The
Japan Model
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Japan’s Experience 2: Bubble
and Heisei Recession
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China’s Economic Development
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China’s Economic Development 2
–
TPP and 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 (Thurs.) 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)
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Week4 |
Articles
distributed in class |
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“Liquidity
trap,“ Ito (2008). In
eds. K. Reinert and R. Rajan The Princeton Encyclopedia of
the World Economy, Princeton University Press. Other articles: Ito Ch.3, Krugman, “Japan’s Trap”) The Economist’s survey on Korea (10/26/2013) |
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Week
5 |
The
East Asian model |
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Chinese Economic
Development |
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Chow, p. 9
– 67 (RP) |
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The
first take-home exam will be due on October 27 (Thur.) |
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Week 6 |
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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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Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership |
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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”(Read the
second half) |
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The Second take-home exam will be due on November 22
(Tues.) |
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Chinese economy and the world The Economist: Special report on the Chinese
economy, April 19, 2014 |
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The Economist: Special report on the Chinese society,
July 9, 2016 |
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Vietor, “China
Unbalanced” (HBP) |
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Student
Presentation: Nov. 10 Alayna Ynacay-Nye:
"Japanese Agricultural Policies: Sustainable Fisheries Management" |
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Week
8 |
Student
Presentations: Nov. 15 |
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Peter
Miller: "The Demographic
Transition and Economic Development in Korea" Mirian Colman:
"Chinese Puerh Tea Industry and the
Government" Volodymyr Kolychev: "A Tale of Two Countries: North and South
Korean Economic Development" |
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Student
Presentations: Nov. 17 |
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Jarek
Hunger: "Energy Policy of
China" Robert Enakiyev:
"Story behind Korea and Samsung" Braxton Tucker: "Aging
Population Issue in Japan, Asia, and China" |
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Week
9 |
Student
Presentations: Nov. 22 Michael
Pfaff-Shamlmiyev: "Japan and India’s Nuclear Cooperation Pact" Omar Hejazi: "Indonesia and
Corruption" Paul Hampshire: "The Rise of
Samsung" November 24:
Thanksgiving!! |
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Week
10 |
Class
cancelled on Nov. 29 December
1: Prof. John Gallup’s lecture on the Vietnamese economy |
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Updated on November 10, 2016