APEBH Conference 2013

Thursday, 14 February 2013

13:30-15:00

Yu-Ping Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): ‘The world agricultural crisis and shipping in the Asia-Pacific region: Observations centered on British-Japanese maritime competition in the early 1930s’.

Vicente Angel S. Ybiernas  (De La Salle University, The Philippines):  ‘The politics and economics of recovery in colonial Philippines in the aftermath of World War I, 1918-1923’.

Tai-kuang Ho and Cheng-ching Lai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan):  ‘Silver lifeboat? The rise and fall of Chinese price level under fluctuating world silver price, 1928-34′.

Myung Soo and Young-Jun Cho (Seoul National University): ‘Trend in the Korean stature, 1547-1882’.

Stephen Morgan (University of Nottingham, UK): ‘Economic and political impact on nutritional status in early Qing China 1670-1760’.

Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University):  ‘Intergenerational effects of in-utero exposure to the 1980 Kwangju Uprising in South Korea’.

Les Oxley (University of Waikato): ‘Testing the predictive power of genuine savings as a long-run indicator of future well-being’.

Matthew C. Chang (Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan): ‘Weather effects, order submissions and order imbalances: New evidence from Taiwan during 2000- 2007’.

Mafiz Rahman (University of Southern Queensland): ‘Financial development, international trade and economic growth in Australia: New evidence from multivariate framework analysis’.

Alex Major (University of Sherbrooke, Canada):  ‘Education in the Paris of the East: The French mission to modify and modernise the identity of Shanghai’s Chinese elite’.

Sok Chul Hong (Sogang University, South Korea) and Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago, USA):  ‘Postbellum Decline of White School Enrollment in Southern US’.

Kitae Sohn (Kookmin University, South Korea) and Sun Go (Chung-Ang University, South Korea): ‘The school attendance of black children by paternal occupation, 1870–1930′

Sun Go and Kijoo Park (Chung-Ang University, South Korea): ‘The elite-biased growth of elementary schooling in colonial Korea.’

Sang Yun Ryu (LG Economic Research Institute, South Korea): ‘Coordination between colonial government and big business in 1920s and 1930s: A case of silk industry’.

Jae Won Sun  (Pyeongtaek University, South Korea): ‘Training policy and building human resource in the second half of 1940s and 1950s.’

Sang Cheol Lee (Sungkonghoe University, South Korea): ‘Economic bureaucrats in 1950s and early 1960s’

Junko Watanabe (Kyoto University, Japan): ‘Coordination between government and business in prewar and postwar Japan: A case of textile industry’.

Leslie Hannah (London School of Economics, UK, and University of Tokyo, Japan): ‘Corporations before 1914: Asia-Pacific in western mirrors.’

Dong-Woon Kim (Dong-Eui University, South Korea): ‘J. & P. Coats in Asia before 1945’.

Hua Qian (City University of Hong Kong): ‘Business and politics: The China Association, 1914-1931.’

Pierre van der Eng (Australian National University): ‘Limits of FDI legitimacy, national embeddedness and political influence: Philips in Australia, 1945-1980’.

Friday, 15 February 2013

9:00-10:30

C. Edoardo Altamura (University of Geneva, Switzerland): ‘The business of debt: A political and economic history of the recycling of petrodollars in the 1970s’.

Hideto Matsubara (Hitotsubashi University, Japan): ‘Crisis of industry and leadership in high-performing organizations: The case of the Japanese orange industry, 1968-1989’.

Raul Fabella (University of The Philippines) and Vigile Marie B. Fabella (Konstanz University, Germany): ‘Will inflation in the post-crisis era impede poverty reduction in developing countries? Lessons from the recent history’.

Kentaro Saito ( Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan): ‘Migration and labour market integration, British engineers 1865-1914’.

Woong Lee (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, South Korea): ‘Structural change in the job matching process before the Great Contraction in the United States, 1924-1932’.

Phacharaphorn Phanomvan Na Ayudhya (Chulachomklao Military Academy, Thailand): ‘19th century early Rattanakosin construction and gold price index based on Chodmaihet Wat Phra Cetupol (Cetupol Temple Accounts)’.

Myung Soo Cha (Yeungnam University, South Korea): ‘State famine relief as a cause of the Great Divergence’.

Jessica Vechbanyongratana (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand): ‘Ordinary landholder living standards in early-twentieth century Siam’.

Rajabrata Banerjee and Martin Shanahan (University of South Australia, Australia): ‘Why did living standards slow in Australia between 1890-1940? Agriculture’s role in affecting long term total factor productivity’.

Janette Rutterford (Open University, UK) and Leslie Hannah  (London School of Economics, UK): ‘The twentieth century “democratic” ownership revolution: Anglo-American trajectories’.

Yitaek Park (Korea University, South Korea): ‘Corporate accounting control and corporate governance structure in wartime Japan’.

Raul Fabella (University of The Philippines): ‘Wipeout: Sangley mercantile dominance and persistence in the Spanish colonial period in The Philippines’.

Mi Park (University of British Columbia, Canada): ‘From the Indonesian uprising of 1998 to the Spanish indignado of 2011: A comparative analysis of anti-austerity movements in Asia and Europe’.

Oh Min Kyoung and K. Thirumaran (James Cook University, Singapore):  ‘Socio-economic origins of Kangwonland in South Korea and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.’

Hua Jin (Hitotsubashi University, Japan):  ‘Crisis in industrial creation and recovery by actors outside of the markets: The case of entrepreneurial universities in China, 1980s-2000s’.

Hun-Chang Lee (Korea University, South Korea): ‘Welfare policy of Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) in the Malthusian age’.

Shunsuke Nakaoka (Kokushikan University, Japan): ‘Wealthy elite in modern Japan the period of the series of economic crisis from the perspective of changes in their income structure: The case of the Kanto region in 1930s’.

Nak Nyeon Kim and Jongil Kim (Dongguk University, South Korea): ‘Income inequality in Korea, 1933-2010: Evidence from income tax statistics’.

Sumner Lacroix (Univ of Hawaii-Manoa, USA): ‘Property rights in land, and the extent of settlement in Dutch South Africa, 1652-1770.’

Se Yan (Peking University, China): ‘The long-term effects of Christian activities in China.’

Dongwoo Yoo (West Virginia University, USA): ‘Decolonization policies and institutions in Africa: A comparative historical approach.’

Tetsuji Okazaki (University of Tokyo, Japan): ‘Productivity change and mine dynamics: The coal industry in Japan during World War II’.

Tom French (Ritsumeikan Univ, Japan): ‘From the Allied landings to the landcruiser: Jeeps and the postwar revival of the Japanese automotive industry’.

Jock Given (Swinburne University, Australia): ‘Indian PacificL An analysis of the COMPAC, SEACOM and IOCOM submarine telephone cables’.

Kent Deng (London School of Economics, UK): ‘How the market saved the ruling party in mainland China after the Maoist economic crisis, 1978-2008’.

Kaviyarasu Elangkovan (Putra Malaysia University, Malaysia): ‘People’s perspective: Minimum wage laws in Malaysia’.

15:30–17:00

Introduction and moderator: Martin Shanahan, President of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand

Keynote Noel Butlin Lecture by Professor Young Hoon Rhee (Seoul National University, South Korea).

Saturday, 16 February 2013

9:00–10:30

Christopher Westley (Jacksonville State University, USA): ‘Luck, human agency, and micro institutions in colonial Brazil’

Neil Barnwell (University of Technology Sydney, Australia): ‘The influence of small size remoteness upon business development.’

Erhan Atay and Gokhan Karsan (Suleyman Sah University, Turkey): ‘A comparative analysis of Turkish and Korean political economy: Economic crisis perspective’.

Miriam Kaminishi (National University of Singapore): ‘The Japanese financial institutions in Manchuria: from economic expansion to chronic recession during the 1920s’.

Ji-Yong Lee (Brittany Business School, France): ‘Crisis and financial institutions in transition’.

Dashjamts Bayarmaa (Kyushu University, Japan): ‘Natural resources, institutions and economic growth: The curse that turned to be a lifesaving buoy in transition economies’.

Raj Banerjee and John Wilson (University of South Australia, Australia): ‘Education and productivity in Victoria, 1860-1939’.

Nicolas Zammit (University of Warwick, UK): ‘Expectations reconsidered: A sectoral comparison of Canadian-Australian productivity, 1871-2008’.

Chaisung Lim (Seoul National University, South Korea): ‘The relative total factor productivity and profit rate estimates of East Asian railways in the first half of the 20^th Century: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Manchuria’.

Jonathan Eli A. Libut (Univ of Santo Tomas, The Philippines): ‘The dynamics of labor migration in the continuing course for economic development of the Philippines’.

Rusmawati Said and Kar Yee Ng (Putra Malaysia University, Malaysia): ‘Labour standards and export performance in ASEAN-5’.

Duol Kim (Korea Development Institute, South Korea): ‘Foreign aid and Korean economic development: A global perspective’.

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