John Tang

The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply, Market Access, and Structural Transformation in Pre-War Japan

S Basco, JP Tang

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Economic History

While credit supply growth is associated with exacerbating financial crises, its impact on long-run growth is unclear. Market acce..

THE LESSONS FROM PAST PANDEMICS

John Tang

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

From the bubonic plague to the Spanish flu, pandemics are not new, but the modern world brings with it amazing advancements and pa..

Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. By Maren A. Ehlers. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Pp xiv, 351. $49.95, hardcover.

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Journal of Economic History

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. By Steven Pinker. London: Allen Lane, 2018. Pp. xvii, 556. £25, hardcover.

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Journal of Economic History

Upstart industrialization and exports: Evidence from Japan, 1880-1910

CM Meissner, JP Tang

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Journal of Economic History

Between 1880 and 1910, Japanese exports increased in volume, changed composition, and shifted from leading industrialized countrie..

Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843-1893

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Journal of Economic History

The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply and Economic Growth in Pre-War Japan

Sergi Basco, John Tang

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY

THE ENGINE AND THE REAPER: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND MORTALITY IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY JAPAN

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Health Economics

Economic development improves long-run health outcomes through access to medical treatment, sanitation, and higher income. Short r..

Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form in Late Nineteenth Century Japan

Kazuki Onji, John P Tang

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Journal of Economic History

How do changes to taxation policy affect the organizational choices of firms? Using historical firm data constructed from Japanese..

A TALE OF TWO SICS: JAPANESE AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2016  |  Australian Economic History Review

The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan.

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2016  |  Business History Review

Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2016  |  Economic Record

Pollution havens and the trade in toxic chemicals: Evidence from US trade flows

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2015  |  Ecological Economics

Railroad Expansion and Industrialization: Evidence from Meiji Japan

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Journal of Economic History

Financial intermediation and late development in Meiji Japan, 1868 to 1912

J Tang

Journal article  |  2013  |  Financial History Review

Was nineteenth-century Japan an example of finance-led growth? Using a new panel data set of firms from the Meiji period (1868–191..

Technological leadership and late development: evidence from Meiji Japan, 1868-1912

John P Tang

Journal article  |  2011  |  The Economic History Review

What Kind of Job is Safer? A Note on Occupational Vulnerability

Ashok Bardhan, John Tang

Journal article  |  2010  |  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy

The yellow non-pareil: Industrialization and the making of modern Japan

JP Tang

Journal article  |  2009  |  The Journal of Economic History

Leading by nature or design? Zaibatsu and industrialization in Meiji, Japan

John Tang

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY