Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/206669 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series No. 37
Publisher: 
University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy (iep), Freiburg i. Br.
Abstract: 
This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British-driven institutional switch in part of China's customs stations in 1902, I find that counties that were more affected by the British customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and economic development.
Subjects: 
Institutions
Economic development
Treaty ports
Chinese Maritime Customs Service (CMCS)
China
JEL: 
N15
O10
P51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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