"Contains papers from the 13th annual East Asian Seminar on Economics, which took place on June 20-22 [2002], in Melbourne, Australia"--Intro.
Sponsored by the National Bureau of Economics Research ... [and others].
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ideas and Education: Level or Growth Effects and Their Implications for Australia -- 2. Australia's 1990's Productivity Surge and Its Determinants -- 3. Institutions, Volatility, and Crises -- 4. GATT/WTO Accession and Productivity -- 5. The Contribution of FDI Flows to Domestic Investment in Capacity, and Vice Versa -- 6. Sectoral Productivity and Economic Growth in Japan, 1970-98: An Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database -- 7. Foreign Ownership and Productivity in the Indonesian Automobile Industry: Evidence from Establishment Data for 1990-99 -- 8. Productivity Growth and R&D Expenditure in Taiwan's Manufacturing Firms -- 9. Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea: Evidence from Microdata -- 10. Information Technology and Firm Performance in Korea -- 11. How Important Is Discrete Adjustment in Aggregate Fluctuations? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index