Asia-Pacific Research Center

URL: http://aparc.stanford.edu/

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Working Papers

Title: The Next Epoch in Cloud Computing: Implications for Integrated Research and Innovation Strategy
Authors: Kenji E. Kushida, Jonathan Murray, Patrick Scaglia, John Zysman
Date: September 2014

Title: Countering Sanctions: The Unequal Geographic Impact of Economic Sanctions in North Korea
Authors: Yong Suk Lee
Date: September 2014

Title: Strategies and Public Propositions in Games of Institutional Change, Comparative Historical Cases
Authors: Masahiko Aoki
Date: June 2014

Title: Implementing Structural Reforms in Abenomics: How to Reduce the Cost of Doing Business in Japan
Authors: Jamal Ibrahim Haidar, Takeo Hoshi
Date: June 2014

Title: People with Disabilities in a Changing North Korea
Authors: Katharina Zellweger
Date: January 2014

Title: Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence from China's Essential Medications List Policy
Authors: Brian K. Chen
Date: September 2013

Title: Empirical Investigation of Declining Childbirth: Psychosocial and Economic Conditions in Japan
Authors: Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Chie Hanaoka, Seiritsu Ogura
Date: August 2013

Title: The Roles of Gender and Education on the Intrahousehold Allocations of Remittances of Filipino Migrant Workers
Authors: Marjorie Pajaron
Date: July 2013

Title: The Tenth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum
Date: June 2013

Title: Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Narrative, Analysis, and Recommendations
Authors: Kenji E. Kushida
Date: June 2013

Title: The North Korea Problem and the Necessity for South Korean Leadership
Date: March 2013

Title: Economic Research on Elderly Health and Implications for Analysis of Aging China
Authors: Jun Wang, Qiong Zhang, Ying Chen
Date: March 2013

Title: The Effects of Economic Transition on Mortality in Shanghai, China
Authors: Jiaying Zhao, Edward Jow-Ching Tu, Gui-Xiang Song, Adrian Sleigh
Date: February 2013

Title: Remittances, Informal Loans, and Assets as Risk-Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Agricultural Households in Rural Philippines
Authors: Marjorie C. Pajaron
Date: November 2012

Title: Prevention of Chronic Noncommunicable Disease in Mongolia: A Facility-Based Qualitative Study
Authors: N. Khuderchuluun
Date: October 2012

Title: The New Demographic Transition: Most Gains in Life Expectancy Now Realized Late in Life
Authors: Karen Eggleston, Victor R. Fuchs
Date: June 2012

Title: South Korea and the Global Economy in Transition
Authors: Gi-Wook Shin (ed.), Byongwon Bahk (ed.)
Date: April 2012

Title: Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Naval Area Medical Research Unit 2
Authors: Sophal Ear
Date: February 2012

Title: Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: Macro-Level Evidence from China between 1997 and 2008
Authors: Binzhen Wu, Qiong Zhang, Xue Qiao
Date: January 2012

Title: Health Care for 1.3 Billion: An Overview of China's Health System
Authors: Karen Eggleston
Date: January 2012

Title: Do Chinese Really Save Too Much? Aspects from Total Factor Productivity Growth in China since 1952
Authors: Chong-En Bai, Qiong Zhang
Date: December 2011

Title: Coordinations Under Large Uncertainty: An Analysis of the Fukushima Catastrophe
Authors: Masahiko Aoki, Geoffrey Rothwell
Date: October 2011

Title: The Changing Governance of Higher Education in India
Authors: Martin Carnoy, Rafiq Dossani
Date: July 2011

Title: Social Media in the Workplace
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: May 2011

Title: Recalibration of the Framingham Equations in the Thai Population
Authors: Panrasri Khonputsa, JL Veerman, M Bertram, S Yamwong, P Vathesatogkit, SS Lim, T Vos
Date: April 2011

Title: Prevention and Control of Chronic Non-communicable Disease in Nine Pacific Rim Cities
Authors: Meng Kin Lin, Karen Eggleston, Kun Chen
Date: December 2010

Title: The Imbalance between Patient Needs and the Limited Competence of Top-Level Health Providers in Urban China: An Empirical Study
Authors: Qunhong Shen, Liyang Tang, Yilin Feng, Jenny Tang
Date: November 2010

Title: The Effect of Coresidence with an Adult Child on Depressive Symptoms among Older Widowed Women in South Korea: An Instrumental Variable Estimation
Authors: Young Kyung Do
Date: November 2010

Title: Perverse Incentives in the Chinese Health System and Assessment of the April 2009 Reform
Authors: Meghan Bruce
Date: October 2010

Title: Patient Preferences, Concerns, and Satisfaction with Providers before the Chinese Urban Health System Reform: A Social Groups Analysis
Authors: Qunhong Shen, Liyang Tang
Date: September 2010

Title: Longevity, Capital Formation and Economic Development
Authors: Qiong Zhang
Date: July 2010

Title: Catastrophic Payments and Impoverishment Due to Out-of-Pocket Health Spending: The Effects of Recent Health Sector Reforms in India
Authors: Soumitra Ghosh
Date: July 2010

Title: Health Expenditures in Pakistan: Cross-Checking Household Expenditure Data on Health for NHA and Adjustment with National Accounts
Authors: Christian Lorenz
Date: June 2010

Title: Understanding the Expansion and Quality of Engineering Education in India (draft)
Authors: Martin Carnoy, Rafiq Dossani, Jandhyala Tilak
Date: May 2010

Title: Strict Liability for Medical Injuries? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior: Evidence from Taiwan
Authors: Brian Chen
Date: May 2010

Title: Principal-Agent Problems in Health Care: Evidence from Prescribing Patterns of Private Providers in Vietnam
Date: December 2009

Title: Pandemic Influenza and the Globalization of Public Health
Authors: Qiong Zhang, Karen Eggleston, Michele Barry
Date: November 2009

Title: Striking the Right Balance: Economic Concentration and Local Government Performance in Indonesia and the Philippines
Authors: Christian von Luebke
Date: October 2009

Title: The Emerging Role of Private Health Care Provision in China
Authors: Cunrui Huang, Haocai Liang, Cordia Chu, Shannon Rutherford, Qingshan Geng
Date: September 2009

Title: Out-of-pocket household health expenditures and their use in National Health Accounts: Evidence from Pakistan
Authors: Christian Lorenz
Date: August 2009

Title: Comparing Public and Private Hospitals in China: Evidence from Guangdong
Authors: Karen Eggleston, Mingshan Lu, Congdong Li, Jian Wang, Zhe Yang, Jing Zhang
Date: April 2009

Title: The healer or the druggist: Effects of two health care policies in Taiwan on elderly patients' choice between physician and pharmacist services
Authors: Kang-Hung Chang
Date: March 2009

Title: Soft budget constraints in China: Evidence from the Guangdong hospital industry
Authors: Karen Eggleston, Yu-Chu Shen, Mingshan Lu, Congdong Li, Jian Wang, Zhe Yang, Jing Zhang
Date: March 2009

Title: Does your health care depend on how your insurer pays providers? Variation in utilization and outcomes in Thailand
Authors: Sanita Hirunrassamee, Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin
Date: March 2009

Title: Allocation of control rights and cooperation efficiency in public-private partnerships: Theory and evidence from the Chinese pharmaceutical industry
Authors: Zhe Zhang, Ming Jia, Difang Wan
Date: March 2009

Title: Crisis and Consensus; America and ASEAN in a New Global Context
Authors: Donald K. Emmerson
Date: February 2009

Title: Aging Risk and Health Care Cost in Korea
Authors: Byong Ho Tchoe, Sang-Ho Nam
Date: February 2009

Title: The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Labor Market Outcomes in South Korea
Authors: Young Kyung Do
Date: December 2008

Title: Has the Use of Physician Gatekeepers Declined among HMOs? Evidence from the United States
Authors: Hai Fang, Hong Liu, John A. Rizzo
Date: December 2008

Title: Incentives in China's Healthcare Delivery System
Authors: Karen Eggleston
Date: October 2008

Title: The Political Economy of Successful Reform: Asian Stratagems
Authors: Dennis Arroyo
Date: June 2008

Title: Early-Stage Valuation in the Biotechnology Industry
Authors: Vinay Ranade
Date: February 2008

Title: Decision Factors Affecting Semiconductor Industry Location and the Regional Advantages of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Authors: Kyoko Ii
Date: January 2008

Title: Bound by a Hidden Agenda: The Birth and Consequences of the Bank of Japan's Quantitative Monetary Easing
Authors: Tetsufumi Arita
Date: July 2007

Title: Investing in China’s Rural Infrastructure and Environment
Authors: Scott Rozelle
Date: April 2007

Title: Information, Incentives and Institutions: Experimenting with Private-Public Partnerships to Link the Poor with Modern Supply Chains
Authors: Marcel Fafchamps, Jikun Huang, Bart Minten, Tom Reardon, Johan Swinnen
Date: March 2007

Title: When Dragons and Kangaroos Trade: China's Rapid Economic Growth and Its Implications for China and Australia
Authors: Jikun Huang, J. Yang
Date: February 2007

Title: Water User Associations and the Evolution and Determinants of Management Reform: A Representative Look at Northern China
Authors: Jikun Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang, Lijuan Zhang
Date: February 2007

Title: Program for the Study of Biofuels, Poverty and Food Security
Authors: Kenneth Cassman, Walter Falcon, Jikun Huang, Rosamond Naylor, Mark Rosengrant, David Victor
Date: February 2007

Title: Managing Pest Resistance in Fragmented Farms: An Analysis of the Risk of Bt Cotton in China and its Zero Refuge Strategy and Beyond
Authors: Jikun Huang, Fangbin Qiao, Jim Wilen
Date: February 2007

Title: Management Reform and the Choice of Contractual Form in China
Authors: Jikin Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Siwa Msangi, Jinxia Wang
Date: February 2007

Title: Irrigation Water Pricing Policy in China
Authors: Richard Howitt, Jikun Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang
Date: February 2007

Title: Why Did the Communist Party Reform in China, But Not in the Soviet Union? The Political Economy of Agricultural Transition
Authors: Johan Swinnen
Date: January 2007

Title: Water price policy analysis in China: an experimental approach
Authors: Jikun Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang, Jun Xia
Date: January 2007

Title: Vote of Confidence, A? Voting Protocol and Participation in China's Village Elections
Authors: Xiaopeng Pang
Date: January 2007

Title: Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrel Politics, Chinese-style
Authors: Jikun Huang, Renfru Luo, Linxiu Zhang
Date: January 2007

Title: The Role of Agriculture in China's Development: Past Failures, Present Successes and Future Challenges
Authors: Jikun Huang, Keijiro Otsuka
Date: January 2007

Title: Southeast Asian-Pacific Frameworks: What Do They Frame and What Work Do They Do?
Authors: Donald Emmerson
Date: October 2006

Title: Food Security in North Korea: Designing Realistic Possibilities
Authors: Randall Ireson
Date: February 2006

Title: Origins and Growth of the Software Industry in India
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: September 2005

Title: What Do the Blind-sided See? Reapproaching Regionalism in Southeast Asia
Authors: Donald K. Emmerson
Date: March 2005

Title: Indian Federalism and the Conduct of Foreign Policy in Border States: State Participation and Central Accommodation since 1990
Authors: Rafiq Dossani, Srinidhi Vijaykumar
Date: March 2005

Title: Democracy, History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea
Authors: Hyun Park
Date: January 2005

Title: Prospects Brighten for Long-term Peace in South Asia
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: November 2004

Title: Power Sector Reforms in India: Issues Relating to Agriculture
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: March 2004

Title: Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality?: Moving the Back Office to India
Authors: Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
Date: November 2003

Title: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Urban Dynamics in Chengdu, 1975–2002
Authors: Jianming Cai, Binyi Luo, Annemarie Schneider, Karen C. Seto, Douglas Webster
Date: October 2003

Title: Emerging Third Stage Peri–Urbanization: Functional Specialization in the Hangzhou Peri–Urban Region
Authors: Jianming Cai, Binyi Luo, Larisa Muller, Douglas Webster
Date: October 2003

Title: Tax Reforms for Enhancing the Stable Development of the Chinese Financial System
Authors: Lawrence J. Lau, Guijuan Wang
Date: September 2003

Title: Farmer's Willingness to Pay for Power in India
Authors: Rafiq Dossani, V. Ranganathan
Date: July 2003

Title: The Politics of China's Shareholding System
Authors: Mary Comerford Cooper
Date: June 2003

Title: Sociological Dimensions of China’s Economic Transition: Organization, Stratification, and Social Mobility
Authors: Andrew Walder
Date: April 2003

Title: Politics and Property in Transitional Economies: A Theory of Elite Opportunity
Authors: Andrew Walder
Date: April 2003

Title: Local Governments and the Chinese Stock Market
Authors: Mary Comerford Cooper
Date: April 2003

Title: International Organizations and Democratization: Testing the Effect of GATT/WTO Membership
Authors: Mary Comerford Cooper
Date: April 2003

Title: Addressing the North Korea Nuclear Challenge
Authors: Michael H. Armacost, Daniel I. Okimoto, Gi-Wook Shin
Date: April 2003

Title: The Paradox of Korean Globalization
Authors: Gi-Wook Shin
Date: January 2003

Title: Political Office, Kinship, and Household Wealth in Rural China
Authors: Andrew Walder, Litao Zhao
Date: December 2002

Title: From Keiretsu to Startups: Japan's Push for High Tech Entrepreneurship
Authors: Henry Rowen, A. Maria Toyoda
Date: October 2002

Title: The Growth of Broadband Internet Connections in South Korea: Contributing Factors
Authors: Heejin Lee, So-Hye Lim, Kyounglim Yun
Date: September 2002

Title: Inaugural Oksenberg Lecture: The United States and China: A President's Perspective. An address by Jimmy Carter
Authors: Jimmy Carter
Date: August 2002

Title: Privatization and Elite Mobility: Rural China, 1979-1996
Authors: Andrew Walder
Date: July 2002

Title: Foreign Penetration of Japan's Investment-Banking Market: Will Japan Experience the "Wimbledon Effect"?
Authors: Nicole Pole
Date: July 2002

Title: On the Edge: Shaping the Future of Peri-urban East Asia
Authors: Douglas Webster
Date: May 2002

Title: Challenges of Peri-urbanization in the Lower Yangtze region: The Case of the Hanzhou-Ningbo Corridor
Authors: Douglas Webster
Date: May 2002

Title: Chinese and Indian Engineers and their Networks in Silicon Valley
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: March 2002

Title: Cosmopolitan Cities and Nation States: Open Economics,Urban Dynamics, and Government in East Asia
Authors: Thomas P. Rohlen
Date: February 2002

Title: Creating an Environment: Developing Venture Capital in India
Authors: Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
Date: May 2001

Title: Foreign Direct Investment in New Electricity Generating Capacity in Developing Asia: Stakeholders, Risks, and the Search for a New Paradigm
Authors: Robert Thomas Crow
Date: January 2001

Title: Turning Points in the Korean Space-Economy: From the Developmental State to Intercity Competition, 1953-2000
Authors: Mike Douglass
Date: October 2000

Title: Political Change in Taiwan: Implications for American Policy An address by RICHARD BUSH and Roundtable Discussion on Taiwan's Historic 2000 Elections
Authors: Katsuhiro Nakagawa
Date: October 2000

Title: The Japanese Network State in U.S. Comparison: Does Embeddedness Yield Resources and Influence?
Authors: Jeffrey Broadbent
Date: July 2000

Title: Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: "One Country, Two Systems" in the Emerging Metropolitan Context
Authors: Thomas P. Rohlen
Date: July 2000

Title: Opening Up to the World: India's Pharmaceutical Companies Prepare for 2005
Authors: Sean Eric Smith
Date: May 2000

Title: Relating the U.S.-Korea and U.S.-Japan Alliances to Emerging Asia Pacific Multilateral Processes: An ASEAN Perspective
Authors: Pang Eng Fong, Chin Kin Wah
Date: March 2000

Title: The United States and the Republic of China, 1949-1978: Suspicious Allies
Authors: Steven M. Goldstein
Date: February 2000

Title: The Domestic Context of the Alliances: The Politics of Tokyo
Authors: Akihiko Tanaka
Date: January 2000

Title: Japanese Entrepreneurship: Can the Silicon Valley Model Be Applied to Japan?
Authors: Katsuhiro Nakagawa
Date: December 1999

Title: Assessing U.S. Bilateral Security Alliances in the Asia Pacific's "Southern Rim": Why the San Francisco System Endures
Authors: William T. Tow
Date: October 1999

Title: Accessing Venture Capital in India
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: October 1999

Title: Containment by Stealth: Chinese Views of and Policies toward America's Alliances with Japan and Korea after the Cold War
Authors: Yu Bin
Date: September 1999

Title: Crisis and Aftermath: The Prospects for Institutional Change in Japan
Authors: Rafiq Dossani
Date: August 1999

Title: Catch-Up; Why Poor Countries Are Becoming Richer, Democratic, Increasingly Peaceable, and Sometimes More Dangerous
Authors: Henry S. Rowen
Date: August 1999

Title: When Realism and Liberalism Coincide: Russian Views of U.S. Alliances in Asia
Authors: Andrew C. Kuchins, Alexei V. Zagorsky
Date: July 1999

Title: Nesting the Alliances in the Emerging Context of Asia-Pacific Multilateral Processes: A U.S. Perspective
Authors: Douglas Paal
Date: July 1999

Title: Changing Relations between Party, Military, and Government in North Korea and Their Impact on Policy Direction
Authors: Jinwook Choi
Date: July 1999

Title: Adjusting America's Two Alliances in East Asia: A Japanese View
Authors: Takashi Inoguchi
Date: July 1999

Title: China and the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Korea Alliances in a Changing Northeast Asia
Authors: Chu Shulong
Date: June 1999

Title: New Estimates of the United States - China Trade Balances
Authors: K.C. Fung, Lawrence J. Lau
Date: April 1999

Title: Seoul Domestic Policy and the Korean-American Alliance
Authors: B.C. Koh
Date: March 1999

Title: Japan-ROK Security Relations: An American Perspective
Authors: Michael J. Green
Date: March 1999

Title: The Korean-American Alliance and the "Rise of China": A Preliminary Assessment of Perceptual Changes and Strategic Choices
Authors: Jae Ho Chung
Date: February 1999

Title: Asian Alliances and American Politics
Authors: Michael H. Armacost
Date: February 1999

Title: Show of Force: The PLA and the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis
Authors: Andrew Scobell
Date: January 1999

Title: The Yen, the Yuan, and the Asian Currency Crisis Changing Fortune between Japan and China
Authors: C.H. Kwan
Date: December 1998

Title: Variation of Clinical Judgment in Cases of Hysterectomy in R.O.C, Japan, England, and the United States
Authors: Chang-Yao Hsieh, Michael McCullough, Naohiro Mitsutake, Yumiko Nishimura, Barry Uphoff, Annie Woo
Date: October 1998

Title: Japan's China Perceptions and its Policies in the Alliance with the United States
Authors: Hideo Sato
Date: September 1998

Title: The Origins and Evolution of the Korean-American Alliance: A Japanese Perspective
Authors: Koji Murata
Date: August 1998

Title: Chinese Military Modernization and Asian Security
Authors: Michael Swaine
Date: August 1998

Title: The Origins and Evolution of the Korean-American Alliance: A Korean Perspective
Authors: Byung-joon Ahn
Date: July 1998

Title: East Asian Urbanization: Patterns, Problems, and Prospects
Authors: Mike Douglass
Date: July 1998

Title: The Origins and Evolution of the Korean-American Alliance: An American Perspective
Authors: Nancy Tucker
Date: June 1998

Title: China's Post-Deng Military Leadership: New Faces, New Trends
Authors: David Shambaugh
Date: June 1998

Title: The Korean Currency Crisis: What Can We Learn From It?
Authors: Sang-Mok Suh
Date: May 1998

Title: Security and Economic Interdependence in Northeast Asia
Authors: Mike Mochizuki
Date: May 1998

Title: Japan's Dual Identity and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Authors: Yoshihide Soeya
Date: May 1998

Title: Against Us or with Us? The Chinese Perspective of America's Alliances with Japan and Korea
Authors: Jianwei Wang, Xinbo Wu
Date: May 1998

Title: Benefits and Burdens: The Politically Dominated Economics of U.S. Alliances with Japan and Korea
Authors: Charles Wolf, Michele Zanini
Date: April 1998

Title: The Costs and Benefits of Korean Unification
Authors: Li-gang Liu, Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson
Date: March 1998

Title: Integration on the Basis of Strength: China's Impact on East Asian Security
Authors: Wu Xinbo
Date: February 1998

Title: China's Accession to and Implementation of International Environmental Accords 1978 - 95
Authors: Elizabeth Economy, Michel Oksenberg
Date: February 1998

Title: The Japan-America Security Alliance: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Daniel Okimoto
Date: January 1998

Title: Energy and Security in East Asia
Authors: Michael May
Date: January 1998

Title: Asian-Pacific Security Issues in the Post-Deng Era
Authors: William Perry
Date: November 1997

Title: Asian Futures, Naval Futures: How Do They Intersect?
Authors: Richard Danzig
Date: November 1997

Title: The Great Game on the Korean Peninsula
Authors: James Lilley
Date: October 1997

Title: Japanese Colonialism in Korea: A Comparative Perspective
Authors: Bruce Cumings
Date: October 1997

Title: China and the U.S.-Japan Alliance at a Time of Strategic Change and Shifts in the Balance of Power
Authors: Banning Garrett, Bonnie Glaser
Date: October 1997

Title: Proliferation and the U.S. Alliances in Northeast Asia
Authors: Bates Gill
Date: September 1997

Title: Future Prospects for the U.S. Defense Budget and Their Implications for Our Asian Alliance Commitments
Authors: Andrew Krepinevich
Date: August 1997

Title: U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines: Toward a New Accommodation of Mutual Responsibility
Authors: Paul Giarra
Date: June 1997

Title: Sankin Kotai: Institutionalized Trust as the Foundation for Economic Development in the Tokugawa Era
Authors: Jennifer Amyx
Date: June 1997

Title: East Asia: Geopolitique into the Twenty-first Century-A Chinese View
Authors: Yu Bin
Date: June 1997

Title: Korea: The Achilles Heel of the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Authors: Ralph Cossa
Date: May 1997

Title: China's Foreign Economic Relations
Authors: K.C. Fung, Lawrence Lau
Date: May 1997

Title: The Syndrome of the Ever-Higher Yen, 1971-95: American Mercantile Pressure on Japanese Monetary Policy
Authors: Ronald; Ohno McKinnon
Date: December 1996

Title: The China-United States Bilateral Trade Balance: How Big Is It Really?
Authors: K.C. Fung, Lawrence Lau
Date: April 1996

Title: Managing U.S.-Relations with China
Authors: Chas Freeman
Date: April 1996

Title: A United States Policy for the Changing Realities of East Asia
Authors: Michael Armacost, Donald Emmerson, Daniel Okimoto, Michel Oksenberg, James Raphael, Thomas Rohlen, Henry Rowen
Date: January 1996

Title: East Asian Military Security Dynamics
Authors: Allen Whiting
Date: February 1995