INDUSTRIAL POLICY: CHINESE DEBATE TO TAIWANESE FOUNDRIES

An-Chi Tung () and Henry Wan
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An-Chi Tung: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Henry Wan: Department of Economics, Cornell University, New York, USA

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2019, vol. 64, issue 05, 1057-1080

Abstract: This study explores Chinese realities of industrial policy. These facts attract global interest. They also caused China’s Debate of the Century between prominent Chinese economists, Justin Lin and Weiying Zhang. After commenting on this exchange with evidential assessments, three questions are explored for technology-followers: (A) Can industrial policy against market failure also minimize government failure? (B) Can catching-up create win–win outcome by complementarity, rather than substitution? (C) Can leapfrogging trigger global innovation by co-evolution? TSMC from Taiwan suggests affirmative answers for all these three. Although its game-theory basis appears challenging for replication, exceptions may prove rules for further studies.

Keywords: Industrial policy; China; India; special economic zones; semiconductor foundries; TSMC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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