Masahiko Aoki

Stanford University

Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow

E314 Encina Hall

Stanford, CA 94305-6015

United States

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The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan

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The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2012
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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development phases, institutional evolution, agrarian origin, Chinese economy, middle income trap, post demographic transition, East Asia, norm

The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan

ADBI Working Paper No. 340
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2012
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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development phases, institutional evolution, agrarian origin, PRC economy, middle income trap, post demographic transition, East Asia, norm

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Endogenizing Institutions and Their Changes

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jul 2006
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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institution, institutional change, common knowledge, institutional complementarities, embededdness

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A Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Lessons and Policy Implications

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2012
Masahiko Aoki and Geoffrey Rothwell
Stanford University and OECD
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horizontal coordination, modularity, nuclear power, integrated regional monopoly, electricity regulation, safety regulation, public ownership

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Between Game Theory and Institutional Studies: The Dual-Dualities of the Institutional Process

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jun 2010
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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institutions, epistemic game, potential game, dual-dualities, common knowledge, public representation

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Whither Japan's Corporate Governance

Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 29
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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corporate governance, institutional change, Japanese economy, contingent governance, stock market monitoring

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Understanding an Emergent Diversity of Corporate Governance and Organizational Architecture: Essentiality-Based Analysis

Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 38
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Masahiko Aoki and Gregory Jackson
Stanford University and Freie Universität Berlin
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Corporate governance, essentiality, human assets, institutional change, organizational architecture, path dependence

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'Individual' Social Capital, 'Social' Networks, and Their Linkages to Economic Game

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2010
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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social norm, social capital, linked games, corporate social responsibility (CSR)

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Understanding Douglss North in Game-Theoretic Language

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 14 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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Institution-Belief co-evolution, institution, belief, culture, North

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Institutions as Cognitive Media between Strategic Interactions and Individual Beliefs

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2010
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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Institutions, institutional change, culture, cognition, epistemic games, common knowledge

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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development: China, Japan and Korea Compared

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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development: China, Japan and Korea Compared

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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China, Japan, Korea, institutions, institutional change, political state, norms

Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development: China, Japan, and Korea Compared

ADBI Working Paper No. 397
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Dec 2012
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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China, Japan, institutional complementarity, institutional change, capitalism, varieties of norms, political economy

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The Evolution of Organizational Conventions and Gains from Diversity

Stanford University Economics Working Paper No. 97-032
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Jul 1998
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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Political-Economic Transitions from Pre-Modern to Modern States in the Meiji Restoration and Xinhai Revolution: A Strategic Approach

ADBI Working Paper 486
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2015
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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endogenous institutional change, institutional complementarity, Chinese economy, Meiji Restoration, tax state, peasant-based economy, political violence, super modular analysis, 3 person game

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Strategies and Public Propositions in Games of Institutional Change: Theory and Comparative Historical Cases

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 04 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2014
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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comparative institutions, institutional change, unified approach to institutions, History of Chinese and Japanese political economies

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Coordination Under Uncertain Conditions: An Analysis of the Fukushima Catastrophe

ADBI Working Paper 316
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Oct 2011
Masahiko Aoki and Geoffrey Rothwell
Stanford University and OECD
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Fukushima catastrophe, nuclear power, earthquake and tsunami

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Shapley-Value Parables of Corporations as Evolutive Systems of Associational Cognition

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2012
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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Comparative corporate governance, fairness norm, associational (distributed) cognition, asset essentiality, potential game, Shapley value, Nash bargaining, modularity

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Formal Rules in Institutional Transitions: An Examination Based on the Meiji Restoration and Xinhai Revolution

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Mar 2014
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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formal rule, endogenous institutional change, institutional complementarity, Meiji Restoration, Xinhai Revolution

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A Three-Person Game of Institutional Resilience versus Transition: A Model and Its Application to China-Japan Comparative History

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Masahiko Aoki
Stanford University
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3-person game, super-modular game, endogenous institutional change, state capacity, regime change, multiple equilibria, strategic complementarities, Chinese economic history, Japanese economic history

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Understanding an Emergent Diversity of Corporate Governance and Organizational Architecture: An Essentiality-Based Analysis

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 1-27, 2008
Posted: 22 Jun 2008
Masahiko Aoki and Gregory Jackson
Stanford University and Freie Universität Berlin

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