Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2009

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Volume 37, issue 2, 2009

Remarks at the celebration for Padma Desai, Columbia Rotunda, Low Library, Columbia University, New York City, NY pp. 196-197

Dale W. Jorgenson

Sustaining Russia's growth: The role of financial reform pp. 198-206

Erik Berglof and Alexander Lehmann

Simplified methods and efficiency: Stalin's terror managers pp. 207-216

Paul Gregory

Aid with multiple personalities pp. 217-229

Simeon Djankov, Jose G. Montalvo and Reynal-Querol, Marta

Do judiciaries matter for development? Evidence from India pp. 230-250

Matthieu Chemin

Does democracy foster trust? pp. 251-269

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

Entrepreneurs' gender and financial constraints: Evidence from international data pp. 270-286

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera and Dorothea Schäfer

Labor restructuring in China: Toward a functioning labor market pp. 287-305

Xiao-yuan Dong and Lixin Colin Xu

Share issuing privatizations in China: Sequencing and its effects on public share allocation and underpricing pp. 306-320

Nancy Huyghebaert and Qi Quan

The bank lending channel and monetary transmission in Central and Eastern European countries pp. 321-334

Roman Matousek and Nicholas Sarantis

Volume 37, issue 1, 2009

Employment laws in developing countries pp. 3-13

Simeon Djankov and Rita Ramalho

Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 14-27

Abhijit Banerjee, Marianne Bertrand, Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan

Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size pp. 28-46

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

Labor regulation and employment in India's retail stores pp. 47-61

Mohammad Amin

Are all labor regulations equal? Evidence from Indian manufacturing pp. 62-75

Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages

The unemployment effects of labor regulation around the world pp. 76-90

Horst Feldmann

Job creation and labor reform in Latin America pp. 91-105

David Scott Kaplan

Unbundled institutions, human capital and growth pp. 106-120

Sambit Bhattacharyya

Growth and governance: A nonparametric analysis pp. 121-143

Kim P. Huynh and David Tomás Jacho-Chávez

Exit polls: Refugee assessments of North Korea's transition pp. 144-150

Yoonok Chang, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland

Challenging, complementing or assuming [`]the Mandate of Heaven'? Political distrust and the rise of self-governing social organizations in rural China pp. 151-168

Pesqué-Cela, Vanesa, Ran Tao, Yongdong Liu and Laixiang Sun

The impact of political leaders' profession and education on reforms pp. 169-193

Axel Dreher, Michael Lamla, Sarah Marit Lein and Frank Somogyi

Volume 36, issue 4, 2008

The slow decline of East Germany pp. 517-541

Harald Uhlig

Escaping the unemployment trap: The case of East Germany pp. 542-556

Christian P. Merkl and Dennis Snower

What kind of shock was it? Regional integration and structural change in Germany after unification pp. 557-567

Michael Christopher Burda

Business environment and enterprise behaviour in East Germany compared to West Germany and Central Europe pp. 568-583

Libor Krkoska and Katrin Robeck

Are private transfers poverty and inequality reducing? Household level evidence from Bulgaria pp. 584-598

Ralitza Dimova Dimova and François-Charles Wolff

Emerging ethnic wage gap: Estonia during political and economic transition pp. 599-619

Leping, Kristian-Olari and Ott Toomet

The real exchange rate of the dollar for a panel of OECD countries: Balassa-Samuelson or distribution sector effect? pp. 620-632

Mariam Camarero

Could financial distortions be no impediment to economic growth after all? Evidence from China pp. 633-657

Alessandra Guariglia and Sandra Poncet

Technology diversity and development: Evidence from China's industrial enterprises pp. 658-672

Fisher-Vanden, Karen and Gary H. Jefferson

Does stock market liberalization spur financial and economic development in the MENA region? pp. 673-693

Sami Ben Naceur, Samir Ghazouani and Mohammed Omran

The effect of patent laws on invention rates: Evidence from cross-country panels pp. 694-704

Qiang Chen

Volume 36, issue 3, 2008

Public governance and corporate finance: Evidence from corruption cases pp. 343-364

Joseph P.H. Fan, Oliver Meng Rui and Mengxin Zhao

Economic and social factors driving the third wave of democratization pp. 365-387

Elias Papaioannou and Gregorios Siourounis

Why separate monetary policy from banking supervision? pp. 388-411

Raphael Franck and Miriam Krausz

Economic institutions and FDI location choice: Evidence from US multinationals in China pp. 412-429

Julan Du, Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Entry of foreign banks and their impact on host countries pp. 430-452

Maria Lehner and Monika Schnitzer

Beyond borders--Reconsidering regional trade in Central Asia pp. 453-466

Clemens Grafe, Martin Raiser and Toshiaki Sakatsume

The social costs of bank market power: Evidence from Mexico pp. 467-488

Liliana Solís and Joaquin Maudos

Privatization of real options pp. 489-497

Enrico Pennings

Ownership, business environment and productivity change pp. 498-509

Gabriel Asaftei, Subal C. Kumbhakar and Dorin Mantescu

Culture rules: A note on economic systems and values pp. 510-515

Frederic L. Pryor

Volume 36, issue 2, 2008

International trade, security and transnational terrorism: Theory and a survey of empirics pp. 179-194

Daniel Mirza and Thierry A. Verdier

Governance regimes, corruption and growth: Theory and evidence pp. 195-220

Toke S Aidt, Jayasri Dutta and Vania Sena

On the relationship between fiscal plans in the European Union: An empirical analysis based on real-time data pp. 221-242

Massimo Giuliodori and Roel Maria Wilhelmus Jozef Beetsma

Glass ceiling or sticky floor? Examining the gender earnings differential across the earnings distribution in urban China, 1987-2004 pp. 243-263

Wei Chi and Bo Li

Mind the gap! Social capital, East and West pp. 264-286

Jan Fidrmuc and Klarita Gërxhani

Measuring underground (unobserved, non-observed, unrecorded) economies in transition countries: Can we trust GDP? pp. 287-306

Edgar L .Feige and Ivica Urban

EU eastern enlargement and foreign investment: Implications from a neoclassical growth model pp. 307-325

Kateryna Garmel, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

Spatial competition in a mixed duopoly with one partially nationalized firm pp. 326-341

Ashutosh Kumar and Bibhas Saha

Volume 36, issue 1, 2008

Assessing pacification policy in Iraq: Evidence from Iraqi financial markets pp. 1-16

Eric Chaney

Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence pp. 17-42

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Yegor Grygorenko

The levers of legal design: Institutional determinants of the quality of law pp. 43-73

Gillian K. Hadfield

Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does government ownership always reduce corporate value? pp. 74-89

Lihui George Tian and Saul Estrin

Policy burden, privatization and soft budget constraint pp. 90-102

Justin Yifu Lin and Zhiyun Li

Social rights in the constitution and in practice pp. 103-119

Ben-Bassat, Avi and Momi Dahan

Optimal monetary policy with Balassa-Samuelson-type productivity shocks pp. 120-141

Igor Masten

The EU's attitude towards Eastern Enlargement in space pp. 142-156

Peter H. Egger, Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr and Janette Walde

Regional-local dimension of Russia's fiscal equalization pp. 157-176

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev