Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2007

Edited by D. Berkowitz and G. Roland

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Volume 35, issue 4, 2007

Culture rules: The foundations of the rule of law and other norms of governance pp. 659-688

Amir N. Licht, Chanan Goldschmidt and Shalom H. Schwartz

Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse pp. 689-710

Peter T. Leeson

Measuring legal systems pp. 711-728

Howard Rosenthal and Erik Voeten

Pitfalls to avoid when measuring institutions: Is Doing Business damaging business? pp. 729-747

Benito Arruñada

Finance and inequality: Channels and evidence pp. 748-773

Stijn Claessens and Enrico Perotti

How does FDI affect China? Evidence from industries and provinces pp. 774-799

Jimmy Ran, Jan P. Voon and Guangzhong Li

Volume 35, issue 3, 2007

Corruption around the world: Evidence from a structural model pp. 443-466

Axel Dreher, Christos Kotsogiannis and Steve McCorriston

Does democracy increase crime? The evidence from international data pp. 467-483

Lin, Ming-Jen

When do creditor rights work? pp. 484-508

Mehnaz Safavian and Siddharth Sharma

Foreign direct investment and macroeconomic risk pp. 509-519

Yothin Jinjarak

Allocating lawmaking powers: Self-regulation vs government regulation pp. 520-545

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Political labor market, government policy, and stability of a non-democratic regime pp. 546-563

Valery Lazarev

Assessing the economic performance of North Korea, 1954-1989: Estimates and growth accounting analysis pp. 564-582

Byung-Yeon Kim, Suk Jin Kim and Keun Lee

Elections, fiscal reform and public goods provision in rural China pp. 583-611

Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Self-selection and wages during volatile transition pp. 612-629

Ralitza Dimova Dimova and Ira Gang

Bank supervision Russian style: Evidence of conflicts between micro- and macro-prudential concerns pp. 630-657

Sophie Angelique Claeys and Koen Schoors

Volume 35, issue 2, 2007

Introduction: Courts and Judges pp. 253-(null)

Pablo T. Spiller

Are Russian commercial courts biased? Evidence from a bankruptcy law transplant pp. 254-277

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Konstantin Sonin and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Legal origin? pp. 278-293

Daniel Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney

Juries and the political economy of legal origin pp. 294-308

Mark J. Roe

Overruling and the instability of law pp. 309-328

Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

Political uncertainty's effect on judicial recruitment and retention: Japan in the 1990s pp. 329-345

John Mark Ramseyer and Eric Rasmusen

Employment policy and corporate governance-- An empirical comparison of the stakeholder and the profit-maximization model pp. 346-368

Naohito Abe and Satoshi Shimizutani

Foreign direct investment in European transition economies--The role of policies pp. 369-386

Dimitri G. Demekas, Balazs Horvath, Elina Ribakova and Yi Wu

Central bank interventions, communication and interest rate policy in emerging European economies pp. 387-413

Balázs Égert

Corporate governance and investment in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 414-437

Dennis C. Mueller and Evgeni Peev

The "Montias case," 1964: Excerpt from Janos Kornai's book By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey pp. 438-442

János Kornai

Volume 35, issue 1, 2007

Editorial Statement from Daniel Berkowitz and Gerard Roland pp. 1-2

Daniel Berkowitz and Gérard Roland

Privatization and output behavior during the transition: Methods matter! pp. 3-34

Fabian Gouret

Inequality and growth: What does the transition economy data say? pp. 35-56

Grigor Sukiassyan

Modeling transformation in CEECs using smooth transitions pp. 57-86

Neil Foster and Robert Stehrer

Long-run real exchange rate determinants: Evidence from eight new EU member states, 1993-2003 pp. 87-107

Bertrand Candelon, Clemens Kool, Katharina Raabe and Tom van Veen

The soft budget constraint of banks pp. 108-135

Julan Du and David D. Li

Tax morale and conditional cooperation pp. 136-159

Bruno S. Frey and Benno Torgler

Intrinsic motivation in open source software development pp. 160-169

Jürgen Bitzer, Wolfram Schrettl and Philipp J.H. Schröder

When do female occupations pay more? pp. 170-187

Stepan Jurajda and Heike Harmgart

Exchange and interest rate channels during a deflationary era--Evidence from Japan, Hong Kong and China pp. 188-210

Aaron Nikolai Mehrotra

Economic growth in the presence of FDI: The perspective of newly industrialising economies pp. 211-234

Shujie Yao and Kailei Wei

The effects of bonus systems on firm performance in Taiwan's high-tech sector pp. 235-249

Han, Tzu-Shian and Shen, Chung-Hua

Appreciation pp. 250-252

John P. Bonin

Volume 34, issue 4, 2006

Rising inequality in China pp. 651-653

Guanghua Wan and Xiaobo Zhang

The inequality-growth nexus in the short and long run: Empirical evidence from China pp. 654-667

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

Income, income inequality, and health: Evidence from China pp. 668-693

Hongbin Li and Yi Zhu

The impact of growth and inequality on rural poverty in China pp. 694-712

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

Fiscal decentralization and political centralization in China: Implications for growth and inequality pp. 713-726

Xiaobo Zhang

Exchange rate volatility and regime change: A Visegrad comparison pp. 727-753

Evzen Kocenda and Juraj Valachy

Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo pp. 754-773

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

Foreign bank participation and access to credit across firms in developing countries pp. 774-795

George Clarke, Robert Cull and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

CEO turnover, firm performance, and enterprise reform in China: Evidence from micro data pp. 796-817

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

Industrial development in the inland region of China: A case study of the motorcycle industry pp. 818-838

Tetsushi Sonobe, Dinghuan Hu and Keijiro Otsuka

Corruption and cross-border investment by multinational firms pp. 839-856

Shih-Ying Wu

Volume 34, issue 3, 2006

Reforms and growth in transition: Re-examining the evidence pp. 421-445

Elisabetta Falcetti, Tatiana Lysenko and Peter Sanfey

Political constraints and economic reform: Empirical evidence from the post-communist transition in the 1990s pp. 446-466

Byung-Yeon Kim and Jukka Pirttilä

Exchange rate regimes in Central and East European countries: Deeds vs. words pp. 467-483

Michael Frömmel and Franziska Schobert

Choice of exchange rate regime in transition economies: An empirical analysis pp. 484-498

Agnieszka Markiewicz

Towards the estimation of equilibrium exchange rates for transition economies: Methodological issues and a panel cointegration perspective pp. 499-517

Maeso-Fernandez, Francisco, Chiara Osbat and Bernd Schnatz

Meta-analysis of the business cycle correlation between the euro area and the CEECs pp. 518-537

Jarko Fidrmuc and Iikka Korhonen

How synchronized are new EU member states with the euro area? Evidence from a structural factor model pp. 538-563

Sandra Eickmeier and Jorg Breitung

Fighting inflation in a dollarized economy: The case of Vietnam pp. 564-581

Michael Goujon

Reemployment of dislocated workers in urban China: The roles of information and incentives pp. 582-607

John Giles, Albert Park and Fang Cai

Privatization and firm performance: A comparison between rural and urban enterprises in China pp. 608-633

Dong, Xiao-yuan, Louis Putterman and Bulent Unel

A semi-parametric partially linear investigation of the Kuznets' hypothesis pp. 634-647

Lin, Shu-Chin, (River) Huang, Ho-Chuan and Weng, Hsiao-Wen

Volume 34, issue 2, 2006

The Ukrainian labor market in transition: Evidence from a new panel data set pp. 195-199

Hartmut Lehmann and Katherine Terell

Institutions, markets and men's and women's wage inequality: Evidence from Ukraine pp. 200-227

Ina Ganguli and Katherine Terell

Determinants of unemployment duration in Ukraine pp. 228-247

Olga Kupets

The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market pp. 248-271

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti and Jonathan Wadsworth

Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine pp. 272-294

J. David Brown, John Earle and Volodymyr Vakhitov

Entry, exit, and the business cycle: Are cooperatives different? pp. 295-316

Virginie Perotin

Resolutions, recoveries and relationships: The evolution of payment disputes in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 317-337

William Pyle

Entrepreneurship and the evolution of income distributions in Poland and Russia pp. 338-356

Daniel Berkowitz and John E. Jackson

An investigation into the sources of fluctuation in real and nominal wage rates in eight EU countries: A structural VAR approach pp. 357-376

Tomoe Moore and Eric Pentecost

Supporting inefficient firms with capital subsidies: China and Germany in the 1990s pp. 377-401

Sebastian Claro

The saving-investment relationship revisited: New evidence from multivariate heterogeneous panel cointegration analyses pp. 402-419

Avik Chakrabarti

Volume 34, issue 1, 2006

Financial structure and monetary policy transmission in transition countries pp. 1-23

Adam Elbourne and Jakob de Haan

Measuring monetary independence: Evidence from a group of new EU member countries pp. 24-43

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Cezary Wojcik

Human capital and the future of transition economies pp. 44-56

Michael Spagat

Kleptocracy and corruption pp. 57-74

C. Simon Fan

Growing apart: The division of labor and the breakdown of informal institutions pp. 75-91

Lewis S. Davis

Price markups and returns to scale in imperfect markets: Bulgaria and Hungary pp. 92-110

Rumen Dobrinsky, Gabor Korosi, Nikolay Markov and László Halpern

Effects of ownership and financial performance on corporate environmental performance pp. 111-129

Dietrich Earnhart and Lubomír Lízal

Chinese competition and its effects on Mexican maquiladoras pp. 130-145

Andre Varella Mollick and Wvalle-Vazquez, Karina

Privatization and restructuring in China: Evidence from shareholding ownership, 1995-2001 pp. 146-166

Gary H. Jefferson and Jian Su

Economic and institutional reform packages and their impact on productivity: A case study of Chinese township and village enterprises pp. 167-190

Junichi Ito