Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2009

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Volume 31, issue 4, 2003

The new comparative economics pp. 595-619

Simeon Djankov, Edward Ludwig Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

Why not a political Coase theorem? Social conflict, commitment, and politics pp. 620-652

Daron Acemoglu

Law and finance: why does legal origin matter? pp. 653-675

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

Innovation in corporate law pp. 676-694

Katharina Pistor, Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Mark D. West

Firms facing new institutions: transactional governance in Romania pp. 695-714

Peter Murrell

Why the rich may favor poor protection of property rights pp. 715-731

Konstantin Sonin

Propping and tunneling pp. 732-750

Eric Friedman, Simon Johnson and Todd Mitton

Seize the state, seize the day: state capture and influence in transition economies pp. 751-773

Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones and Daniel Kaufmann

Labor market distortions and China's WTO accession package:: an applied general equilibrium assessment pp. 774-794

John Gilbert and Thomas Wahl

Labor supply in urban China pp. 795-817

Haizheng Li and Jeffrey S. Zax

Capital Flows and Crisis: By Barry Eichengreen. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 385 pp., $35.00 cloth pp. 818-820

Bozena Leven

Volume 31, issue 3, 2003

Bank discrimination in transition economies: ideology, information, or incentives? pp. 387-413

Loren Brandt and Hongbin Li

Incentive contracting versus ownership reforms: evidence from China's township and village enterprises pp. 414-428

Chun Chang, Brian Mccall and Yijiang Wang

Potential residual and relative wages in Chinese township and village enterprises pp. 429-443

Belton M. Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

A study of the R&D efficiency and productivity of Chinese firms pp. 444-464

Anming Zhang, Yimin Zhang and Ronald Zhao

Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China pp. 465-485

Xin Meng

Government's budget constraint, competition, and privatization: evidence from China's rural industry pp. 486-502

Hongbin Li

Objectives and constraints of entrepreneurs: evidence from small and medium size enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria pp. 503-531

Francesca Pissarides, Miroslav Singer and Jan Svejnar

Informal economy activities of Soviet households: size and dynamics pp. 532-551

Byung-Yeon Kim

The Balassa-Samuelson effect in Central and Eastern Europe: myth or reality? pp. 552-572

Balázs Égert, Imed Drine, Kirsten Lommatzsch and Christophe Rault

Random pricing by labor-managed firms in markets with imperfect consumer information pp. 573-583

Norman J. Ireland

Volume 31, issue 2, 2003

Gender wage gap and segregation in enterprises and the public sector in late transition countries pp. 199-222

Stepan Jurajda

Bank competition and credit markets in transition economies pp. 223-245

Christa Hainz

The economics of land title reform pp. 246-256

Thomas Miceli and Joseph Kieyah

Non-performance risk and transaction costs in laboratory forward and spot markets pp. 257-274

Alla V. Yakunina, Dale J. Menkhaus, Owen R. Phillips and Victor E. Esipov

Informed trading and the bid-ask spread: evidence from an emerging market pp. 275-296

Jan Hanousek and Richard Podpiera

Managerial change, competition, and privatization in Ukraine pp. 297-314

Frédéric Warzynski

Does guanxi matter to nonfarm employment? pp. 315-331

Xiaobo Zhang and Guo Li

China's WTO accession: impacts on regional agricultural income-- a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis pp. 332-351

Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang

An inverse global environmental Kuznets curve pp. 352-368

Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy

Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change: By Susan H. Whiting. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000. xix+ 348 pp., $59.95 pp. 375-377

Mark D. Brenner

Volume 31, issue 1, 2003

Commissars and cars: A case study in the political economy of dictatorship pp. 1-19

Valery Lazarev and Paul Gregory

Fiscal federalism and incentives in a Russian region pp. 20-33

Michael Alexeev and Galina Kurlyandskaya

Glamour and value in the land of Chingis Khan pp. 34-57

James H. Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

Privatization, partial state ownership, and competition pp. 58-74

John Bennett and James Maw

Profit sharing, worker effort, and double-sided moral hazard in an efficiency wage model pp. 75-93

Chang, Juin-jen, Lai, Ching-chong and Lin, Chung-cheng

Foreign direct investment in Europe: Is there redirection from the South to the East? pp. 94-109

Claudia M. Buch, Robert M. Kokta and Daniel Piazolo

Soft budget constraints, social burdens, and labor redundancy in China's state industry pp. 110-133

Xiao-yuan Dong and Louis Putterman

Efficiency, technical progress, and best practice in Chinese state enterprises (1980-1994) pp. 134-152

Jinghai Zheng, Xiaoxuan Liu and Arne Bigsten

Volume 30, issue 4, 2002

Debt Overhang and Barter in Russia pp. 635-656

Sergei Guriev, Igor Makarov and Maurel

Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises pp. 657-682

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

Relative Living Standards in New Market Economies: Evidence from Central Asian Household Surveys pp. 683-708

Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard Pomfret

The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women pp. 709-731

Margaret Maurer-Fazio and James Hughes

Urban Demand for Edible Oils and Fats in China: Evidence from Household Survey Data pp. 732-753

Cheng Fang and John Beghin

Introduction Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance pp. 754-758

Laixiang Sun

Information, Incentives, and Option Value: The Silicon Valley Model pp. 759-786

Masahiko Aoki and Hirokazu Takizawa

Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China's Township-Village Enterprises pp. 787-811

Jiahua Che

Share Ownership and Employee Attitudes: Some Evidence from China's Postprivatization Rural Industry pp. 812-835

Xiao-yuan Dong, Paul Bowles and Samuel P. S. Ho

Does a Switch of Budget Regimes Affect Investment and Managerial Discretion of State-Owned Enterprises? Evidence from Italian Firms pp. 836-863

Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi

Volume 30, issue 3, 2002

The Political Economy of Privatization and Competition: Cross-Country Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector pp. 439-462

Wei Li and Lixin Colin Xu

Household Savings in the Transition pp. 463-475

Cevdet Denizer, Holger Wolf and Yvonne Ying

Survey-Based Estimates of Biases in Consumer Price Indices during Transition: Evidence from Romania pp. 476-487

Randall Filer and Jan Hanousek

Interaction between Economic and Political Factors in the Migration Decision pp. 488-504

Lam, Kit-Chun

Greater China and the World Economy: Introduction to the Second Symposium pp. 505-506

Wong, Kar-yiu

Accounting for Economic Growth in Taiwan and Mainland China: A Comparative Analysis pp. 507-530

Gregory Chow and Lin, An-loh

The Emergence of a Greater China and Its Impact on World Trade: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 531-566

Zhi Wang and Edward G. Schuh

Determinants of U.S. and Japanese Direct Investment in China pp. 567-578

K.C. Fung, Hitomi Iizaka and Stephen Parker

Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: Evidence from China pp. 579-602

Zhiqiang Liu

Effects of U.S. Inflation on Hong Kong and Singapore pp. 603-619

Yin-Wong Cheung and Jude Yuen

Laixiang Sun, Aggregate Behaviour of Investment in China, 1953-96: An Analysis of Investment Hunger and Fluctuation pp. 620-622

Hiroyuki Imai

Parathrathi Banerjee and Frank-Jurgen Richter, Eds., Intangibles in Competition and Cooperation: Euro-Asian Perspectives pp. 623-625

Nagy Hanna

Paul Seabright, Ed., The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies pp. 626-628

Anders Aslund

Jerry F. Hough, The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia pp. 629-631

Peter Rutland

Gary S. Fields, Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World pp. 632-633

Gustav Ranis

Volume 30, issue 2, 2002

Defying the Odds: Initial Conditions, Reforms, and Growth in the First Decade of Transition pp. 229-250

Elisabetta Falcetti, Martin Raiser and Peter Sanfey

Employment and Wage Adjustment: Insider-Outsider Control in a Polish Privatization Panel Study pp. 251-275

Atanas Christev and Felix FitzRoy

The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination pp. 276-295

Dean Jolliffe

Organizational Type and Efficiency in the Costa Rican Coffee Processing Sector pp. 296-316

Roberto Mosheim

Audit Hierarchy in a Corrupt Tax Administration: A Note with Qualifications and Extensions pp. 317-324

Amal Sanyal

Introduction: Transforming Rural China pp. 325-328

Kung, James Kai-sing

The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets During the Reforms pp. 329-353

Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang and Yigang Zhang

Income Determination and Market Opportunity in Rural China, 1978-1996 pp. 354-375

Andrew G. Walder

Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China pp. 376-394

Yaohui Zhao

Off-Farm Labor Markets and the Emergence of Land Rental Markets in Rural China pp. 395-414

Kung, James Kai-sing

The Determinants of Employee Ownership in China's Privatized Rural Industry: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong pp. 415-437

Xiao-yuan Dong, Paul Bowles and Samuel P. S. Ho

Volume 30, issue 1, 2002

Ownership and the Temptation to Loot: Evidence from Privatized Firms in the Czech Republic pp. 1-24

Robert Cull, Jana Matesova and Mary Shirley

Overbanked and Credit-Starved: A Paradox of the Transition pp. 25-50

William Pyle

Central Control of Regional Budgets: Theory with Applications to Russia pp. 51-75

John M. Litwack

Trade Flows in the Former Soviet Union, 1987 to 1996 pp. 76-90

Simeon Djankov and Caroline Freund

Microeconometric Studies of Russian Labor Markets in Transition: Introduction to a Symposium pp. 91-95

John Earle and Hartmut Lehmann

Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative? pp. 96-133

J. David Brown and John Earle

Marshall and Labor Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics pp. 134-159

Jozef Konings and Hartmut Lehmann

Five Years after: The Impact of Mass Privatization on Wages in Russia, 1993-1998 pp. 160-190

Elizabeth Brainerd

The Great Human Capital Reallocation: A Study of Occupational Mobility in Transitional Russia pp. 191-217

Klara Sabirianova Peter

David Throsby, Economics and Culture pp. 218-219

H. Peter Gray

William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics pp. 220-222

Gerald M. Meier

Lawrence Peter King, The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia pp. 223-224

Victor Nee