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2004-712: Votes and Vetoes: The Political Determinants of Commercial Openness

Witold Jerzy Henisz and Edward D. Mansfield

2004-711: INTEREST GROUPS, VETO POINTS AND ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT

Witold Jerzy Henisz and Bennet A. Zelner

2004-710: Firms’ Price Markups and Returns to Scale in Imperfect Markets: Bulgaria and Hungary

Rumen Dobrinsky, Gabor Korosi, Nikolay Markov and László Halpern

2004-709: The Stability and Growth Pact from the Perspective Of the New Member States

Gábor Orbán and György Szapáry

2004-708: CONTRACT VIOLATIONS, NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS, AND WAGE ARREARS IN RUSSIA

John Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter

2004-707: Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Klaus Meyer and Saul Estrin

2004-706: Economic Reform in Tanzania and Vietnam: A Comparative Commentary

Brian Van Arkadie and Do Duc Dinh

2004-705: Beliefs about Exchange-Rate Stability: Survey Evidence From the Currency Board in Bulgaria

Neven T. Valev and John A. Carlson

2004-704: Returns to Schooling in China Under Planning and Reform

Belton M. Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

2004-703: Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Belton M. Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Xiaojun Wang

2004-702: What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John Earle and Daniela Lup

2004-701: The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Thomas (Tim) H. Gindling and Katherine Terell

2004-700: Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Thomas (Tim) H. Gindling and Katherine Terell

2004-699: SELF-SELECTION AND EARNINGS DURING VOLATILE TRANSITION

Ralitza Dimova Dimova and Ira Gang

2004-698: ECOLOGY AND VIOLENCE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF WAR

Timothy L. Fort and Cindy A. Schipani

2004-697: Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Ira Gang and Robert C. Stuart

2004-696: Firm Ownership and Internal Labor Practices in a Transition Economy: An Exploration of Worker Skill Acquisition in Vietnam

Jed Friedman

2004-695: The Unanticipated Effects of Insider Trading Regulation

Art A. Durnev and Amrita S. Nain

2004-694: Volatile Interest Rates, Volatile Crime Rates: A new argument for interest-rate smoothing

Garett Jones and Ali Kutan

2004-693: Money Market Liquidity under Currency Board – Empirical Investigations for Bulgaria

Petar Pandushev Chobanov and Nikolay Nenovsky

2004-692: Credibility and adjustment: gold standards versus currency boards

Jean Baptiste Desquilbet and Nikolay Nenovsky

2004-691: Impact of Cross-listing on Local Stock Returns: Case of Russian ADRs

Elena Smirnova

2004-690: Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and State Ownership in China: Evidence from New Panel Data*

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

2004-689: Diverging Paths: Transition in the Presence of the Informal Sector

Maxim Bouev

2004-688: WHAT CAUSES BANK ASSET SUBSTITUTION IN KAZAKHSTAN? EXPLAINING CURRENCY SUBSTITUTION IN A TRANSITION ECONOMY

Sharon Eicher

2004-687: Financial Sector Returns and Creditor Moral Hazard: Evidence from Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand

Jian Tong and Chenggang Xu

2004-686: Instability in Exchange Rates of the World Leading Currencies: Implications of a Spatial Competition Model among Central Banks

Dirk Engelmann, Jan Hanousek and Evzen Kocenda

2004-685: Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets

Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda and Jan Svejnar

2004-683: Mission Implausible III: Measuring the Informal Sector in a Transition Economy using Macro Methods1

Jan Hanousek and Filip Palda

2004-682: The Other Side of the Moon: The Data Problem in Analyzing Growth Determinants

Jan Hanousek, Dana Hájková and Randall Filer

2004-681: Consumers' Opinion of Inflation Bias Due to Quality Improvements

Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

2004-679: Privatization Matters: Bank Efficiency in Transition Countries

John P. Bonin, Iftekhar Hasan and Paul Wachtel

2004-678: Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986—1998

Dean Jolliffe and Nauro F. Campos

2004-677: Governance and Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Central And Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States

Valentina Hartarska

2004-676: Equilibrium Exchange Rates in the Transition: The Tradable Price-Based Real Appreciation and Estimation Uncertainty

Balázs Égert and Kirsten Lommatzsch

2004-675: Productivity Growth and the Real Appreciation of the Accession Countries' Currencies

Kirsten Lommatzsch and Silke Tober

2004-674: Exchange Rate Policy and Inflation in Acceding Countries: The Role of Pass-through

Fabrizio Coricelli, Bostjan Jazbec and Igor Masten

2004-673: Is Kazakhstan a Market Economy Yet? Getting warmer…

Sharon Eicher

2004-672: Financial Institutions and The Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development

Jian Tong and Chenggang Xu

2004-671: Interest Rate Pass-Through in New EU Member States: The Case of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma, Balázs Égert and Thomas Reininger (Jesus Crespo Cuaresma)

2004-670: A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

2004-669: Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers

Jiahua Che and Giovanni Facchini

2004-668: Enterprise Restructuring and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in Jiangsu Province

Xiao-yuan Dong, Louis Putterman and Bulent Unel

2004-667: A Tale of Two Provinces: The Institutional Environment and Foreign Ownership in China

Yasheng Huang and Wenhua Di

2004-666: Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance: Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companies in Hungary and Poland

Natalia Isachenkova and Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz

2004-665: Testing Creditor Moral Hazard in Sovereign Bond Markets: A Unified Theoretical Approach and Empirical Evidence

Ay?e Y. Evrensel and Ali Kutan

2004-663: Modelling Stock Returns in the G-7 and in Selected CEE Economies: A Non-linear GARCH Approach

Balázs Égert and Yosra Koubaa

2004-662: Institutional Change and Product Composition: Does the Initial Quality of Institutions Matter?

Johannes Moenius and Daniel Berkowitz

2004-661: Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers

Jiahua Che and Giovanni Facchini

2004-659: Creditor Moral Hazard in Equity Markets: A Theoretical Framework and Evidence from Indonesia and Korea

Ali Kutan and Ayse Y. Evrensel