Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

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Volume 52, issue 2, 1997

Investment in new activities and the welfare cost of uncertainty pp. 259-277

Joshua Aizenman

Welfare effects of liberalization reforms with distortions in financial and labor markets pp. 279-294

Ann Marie Battle

Return migration, uncertainty and precautionary savings pp. 295-316

Christian Dustmann

Government spending, taxation of interest, and private saving: An empirical analysis using Greek aggregate data pp. 317-330

Dimitris Hatzinikolaou

The effect of scale on the response to reform by Chinese state-owned construction units pp. 331-353

Elliott Parker

Imputing license prices: limitations of a cost-based approach pp. 355-374

Kala Krishna, Will Martin and Ling Hui Tan

Export diversification and structural dynamics in the growth process: The case of Chile pp. 375-391

Sheila Amin Gutierrez de Pineres and Michael Ferrantino

Limited liability, moral hazard and share tenancy pp. 393-407

Kunal Sengupta

Informal sector and informal capital market in a small open less-developed economy pp. 409-428

Manash Gupta

Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market pp. 429-462

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

The monetary approach to analysing floating exchange rate behaviour in developing countries: Evidence from sub-Saharan African countries, 1986-1992 pp. 463-481

M. O. Odedokun

Volume 52, issue 1, 1997

Kinship ties, social networks, and segmented labor markets: evidence from the construction sector in Egypt pp. 1-30

Ragui Assaad

Labor market adjustment to political conflict Changes in the labor market in El Salvador during the 1980s pp. 31-64

Edward Funkhouser

The environment and welfare implications of trade and tax policy pp. 65-82

Hiro Lee and David Roland-Holst

Domestic constraints on export-led growth: a case-study of India pp. 83-119

Servaas Storm

Adjustment, trade policy and investment slumps: evidence from Africa pp. 121-137

David Fielding

Testing capital account liberalization without forward rates Another look at Chile 1979-1982 pp. 139-168

William Maloney

The debt overhang and the disincentive to invest pp. 169-187

Ashwini Deshpande

Cointegration and tests of a classical model of inflation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru pp. 189-219

Raul Anibal Feliz and John H. Welch

Fiscal constraints and the speed of transition pp. 221-249

Bankim Chadha and Fabrizio Coricelli

Volume 51, issue 2, 1996

On price risk and the inverse farm size-productivity relationship pp. 193-215

Christopher Barrett

Intertemporal substitution in labor supply: Micro evidence from rural India pp. 217-237

Emmanuel Skoufias

A food demand system based on demand for characteristics: If there is 'curvature' in the Slutsky matrix, what do the curves look like and why? pp. 239-266

Howarth Bouis

The relevance of standard estimates of rates of return to schooling for education policy: A critical assessment pp. 267-290

Paul Glewwe

School supply constraints and children's educational outcomes in rural Ghana pp. 291-314

Victor Lavy

Inference on productivity differentials in multi-sector models of economic growth pp. 315-325

W. Robert J. Alexander, Paul Hansen and Dorian Owen

Scale economies, wage differentials, and North-South trade pp. 327-342

Michael Benarroch

Saving and economic shocks in rural Pakistan pp. 343-365

Harold Alderman

Capital market imperfections before and after financial liberalization: An Euler equation approach to panel data for Ecuadorian firms pp. 367-386

Fidel Haramillo, Fabio Schiantarelli and Andrew Weiss

Does financial development cause economic growth? Time-series evidence from 16 countries pp. 387-411

Panicos Demetriades and Khaled A. Hussein

Ricardian equivalence: Empirical evidence from developing economies pp. 413-432

Ahmed Khalid

Delayed formal credit, bribing and the informal credit market in agriculture: A theoretical analysis pp. 433-449

Sarbajit Chaudhuri and Manash Gupta

Volume 51, issue 1, 1996

Introduction pp. 1-4

Sebastian Edwards and Edmar Bacha

Why are Latin America's savings rates so low? An international comparative analysis pp. 5-44

Sebastian Edwards

The anatomy of an informal financial market: Rosca participation in Taiwan pp. 45-68

Alec R. Levenson and Timothy Besley

The earnings of Mexican immigrants in the United States pp. 69-98

George Borjas

Why has wage dispersion grown in Mexico? Is it the incidence of reforms or the growing demand for skills? pp. 99-116

Michael Ian Cragg and Mario Epelbaum

On becoming more flexible: Exchange rate regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 117-138

Susan M. Collins

Avoiding some costs of inflation and crawling toward hyperinflation: The case of the Brazilian domestic currency substitute pp. 139-159

Marcio Garcia

On the ills of adjustment pp. 161-192

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

Volume 50, issue 2, 1996

North-South knowledge spillovers and competition: convergence versus divergence pp. 213-232

Theo van de Klundert and Sjak Smulders

Contracting for tacit knowledge: the provision of technical services in technology licensing contracts pp. 233-256

Ashish Arora

Discount rates and credit markets: Theory and evidence from rural india pp. 257-296

John Pender

Are there dual labor markets in Chile?: empirical evidence pp. 297-312

Michael Basch and Ricardo Paredes

Sovereign debt, structural adjustment, and conditionality pp. 313-335

Marcel Fafchamps

"Burden sharing" in sovereign debt reduction pp. 337-351

Mark Spiegel

Economic reform and interprovincial inequalities in China pp. 353-368

Kai-yuen Tsui

Growth, welfare and optimal trade taxes: a fallacy of composition pp. 369-380

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

Locational choice for free trade zones: a comment pp. 381-387

Arnab Basu

Strategic processes in Monsoon Asia's Economic Development: Harry T. Oshima (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993) pp. xii + 285 pp. 389-392

Keijiro Otsuka

Development finance as institution building: A new approach to poverty-oriented banking: Jan Pieter Krahnen and Reinhard H. Schmidt, Westview Press, Boulder, USA, 1994, 145 pp., US $45.00, ISBN 0-8133-2457-2 pp. 392-395

Thomas Hellman

Volume 50, issue 1, 1996

The debt crisis: lessons of the 1980s for the 1990s pp. 1-24

Graciela Kaminsky and Alfredo Pereira

A framework for the analysis of financial reforms and the cost of official safety nets pp. 25-79

Peter Isard, Donald J. Mathieson and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Commercial policy, the terms of trade and the real exchange rate revisited pp. 81-99

John Devereux and Michael Connolly

Foreign currency deposits and the demand for money in developing countries pp. 101-118

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Mohsin Khan

Alternative econometric approaches for analysing the role of the financial sector in economic growth: Time-series evidence from LDCs pp. 119-146

M. O. Odedokun

Financial development by learning pp. 147-164

Jaewoo Lee

Expenditure behavior and children's welfare: An analysis of female headed households in Jamaica pp. 165-187

Sudhanshu Handa

Achievement and improvement in living standards pp. 189-195

Amita Majumder and Satya Chakravarty

Technology imports and R&D efforts of Korean manufacturing firms pp. 197-210

Jaymin Lee

Syndicated lending under asymmetric creditor information -- Erratum pp. 211-212

Saugata Banerjee and Olivier Cadot