Economic Systems

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Volume 29, issue 4, 2005

Editorial introduction: Is the World Bank lending effective in developing countries? pp. 363-365

Ayse Y. Evrensel and Ali Kutan

Impact of World Bank lending in an adjustment-led growth model pp. 366-383

Sushanta Mallick and Tomoe Moore

World Bank lending and regulation pp. 384-407

Christopher Kilby

Demand for World Bank lending pp. 408-421

Dilip Ratha

Does the World Bank have any impact on human development of the poorest countries? Some preliminary evidence from Africa pp. 422-432

Sumon Bhaumik

Multilateral development aid for Africa pp. 433-454

Berhanu Abegaz

Outsourcing with labor management pp. 455-466

Gianpaolo Rossini

B. Bortolotti and D. Siniscalco, Editors, The Challenges of Privatization: An International Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2004) 170 pages, [UK pound]30.00/US$ 55.00, ISBN 0-19-924934-2 pp. 467-468

William L. Megginson

F.L. Pryor, Editor, Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural and Industrial Societies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2005) 332 pages, [UK pound]40 (Hardback), [UK pound]17.99 (Paperback), ISBN 0-521-84904-7 (Hardback), 0-521-61347-7 (Paperback) pp. 468-471

Bruno Dallago

Volume 29, issue 3, 2005

Openness, size, and the saving-investment relationship pp. 283-293

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Avik Chakrabarti

Russia's European economic integration: Escapism and realities pp. 294-306

Carl B. Hamilton

Beware of breaks in exchange rates: Evidence from European transition countries pp. 307-324

Evžen Kočenda

Wage determination in urban Russia: Underpayment and the gender differential pp. 325-343

Constantin Ogloblin and Gregory Brock

Financial contagion vulnerability and resistance: A comparison of European stock markets pp. 344-362

Dobromił Serwa and Martin T. Bohl

Volume 29, issue 2, 2005

Exchange-rate economics in transition countries pp. 123-129

Balázs Égert and Ali Kutan

Pitfalls in estimating equilibrium exchange rates for transition economies pp. 130-143

Francisco Maeso-Fernandez, Chiara Osbat and Bernd Schnatz

Equilibrium exchange rates in transition countries: Evidence from dynamic heterogeneous panel models pp. 144-162

Byung-Yeon Kim and Iikka Korhonen

Exchange rates in the new EU accession countries: What have we learned from the forerunners? pp. 163-186

Ales Bulir and Katerina Smidkova

Maintaining competitiveness under equilibrium real appreciation: The case of Slovakia pp. 187-204

Nienke Oomes

Equilibrium exchange rates in South Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey: Healthy or (Dutch) diseased? pp. 205-241

Balázs Égert

Explaining the real exchange rate in Kazakhstan, 1996-2003: Is Kazakhstan vulnerable to the Dutch disease? pp. 242-255

Ali Kutan and Michael Wyzan

De facto and official exchange rate regimes in transition economies pp. 256-275

Juergen von Hagen and Jizhong Zhou

S. Gupta, B. Clements and G. Inchauste, Editors, Helping Countries Develop: The Role of Fiscal Policy, IMF, Washington, DC (2004) 540 pp., US$ 40, ISBN 1-58906-318-X pp. 276-279

G.W. Kolodko

D.A. Dyker, Catching Up and Falling Behind: Post-Communist Transformation in Historical Perspective, Imperial College Press, London (2004) 379 pp., [UK pound]50, ISBN 1-86094-434-5 pp. 279-282

Wladimir Andreff

Volume 29, issue 1, 2005

Europe and Central Asia after the May 2004 EU enlargement: A brief synthesis pp. 1-5

John P. Bonin

Central Asia's transport cost burden and its impact on trade pp. 6-31

Gaël Raballand, Antoine Kunth and Richard Auty

Trade policies in Central Asia after EU enlargement and before Russian WTO accession: Regionalism and integration into the world economy pp. 32-58

Richard Pomfret

The EU and the Caspian Sea region: An energy partnership? pp. 59-76

Yelena Kalyuzhnova

Conclusion: A new learning curve and new economic relations pp. 77-86

Max Watson

The Hungarian exchange rate and inflation over the transition pp. 87-97

David Barlow

Privatisation, corporate control and employment growth: Evidence from a panel of large Polish firms, 1996-2002 pp. 98-119

Tomasz Mickiewicz, Christopher Gerry and Kate Bishop

A. Aslund, Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2002) 508 pp., [UK pound] 65/22.99, ISBN 0-521-80139-7 (hardback), 0-521-80525-2 (paperback) pp. 120-121

Garett Jones

Volume 28, issue 4, 2004

Foreign exchange market volatility in EU accession countries in the run-up to Euro adoption: weathering uncharted waters pp. 337-352

Adam Kobor and Istvan P Szekely

Volatility and contagion: evidence from the Istanbul stock exchange pp. 353-367

C. Emre Alper and Kamil Yilmaz

Commercial versus open source software: the role of product heterogeneity in competition pp. 369-381

Jürgen Bitzer

What is behind the real appreciation of the accession countries' currencies?: An investigation of the PPI-based real exchange rate pp. 383-403

Kirsten Lommatzsch and Silke Tober

In: N.F. Campos and F.J. Fidrmuc, Editors, Political Economy of Transition and Development: Institutions, Politics and Policies, Kluwer, Boston/Dordrecht/London (2003) ISBN 1-4020-7550-2 224, pp., [euro]125 pp. 405-409

Peter Gedeon

Volume 28, issue 3, 2004

Lending to developing countries revisited: changing nature of lenders and payment problems pp. 235-256

Ayse Y. Evrensel

The underground economy and underdevelopment pp. 257-279

Maria Rosaria Carillo and Maurizio Pugno

A panel analysis of bilateral FDI flows to emerging economies pp. 281-300

Michael Frenkel, Katja Funke and Georg Stadtmann

Current account constraint as a barrier to international trade: the evidence from the European enlargement process? pp. 301-317

Mathilde Maurel

Long-run nature of the relationship between the black market and the official exchange rates pp. 319-327

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Gour Goswami

Das Zustandekommen von Technologie-Spillovers durch auslandische Direktinvestitionen: Eine empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel der ungarischen Industrie pp. 329-332

Jürgen Bitzer

R. Holzmann, M. Orenstein, M. Rutkowski (Eds.), Pension Reform in Europe: Process and Progress, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2003, 202 pp., US$ 25.00, paper, ISBN 0-8213-5385-6.K. Muller, Privatising Old-age Security: Latin America and Eastern Europe Compared, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2003, 175 pp., US$ 65.00, hardcover, ISBN 1-84376-324-9 pp. 333-336

Kurt Weyland

Volume 28, issue 2, 2004

Emerging financial systems in Central and Eastern Europe: financial institutions and asset pricing pp. 109-110

Martin T. Bohl and Hans-Jurgen Wagener

Secrets to the successful Hungarian bank privatization: the benefits of foreign ownership through strategic partnerships pp. 111-123

Istvan Abel and Pierre Siklos

Consolidation of the Polish banking sector: consequences for the banking institutions and the public pp. 125-140

Olena Havrylchyk

Banking in the Balkans: the structure of banking sectors in Southeast Europe pp. 141-153

John P. Bonin

The individual micro-lending contract: is it a better design than joint-liability?: Evidence from Georgia pp. 155-176

Denotes Vigenina and Alexander Kritikos

Czech experience with market maker trading system pp. 177-191

Jan Hanousek and Richard Podpiera

Institutional investors and the information content of earnings announcements: the case of Poland pp. 193-208

Piotr Korczak and Amir Tavakkol

Reexamination of the link between insider trading and price efficiency pp. 209-228

Tomasz Wisniewski

Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches: F. Bonker, K. Muller, A. Pickel (Eds), Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2002, 296 pp., ISBN 0-7425-1838-8 (cloth), US$ 74, ISBN 0-7425-1839-6 (paperback), US$ 34.95 pp. 229-231

Herman W. Hoen

The Role of Financial Markets in the Transition Process: E. Colombo, J. Driffill (Eds.); Physica, Heidelberg/New York, 2003, 225 pp., ISBN 3-7908-004-X, 46 pp. 231-234

Adalbert Winkler

Volume 28, issue 1, 2004

Black markets and pre-reform crises in former socialist economies pp. 1-12

Michael Alexeev and Lyaziza Sabyr

Risk and agricultural de-collectivisation, with evidence from the Czech Republic pp. 13-33

Dirk Bezemer

Evolution of employment structures and regional specialisation in the EU pp. 35-59

Enrico Marelli

Asymmetric information in credit markets--implications for the transition in Eastern Germany pp. 61-78

Ulrike Neyer

Empirical tests of impacts of rationing: the case of Poland in transition pp. 79-99

Sonya Huffman and Stanley R. Johnson

Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies: Y. Kalyuzhnova, W. Andreff (Eds.), Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2003, 275 pp., [UK pound]55.00 pp. 101-103

Paul Hare

Fostering sustainable growth in Ukraine: von Cramon-Taubadel, St. Akimova, I. (Eds.), Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg, 2002, p. 326, 49.95 pp. 103-104

Nauro Campos

Small and medium enterprises in transitional economies: R.J. McIntyre, B. Dallago (Eds.); Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2003, 261 pp, [UK pound] 50.00 pp. 105-108

Wladimir Andreff