Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 40, issue 4, 2012

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia pp. 534-564

Daron Acemoglu, Camilo García-Jimeno and James Robinson

A note on slavery and the roots of inequality pp. 565-580

Rodrigo Soares, Juliano J. Assunção and Tomás F. Goulart

The racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery pp. 581-595

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

Institutional change pp. 596-603

Stanley Engerman

Historical datasets on Africa and the African Atlantic pp. 604-607

Patrick Manning

Sassywood pp. 608-620

Peter Leeson and Christopher Coyne

CEO compensation and large shareholders: Evidence from emerging markets pp. 621-642

Francisco Gallego and Borja Larrain

Volume 40, issue 3, 2012

Words speak louder than actions: The impact of politics on economic performance pp. 318-336

Steffen Osterloh

Does it pay to be a cadre? Estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China pp. 337-356

Jian Zhang, John Giles and Scott Rozelle

The political economy of mass printing: Legitimacy and technological change in the Ottoman Empire pp. 357-371

Metin Cosgel, Thomas J. Miceli and Jared Rubin

External finance and firm survival in the aftermath of the crisis: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia pp. 372-392

George Clarke, Robert Cull and Gregory Kisunko

Financial development and economic growth: Recent evidence from China pp. 393-412

Jin Zhang, Lanfang Wang and Susheng Wang

Performance of domestic and cross-border acquisitions: Empirical evidence from Russian acquirers pp. 413-437

Olivier Bertrand and Marie-Ann Betschinger

The exchange rate as nominal anchor: A test for Ukraine pp. 438-456

Patrick Conway

The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence pp. 457-475

David J. Balan and Stephen Knack

Challenges of creating cities in China: Lessons from a short-lived county-to-city upgrading policy pp. 476-491

Shenggen Fan, Lixing Li and Xiaobo Zhang

Club-in-the-club: Reform under unanimity pp. 492-507

Erik Berglof, Mike Burkart, Guido Friebel and Elena Paltseva

Educational scores: How does Russia fare? pp. 508-527

Chiara Amini and Simon Commander

Volume 40, issue 2, 2012

Does migration promote democratization? Evidence from the Mexican transition pp. 159-175

Tobias Pfutze

No law without a state pp. 176-193

Nicholas Charron, Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente

The “Wal-Mart effect” in central and eastern Europe pp. 194-210

Deniz Igan and Junichi Suzuki

Deconstructing the BRICs: Structural transformation and aggregate productivity growth pp. 211-227

Gaaitzen de Vries, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Marcel Timmer, Ilya Voskoboynikov and Harry X. Wu

Capital income and income inequality: Evidence from urban China pp. 228-239

Wei Chi

New elites and their influence on entrepreneurial activity in Russia pp. 240-255

Olga Shurchkov

What drives voluntary eco-certification in Mexico? pp. 256-268

Allen Blackman and Santiago Guerrero

Contracting institutions and product quality pp. 269-278

Azim Essaji and Kinya Fujiwara

Institutional determinants of military spending pp. 279-290

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Ferran Elias

Market structure, welfare, and banking reform in China pp. 291-313

Chun-Yu Ho

Volume 40, issue 1, 2012

Explaining the low labor productivity in East Germany – A spatial analysis pp. 1-21

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Rima Izem

Regulation and corporate corruption: New evidence from the telecom sector pp. 22-43

Sanford Berg, Liangliang Jiang and Chen Lin

Everyone hates privatization, but why? Survey evidence from 28 post-communist countries pp. 44-61

Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Think tanks pp. 62-77

Peter Leeson, Matt E. Ryan and Claudia R. Williamson

Does attending elite colleges pay in China? pp. 78-88

Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Xinzheng Shi and Binzhen Wu

Contracting institutions and vertical integration: Evidence from China’s manufacturing firms pp. 89-107

Julan Du, Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Illicit money flows as motives for FDI pp. 108-126

M. Fabricio Perez, Josef Brada and Zdenek Drabek

The role of institutions in cross-section income and panel data growth models: A deeper investigation on the weakness and proliferation of instruments pp. 127-140

Flavio Vieira, Ronald MacDonald and Aderbal Damasceno

Do financial systems converge? New evidence from financial assets in OECD countries pp. 141-155

Giuseppe Bruno, Riccardo De Bonis and Andrea Silvestrini

Volume 39, issue 4, 2011

Accountability in government and regulatory policies: Theory and evidence pp. 453-469

Carmine Guerriero

Public pension and household saving: Evidence from urban China pp. 470-485

Jin Feng, Lixin He and Hiroshi Sato

Explaining foreign bank entrance in emerging markets pp. 486-498

Wilhelm Althammer and Rainer Haselmann

Tariff liberalization and trade specialization: Lessons from India pp. 499-513

Michele Alessandrini, Bassam Fattouh, Benno Ferrarini and Pasquale Scaramozzino

A further investigation of unemployment persistence in European transition economies pp. 514-532

Juan Cuestas, Luis Gil-Alana and Karsten Staehr

Does a ‘non-committed’ government always generate lower social welfare than its ‘committed’ counterpart? Strategic trade policy when consumer surplus matters pp. 533-556

Kresimir Zigic

Relationship between management ownership and firm value among the business group affiliated firms in Korea pp. 557-576

Keunkwan Ryu and Jihye Yoo

Co-movements of Shanghai and New York stock prices by time-varying regressions pp. 577-583

Gregory C. Chow, Changjiang Liu and Linlin Niu

Exchange rate undervaluation and manufactured exports: A deliberate strategy? pp. 584-601

Ridha Nouira, Patrick Plane and Khalid Sekkat

Financial development in adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems pp. 602-608

Baptiste Massenot

Volume 39, issue 3, 2011

Political instability: Effects on financial development, roots in the severity of economic inequality pp. 279-309

Mark Roe and Jordan I. Siegel

Nonlinearity in the financial developmentâincome inequality nexus pp. 310-325

Dong-Hyeon Kim and Shu-Chin Lin

Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility? Testing the effects of delegating powers pp. 326-348

Axel Dreher and Stefan Voigt

Diversification and tunneling: Evidence from Indian business groups pp. 349-367

Raja Kali and Jayati Sarkar

Poverty projection using a small area estimation method: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 368-382

Cuong Nguyen

Channels of interprovincial risk sharing in China pp. 383-405

Julan Du, Qing He and Oliver Rui

Comparing China's GDP statistics with coincident indicators pp. 406-411

Aaron Mehrotra and Jenni Pääkkönen

Post-privatisation ownership concentration: Determinants and influence on firm efficiency pp. 412-430

Laura Cabeza-García and Silvia Gómez-Ansón

Nationalism and government effectiveness pp. 431-451

Pelle Ahlerup and Gustav Hansson

Volume 39, issue 2, 2011

Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies pp. 123-139

Scott Gehlbach and Philip Keefer

Does reform work? An econometric survey of the reform-growth puzzle pp. 140-158

Jan Babecký and Nauro Campos

Property rights imperfections and asset allocation: Co-ownership in Bulgaria pp. 159-175

Liesbet Vranken, Karen Macours, Nivelin Noev and Johan Swinnen

Managerial incentives, CEO characteristics and corporate innovation in China's private sector pp. 176-190

Chen Lin, Ping Lin, Frank M. Song and Chuntao Li

Income inequality, consumption, and social-status seeking pp. 191-204

Ye Jin, Hongbin Li and Binzhen Wu

With a little help from our friends: The effect of USAID assistance on SME growth in a transition economy pp. 205-220

El-hadj Bah, Josef Brada and Taner Yigit

SME performance in transition economies: The financial regulation and firm-level corruption nexus pp. 221-229

Axel Wieneke and Thomas Gries

"Ex-ante" Taylor rules and expectation forming in emerging markets pp. 230-244

Ralf Fendel, Michael Frenkel and Jan-Christoph Rülke

Political democratization, economic liberalization, and growth volatility pp. 245-259

Benhua Yang

The choice of ownership structure: Evidence from Russian mass privatization pp. 260-277

Carsten Sprenger

Volume 39, issue 1, 2011

The institutional legacy of the Ottoman Empire: Islamic rule and financial development in South Eastern Europe pp. 1-16

Pauline Grosjean

Reading, writing, and religion: Institutions and human capital formation pp. 17-33

Latika Chaudhary and Jared Rubin

Rational dictators and the killing of innocents: Data from Stalin's archives pp. 34-42

Paul R. Gregory, Philipp Schröder and Konstantin Sonin

Forging success: Soviet managers and accounting fraud, 1943-1962 pp. 43-64

Mark Harrison

Public investment in developing countries: A blessing or a curse? pp. 65-81

Eduardo Cavallo and Christian Daude

Increasing dispersion of skills and rising earnings inequality pp. 82-91

Kit-Chun Lam and Pak-Wai Liu

Where a contract is signed determines its value: Chinese provincial variation in utilized vs. contracted FDI flows pp. 92-107

Abigail Hornstein

Political trust as rational belief: Evidence from Chinese village elections pp. 108-121

Ran Tao, Fubing Su, Xin Sun and Xi Lu