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Volume 38, issue 4, 2010

Auditors and fiscal policy: Empirical evidence on a little big institution pp. 357-380

Mark Schelker and Reiner Eichenberger

Regulation and taxation: A complementarity pp. 381-394

Benjamin Schoefer

Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization pp. 395-418

Alexander Libman

What influences firms' perceptions? pp. 419-431

David Kaplan and Vikram Pathania

The long-run impact of New Zealand's structural reform on local communities pp. 432-448

Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri and Andrew Aitken

Trade liberalization, heterogeneous firms and the soft budget constraint pp. 449-460

Michael Alexeev and Yong Joon Jang

Natural resource dependence, non-tradables, and economic growth pp. 461-471

Markus Brückner

Demographic structure and economic growth: Evidence from China pp. 472-491

Zheng Wei and Rui Hao

Volume 38, issue 3, 2010

Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions" pp. 227-228

Eric Brousseau and Avner Greif

A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy pp. 229-244

Avner Greif and Steven Tadelis

Game theory and institutions pp. 245-252

Ken Binmore

Bargaining on law and bureaucracies: A constitutional theory of development pp. 253-266

Eric Brousseau, Yves Schemeil and Jérôme Sgard

On the feasibility of power and status ranking in traditional setups pp. 267-282

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Petros Sekeris

Determinants of constitutional change: Why do countries change their form of government? pp. 283-305

Bernd Hayo and Stefan Voigt

Institutional flexibility and economic growth pp. 306-320

Lewis S. Davis

Culture, agency costs, and dividends pp. 321-339

Jana P. Fidrmuc and Marcus Jacob

Market power, EU integration and privatization: The case of Romania pp. 340-356

Gabriel Asaftei and Christopher Parmeter

Volume 38, issue 2, 2010

Provincial protectionism pp. 111-122

Konstantin Sonin

Poverty during transition: Household survey evidence from Ukraine pp. 123-145

Tilman Brück, Alexander Danzer, Alexander Muravyev and Natalia Weisshaar

Judicial quality, contract intensity and trade: Firm-level evidence from developing and transition countries pp. 146-159

Yue Ma, Baozhi Qu and Yifan Zhang

The provision of long-term financing in the transition economies pp. 160-172

Nikola Tasic and Neven Valev

The economics of human trafficking and labour migration: Micro-evidence from Eastern Europe pp. 173-188

Toman Omar Mahmoud and Christoph Trebesch

Reducing regional disparities in China: An evaluation of alternative policies pp. 189-198

Anping Chen and Nicolaas Groenewold

The political economy of mobile telecommunications liberalization: Evidence from the OECD countries pp. 199-216

Tomaso Duso and Jo Seldeslachts

Intellectual property rights protection and the surge in FDI in China pp. 217-224

Titus Awokuse and Hong Yin

Corrigendum to "Contract enforcement and family control of business: Evidence from China" [J. Comp. Econ. 37 (2009) 597-609] pp. 225-225

Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Volume 38, issue 1, 2010

Introduction to the special issue pp. 1-1

Pranab Bardhan and Yingyi Qian

The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China pp. 2-16

Jose G. Montalvo and Martin Ravallion

The contribution of population health and demographic change to economic growth in China and India pp. 17-33

David Bloom, David Canning, Linlin Hu, Yuanli Liu, Ajay Mahal and Winnie Yip

Infrastructure development in China: The cases of electricity, highways, and railways pp. 34-51

Chong-En Bai and Yingyi Qian

Infrastructure in India: The economics of transition from public to private provision pp. 52-70

Urjit R. Patel and Saugata Bhattacharya

Growth and structural changes in employment in transition China pp. 71-81

Fang Cai and Meiyan Wang

Employment and India's development and reforms pp. 82-106

T. Srinivasan

Katherine Terrell Svejnar pp. 107-109

Klara Sabirianova Peter

Volume 37, issue 4, 2009

New evidence on wages and employment in worker cooperatives compared with capitalist firms pp. 517-533

Gabriel Burdín and Andrés Dean

On the democratic legacy of colonialism pp. 534-551

Ola Olsson

Global network finance: Institutional innovation in the global financial market place pp. 552-567

Katharina Pistor

An inquiry into the transformation process of village-based industrial clusters: The case of an iron and steel cluster in northern Vietnam pp. 568-581

Vu Nam, Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka

Creditor passivity: The effects of bank competition and institutions on the strategic use of bankruptcy filings pp. 582-596

Christa Hainz

Contract enforcement and family control of business: Evidence from China pp. 597-609

Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis pp. 610-628

Sylvie Démurger, Marc Gurgand, Shi Li and Ximing Yue

Land rental markets in the process of rural structural transformation: Productivity and equity impacts from China pp. 629-646

Songqing Jin and Klaus Deininger

Do foreign-owned banks affect banking system liquidity risk? pp. 647-657

Valeriya Dinger

Post-privatization corporate governance and firm performance: The role of private ownership concentration, identity and board composition pp. 658-673

Mohammed Omran

The evaluation of majority rules in a legislative bargaining model pp. 674-684

Tsung-Sheng Tsai

Volume 37, issue 3, 2009

Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations? pp. 335-358

Marcel Fratzscher and Arnaud Mehl

Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration pp. 359-371

Stephen Knack

Foreign direct investment and bilateral investment treaties: An international political perspective pp. 372-386

Rodolphe Desbordes and Vincent Vicard

No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation pp. 387-401

Carmen Pages and Marco Stampini

State and religion pp. 402-416

Metin Cosgel and Thomas Miceli

The contribution of equalization transfers to fiscal adjustment: Empirical results for German municipalities and a US-German comparison pp. 417-431

Thiess Buettner

Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis pp. 432-452

Sai Ding and John Knight

How does privatization work in China? pp. 453-470

Chong-En Bai, Jiangyong Lu and Zhigang Tao

Ownership, institutions, and capital structure: Evidence from China pp. 471-490

Kai Li, Heng Yue and Longkai Zhao

Education and earnings in urban West Africa pp. 491-515

Mathias Kuepie, Christophe Nordman and François Roubaud

Volume 37, issue 2, 2009

Remarks at the celebration for Padma Desai, Columbia Rotunda, Low Library, Columbia University, New York City, NY pp. 196-197

Dale Jorgenson

Sustaining Russia's growth: The role of financial reform pp. 198-206

Erik Berglof and Alexander Lehmann

Simplified methods and efficiency: Stalin's terror managers pp. 207-216

Paul Gregory

Aid with multiple personalities pp. 217-229

Simeon Djankov, Jose G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol

Do judiciaries matter for development? Evidence from India pp. 230-250

Matthieu Chemin

Does democracy foster trust? pp. 251-269

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

Entrepreneurs' gender and financial constraints: Evidence from international data pp. 270-286

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera and Dorothea Schäfer

Labor restructuring in China: Toward a functioning labor market pp. 287-305

Xiao-yuan Dong and Lixin Xu

Share issuing privatizations in China: Sequencing and its effects on public share allocation and underpricing pp. 306-320

Nancy Huyghebaert and Qi Quan

The bank lending channel and monetary transmission in Central and Eastern European countries pp. 321-334

Roman Matousek and Nicholas Sarantis

Volume 37, issue 1, 2009

Employment laws in developing countries pp. 3-13

Simeon Djankov and Rita Ramalho

Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 14-27

Abhijit Banerjee, Marianne Bertrand, Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan

Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size pp. 28-46

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

Labor regulation and employment in India's retail stores pp. 47-61

Mohammad Amin

Are all labor regulations equal? Evidence from Indian manufacturing pp. 62-75

Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages

The unemployment effects of labor regulation around the world pp. 76-90

Horst Feldmann

Job creation and labor reform in Latin America pp. 91-105

David Kaplan

Unbundled institutions, human capital and growth pp. 106-120

Sambit Bhattacharyya

Growth and governance: A nonparametric analysis pp. 121-143

Kim Huynh and David Jacho-Chávez

Exit polls: Refugee assessments of North Korea's transition pp. 144-150

Yoonok Chang, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland

Challenging, complementing or assuming 'the Mandate of Heaven'? Political distrust and the rise of self-governing social organizations in rural China pp. 151-168

Vanesa Pesqué-Cela, Ran Tao, Yongdong Liu and Laixiang Sun

The impact of political leaders' profession and education on reforms pp. 169-193

Axel Dreher, Michael Lamla, Sarah Lein and Frank Somogyi