Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 36, issue 4, 2008

The slow decline of East Germany pp. 517-541

Harald Uhlig

Escaping the unemployment trap: The case of East Germany pp. 542-556

Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower

What kind of shock was it? Regional integration and structural change in Germany after unification pp. 557-567

Michael Burda

Business environment and enterprise behaviour in East Germany compared to West Germany and Central Europe pp. 568-583

Libor Krkoska and Katrin Robeck

Are private transfers poverty and inequality reducing? Household level evidence from Bulgaria pp. 584-598

Ralitza Dimova and François-Charles Wolff

Emerging ethnic wage gap: Estonia during political and economic transition pp. 599-619

Kristian-Olari Leping and Ott Toomet

The real exchange rate of the dollar for a panel of OECD countries: Balassa-Samuelson or distribution sector effect? pp. 620-632

Mariam Camarero

Could financial distortions be no impediment to economic growth after all? Evidence from China pp. 633-657

Alessandra Guariglia and Sandra Poncet

Technology diversity and development: Evidence from China's industrial enterprises pp. 658-672

Karen Fisher-Vanden and Gary Jefferson

Does stock market liberalization spur financial and economic development in the MENA region? pp. 673-693

Sami Ben Naceur, Samir Ghazouani and Mohammed Omran

The effect of patent laws on invention rates: Evidence from cross-country panels pp. 694-704

Qiang Chen

Volume 36, issue 3, 2008

Public governance and corporate finance: Evidence from corruption cases pp. 343-364

Joseph P.H. Fan, Oliver Rui and Mengxin Zhao

Economic and social factors driving the third wave of democratization pp. 365-387

Elias Papaioannou and Gregorios Siourounis

Why separate monetary policy from banking supervision? pp. 388-411

Raphael Franck and Miriam Krausz

Economic institutions and FDI location choice: Evidence from US multinationals in China pp. 412-429

Julan Du, Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Entry of foreign banks and their impact on host countries pp. 430-452

Maria Lehner and Monika Schnitzer

Beyond borders--Reconsidering regional trade in Central Asia pp. 453-466

Clemens Grafe, Martin Raiser and Toshiaki Sakatsume

The social costs of bank market power: Evidence from Mexico pp. 467-488

Liliana Solís and Joaquin Maudos

Privatization of real options pp. 489-497

Enrico Pennings

Ownership, business environment and productivity change pp. 498-509

Gabriel Asaftei, Subal Kumbhakar and Dorin Mantescu

Culture rules: A note on economic systems and values pp. 510-515

Frederic L. Pryor

Volume 36, issue 2, 2008

International trade, security and transnational terrorism: Theory and a survey of empirics pp. 179-194

Daniel Mirza and Thierry Verdier

Governance regimes, corruption and growth: Theory and evidence pp. 195-220

Toke Aidt, Jayasri Dutta and Vania Sena

On the relationship between fiscal plans in the European Union: An empirical analysis based on real-time data pp. 221-242

Massimo Giuliodori and Roel Beetsma

Glass ceiling or sticky floor? Examining the gender earnings differential across the earnings distribution in urban China, 1987-2004 pp. 243-263

Wei Chi and Bo Li

Mind the gap! Social capital, East and West pp. 264-286

Jan Fidrmuc and Klarita Gërxhani

Measuring underground (unobserved, non-observed, unrecorded) economies in transition countries: Can we trust GDP? pp. 287-306

Edgar Feige and Ivica Urban

EU eastern enlargement and foreign investment: Implications from a neoclassical growth model pp. 307-325

Kateryna Garmel, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

Spatial competition in a mixed duopoly with one partially nationalized firm pp. 326-341

Ashutosh Kumar and Bibhas Saha

Volume 36, issue 1, 2008

Assessing pacification policy in Iraq: Evidence from Iraqi financial markets pp. 1-16

Eric Chaney

Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence pp. 17-42

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Yegor Grygorenko

The levers of legal design: Institutional determinants of the quality of law pp. 43-73

Gillian K. Hadfield

Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does government ownership always reduce corporate value? pp. 74-89

Lihui Tian and Saul Estrin

Policy burden, privatization and soft budget constraint pp. 90-102

Justin Lin and Daniel Li

Social rights in the constitution and in practice pp. 103-119

Avi Ben-Bassat and Momi Dahan

Optimal monetary policy with Balassa-Samuelson-type productivity shocks pp. 120-141

Igor Masten

The EU's attitude towards Eastern Enlargement in space pp. 142-156

Peter Egger, Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr and Janette Walde

Regional-local dimension of Russia's fiscal equalization pp. 157-176

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev

Volume 35, issue 4, 2007

Culture rules: The foundations of the rule of law and other norms of governance pp. 659-688

Amir N. Licht, Chanan Goldschmidt and Shalom Schwartz

Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse pp. 689-710

Peter Leeson

Measuring legal systems pp. 711-728

Howard Rosenthal and Erik Voeten

Pitfalls to avoid when measuring institutions: Is Doing Business damaging business? pp. 729-747

Benito Arruñada

Finance and inequality: Channels and evidence pp. 748-773

Stijn Claessens and Enrico Perotti

How does FDI affect China? Evidence from industries and provinces pp. 774-799

Jimmy Ran, Jan P. Voon and Guangzhong Li

Volume 35, issue 3, 2007

Corruption around the world: Evidence from a structural model pp. 443-466

Axel Dreher, Christos Kotsogiannis and Steve McCorriston

Does democracy increase crime? The evidence from international data pp. 467-483

Ming-Jen Lin

When do creditor rights work? pp. 484-508

Mehnaz Safavian and Siddharth Sharma

Foreign direct investment and macroeconomic risk pp. 509-519

Yothin Jinjarak

Allocating lawmaking powers: Self-regulation vs government regulation pp. 520-545

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Political labor market, government policy, and stability of a non-democratic regime pp. 546-563

Valery Lazarev

Assessing the economic performance of North Korea, 1954-1989: Estimates and growth accounting analysis pp. 564-582

Byung-Yeon Kim, Suk Jin Kim and Keun Lee

Elections, fiscal reform and public goods provision in rural China pp. 583-611

Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Self-selection and wages during volatile transition pp. 612-629

Ralitza Dimova and Ira Gang

Bank supervision Russian style: Evidence of conflicts between micro- and macro-prudential concerns pp. 630-657

Sophie Claeys and Koen Schoors

Volume 35, issue 2, 2007

Introduction: Courts and Judges pp. 253-(null)

Pablo Spiller

Are Russian commercial courts biased? Evidence from a bankruptcy law transplant pp. 254-277

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Konstantin Sonin and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Legal origin? pp. 278-293

Daniel Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney

Juries and the political economy of legal origin pp. 294-308

Mark Roe

Overruling and the instability of law pp. 309-328

Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

Political uncertainty's effect on judicial recruitment and retention: Japan in the 1990s pp. 329-345

John Ramseyer and Eric Rasmusen

Employment policy and corporate governance-- An empirical comparison of the stakeholder and the profit-maximization model pp. 346-368

Naohito Abe and Satoshi Shimizutani

Foreign direct investment in European transition economies--The role of policies pp. 369-386

Dimitri Demekas, Balazs Horvath, Elina Ribakova and Yi Wu

Central bank interventions, communication and interest rate policy in emerging European economies pp. 387-413

Balázs Égert

Corporate governance and investment in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 414-437

Dennis Mueller and Evgeni Peev

The "Montias case," 1964: Excerpt from Janos Kornai's book By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey pp. 438-442

János Kornai

Volume 35, issue 1, 2007

Editorial Statement from Daniel Berkowitz and Gerard Roland pp. 1-2

Daniel Berkowitz and Gérard Roland

Privatization and output behavior during the transition: Methods matter! pp. 3-34

Fabian Gouret

Inequality and growth: What does the transition economy data say? pp. 35-56

Grigor Sukiassyan

Modeling transformation in CEECs using smooth transitions pp. 57-86

Neil Foster-McGregor and Robert Stehrer

Long-run real exchange rate determinants: Evidence from eight new EU member states, 1993-2003 pp. 87-107

Bertrand Candelon, Clemens Kool, Katharina Raabe and Tom van Veen

The soft budget constraint of banks pp. 108-135

Julan Du and David D. Li

Tax morale and conditional cooperation pp. 136-159

Bruno Frey and Benno Torgler

Intrinsic motivation in open source software development pp. 160-169

Jürgen Bitzer, Wolfram Schrettl and Philipp Schröder

When do female occupations pay more? pp. 170-187

Stepan Jurajda and Heike Harmgart

Exchange and interest rate channels during a deflationary era--Evidence from Japan, Hong Kong and China pp. 188-210

Aaron Mehrotra

Economic growth in the presence of FDI: The perspective of newly industrialising economies pp. 211-234

Shujie Yao and Kailei Wei

The effects of bonus systems on firm performance in Taiwan's high-tech sector pp. 235-249

Tzu-Shian Han and Chung-Hua Shen

Appreciation pp. 250-252

John P. Bonin