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Volume 34, issue 4, 2006

Rising inequality in China pp. 651-653

Guanghua Wan and Xiaobo Zhang

The inequality-growth nexus in the short and long run: Empirical evidence from China pp. 654-667

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

Income, income inequality, and health: Evidence from China pp. 668-693

Hongbin Li and Yi Zhu

The impact of growth and inequality on rural poverty in China pp. 694-712

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

Fiscal decentralization and political centralization in China: Implications for growth and inequality pp. 713-726

Xiaobo Zhang

Exchange rate volatility and regime change: A Visegrad comparison pp. 727-753

Evžen Kočenda and Juraj Valachy

Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo pp. 754-773

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

Foreign bank participation and access to credit across firms in developing countries pp. 774-795

George Clarke, Robert Cull and Maria Martinez Peria

CEO turnover, firm performance, and enterprise reform in China: Evidence from micro data pp. 796-817

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

Industrial development in the inland region of China: A case study of the motorcycle industry pp. 818-838

Tetsushi Sonobe, Dinghuan Hu and Keijiro Otsuka

Corruption and cross-border investment by multinational firms pp. 839-856

Shih-Ying Wu

Volume 34, issue 3, 2006

Reforms and growth in transition: Re-examining the evidence pp. 421-445

Elisabetta Falcetti, Tatiana Lysenko and Peter Sanfey

Political constraints and economic reform: Empirical evidence from the post-communist transition in the 1990s pp. 446-466

Byung-Yeon Kim and Jukka Pirttilä

Exchange rate regimes in Central and East European countries: Deeds vs. words pp. 467-483

Michael Frömmel and Franziska Schobert

Choice of exchange rate regime in transition economies: An empirical analysis pp. 484-498

Agnieszka Markiewicz

Towards the estimation of equilibrium exchange rates for transition economies: Methodological issues and a panel cointegration perspective pp. 499-517

Francisco Maeso-Fernandez, Chiara Osbat and Bernd Schnatz

Meta-analysis of the business cycle correlation between the euro area and the CEECs pp. 518-537

Jarko Fidrmuc and Iikka Korhonen

How synchronized are new EU member states with the euro area? Evidence from a structural factor model pp. 538-563

Sandra Eickmeier and Jörg Breitung

Fighting inflation in a dollarized economy: The case of Vietnam pp. 564-581

Michael Goujon

Reemployment of dislocated workers in urban China: The roles of information and incentives pp. 582-607

John Giles, Albert Park and Fang Cai

Privatization and firm performance: A comparison between rural and urban enterprises in China pp. 608-633

Xiao-yuan Dong, Louis Putterman and Bulent Unel

A semi-parametric partially linear investigation of the Kuznets' hypothesis pp. 634-647

Shu-Chin Lin, Ho-Chuan Huang and Hsiao-Wen Weng

Volume 34, issue 2, 2006

The Ukrainian labor market in transition: Evidence from a new panel data set pp. 195-199

Hartmut Lehmann and Katherine Terrell

Institutions, markets and men's and women's wage inequality: Evidence from Ukraine pp. 200-227

Ina Ganguli and Katherine Terrell

Determinants of unemployment duration in Ukraine pp. 228-247

Olga Kupets

The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market pp. 248-271

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti and Jonathan Wadsworth

Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine pp. 272-294

J. David Brown, John Earle and Volodymyr Vakhitov

Entry, exit, and the business cycle: Are cooperatives different? pp. 295-316

Virginie Perotin

Resolutions, recoveries and relationships: The evolution of payment disputes in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 317-337

William Pyle

Entrepreneurship and the evolution of income distributions in Poland and Russia pp. 338-356

Daniel Berkowitz and John E. Jackson

An investigation into the sources of fluctuation in real and nominal wage rates in eight EU countries: A structural VAR approach pp. 357-376

Tomoe Moore and Eric Pentecost

Supporting inefficient firms with capital subsidies: China and Germany in the 1990s pp. 377-401

Sebastian Claro

The saving-investment relationship revisited: New evidence from multivariate heterogeneous panel cointegration analyses pp. 402-419

Avik Chakrabarti

Volume 34, issue 1, 2006

Financial structure and monetary policy transmission in transition countries pp. 1-23

Adam Elbourne and Jakob de Haan

Measuring monetary independence: Evidence from a group of new EU member countries pp. 24-43

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Cezary Wójcik

Human capital and the future of transition economies pp. 44-56

Michael Spagat

Kleptocracy and corruption pp. 57-74

C. Fan

Growing apart: The division of labor and the breakdown of informal institutions pp. 75-91

Lewis S. Davis

Price markups and returns to scale in imperfect markets: Bulgaria and Hungary pp. 92-110

Rumen Dobrinsky, Gabor Korosi, Nikolay Markov and László Halpern

Effects of ownership and financial performance on corporate environmental performance pp. 111-129

Dietrich Earnhart and Lubomir Lizal

Chinese competition and its effects on Mexican maquiladoras pp. 130-145

Andre Mollick and Karina Wvalle-Vazquez

Privatization and restructuring in China: Evidence from shareholding ownership, 1995-2001 pp. 146-166

Gary Jefferson and Jian Su

Economic and institutional reform packages and their impact on productivity: A case study of Chinese township and village enterprises pp. 167-190

Junichi Ito

Volume 33, issue 4, 2005

Introduction: Poverty and labor markets in China pp. 641-643

Xin Meng

Has China crossed the river? The evolution of wage structure in urban China during reform and retrenchment pp. 644-663

Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

Wage inequality and between-firm wage dispersion in the 1990s: A comparison of rural and urban enterprises in China pp. 664-687

Xiao-yuan Dong

Migration and rural poverty in China pp. 688-709

Yang Du, Albert Park and Sangui Wang

Poverty, inequality, and growth in urban China, 1986-2000 pp. 710-729

Xin Meng, Robert Gregory and Youjuan Wang

Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001 pp. 730-752

Junsen Zhang, Yaohui Zhao, Albert Park and Xiaoqing Song

Sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in China pp. 753-771

Tao Wang

How and why transition made income inequality increase in urban Russia: A local study pp. 772-787

Bjorn Gustafsson and Ludmila Nivorozhkina

The patterns and determinants of longevity in Russia's regions: Evidence from panel data pp. 788-813

Oleksiy Ivaschenko

Fiscal federalism in rentier regions: Evidence from Russia pp. 814-834

Raj Desai, Lev Freinkman and Itzhak Goldberg

The sequencing of reform in transition economies pp. 835-850

David Barlow and Roxana Radulescu

Volume 33, issue 3, 2005

Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in the CIS Countries: Between the EU and Russia pp. 421-424

Lucio Vinhas de Souza

International capital markets and exchange rate stabilization in the CIS pp. 425-440

Gunther Schnabl

Does money matter in the CIS? Effects of monetary policy on output and prices pp. 441-461

Martha Starr

Money demand and inflation in dollarized economies: The case of Russia pp. 462-483

Nienke Oomes and Franziska Ohnsorge

Monetary policy rules for Russia pp. 484-499

Akram Esanov, Christian Merkl and Lucio Vinhas de Souza

In search of the liquidity effect in Ukraine pp. 500-516

Olena Bilan

Incentives for CEOs with multitasks: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises pp. 517-539

Chong-En Bai and Lixin Xu

The consumption and welfare implications of wage arrears in transition economies pp. 540-564

Dmytro Boyarchuk, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

The effect of employee stock ownership on wage and employment bargaining pp. 565-583

Rick Harbaugh

Unemployment dynamics and NAIRU estimates for accession countries: A univariate approach pp. 584-603

Mariam Camarero, Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre and Cecilio Tamarit

Employment dynamics in the Romanian labor market. A Markov chain Monte Carlo approach pp. 604-639

Alexandru Voicu

Volume 33, issue 2, 2005

Returns to schooling in transition: The Chinese, European, and Russian experiences pp. 223-226

Belton Fleisher

Wage determination under plan and early transition: Bulgarian evidence using matched employer-employee data pp. 227-243

Derek Jones and Kosali Simon

Determinants of schooling returns during transition: Evidence from Chinese cities pp. 244-264

Dennis Yang

Returns to schooling in China under planning and reform pp. 265-277

Belton Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

Is women's human capital valued more by markets than by planners? pp. 278-299

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000 pp. 300-323

Daniela Andrén, John Earle and Dana Sapatoru

Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis pp. 324-350

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

Returns to skills and the speed of reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia pp. 351-370

Belton Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Xiaojun Wang

Can EU conditionality remedy soft budget constraints in transition countries? pp. 371-386

Herbert Brücker, Philipp Schröder and Christian Weise

Real and nominal stochastic convergence: Are the new EU members ready to join the Euro zone? pp. 387-400

Ali Kutan and Taner Yigit

Productivity growth in OECD countries: A comparison with Malmquist indices pp. 401-420

Barış Yörük and Osman Zaim

Volume 33, issue 1, 2005

The multi-regime bank lending channel and the effectiveness of the Polish monetary policy transmission during transition pp. 1-24

Rafal Kierzenkowski

Market economic systems pp. 25-46

Frederic L. Pryor

Bundling of social and private goods and the soft budget constraint problem pp. 47-58

Lars-Hendrik Roller and Zhentang Zhang

The incidence and cost of job loss in a transition economy: displaced workers in Estonia, 1989 to 1999 pp. 59-87

Hartmut Lehmann, Kaia Philips and Jonathan Wadsworth

Heterogeneous labor markets and generosity towards the unemployed: an international perspective pp. 88-106

Stephane Pallage and Christian Zimmermann

The migration response to economic shock: lessons from Kazakhstan pp. 107-132

Charles M. Becker, Erbolat N. Musabek, Ai-Gul S. Seitenova and Dina S. Urzhumova

Institution and inequality: the hukou system in China pp. 133-157

Zhiqiang Liu

Medals in transition: explaining medal performance and inequality of Chinese provinces pp. 158-172

Minghua Jiang and Lixin Xu

Local tax system, intergovernmental transfers and China's local fiscal disparities pp. 173-196

Kai-yuen Tsui

The changing role of grain cooperatives in the transition to competitive markets in South Africa pp. 197-218

Jenifer Piesse, Tobias Doyer, Colin Thirtle and Nick Vink