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Volume 32, issue 4, 2004

Corporate governance and market valuation in China pp. 599-616

Chong-En Bai, Qiao Liu, Joe Lu, Frank M. Song and Junxi Zhang

Political control and performance in China's listed firms pp. 617-636

Eric C. Chang and Sonia M.L. Wong

Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China pp. 637-660

John Knight and Linda Yueh

Testing Vietnam's public safety net pp. 661-679

Dominique van de Walle

Russia's accession to the WTO: the potential for trade increase pp. 680-699

Oxana Babetskaia-Kukharchuk and Mathilde Maurel

Landing on all fours? Communist elites in post-Soviet Russia pp. 700-719

Ingo Geishecker and John P. Haisken-DeNew

Public support for creating a market economy in Eastern Europe pp. 720-744

Bernd Hayo

Human capital, market imperfections, and labor reallocation in transition pp. 745-774

Marian Rizov and Johan Swinnen

The determinants of foreign direct investment into European transition economies pp. 775-787

Alan A. Bevan and Saul Estrin

The impact of bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment pp. 788-804

Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr

Foreign direct investment and vertical integration of production by Japanese multinationals in Thailand pp. 805-821

Chris Milner, Geoff Reed and Pawin Talerngsri

Volume 32, issue 3, 2004

Taxation and evasion in the presence of extortion by organized crime pp. 375-387

Michael Alexeev, Eckhard Janeba and Stefan Osborne

Public governance as the source of quality and variety gains from transition pp. 388-408

Richard Frensch

No pain, no gain: market reform, unemployment, and politics in Bulgaria pp. 409-425

Neven Valev

Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy in Croatia pp. 426-444

Andreas Billmeier and Leo Bonato

Spillovers of technology transfer from FDI: the case of Estonia pp. 445-466

Evis Sinani and Klaus Meyer

Convergence of price levels: lessons from the German reunification pp. 467-481

Philipp Maier and Paul Cavelaars

Comparing individual wage determinants in Western and Central Europe: on the way to convergence? The cases of France and Hungary pp. 482-499

Violaine Delteil, Ariane Pailhé and Dominique Redor

Decomposing the dividend pp. 500-518

Emili Grifell-Tatje and C. Lovell

Was there an implicit full guarantee at financial institutions in Thailand? Evidence of risk pricing by depositors pp. 519-541

Timothy Opiela

From inferior to superior products: an inquiry into the Wenzhou model of industrial development in China pp. 542-563

Tetsushi Sonobe, Dinghuan Hu and Keijiro Otsuka

Household food demand in urban China: a censored system approach pp. 564-585

Steven T. Yen, Fang Cheng and Shew-Jiuan Su

Gender wage gap in Vietnam: 1993 to 1998 pp. 586-596

Amy Y.C. Liu

Volume 32, issue 2, 2004

Optimum choice of the exchange-rate regime for the accession-candidate countries pp. 197-201

Jan Fidrmuc and Mathilde Maurel

Supply and demand shocks in accession countries to the Economic and Monetary Union pp. 202-211

Julius Horvath and Attila Rátfai

Exchange rate regimes and shocks asymmetry: the case of the accession countries pp. 212-229

Ian Babetskii, Laurence Boone and Mathilde Maurel

Migration and regional adjustment to asymmetric shocks in transition economies pp. 230-247

Jan Fidrmuc

Intra-national labor market adjustment in the candidate countries pp. 248-264

Peter Huber

EU enlargement and the internal geography of countries pp. 265-279

Matthieu Crozet and Pamina Koenig

How different is Eastern Europe? Structure and determinants of location choices by French firms in Eastern and Western Europe pp. 280-296

Anne-Célia Disdier and Thierry Mayer

Money, barter, and inflation in Russia pp. 297-314

Byung-Yeon Kim and Jukka Pirttilä

The role of oil prices and the real exchange rate in Russia's economy--a cointegration approach pp. 315-327

Jouko Rautava

Consumption smoothing during the economic transition in Bulgaria pp. 328-347

Emmanuel Skoufias

Accounting for income inequality in rural China: a regression-based approach pp. 348-363

Guanghua Wan

Financial Liberalization, How Far, How Fast?: By Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan, and Joseph Stiglitz, Editors. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001. ix + 318 pp., index, $53.00 pp. 364-366

David Kemme

Living with Environmental Change: Social Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience in Vietnam: Edited by W. Neil Adger, P. Mick Kelly, and Nguyen Huu Ninh. Routledge, London and New York, 2002. XXI + 314 pp., index, $90.00 pp. 367-369

Jonathan Haughton

Institutions, Transition Economies, and Economic Development: By Timothy J. Yeager. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1999. xv + 166 pp., index, $28.00, paper pp. 370-371

Ke-young Chu

Volume 32, issue 1, 2004

Foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern European countries: a dynamic panel analysis pp. 3-22

Kai Carstensen and Farid Toubal

Nominal and real stochastic convergence of transition economies pp. 23-36

Ali Kutan and Taner Yigit

The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs pp. 37-55

Jan van Ours

Private and public sector wages in Bulgaria pp. 56-72

Evangelos Falaris

Enterprise finance and investment in listed Hungarian firms pp. 73-87

Enrico Perotti and Luka Vesnaver

Searching for the value-subtraction in the Russian economy pp. 88-104

Vlad Ivanenko

Options and impact of China's pension reform: a computable general equilibrium analysis pp. 105-127

Yan Wang, Dianqing Xu, Zhi Wang and Fan Zhai

China's capital tax reforms in an open economy pp. 128-147

Shuanglin Lin

Limited linkages from growth engines and regional disparities in China pp. 148-164

Xiaolan Fu

How important is ownership in a market with level playing field?: The Indian banking sector revisited pp. 165-180

Sumon Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova

The resource curse hypothesis and its transmission channels pp. 181-193

Elissaios Papyrakis and Reyer Gerlagh

Volume 31, issue 4, 2003

The new comparative economics pp. 595-619

Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

Why not a political Coase theorem? Social conflict, commitment, and politics pp. 620-652

Daron Acemoglu

Law and finance: why does legal origin matter? pp. 653-675

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

Innovation in corporate law pp. 676-694

Katharina Pistor, Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Mark D. West

Firms facing new institutions: transactional governance in Romania pp. 695-714

Peter Murrell

Why the rich may favor poor protection of property rights pp. 715-731

Konstantin Sonin

Propping and tunneling pp. 732-750

Eric Friedman, Simon Johnson and Todd Mitton

Seize the state, seize the day: state capture and influence in transition economies pp. 751-773

Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones and Daniel Kaufmann

Labor market distortions and China's WTO accession package:: an applied general equilibrium assessment pp. 774-794

John Gilbert and Thomas Wahl

Labor supply in urban China pp. 795-817

Haizheng Li and Jeffrey Zax

Capital Flows and Crisis: By Barry Eichengreen. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 385 pp., $35.00 cloth pp. 818-820

Bozena Leven

Volume 31, issue 3, 2003

Bank discrimination in transition economies: ideology, information, or incentives? pp. 387-413

Loren Brandt and Hongbin Li

Incentive contracting versus ownership reforms: evidence from China's township and village enterprises pp. 414-428

Chun Chang, Brian McCall and Yijiang Wang

Potential residual and relative wages in Chinese township and village enterprises pp. 429-443

Belton Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

A study of the R&D efficiency and productivity of Chinese firms pp. 444-464

Anming Zhang, Yimin Zhang and Ronald Zhao

Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China pp. 465-485

Xin Meng

Government's budget constraint, competition, and privatization: evidence from China's rural industry pp. 486-502

Hongbin Li

Objectives and constraints of entrepreneurs: evidence from small and medium size enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria pp. 503-531

Francesca Pissarides, Miroslav Singer and Jan Svejnar

Informal economy activities of Soviet households: size and dynamics pp. 532-551

Byung-Yeon Kim

The Balassa-Samuelson effect in Central and Eastern Europe: myth or reality? pp. 552-572

Balázs Égert, Imed Drine, Kirsten Lommatzsch and Christophe Rault

Random pricing by labor-managed firms in markets with imperfect consumer information pp. 573-583

Norman J. Ireland

Volume 31, issue 2, 2003

Gender wage gap and segregation in enterprises and the public sector in late transition countries pp. 199-222

Stepan Jurajda

Bank competition and credit markets in transition economies pp. 223-245

Christa Hainz

The economics of land title reform pp. 246-256

Thomas Miceli and Joseph Kieyah

Non-performance risk and transaction costs in laboratory forward and spot markets pp. 257-274

Alla V. Yakunina, Dale J. Menkhaus, Owen R. Phillips and Victor E. Esipov

Informed trading and the bid-ask spread: evidence from an emerging market pp. 275-296

Jan Hanousek and Richard Podpiera

Managerial change, competition, and privatization in Ukraine pp. 297-314

Frédéric Warzynski

Does guanxi matter to nonfarm employment? pp. 315-331

Xiaobo Zhang and Guo Li

China's WTO accession: impacts on regional agricultural income-- a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis pp. 332-351

Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang

An inverse global environmental Kuznets curve pp. 352-368

Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Murthy

Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change: By Susan H. Whiting. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000. xix+ 348 pp., $59.95 pp. 375-377

Mark D. Brenner

Volume 31, issue 1, 2003

Commissars and cars: A case study in the political economy of dictatorship pp. 1-19

Valery Lazarev and Paul Gregory

Fiscal federalism and incentives in a Russian region pp. 20-33

Michael Alexeev and Galina Kurlyandskaya

Glamour and value in the land of Chingis Khan pp. 34-57

James Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

Privatization, partial state ownership, and competition pp. 58-74

John Bennett and James Maw

Profit sharing, worker effort, and double-sided moral hazard in an efficiency wage model pp. 75-93

Juin-jen Chang, Ching-chong Lai and Chung-cheng Lin

Foreign direct investment in Europe: Is there redirection from the South to the East? pp. 94-109

Claudia Buch, Robert M. Kokta and Daniel Piazolo

Soft budget constraints, social burdens, and labor redundancy in China's state industry pp. 110-133

Xiao-yuan Dong and Louis Putterman

Efficiency, technical progress, and best practice in Chinese state enterprises (1980-1994) pp. 134-152

Jinghai Zheng, Xiaoxuan Liu and Arne Bigsten