Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 30, issue 4, 2002

Debt Overhang and Barter in Russia pp. 635-656

Sergei Guriev, Igor Makarov and Mathilde Maurel

Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises pp. 657-682

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

Relative Living Standards in New Market Economies: Evidence from Central Asian Household Surveys pp. 683-708

Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret

The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women pp. 709-731

Margaret Maurer-Fazio and James Hughes

Urban Demand for Edible Oils and Fats in China: Evidence from Household Survey Data pp. 732-753

Cheng Fang and John Beghin

Introduction Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance pp. 754-758

Laixiang Sun

Information, Incentives, and Option Value: The Silicon Valley Model pp. 759-786

Masahiko Aoki and Hirokazu Takizawa

Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China's Township-Village Enterprises pp. 787-811

Jiahua Che

Share Ownership and Employee Attitudes: Some Evidence from China's Postprivatization Rural Industry pp. 812-835

Xiao-yuan Dong, Paul Bowles and Samuel P. S. Ho

Does a Switch of Budget Regimes Affect Investment and Managerial Discretion of State-Owned Enterprises? Evidence from Italian Firms pp. 836-863

Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi

Volume 30, issue 3, 2002

The Political Economy of Privatization and Competition: Cross-Country Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector pp. 439-462

Wei Li and Lixin Xu

Household Savings in the Transition pp. 463-475

Cevdet Denizer, Holger Wolf and Yvonne Ying

Survey-Based Estimates of Biases in Consumer Price Indices during Transition: Evidence from Romania pp. 476-487

Randall Filer and Jan Hanousek

Interaction between Economic and Political Factors in the Migration Decision pp. 488-504

Kit-Chun Lam

Greater China and the World Economy: Introduction to the Second Symposium pp. 505-506

Kar-yiu Wong

Accounting for Economic Growth in Taiwan and Mainland China: A Comparative Analysis pp. 507-530

Gregory Chow and An-loh Lin

The Emergence of a Greater China and Its Impact on World Trade: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 531-566

Zhi Wang and Edward G. Schuh

Determinants of U.S. and Japanese Direct Investment in China pp. 567-578

K.C. Fung, Hitomi Iizaka and Stephen Parker

Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: Evidence from China pp. 579-602

Zhiqiang Liu

Effects of U.S. Inflation on Hong Kong and Singapore pp. 603-619

Yin-Wong Cheung and Jude Yuen

Laixiang Sun, Aggregate Behaviour of Investment in China, 1953-96: An Analysis of Investment Hunger and Fluctuation pp. 620-622

Hiroyuki Imai

Parathrathi Banerjee and Frank-Jurgen Richter, Eds., Intangibles in Competition and Cooperation: Euro-Asian Perspectives pp. 623-625

Nagy Hanna

Paul Seabright, Ed., The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies pp. 626-628

Anders Aslund

Jerry F. Hough, The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia pp. 629-631

Peter Rutland

Gary S. Fields, Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World pp. 632-633

Gustav Ranis

Volume 30, issue 2, 2002

Defying the Odds: Initial Conditions, Reforms, and Growth in the First Decade of Transition pp. 229-250

Elisabetta Falcetti, Martin Raiser and Peter Sanfey

Employment and Wage Adjustment: Insider-Outsider Control in a Polish Privatization Panel Study pp. 251-275

Atanas Christev and Felix FitzRoy

The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination pp. 276-295

Dean Jolliffe

Organizational Type and Efficiency in the Costa Rican Coffee Processing Sector pp. 296-316

Robert Mosheim

Audit Hierarchy in a Corrupt Tax Administration: A Note with Qualifications and Extensions pp. 317-324

Amal Sanyal

Introduction: Transforming Rural China pp. 325-328

James Kung

The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets During the Reforms pp. 329-353

Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang and Yigang Zhang

Income Determination and Market Opportunity in Rural China, 1978-1996 pp. 354-375

Andrew G. Walder

Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China pp. 376-394

Yaohui Zhao

Off-Farm Labor Markets and the Emergence of Land Rental Markets in Rural China pp. 395-414

James Kung

The Determinants of Employee Ownership in China's Privatized Rural Industry: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong pp. 415-437

Xiao-yuan Dong, Paul Bowles and Samuel P. S. Ho

Volume 30, issue 1, 2002

Ownership and the Temptation to Loot: Evidence from Privatized Firms in the Czech Republic pp. 1-24

Robert Cull, Jana Matesova and Mary Shirley

Overbanked and Credit-Starved: A Paradox of the Transition pp. 25-50

William Pyle

Central Control of Regional Budgets: Theory with Applications to Russia pp. 51-75

John M. Litwack

Trade Flows in the Former Soviet Union, 1987 to 1996 pp. 76-90

Simeon Djankov and Caroline Freund

Microeconometric Studies of Russian Labor Markets in Transition: Introduction to a Symposium pp. 91-95

John Earle and Hartmut Lehmann

Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative? pp. 96-133

J. David Brown and John Earle

Marshall and Labor Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics pp. 134-159

Jozef Konings and Hartmut Lehmann

Five Years after: The Impact of Mass Privatization on Wages in Russia, 1993-1998 pp. 160-190

Elizabeth Brainerd

The Great Human Capital Reallocation: A Study of Occupational Mobility in Transitional Russia pp. 191-217

Klara Sabirianova Peter

David Throsby, Economics and Culture pp. 218-219

H. Peter Gray

William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics pp. 220-222

Gerald M. Meier

Lawrence Peter King, The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia pp. 223-224

Victor Nee

Volume 29, issue 4, 2001

The Politics of Co-optation pp. 591-607

Graziella Bertocchi and Michael Spagat

Tests of Financial Intermediation and Banking Reform in China pp. 608-644

Albert Park and Kaja Sehrt

Efficiency Wages and Work Incentives in Urban and Rural China pp. 645-662

Belton Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

Will the Future Be Better Tomorrow? The Growth Prospects of Transition Economies Revisited pp. 663-676

Nauro Campos

Testing for Ongoing Convergence in Transition Economies, 1970 to 1998 pp. 677-691

Saul Estrin, Giovanni Urga and Stepana Lazarova

Economic Consequences of Political Approval Management in Comparative Perspective pp. 692-721

Daniel Houser and John Freeman

Law Enforcement and Legal Presumptions pp. 722-748

Mehmet Bac and Parimal Bag

Hardened Budgets and Enterprise Restructuring: Theory and an Application to Romania pp. 749-763

Fabrizio Coricelli and Simeon Djankov

Janos Kornai, Stephan Haggard, and Robert R. Kaufman (Eds.), Reforming the State--Fiscal and Welfare Reform in Post-socialist Countries pp. 764-766

Jozef M. van Brabant

Lawrence R. Klein and Marshall Pomer (Eds.), The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry pp. 767-769

Vladimir Kontorovich

Thomasz Mickiewicz and Janice Bell, Unemployment in Transition: Restructuring and Labour Markets in Central Europe pp. 770-772

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski

Heather D. Gibson (Ed.), Economic Transformation, Democratization and Integration into the European Union: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective pp. 773-775

Richard S. Eckaus

Brigitte Granville (Ed.), Essays on the World Economy and Its Financial System pp. 776-779

Lucjan Orlowski

Mushtaq H. Khan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Eds.), Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia pp. 780-782

Peter Kilby

Heather Smith (Ed.), Looking Forward: Korea after the Economic Crisis pp. 783-785

F. Gerard Adams

Volume 29, issue 3, 2001

The Transformational Recession under a Resources Mobility Constraint pp. 403-416

Stanislaw Gomulka and John Lane

Dynamics of Privatization under a Subsistence Constraint pp. 417-447

Michael Alexeev and Michael Kaganovich

Is Economic Reform Popular at the Polls? Russia 1995 pp. 448-465

Andrew Warner

On Regional Inequality and Diverging Clubs: A Case Study of Contemporary China pp. 466-484

Shujie Yao and Zongyi Zhang

The Two-Tier Labor Market in Urban China: Occupational Segregation and Wage Differentials between Urban Residents and Rural Migrants in Shanghai pp. 485-504

Xin Meng and Junsen Zhang

Off-Farm Jobs and On-Farm Work in Periods of Boom and Bust in Rural China pp. 505-526

Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle and Jikun Huang

Market Reforms Versus Structural Reforms in Rural China pp. 527-541

Colin Carter and Andrew J. Estrin

Biased Technical Change, Growth Accounting, and the Conundrum of the East Asian Miracle pp. 542-565

Jesus Felipe and John McCombie

Gerard Roland, Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms pp. 566-568

Claudia Buch

Serguey Braguinsky and Grigory Yavlinsky, Incentives and Institutions: The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia pp. 569-571

Anders Aslund

Robert J. Struyk (Ed.), Home Ownership and Housing Finance Policy in the Former Soviet Bloc: Costly Populism pp. 572-576

Robert Buckley

Clemens Schutte, Privatization and Corporate Control in the Czech Republic pp. 577-578

Morris Bornstein

Katharina Muller, The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Central-Eastern Europe pp. 579-580

Jan Adam

Jan Adam, Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy in Post-Socialist Countries: The Cases of Poland, The Czech Republic and Hungary pp. 581-583

Debra Bailey Whitman

Zoltan Bara and Laszlo Csaba (Eds.), Small Economies Adjustment to Global Tendencies pp. 584-585

Jozef M. van Brabant

Alexander E. Fleming and Marcelo M. Giugale (Eds.), Financial Systems in Transition: A Flow of Funds Analysis of Financial Evolution in Eastern Europe and Central Asia pp. 586-587

Perry L. Patterson

Peter C. Y. Chow and Bates Gill (Eds.), Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the Asian Financial Crisis pp. 588-590

Marcus Noland

Volume 29, issue 2, 2001

Insider Lending and Bank Ownership: The Case of Russia pp. 207-229

Luc Laeven

Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion: A Segmentation Model of the Russian Labor Market pp. 230-256

Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik, Thierry Verdier, Stanislav Kolenikov and Elena Paltseva

Sources of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations in Transition Economies: The Case of Poland and Hungary pp. 257-275

Selahattin Dibooglu and Ali Kutan

How Far Has Trade Integration Advanced?: An Analysis of the Actual and Potential Trade of Three Central and Eastern European Countries pp. 276-292

Zoltán Jakab, Mihaly A. Kovacs and Andras Oszlay

Inflation Stabilization, Fiscal Deficits, and Public Debt Management in Poland pp. 293-309

Sweder van Wijnbergen and Nina Budina

Introduction to the Symposium: Greater China and the World Economy pp. 310-313

Kar-yiu Wong

Export Duty Rebates and Export Performance: Theory and China's Experience pp. 314-326

Chi-Chur Chao, W. L. Chou and Eden Yu

Impact of Ownership and Competition on the Productivity of Chinese Enterprises pp. 327-346

Anming Zhang, Yimin Zhang and Ronald Zhao

Determinants of the Performance of Foreign Invested Enterprises in China pp. 347-365

Leonard K. Cheng and Changqi Wu

Structural Transformation and Economic Growth in Hong Kong: Another Look at Young's Hong Kong Thesis pp. 366-382

Hiroyuki Imai

Eric S. Maskin and Andras Simonovits (Eds.), Planning, Shortage, and Transformation: Essays in Honor of Janos Kornai pp. 383-385

Jeffrey Miller

A. B. Atkinson, The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State pp. 386-388

Robert Moffitt

Tuomas Komulainen and Iikka Korhonen, Eds., Russian Crisis and Its Effects pp. 389-390

Anders Aslund

Myung-Gun Choo, The New Asia in Global Perspective pp. 391-393

Guanzhong James Wen

James H. Gapinski, Economic Growth in the Asia Pacific Region pp. 394-396

M. Dutta

Youngil Lim, Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up pp. 397-399

Larry E. Westphal

Lance Taylor (Ed.), After Neoliberalism: What Next for Latin America? pp. 400-402

Alberto Isgut

Volume 29, issue 1, 2001

Macroeconomic Convergence in Transition Countries pp. 1-23

Evžen Kočenda

Implementing Inflation Targeting Regimes: The Case of Poland pp. 24-39

Jan Gottschalk and David Moore

Income Inequality in Early Transition: The Case of Hungary 1987-1996 pp. 40-65

Paul Kattuman and Gerry Redmond

Corruption and Economic Growth pp. 66-79

Pak-Hung Mo

Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in China: An Empirical Investigation pp. 80-94

Zhichao Zhang

Infrastructure Development and Economic Growth: An Explanation for Regional Disparities in China? pp. 95-117

Sylvie Démurger

The Anatomy of Rising Earnings Inequality in Urban China pp. 118-135

Bjorn Gustafsson and Shi Li

Ownership, Government R&D, Private R&D, and Productivity in Chinese Industry pp. 136-157

Guangzhou Hu

Implications of Interjurisdictional Competition in Transition: The Case of the Chinese Tobacco Industry pp. 158-182

Huizhong Zhou

Annette N. Brown (Ed.), When Is Transition Over? pp. 183-184

Josef Brada

Guido Biessen et al. (Eds.), The Second Decade--Prospects for European Integration after Ten Years of Transition pp. 185-187

Jozef M. van Brabant

Jeanine Braithwaite, Christiaan Grootaert, and Branko Milanovic, Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries pp. 188-189

Bozena Leven

King Banaian, The Ukrainian Economy Since Independence pp. 190-192

Fyodor Kushnirsky

Simon Clarke, The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia pp. 193-194

Susan Linz

Hans-Werner Sinn, The German State Banks: Global Players in the International Financial Markets pp. 195-197

Richard Deeg

Riccardo Bellofiore (Ed.), Global Money, Capital Restructuring, and the Changing Patterns of Labor pp. 198-200

Christian Weller

Mike Wright and Ken Robbie (Eds.), Management Buy-Outs and Venture Capital: Into the Next Millennium pp. 201-202

David J. Brophy