Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 28, issue 4, 2000

Tenures That Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland, and Britain pp. 639-664

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

An Arrears Crisis and Stabilization Failure in a Transition Economy pp. 665-699

Maxim Nikitin

Product Market Competition in Transition Economies: Increasing Varieties and Consumer Loyalty pp. 700-715

Mitsutoshi M. Adachi

A Multitask Theory of State Enterprise Reform pp. 716-738

Chong-En Bai, David D. Li, Zhigang Tao and Yijiang Wang

Liability Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Firms' Investment and Liquidation Decisions pp. 739-761

Liang Zou and Laixiang Sun

Macroeconomic Policy and Ownership Structure in a Mixed Transition Economy pp. 762-785

Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Jinping Yu

Ownership, Productivity Change, and Financial Performance in Chinese Industry pp. 786-813

Gary Jefferson, Thomas Rawski, Wang Li and Zheng Yuxin

The Great Leap Forward, Economic Reforms, and the Unit Root Hypothesis: Testing for Breaking Trend Functions in China's GDP Data pp. 814-827

Xiao-Ming Li

Singapore's Manufacturing Sector's TFP Growth: A Decomposition Analysis pp. 828-839

Renuka Mahadevan and Kaliappa Kalirajan

Peter Boone, Stanislaw Gomulka, and Richard Layard (Eds.), Emerging from Communism: Lessons from Russia, China, and Eastern Europe pp. 840-841

Judith Thornton

Tsu-Tan Fu, Cliff J. Huang, and C. A. Knox Lovell, (Eds.), Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region pp. 842-844

Timothy G. Taylor

Janos Gacs, Robert Holzman, and Michael L. Wyzan, (Eds.), The Mixed Blessing of Financial Inflows: Transition Countries in Comparative Perspective pp. 845-848

David Kemme

Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (Eds.), China: Twenty Years of Economic Reform pp. 849-852

Jan Prybyla

Volume 28, issue 3, 2000

Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic pp. 431-455

Vit Sorm and Katherine Terrell

The Evolution of Stock Markets in Transition Economies pp. 456-472

Michael Rockinger and Giovanni Urga

A Stochastic Frontier Approach to Firm Level Efficiency, Technological Change, and Productivity during the Early Transition in Hungary pp. 473-501

Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle

Living Standards during Transition to a Market Economy: The Kyrgyz Republic in 1993 and 1996 pp. 502-523

Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret

The Labor Income Tax Equivalent of Price Scissors in Prereform China pp. 524-544

Hiroyuki Imai

Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Post-Collective Chinese Agriculture: Evidence from Farm-Level Data pp. 545-564

Zinan Liu and Juzhong Zhuang

The Incidence of Surplus Labor in Rural China: A Nonparametric Estimation pp. 565-580

Ng Ying Chu, Li Sung-ko and Tsang Shu-ki

On the Neutrality of Asset Ownership for Work Incentives pp. 581-605

Gregory Dow

Seniority-Wage System and the Growth of a Labor-Managed Firm pp. 606-618

Tamotsu Nakamura

A Note on Comparative Statics for a Labor-Managed Firm Engaged in Exporting pp. 619-625

Andrzej Baniak

Mario I. Blejer and Marko Skreb, Financial Sector Transformation--Lessons from Economies in Transition pp. 626-628

Claudia Buch

David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture pp. 629-631

Martin C. Spechler

Thomas Lange and J. R. Shackleton, Eds., The Political Economy of German Unification pp. 632-634

Jeffrey Kopstein

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Albania in Crisis: The Predictable Fall of the Shining Star pp. 635-637

Peter Sanfey

Volume 28, issue 2, 2000

Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft Budgets? Evidence on the Effects of Ownership and Decentralization in Mongolia pp. 219-246

James Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

Property Rights and the Nature of Chinese Collective Enterprises pp. 247-268

Guoqiang Tian

The Road to Capitalism: Competition and Institutional Change in China pp. 269-292

Shaomin Li, Shuhe Li and Weiying Zhang

The Impact of Credit Control and Interest Rate Regulation on the Transforming Chinese Economy: An Analysis of Long-Run Effects pp. 293-320

Michael Ka-Yiu Fung, Wai-Ming Ho and Lijing Zhu

The Impact of Financial Liberalization on Stock Price Volatility in Emerging Markets pp. 321-339

Bwo-Nung Huang and Chin-Wei Yang

Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Developed Countries: The German-Austrian Bausparkassen pp. 340-363

Ulrich Scholten

Audit Hierarchy in a Corrupt Tax Administration pp. 364-378

Amal Sanyal

Environmental Crime and Punishment in the Czech Republic: Penalties against Firms and Employees pp. 379-399

Dietrich Earnhart

Modeling Korean Unification pp. 400-421

Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson and Tao Wang

Ben S. Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, Frederic S. Mishkin, and Adam S. Posen, Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience pp. 422-425

Lucjan Orlowski

Marie Lavigne, The Economics of Transition: From Socialist Economy to Market Economy pp. 426-427

Yiping Huang

Gary R. Saxonhouse and T. N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Development, Duality, and the International Economic Regime: Essays in Honor of Gustav Ranis pp. 428-430

Gerald M. Meier

Volume 28, issue 1, 2000

Bureaucrats, State Banks, and the Efficiency of Credit Allocation: The Experience of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises pp. 1-31

Robert Cull and Lixin Xu

Prereform Industry and State Monopsony in China pp. 32-60

Xiao-yuan Dong and Louis Putterman

Exchange Rate Variability and China's Exports pp. 61-79

W. L. Chou

Agency and Self-Enforcing Contracts pp. 80-94

Zhigang Tao and Tian Zhu

Choosing between Big-Bang and Gradualist Reforms: An Option Price Approach pp. 95-107

Barbara Katz and Joel Owen

Money Growth-Inflation Relationship in Postcommunist Russia pp. 108-133

Milan Nikolic

Soviet Industrial Production, 1928 to 1955: Real Growth and Hidden Inflation pp. 134-155

Mark Harrison

Income Inequality and the Informal Economy in Transition Economies pp. 156-171

J. Rosser, Marina V. Rosser and Ehsan Ahmed

Causes of Output Decline in Economic Transition: The Case of Central and Eastern European Agriculture pp. 172-206

Karen Macours and Johan Swinnen

Volume 27, issue 4, 1999

Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation pp. 595-617

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti

Human Capital, Growth, and Inequality in Russia pp. 618-643

C. Fan, Jody Overland and Michael Spagat

The Income, Savings, and Monetary Overhang of Soviet Households pp. 644-668

Byung-Yeon Kim

Monetary Growth and Inflation in China: A Reexamination pp. 669-685

Mohammad S. Hasan

Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural-Urban and Inland-Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995 pp. 686-701

Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang

Wages and Employment in China's SOEs, 1980-1994: Corporatization, Market Development, and Insider Forces pp. 702-729

Young Lee

Evidence of European Trade and Investment U-Shaping Industrial Output in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania pp. 730-752

Alexandre Repkine and Patrick Walsh

The Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Breakup of Czechoslovakia pp. 753-781

Jan Fidrmuc, Julius Horvath and Jarko Fidrmuc

Kari Alho, Mika Erkkila, and Markku Kotilainen (Eds.), The Economics and Politics of Integration -- a Finnish Perspective pp. 782-784

Pekka Sutela

Peter Gottschalk, Bjorn Gustafson, and Edward Palmer (Eds.), Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare. An International Perspective pp. 785-789

Branko Milanovic

Jean C. Oi, Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform pp. 790-793

Jan Prybyla

Jozeph M. van Brabant, The Political Economy of Transition: Coming to Grips With History and Methodology pp. 794-796

Peter Rutland

Yanrui Wu, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in China pp. 797-798

Richard Pomfret

Volume 27, issue 3, 1999

Corporate Governance in the Former Soviet Union pp. 395-397

Saul Estrin and Mike Wright

Corporate Governance in the Former Soviet Union: An Overview pp. 398-421

Saul Estrin and Mike Wright

The Nature and Determinants of Ownership Changes after Privatization: Evidence from Estonia pp. 422-441

Derek Jones and Niels Mygind

Enterprise Performance and Corporate Governance in Ukraine pp. 442-458

Saul Estrin and Adam Rosevear

Corporate Governance and Employee Ownership in an Economic Crisis: Enterprise Strategies in the Former USSR pp. 459-474

Trevor Buck, Igor Filatotchev, Mike Wright and Vladimir Zhukov

Spatial Patterns in China's Rural Industrial Growth and Prospects for the Alleviation of Regional Income Inequality pp. 475-497

Denise Hare and Loraine A. West

Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance in the Czech Republic pp. 498-513

Stijn Claessens and Simeon Djankov

Corporate Farm Performance in Russia, 1991-1995: An Efficiency Analysis pp. 514-533

David Sedik, Michael Trueblood and Carlos Arnade

The Determinants of Official and Free-Market Exchange Rates in Albania during Transition pp. 534-552

Marta Muco, Harry Papapanagos and Peter Sanfey

Shanghai Stock Prices as Determined by the Present-Value Model pp. 553-561

Gregory C. Chow, Zhao-zhi Fan and Jin-yan Hu

T. M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke, and Pyaralal Raghavan, Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative. The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1998 pp. 576-579

Stephen Smith

Branko Milanovic, Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1998. xiii + 237 pp., $30.00 pp. 586-588

Martin Raiser

Volume 27, issue 2, 1999

The Value of Waiting: Russia's Integration into the International Capital Markets pp. 209-230

Claudia Buch, Ralph P. Heinrich and Christian Pierdzioch

Privatization and Price Convergence: Evidence from Four Markets in Kyiv pp. 231-257

Patrick Conway

A Neoclassical Growth Model Applied to Transition in Central Europe pp. 259-280

Libor Krkoska

The Enterprise Isolation Program in Romania pp. 281-293

Simeon Djankov

Output and Exports in Transition Economies: A Labor Management Model pp. 295-317

John Bennett, Saul Estrin and Paul Hare

Equivalence and Stability Results for Two Forms of Workers' Enterprise Facing Imperfect Labor Markets pp. 319-333

Murat Sertel and Ozgur Toros

The Yugoslav Hyperinflation of 1992-1994: Causes, Dynamics, and Money Supply Process pp. 335-353

Pavle Petrovic, Zeljko Bogetic and Zorica Vujosevic

Wan's "New Approach" to Technical Change: A Comment pp. 355-363

Jesus Felipe and John McCombie

Wan's "New Approach" to Technical Change: A Reply pp. 365-366

Guanghua Wan

John Bonin, Kalman Mizsei, Istvan Szekely, and Paul Wachtel, Banking in Transition Economies: Developing Market Oriented Banking Sectors in Eastern Europe pp. 367-370

Claudia Buch

Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich (Eds.), The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History pp. 371-372

Holland Hunter

Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski (Eds.), Capitalism with a Comrade's Face pp. 373-373

Holland Hunter

J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer (Eds.), Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions pp. 375-377

Christopher Clague

David Kotz (with Fred Weir), Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System pp. 379-381

John E. Elliott

Kuotsai Tom Liou, Managing Economic Reforms in Post-Mao China pp. 383-385

Jan Prybyla

Marcus Noland (Ed.), Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula pp. 387-388

Jan Prybyla

Martin Rein and Eskil Wadensjo, Enterprise and the Welfare State pp. 389-390

Gordon Tullock

Raphael Shen, The Restructuring of Romania's Economy: A Paradigm of Flexibility and Adaptability pp. 391-392

Marvin Jackson

D. H. Whittaker, Small Firms in the Japanese Economy pp. 393-394

David Flath

Volume 27, issue 1, 1999

Unemployment and Labor Market Policies in Transition Countries pp. 1-3

Tito Boeri and Hartmut Lehmann

Returns to Mobility in the Transition to a Market Economy pp. 4-32

Tito Boeri and Christopher Flinn

Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in the Czech Republic pp. 33-60

Katherine Terrell and Vit Sorm

Active Labor Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization, or Benefit Churning? pp. 61-89

Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann and Christoph Schmidt

Effects of Active Labor Market Programs on the Transition Rate from Unemployment into Regular Jobs in the Slovak Republic pp. 90-112

Martina Lubyova and Jan van Ours

Does the Slovenian Public Work Program Increase Participants' Chances to Find a Job? pp. 113-130

Milan Vodopivec

Prices in the Two Germanies pp. 131-149

Erik Dietzenbacher and Hans-Jurgen Wagener

Participation and the Location of Decision Making in the Firm pp. 150-167

Donald W. Katzner

Multiple Penalty Mechanisms in a Principal-Agent Model under Different Institutional Arrangements pp. 168-189

Dietrich Earnhart

Vincent Barnett, Kondratiev and the Dynamics of Economic Development: Long Cycles and Industrial Growth in Historical Context pp. 190-191

Holland Hunter

Padma Desai (Ed.), Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy pp. 192-194

Klaus Meyer

David J. Pyle, China's Economy: From Revolution to Reform pp. 195-197

Jan Prybyla

J. Gregory Sidak and Daniel F. Spulber, Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States pp. 198-201

Ingo Vogelsang

David L. Weimer (Ed.), The Political Economy of Property Rights pp. 202-205

Kenneth Koford