Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 25, issue 3, 1997

On Reform Intensity under Uncertainty pp. 297-321

Simon Johnson, Panos Kouvelis and Vikas Sinha

Controlling Corruption in Hierarchies pp. 322-344

Parimal Bag

Mobile Capital, Local Externalities, and Industrialization pp. 345-365

Marcel Fafchamps

Learning from Transition Economies: Assessing Labor Market Policies across Central and Eastern Europe pp. 366-384

Tito Boeri

Labor Market Segmentation and the Implications for Public Sector Retrenchment Programs pp. 385-402

Bradford Mills and David Sahn

Labor Market Reform and the Changing Structure of Wage Determination in China's State Sector during the 1980s pp. 403-421

Xin Meng and Michael P Kidd

Growth and Transition: Why Has China's Performance Been So Different? pp. 422-440

Richard Pomfret

A Note on Polish Bank Consolidation pp. 441-447

Lukasz Konopielko

Zoltan Barany and Ivan Volgyes, (Eds.), The Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe pp. 448-449

John R. Lampe

Claudia M. Buch, Creating Efficient Banking Systems: Theory and Evidence from Eastern Europe pp. 450-453

Lucjan Orlowski

Nicholas V. Gianaris, Geopolitical and Economic Changes in the Balkan Countries pp. 454-455

Milica Zarkovic Bookman

Mark Harrison, Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment and the Defense Burden, 1940-1945 pp. 456-457

Abram Bergson

Harold James, International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods pp. 458-460

Giulio M. Gallarotti

Robert Z. Lawrence, Single World, Divided Nations? International Trade and OECD Labor Markets pp. 461-464

James K. Galbraith

Milton Mueller and Zixiang Tan, China in the Information Age: Telecommunications and the Dilemmas of Reform pp. 465-467

Hiroyuki Imai

David M. G. Newbery, (Ed.), Tax and Benefit Reform in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 468-472

David Sjoquist

Thomas Palley, Post Keynesian Economics: Debt, Distribution and the Macroeconomy pp. 473-476

Basil Moore

Raphael Shen, Ukraine's Economic Reform: Obstacles, Errors, Lessons pp. 477-480

Fyodor Kushnirsky

Ann Louise Strong, Thomas A. Reiner, Janusz Szyrmer, and A. L. Strong et al., Transitions in Land and Housing: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland pp. 481-483

James Angresano

Volume 25, issue 2, 1997

Privatization Incidence, Ownership Forms, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Slovenia pp. 158-179

Stephen Smith, Beom-Cheol Cin and Milan Vodopivec

Economic Fluctuation, Macro Control, and Monetary Policy in the Transitional Chinese Economy pp. 180-195

Qiao Yu

Changes in Economic Regime and Productivity Growth: A Study of Indian Public Sector Banks pp. 196-219

Anjana Bhattacharyya, Arunava Bhattacharyya and Subal Kumbhakar

The Coast-Noncoast Income Gap, Productivity, and Regional Economic Policy in China pp. 220-236

Belton Fleisher and Jian Chen

Piece-Rate Payment Schemes and the Employment of Women: The Case of Hong Kong pp. 237-255

John Heywood and Xiangdong Wei

Agriculture and the Transition to the Market in Asia pp. 256-280

David J. Green and Richard W. A. Vokes

BOOK REVIEWS pp. 281-284

Jozef M. van Brabant

BOOK REVIEWS pp. 285-287

Richard Adelstein

BOOK REVIEWS pp. 288-292

Wladimir Andreff

Susan L. Woodward, The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 19451990., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. i-xiv / 443 pp., index, $55.00 pp. 293-296

Alberto Chilosi

Volume 25, issue 1, 1997

What Is a Symposium? pp. 1-2

John P. Bonin

Introduction to Case Studies and Analysis of Bank Privatizations in Central Europe and Russia pp. 3-4

Jan Svejnar

Transactional Structures of Bank Privatizations in Central Europe and Russia pp. 5-30

Anna Meyendorff and Edward Snyder

Bank Privatization in Poland: The Case of Bank Slaski pp. 31-61

Jeffery S. Abarbanell and John P. Bonin

Bank Privatization in Post-Communist Russia: The Case of Zhilsotsbank pp. 62-96

Jeffery S. Abarbanell and Anna Meyendorff

Privatization and Performance of the Czech Republic's Komercni Banka pp. 97-128

Edward Snyder and Roger Kormendi

Volume 24, issue 3, 1997

Will East Germany Become a New Mezzogiorno? pp. 241-264

Andrea Boltho, Wendy Carlin and Pasquale Scaramozzino

Enterprise Productivity and Efficiency: When Is Up Really Down? pp. 265-280

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

Profit Sharing, Bonus Payment, and Productivity: A Case Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises pp. 281-296

Shujie Yao

Direct Foreign Investment and Welfare in the Transforming Economies: The Case of Central Asia pp. 297-312

John Devereux and Bryan Roberts

Privatization and Price Liberalization: Comparative Analysis pp. 313-334

Alla Fridman

A Cross-Country Comparison of Okun's Coefficient pp. 335-356

Imad A. Moosa

Gerald Segal and Richard H. Yang (Eds.),Chinese Economic Reform: The Impact on Security.New York: Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Chinese Council for Advanced Policy Studies, 1996. 215 pp., $65.00 pp. 373-375

Sheldon W. Simon

Volume 24, issue 2, 1997

Economic Growth under a Self-Interested Central Planner and Transition to a Market Economy pp. 121-139

Bryan W. Roberts and Alvaro Rodriguez

Bank Loans, Self-Financing, and Grants in Chinese SOEs: Optimal Policy under Incomplete Information pp. 140-160

Young Lee

The Efficiency of Administrative Governance: The Experience of the Pre-reform British National Health Service pp. 161-180

Robin Milne and Ben Torsney

Productivity and Organization in China's Rural Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis pp. 181-201

Xiao-yuan Dong and Louis Putterman

Total Factor Productivity of Grain Production in the Former Soviet Union pp. 202-209

Bin Zhang

John W. England (Ed.),Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. xiii + 255 pp pp. 212-219

Edward Ames

Volume 24, issue 1, 1997

Ruble Overhang and Ruble Shortage: Were They the Same Thing? pp. 1-24

Patrick Conway

Optimal Voucher Privatization Fund Bids When Bidding Affects Firm Performance pp. 25-43

Barbara Katz and Joel Owen

On the Role of Banks in Enterprise Restructuring: The Polish Example pp. 44-64

Sweder van Wijnbergen

How Successful Were China's State Sector Reforms? pp. 65-78

Yiping Huang and Ron Duncan

Access to Bank Loans in a Transition Economy: The Case of Hungary pp. 79-89

Philip Hersch, David Kemme and Jeffry Netter

FC, CG, SF,NS,The Future of Central Banking: The Tercentenary Symposium of the Bank of England.New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. xiv + 362 pp., $49.95 pp. 95-97

Edward Kane