Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2025

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Volume 21, issue 3, 1995

Policy Reforms, Currency Auctions, and Production Choices in Transition Economies pp. 267-288

Linda Goldberg and Il'dar Karimov

On the Sale of Production Rights and Firm Organization pp. 289-307

Norman J. Ireland and Geoff Stewart

Technical Change in Chinese State Industry: A New Approach pp. 308-325

Guanghua Wan

The Kornai Effect and Soft Budget Constraints pp. 326-335

Wing-chung Pun

The Demise of Soviet Industry: A Regional Perspective pp. 336-352

Gisela Meyer Escoe

Wage Determination and Occupational Attainment in the Rural Industrial Sector of China pp. 353-374

Robert Gregory and Xin Meng

Neoclassical Norms and the Valuation of National Product in the Soviet Union and Its Postcommunist Successor States pp. 375-389

Steven Rosefielde and Ralph W. Pfouts

Neoclassical Norms and the Valuation of National Product in the Soviet Union: Comment pp. 390-393

Abram Bergson

Volume 21, issue 2, 1995

Shocks and Adjustment by Firms in Transition: A Comparative Study pp. 131-153

S E, A G and I S

The Shut-Down Option and Profit Sharing pp. 154-186

M M and G R

China's Regional Grain Self-Sufficiency Policy and Its Effect on Land Productivity pp. 187-206

J Yl and G Jw

Productivity Growth, Technological Progress, and Technical Efficiency Change in China: A Three-Sector Analysis1 pp. 207-229

Y W

INTEGRATING NATIONAL ECONOMIES: A REVIEW ESSAY, PART 1 pp. 230-239

F L. P

Volume 21, issue 1, 1995

Designing and Optimal Privatisation Plan for Restructuring Firms and Institutes in Transition pp. 1-28

Barbara Katz and Owen J.

Organizational Form and Efficiency: Evidence from Indian Sugar Manufacturing pp. 29-53

Ferrantino Michael J., Gary Ferrier and Linvill Carl B.

Shadow Factor Price Convergence and the Response of Chinese State-Owned Construction Enterprises to Reform pp. 54-81

Elliott Parker

Equal Entitlement versus Tenure Security under a Regime of Collective Property Rights: Peasants' Preference for Institutions in Post-reform Chinese Agriculture pp. 82-111

James Kung

Volume 20, issue 3, 1995

Bankruptcy as a Control Device in Economies in Transition pp. 265-301

Patrick Legros and Mitchell Janet

A General Model of the Soviet Consumer pp. 302-315

Acharya Arnab and Michael Spagat

The IMF-Supported Programs of Poland and Russia, 1990-1994: Principles, Errors, and Results pp. 316-346

Gomulka Stanislaw

The Applicability of Standard Reform Packages to Eastern Europe pp. 347-367

Winiecki Jan

Volume 20, issue 2, 1995

The Eastern German Labor Market in Transition: Gross Flow Estimates from Panel Data pp. 139-170

Bellmann Lutz, Estrin Saul, Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

A New Theory of Industrialization pp. 171-189

He-ling Shi and Xiaokai Yang

The Evolution of Complexity in Primitive Exchange: Empirical Tests pp. 190-210

James Stodder

Hungary and the IMF: The Experience of a Cordial Discord pp. 211-234

Csaba Laszlo

IMF and IBRD Policies in the Former Czechoslovakia pp. 235-264

Zdenek Drabek

Volume 20, issue 1, 1995

The Evolution of Complexity in Primitive Exchange: Theory pp. 1-31

James Stodder

Quasi-Fiscal Deficit and Money Demand in Yugoslavia's High Inflation: Some Econometric Evidence pp. 32-48

Petrovic Pavle

The Role of International Financial Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 49-56

Josef Brada, Schonfeld Roland and Slay Ben

What's Right and Wrong with World Bank Involvement in Eastern Europe pp. 57-94

Wallich Christine I.

The Experience with IMF-Supported Reform Programs in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 95-115

Rodlauer Markus

The Role of International Financial Institutions in the Transition Process pp. 116-138

Zecchini Salvatore

Volume 19, issue 3, 1994

Bank Reform and Behavior in Central Europe pp. 335-361

Dittus Peter

Rural Industrialization and Increasing Inequality: Emerging Patterns in China's Reforming Economy pp. 362-391

Scott Rozelle

Firms' Objectives in Transition Economies pp. 392-409

Yannis Katsoulacos

Technical and Allocative Efficiency among Socialist Enterprises: The Case of the Garment Industry in China pp. 410-433

Naoki Murakami, Liu Deqiang and Keijiro Otsuka

The Nature of the Township-Village Enterprise pp. 434-452

Chun Chang and Yijiang Wang

Volume 19, issue 2, 1994

Wage Controls and Employment in Economies in Transition pp. 171-187

Lane Timothy D.

China's Endogenous Investment Cycle pp. 188-216

Imai Hiroyuki

The Uncertainty of Economic Success When Economic Regimes Are Uncertain: A Study of Transition Periods pp. 217-236

Andrew Feltenstein

Shortage Intensity, Priority Penetration, and Resource Allocation in Socialist Industry: A Translog Shadow Cost Model pp. 237-259

Reiman Mark A.

Private Sector Development in Economies in Transition pp. 260-271

Husain Aasim M.

New East Asian Economic Development: Interacting Capitalism and Socialism, Keun Lee, Sharpe, Armonk, NY, and London, England, 1993, xii + 268 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.50 paper pp. 303-306

Prybyla Jan

China's Transition from Socialism: Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-1990, Dorothy J. Solinger, East Gate, Armonk/New York/London, 1993, vii + 292 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 326-330

Prybyla Jan

Volume 19, issue 1, 1994

Transformation, Depression, and Economics: Some Lessons pp. 1-21

Michael Ellman

Lessons of the First Four Years of Systemic Change in Eastern Europe pp. 22-38

Anders Aslund

Transformational Recession: The Main Causes pp. 39-63

János Kornai

The Market Met Its Match: Lessons for the Future from the Transition's Initial Years pp. 64-87

Lance Taylor

The Inefficiency of Laissez-Faire in Russia: Hysteresis Effects and the Need for Policy-Led Transformation pp. 88-116

Grigory Yavlinsky and Serguey Braguinsky

Volume 18, issue 3, 1994

Experiences in the Transition to a Market Economy pp. 271-275

Sachs Jeffrey D. and Wing Woo

The Art of Reforming Centrally Planned Economies: Comparing China, Poland, and Russia pp. 276-308

Wing Woo

The Characteristics of Chinese and Russian Economic Reform pp. 309-313

Li Jingjie

Agricultural Efficiency Gains in Centrally Planned Economies pp. 314-328

Colin Carter and Zhang Bin

Grassroots Macroeconomic Reform in Mongolia pp. 329-356

Boone Peter

Macroeconomic Management and the Transition to the Market in Vietnam pp. 357-375

David Dollar

Does Macroeconomic Reform Cause Structural Adjustment? Lessons from Poland pp. 376-409

Andrew Berg

How Successful Has Chinese Enterprise Reform Been? Pitfalls in Opposite Biases and Focus pp. 410-437

Wing Woo, Hai Wen, Jin Yibiao and Fan Gang

Financial Growth and Macroeconomic Stability in China, 1978-1992: Implications for Russia and Other Transitional Economies pp. 438-469

Ronald McKinnon

What Is Distinctive about China's Economic Transition? State Enterprise Reform and Overall System Transformation pp. 470-490

Naughton Barry

Volume 18, issue 2, 1994

Chinese Township-Village Enterprises as Vaguely Defined Cooperatives pp. 121-145

Martin Weitzman and Chenggang Xu

Inflation in the Czech and Slovak Republics, 1985-1991 pp. 146-174

Zdenek Drabek, Kamil Janáček and Zdenek Tuma

Cash Social Transfers, Direct Taxes, and Income Distribution in Late Socialism pp. 175-197

Branko Milanovic

Do Multiplant Labor-Managed Monopolies Exist? pp. 198-201

Kahana Nava

Comrades Go Private: Strategies for Eastern European Privatization, Michael P. Claudon and Tamar L. Gutner, Eds., New York Univ. Press, New York & London 1992, 179 pp., charts, $40.00 pp. 214-216

Slay Ben

Volume 18, issue 1, 1994

The Terms-of-Trade Effects of Moving to World Prices on Countries of the Former Soviet Union pp. 1-24

David Tarr

Quantifying Chinese Village Leaders' Multiple Objectives pp. 25-45

Scott Rozelle and Boisvert Richard N.

A Dynamic Macroeconomic Model of the Labor-Managed Economy pp. 46-63

Christophre Georges

Technology Transfer in International Business, Tamir Agmon and Mary Ann Von Glinow, Eds., Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1991, xii + 274 pp., $34.95 pp. 66-68

Gray H. Peter

What Is to Be Done? Proposals for the Soviet Transition to the Market, Merton J. Peck and Thomas J. Richardson, Eds., Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 1991, xviii + 211 pp., $12.00 pp. 104-107

Barbara Katz