Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 17, issue 4, 1993

In Memoriam: Ed A. Hewett (1942-1993) pp. 711-714

Josef Brada

Privatization: Choosing the Optimal Time Path pp. 715-736

Barbara Katz and Owen Joel

Speed of Convergence and Stopping Rules in an Iterative Planning Procedure for Nonconvex Economies pp. 737-767

John Conley

The Effects of the Defense Sector on the Productivity of Civilian Industry in the United States and the USSR pp. 768-785

Nourzad Farrokh and Toumanoff Peter G.

Volume 17, issue 3, 1993

Planning, Plan-Influencing, and Market Fine-Tuning: Implications for Economies in Transition pp. 561-580

Zhou Huizhong

Incentive Contracts for Public Firms pp. 581-599

Gianni De Fraja

Decomposition of China's Regional Inequalities pp. 600-627

Tsui Kai-yuen

Collective Bargaining Versus Workers' Ownership pp. 628-645

Karl Ove Moene and Wallerstein Michael

Priorities in Central Planning pp. 646-662

Krueger Gary

Incentives and Monitoring in Cooperatives with Labor-Proportionate Sharing Schemes pp. 663-686

Bonin John P. and Louis Putterman

Wage Determination in Labor-Managed Firms under Market-Oriented Reforms: Estimates of Static and Dynamic Models pp. 687-700

Estrin Saul and Jan Svejnar

Further Evidence on Money, Output, and Prices in China pp. 701-709

Rik Hafer and Ali Kutan

Volume 17, issue 2, 1993

The Structure and Behavior of Economic Organizations: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives pp. 201-206

Avner Ben-Ner, Josef Brada and Neuberger Egon

Basic Issues in Organizations: A Comparative Perspective pp. 207-242

Avner Ben-Ner, Montias John Michael and Neuberger Egon

Ownership and the Nature of the Firm pp. 243-263

Louis Putterman

Privatization and Management Incentives in the Transition Period in Eastern Europe pp. 264-287

Klaus Schmidt and Monika Schnitzer

The Objectives of Worker Cooperatives pp. 288-308

Ben Craig and John Pencavel

Organizational Capabilities and Industrial Restructuring: A Historical Analysis pp. 309-337

Alfred Chandler

The Emergence of an Industrial Infrastructure for Technological Innovation pp. 338-365

H. Van De Ven Andrew

Trends and Motives of Organizational Change in Hungarian Industry - A Synchronic View pp. 366-384

Torok Adam

When Privatization Should Be Delayed: The Effect of Communist Legacies on Organizational and Institutional Reforms pp. 385-406

Peter Murrell and Yijiang Wang

Privatization, the Entrepreneurial Sector, and Growth in Post-Comecon Economies pp. 407-417

Edward Green

Cultural Determinants of Economic Performance pp. 418-442

Mark Casson

Employeeism, Corporate Governance, and the J-Firm pp. 443-469

Miyazaki Hajime

Editor's Introduction to the Symposium on Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Chinese Agricultural Cooperatives pp. 471-471

Josef Brada

Does Free Exit Reduce Shirking in Production Teams? pp. 472-484

Xiao-yuan Dong and Gregory Dow

Transaction Costs and Peasants' Choice of Institutions: Did the Right to Exit Really Solve the Free Rider Problem in Chinese Collective Agriculture? pp. 485-503

James Kung

Exit Rights, Exit Costs, and Shirking in Agricultural Cooperatives: A Reply pp. 504-520

Justin Lin

The Role of Exit Costs in the Theory of Cooperative Teams: A Theoretical Perspective pp. 521-529

W. Bentley Macleod

Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis pp. 530-539

Louis Putterman and Gilbert Skillman

Exit Right, Retaliatory Shirking, and the Agricultural Crisis in China pp. 540-559

Liu Minquan

Volume 17, issue 1, 1993

Privatization and Accumulation in Mixed Economies pp. 1-22

Gibson Bill and Amitava Dutt

Impact of Central Planning on Production Efficiency: The Case of the Cotton Yarn Industry in China pp. 23-42

Cheung Kamman, Archibald Sandra and Miquel Faig

Instability of General Equilibrium in a Labor-Managed Economy pp. 43-69

Weinrich Gerd

The Inconsistencies among Disequilibrium Aggregates pp. 70-91

Chang Gene Hsin

A Simple Model of an Oligopolistic Parallel Market pp. 92-112

Daniel Berkowitz

Job Rights and Labor Productivity in a Soviet-Type Economy pp. 113-128

Giacomo Corneo

The Roman Catholic Church and the Economic System: A Review Essay pp. 129-150

Pryor Frederic L.

The Economy of the USSR: Summary and Recommendations, The IMF, The World Bank, OECD, and EBRD, The World Bank, Washington, DC, Dec. 1990. 51 pp., $15.95; A Study of the Soviet Economy, IMF et al., Paris, Vol. I, 456 pp.; Vol. II, 305 pp.; Vol. III, 407 pp., $100.00 pp. 177-180

Bergson Abram

Volume 16, issue 4, 1992

Theoretical and applied aspects of labor-managed firms: Editors' introduction pp. 567-572

Yehuda Don, Nava Kahana and Avi Weiss

Absenteeism: A comparison of incentives in alternative organizations pp. 573-595

Nava Kahana and Avi Weiss

The role of exit costs in the theory of cooperative teams pp. 596-618

Louis Putterman and Gilbert Skillman

The credibility game: Reputation and rational cooperation in a changing population pp. 619-632

Joel M. Guttman

Some general equilibrium aspects of a labor-managed economy with monopoly elements pp. 633-654

Hugh M. Neary

Some capital market failures in the socialist labor-managed economy pp. 655-669

Michael Keren and David Levhari

Market syndicalism and market imbalances pp. 670-687

Zeljko Bogetic and Dennis Heffley

On the dynamic effects of using hired labor in the Kibbutz--theory and case studies pp. 688-700

Ehud Satt and Haim Ginzburg

Cooperatives and the business cycle: The Israeli case pp. 701-715

Raymond Russell and Robert Hanneman

Privatization and efficient contracts: The workers' stake in the transition pp. 716-732

John P. Bonin

Progress with privatization pp. 733-749

Arye Hillman

The bermuda triangle: Why self-governed firms work for their own destruction pp. 750-762

Wojciech Bienkowski

Looking forward participatory economics for the Twenty First Century:, Boston: South End Press, 1991. 153 pp., no index, $10.00 pp. 765-773

Stephen Smith

The hungarian economic reforms 1953-1988:, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990, x + 343 pp., index, no price pp. 774-777

Jan Adam

The market mechanism and economic reforms in China: Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991. 264 pp., index, $45.00 pp. 778-780

Yingyi Qian

The logic of the planned economy: The seeds of the collapse:. Translated by Kevin Cook. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991. x + 234 pp., bibliography, and index, $69.00 pp. 781-784

John Hall

Ko-ops: the rebirth of entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union:, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Univ. Press, 1991. xvii + 150 pp., index, $12.95 pp. 785-788

Michael A. Murphy

OECD economic surveys: Hungary, 1991: Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1991. 204 pp., Annexes, FF 90, no price pp. 789-790

Ben Slay

Chronic inflation in an industrialising economy: the brazilian experience: New York and London: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991. ix + 310 pp., index, $59.50 pp. 791-793

Joseph Kneer

Volume 16, issue 3, 1992

Ownership structure and efficiency: An incentive mechanism approach pp. 399-431

Liang Zou

How soft is the budget constraint for Yugoslav firms? pp. 432-455

Evan Kraft and Milan Vodopivec

An explanation of coexistence of taut planning and hidden reserves in centrally planned economies pp. 456-478

Huizhong Zhou

Optimal internal investment in a labor-managed firm with heterogeneous membership: an overlapping generations approach pp. 479-493

Meng-Hua Ye, Stephen Smith and Michael A. Conte

Productivity of western and domestic capital in polish industry pp. 494-514

Katherine Terrell

Error in interpretation of soviet capital retirement statistics pp. 515-518

Richard C. Harmstone

Competition and innovation in postal services:, Eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1991. xviii + 285 pp., no index. $59.95 pp. 519-522

Estelle James

Share systems and unemployment: A theoretical analysis:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. vii + 139 pp., index. $59.95 pp. 523-526

Seung Ahn

Public debt management: Theory and history:, Eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xix + 349 pp., index. $54.50 pp. 527-531

Rowena Pecchenino

The theory of technological change and economic growth:. London: Routledge, 1990. 262 pp., index, $23.50 pp. 532-535

Michael Spagat

Polish paradoxes:, Eds., London: Routledge, 1990 (ISBN-0-415-04375-1). vii + 265 pp., index, $64.00 pp. 536-538

Kazimierz Z. Poznanski

Parallel politics, economic policymaking in Japan and the US:, Ed. Washington, DC, and Tokyo: Brookings Institution and Japan Center for International Exchange, 1991. xiii + 379 pp., index, $36.95 pp. 539-542

Thomas Cargill

Foreign trade liberalization: Transformations in socialist and market economies:, Eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. xii + 281 pp., index, no price pp. 543-546

Christopher Clague

The economics of property rights: Towards a theory of comparative systems:, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. xiv + 200 pp., index. $88.00 pp. 547-552

Anton Lowenberg

The economics of Cuban sugar:. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. xviii + 305 pp., index. $49.95 pp. 553-554

Nicolas Sanchez

Turning it around: Closure and revitalization in New Zealand industry:, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ix + 151 pp., index, $29.95 pp. 555-558

Stephen H. Karlson

The business cycle, growth and crisis under capitalism:. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xxi + 432 pp., index, $45.00 pp. 559-563

Stefan Norrbin

Foreign economic relations of the European community: The impact of Spain and Portugal:. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1990. xii + 129 pp., index, no price pp. 564-565

Eric N. Baklanoff

Volume 16, issue 2, 1992

Lessons from China's economic reform pp. 201-225

Kang Chen, Gary Jefferson and Inderjit Singh

Competition policy vs horizontal merger with public, entrepreneurial, and labor-managed firms pp. 226-240

Flavio Delbono and Gianpaolo Rossini

Duopoly with employee-controlled and profit-maximizing firms: Bertrand vs Cournot competition pp. 241-258

Helmuth Cremer and Jacques Crémer

Soviet feedgrain consumption: A stable long-run relationship? pp. 259-271

Mark Denbaly

Comparative dynamics in the labor-managed model of the firm pp. 272-286

Michael Caputo

Kornai's "road to a free economy" in light of Polish experience pp. 287-293

Stanislaw Gomulka

On the performance of worker-managed firms: Does participation only exert "technical" effects? pp. 294-301

Ottorino Chillemi and Benedetto Gui

Shortages amid plenty under Soviet-type planning: A theory of unreliable supplies pp. 302-308

Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Spagat

Nash-implementation of pareto correspondence in cooperative economies pp. 309-314

Shuhe Li

Retrading of goods under repressed inflation: Implications for the supply multipliers pp. 315-327

Leon Podkaminer

Retrading of goods under repressed inflation: Implications for supply multipliers: Reply pp. 328-331

John Bennett

The political economy of participatory economics:, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991. 132 pp., $12.95 pp. 332-335

Theresa Van Hoomissen

Do socialist economies work? The Soviet and East European experience:, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. xii + 168 pp., $49.95 pp. 336-337

Marie Lavigne

After the waste land: A democratic economics for the year 2000:, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991. xv + 261 pp., index, $32.50 pp. 338-339

Jeff Frank

Organization, performance, and system choice: East European Agricultural Development: Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. xiv + 172 pp., index, $28.95 pp. 340-343

Michael Wyzan

Reforming the ruble: Monetary aspects of perestroika:, Eds., New York: New York University Press, 1990. x + 219 pp., index pp. 344-345

Gertrude E. Schroeder

Economic adjustment and reform in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: Eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. 428 pp., index pp. 346-347

Carl McMillan

Wage formation and macroeconomic policy in the nordic countries: New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 447 pp., no index. $105.00 pp. 348-349

Lars G. Sandberg

Foreign trade in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union:, Ed., The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook II. Boulder, CO, San Francisco, and London: Westview Press, 1990. xiii + 241 pp., no index, no price pp. 350-351

Marie Lavigne

Privatization of public enterprises in Latin America:, Ed., International Center for Economic Growth, Institute of the Americas, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, San Francisco; ICS Press, 1991. ix + 150 pp., index, $12.95 pp. 352-354

Adam Torok

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the World Trading System:, New York: St. Martin's Press, in association with Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1990. x + 201 pp., $45.00 pp. 355-360

Jan Prybyla

Fueling growth: The energy revolution and economic policy in post-war Japan:, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. xvi + 409 pp., index, $28.00 pp. 361-362

Peter Navarro

China's foreign trade reform:, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 215 pp., index, $49.50 pp. 363-363

Gerhard Pohl

Perestroika and East-West economic relations: Prospects for the 1990's:, Eds., New York: New York University Press, 1990. x + 346 pp., index pp. 364-366

Jean Tesche

Economic control structures: A non-Walrasian approach:, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990. xv + 237 pp., index, $65.00 pp. 367-369

Fernando Saldanha

Agathotopia. The economics of partnership:, London: Pergamon and Aberdeen University Press, 1989. 150 pp., no index, $12.50 pp. 370-376

Stephen Smith

Perestroika in the countryside: Agricultural reform in the Gorbachev era:, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 1990. xiii + 126 pp., index, $39.95 pp. 377-378

Elizabeth Clayton

The myth of America's decline: Leading the world economy into the 1990s:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xvi + 407 pp., index pp. 379-381

James K. Galbraith

From labour shortage to unemployment? The Soviet labour market in the 1980s:, Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wicksell International, 1990. 311 pp., (price) 206 SEK pp. 382-384

Michael Murphy

Perestroika in Eastern Europe: Hungary's economic transformation, 1945-1988:, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. xv + 176 pp., index, $32.50 pp. 385-386

Xavier Richet

The dynamics of North American trade and investment: Canada, Mexico, and the United States:, Eds., Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. xv + 281 pp., index, $39.50 pp. 387-391

Lawrence Officer

Mountains of debt: Crisis and change in the renaissance:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. vii + 243 pp., index, $29.95 pp. 392-393

Lars G. Sandberg

Communist agriculture: Farming in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe:, Ed., London: Routledge, 1990. xviii + 331 pp., no index, $112.00 pp. 394-397

William Liefert

Volume 16, issue 1, 1992

Effects of rationing on the consumption behavior of Chinese urban households during 1981-1987 pp. 1-26

Zhi Wang and Wen S. Chern

Equity, efficiency, and incentives in a large economy pp. 27-46

Yingyi Qian

Threat-based incentive mechanisms under moral hazard and adverse selection pp. 47-74

Liang Zou

The terms-of-trade effects from the elimination of state trading in Soviet-Hungarian trade pp. 75-93

Gabor Oblath and David Tarr

The labor-managed firm under production uncertainty pp. 94-104

L. Dean Hiebert

Modeling earnings distorting government intervention: The case of Singapore's managerial earnings pp. 105-117

Kaliappa Kalirajan

The economics of German reunification: A review of the literature pp. 118-149

Phillip J. Bryson

Effects of bailouts, taxes, and risk-aversion on the enterprise pp. 150-167

Stephen M. Goldfeld and Richard E. Quandt

Comparative economic systems: Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xix + 691 pp., index pp. 168-171

Phillip J. Bryson

The political economy of China's special economic zones:, Armonk, New York/London, England: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. x + 204 pp., index, $39.95 pp. 172-173

Jan S. Prybyla

Understanding the UK economy:, Ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. xvii + 345 pp., index, $49.95 pp. 174-176

Simon Burgess

The Korean banking system and foreign influence:, London: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1990. pp. xvii + 174, index, $69.00 pp. 177-179

David C. Cole

Market forces in China:, Eds., Zed Books, 1990. vii + 177 pp., index, $49.95 pp. 180-182

Claude Aubert

Governing the economy:, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. 340 pp., index, $14.95 pp. 183-186

Peter Holivies

The road to a free economy. Shifting from a socialist system: The example of Hungary:, New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 1990. 224 pp., index, $16.95 pp. 187-191

Jan Adam

Division of Labor and Welfare: An introduction to economic systems.:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 248 pp., index, $30.00 pp. 192-194

John Bennett

Government and housing. Developments in seven countries:, Eds., Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990. 293 pp., index, $38.00 pp. 195-197

Lynn Turgeon

Communist agriculture. Farming in the far East and Cuba:, Ed. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1990. x + 131 pp., index, $59.50 pp. 198-200

Frederic L. Pryor