Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 11, issue 4, 1987

The tenability of the CIA estimates of Soviet economic growth pp. 517-542

Michael Boretsky

Microeconomic modeling of parallel markets: The case of agricultural goods in the USSR pp. 543-557

Michael Alexeev

On the conversion of ruble trade flows into dollars pp. 558-571

Thomas A. Wolf

Projecting soviet energy requirements using a vintage capital model pp. 572-583

Blaine E. McCants

Speak softly, but carry a big stick: On optimal targets under moral hazard pp. 584-595

Kent Osband

An optimal incentive scheme for planning with targets pp. 596-600

Pamela Clark Brown, Jeffrey Miller and James R. Thornton

Optimal incentive schemes with targets: First-best or second-best? pp. 601-602

Pak-Wai Liu

The "homothetic" firm in illyria: Comment pp. 603-605

Friedrich Breyer

The effect of radially parallel technologies on the behavior of the Illyrian firm pp. 606-610

Steven Rosefielde and Ralph W. Pfouts

The multifactor Illyrian firm revisited pp. 611-612

Nava Kahana

Employment and wage policies in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary since 1950:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. xix + 251 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 613-615

Lynn Turgeon

Views and disputes on industrialization in socialism:, Belgrade: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, 1984. 149 pp pp. 616-617

Slobodan Ostojic

Planning the British Economy:,. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xii + 288 pp., index. $32.50 pp. 618-619

Roger McCain

Japan's financial markets: Conflict and consensus in policy-making:,. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1985. 271 pp., index. Cloth, $33.95. Paper, $13.95 pp. 620-622

Chalmers Johnson

Wirtschaftssysteme des realen sozialismus, probleme und alternativen:,. Koln: Bund-Verlag, 1984. 268 pp., no index pp. 623-624

Arnoud Boot

The myth of the plan: Lessons of soviet planning experience:,. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1985. iii + 286 pp., index. $26.95 pp. 625-626

Morris Bornstein

Taxation in centrally planned economies:,. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 141 pp. $27.50 pp. 627-630

Franklyn D. Holzman

Volume 11, issue 3, 1987

Introduction pp. 291-294

Bruce L. Reynolds

The impact of the two-tier plan/market system in chinese industry pp. 295-308

William A. Byrd

The dual pricing system in China's industry pp. 309-318

Jinglian Wu and Zhao Renwei

Money and price level determination in China pp. 319-333

Gregory C. Chow

Macroeconomic policy and response in the chinese economy: The impact of the reform process pp. 334-353

Barry Naughton

Money and the consumption goods market in China pp. 354-371

Richard Portes and Anita Santorum

Issues in the structural reform of Chinese agriculture pp. 372-384

Thomas B. Wiens

Between plan and market: The role of the local sector in post-mao China pp. 385-398

Christine P. W. Wong

China's banking system: Current status, perspective on reform pp. 399-409

Zhou Xiaochuan and Zhu Li

China's economic reforms in a comparative perspective pp. 410-426

Bela Balassa

Economic liberalization in China and India: Issues and an analytical framework pp. 427-443

T. Srinivasan

Economic policy and income distribution in China pp. 444-461

Irma Adelman and David Sunding

Reform: Results and lessons from the 1985 CESRRI survey pp. 462-478

Chen Yizi, Wang Xiaoqiang and Colleagues

Trade, employment, and inequality in postreform China pp. 479-489

Bruce L. Reynolds

A tentative plan for the rational sequencing of overall reform in China's economic system pp. 490-502

John Pei and Bruce Reynolds

Enlivening large state enterprises: Where is the motive force? pp. 503-508

Ma Bin and Hong Zhunyan

The stock-share system: A new avenue for China's economic reform pp. 509-514

Xu Jing'an

Volume 11, issue 2, 1987

Optimal risk shifting vs efficient employment in Illyria: The labor-managed firm under asymmetric information pp. 163-179

Georg Meran and Elmar Wolfstetter

Modeling planners' investment behavior: Poland, 1956-1981 pp. 180-191

Irena Grosfeld

Investment growth fluctuations in the Soviet Union: An econometric analysis pp. 192-206

Gérard Roland

Behavior and the organization of the firm pp. 207-220

W. Bentley Macleod

Controlling a risk-averse, effort-selecting manager in the Soviet incentive model pp. 221-233

John P. Bonin and Wataru Fukuda

Bonuses, factor demand, and technical efficiency in the Soviet enterprise pp. 234-244

Susanne Oxenstierna

The Ratchet principle: A diagrammatic interpretation pp. 245-249

Tikva Darvish and Nava Kahana

Change and challenge in the world economy:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xxviii + 485 pp., index. $29.95 pp. 250-251

Mordechai Kreinin

East-West technology transfer: The transfer of Western technology to the USSR:, Paris: OECD, 1985. 190 pp., not indexed pp. 252-257

Alexander Woroniak

Cooperation at work: The Mondragon experience:, London: Heinemann, 1983. vii + 102 pp., index pp. 258-260

Matthew D. Berman

Rand conference on models of the Soviet economy, October 11-12, 1984:, ed., Santa Monica, Calif: Rand, 1985. viii + 167 pp. $15.00 pp. 261-264

John Burkett

Structural adjustment in developed open economies:, eds., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xxvi + 581 pp., index. $35.00 pp. 265-267

Edward John Ray

Multinationals, technology and exports:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xii + 298 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 268-271

Ashok Bhargava

Macroeconomic conflict and social institutions:, eds., Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1985. xi + 249 pp., index. $29.95 pp. 272-274

Barry W. Ickes

East-west trade and finance in the world economy. A new look for the 1980's:, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. ix + 338 pp., index. $32.50 pp. 275-281

Laszlb Csaba

The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms, markets, relational contracting:, New York: The Free Press, 1985. xiv + 450 pp., index, $27.95 pp. 282-285

Louis Putterman

DDR-handbuch, 3rd ed. Cologne, FRG: Verlag Wissenschaft and Politik, 1985. 2 volumes, xlviii + 1660 pp. Paper pp. 286-289

Irwin Collier

Handbuch DDR-wirtschaft, 4th ed. Hamburg, FRG: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1984. 439 pp. index. Paper pp. 286-289

Irwin Collier

Volume 11, issue 1, 1987

Productivity growth in polish industry pp. 1-20

David Kemme

Socialist and world market prices: An ingrowth? pp. 21-39

Jozef M. van Brabant

The productivity effects of worker participation: Producer cooperatives in western economies pp. 40-61

Saul Estrin, Derek Jones and Jan Svejnar

Sectoral employment shares: A comparative systems context pp. 62-80

Andrew J. Stollar and G. Rodney Thompson

Random input price and the theory of the competitive cooperative firm pp. 81-95

Shoji Haruna

Sources of economic growth and structural change in china: 1956-1981 pp. 96-115

Shujiro Urata

A reconsideration of measures of instability pp. 116-119

Chwo-Ming Yu

Instability in developing and industrial countries: methodological and theoretical issues pp. 120-123

Thomas L. Brewer

Marxist regimes series pp. 124-132

Frederic L. Pryor

Our economic management and financial system on the reform path: Budapest: Kozgazdasagi es Jogi Konyvkiado, 1985. 362 pp pp. 133-136

Jan Adam

Wirtschaftspolitik im Systemvergleich, ed., Munich: Verlag Franz Vahlen, 1984. xv + 383 pp., no index, no price pp. 137-139

Albert Lauterbach

Barter in the world economy:, eds., New York: Praeger, 1985. v + 293 pp., index, $39.95 pp. 140-143

Stuart Brown

China and the arms trade:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 229 pp., index, $32.50 pp. 144-145

Jan Prybyla

Sharing ownership in the workplace:, Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1985. xv + 267 pp., index, $34.50 pp. 146-150

Estelle James

Soviet marketing and economic development: London: Macmillan & Co.; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. xii + 190 pp., index, $27.50 pp. 151-156

Gur Ofer

Political economy in Western democracies:, eds., New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985. xii + 329 pp., no index, $37.50 pp. 157-159

Ellen Comisso