Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 44, issue 4, 2016

Social constraints and women's education: Evidence from Afghanistan under radical religious rule pp. 821-841

Abdul Noury and Biagio Speciale

Prospects for a re-acceleration of economic growth in the PRC pp. 842-853

Justin Lin, Guanghua Wan and Peter Morgan

Wage-setting institutions and corporate governance pp. 854-883

Matthew Dimick and Neel Rao

A fire sale without fire: An explanation of labor-intensive FDI in China pp. 884-901

Yasheng Huang, Yue Ma, Zhi Yang and Yifan Zhang

Judicial quality and regional firm performance: The case of Indian states pp. 902-918

Pavel Chakraborty

Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria pp. 919-935

Iva Tasseva

The determinants of dealership structure: Empirical analysis of the Chinese auto market pp. 961-981

Junji Xiao and Heng Ju

On the optimal social contract: Agency costs of self-government pp. 982-1001

Sang-Hyun Kim

The effects of remittances on support for democracy in Africa: Are remittances a curse or a blessing? pp. 1002-1022

Maty Konte

Political structure as a legacy of indirect colonial rule: Bargaining between national governments and rural elites in Africa pp. 1023-1039

Nobuhiro Mizuno

Development and inefficient regulation under the threat of revolution pp. 1040-1054

Michael Dorsch, Karl Dunz and Paul Maarek

Culture and the regulation of entry pp. 1055-1083

Lewis S. Davis and Claudia R. Williamson

Economic agents in transition: Firm owners and households pp. 1084-1085

Guest Editors Byung-Yeon Kim and Ali Kutan

Technology transfer and spillovers from FDI in transition economies: A meta-analysis pp. 1086-1114

Ichiro Iwasaki and Masahiro Tokunaga

Social networks and migration decisions: The influence of peer effects in rural households in Central Asia pp. 1115-1131

Masato Hiwatari

Corporate governance following mass privatization pp. 1132-1144

Josef Brada

Volume 44, issue 3, 2016

Religious identity and the provision of public goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States pp. 461-483

Latika Chaudhary and Jared Rubin

Political frictions and public policy outcomes pp. 484-495

Daryna Grechyna

Women, medieval commerce, and the education gender gap pp. 496-521

Graziella Bertocchi and Monica Bozzano

Diversity and trust: The role of shared values pp. 522-540

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Mariko Klasing

Language, culture and institutions: Evidence from a new linguistic dataset pp. 541-561

Lewis S. Davis and Farangis Abdurazokzoda

Jewish emancipation and schism: Economic development and religious change pp. 562-584

Jean-Paul Carvalho and Mark Koyama

The impact of domestic regulations on international trade in services: Evidence from firm-level data pp. 585-607

Matthieu Crozet, Emmanuel Milet and Daniel Mirza

From one to many central plans: Drug advertising inspections and intra-national protectionism in China pp. 608-622

Markus Eberhardt, Zheng Wang and Zhihong Yu

The retirement consumption puzzle revisited: Evidence from the mandatory retirement policy in China pp. 623-637

Hongbin Li, Xinzheng Shi and Binzhen Wu

Lower coverage but stronger unions? Institutional changes and union wage premia in Central Europe pp. 638-656

Iga Magda, David Marsden and Simone Moriconi

The effect of informal employment and corruption on income levels in Brazil pp. 657-695

Jamie Bologna

Selection of public servants into politics pp. 696-719

Thomas Braendle and Alois Stutzer

How much should we trust life satisfaction data? Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey pp. 720-731

Elena Nikolova and Peter Sanfey

Bank ownership structure, lending corruption and the regulatory environment pp. 732-751

Thierno Barry, Laetitia Lepetit and Frank Strobel

Should we care about the uncertainty around measures of political-economic development? pp. 752-763

Rodolphe Desbordes and Gary Koop

How did household indebtedness hamper consumption during the recession? Evidence from micro data pp. 764-786

Merike Kukk

An investigation into the credibility of currency board arrangements in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria pp. 787-799

Selena Begović, Nick Adnett and Geoff Pugh

The long-term effects of civil conflicts on education, earnings, and fertility: Evidence from Cambodia pp. 800-820

Asad Islam, Chandarany Ouch, Russell Smyth and Liang Wang

Volume 44, issue 2, 2016

Human capital, employment protection and growth in Europe pp. 213-230

Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

The trade reducing effects of restrictions on liner shippingAuthor-Name: Bertho, Fabien pp. 231-242

Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo

Creative accounting and electoral motives: Evidence from OECD countries pp. 243-257

Markus Reischmann

Workplace democracy and job flows pp. 258-271

Guillermo Alves, Gabriel Burdín and Andrés Dean

Pyramidal group structure and bank risk in Thailand pp. 272-288

Pramuan Bunkanwanicha, Jyoti Gupta and Yupana Wiwattanakantang

Important laws governing China's macro-economy pp. 289-294

Gregory C Chow

Between the hammer and the anvil: The impact of economic sanctions and oil prices on Russia’s ruble pp. 295-308

Christian Dreger, Konstantin Kholodilin, Dirk Ulbricht and Jarko Fidrmuc

Your development or mine? Effects of donor–recipient cultural differences on the aid-growth nexus pp. 309-325

Anna Minasyan

WTO accession, foreign bank entry, and the productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 326-342

Tat-kei Lai, Zhenjie Qian and Luhang Wang

How large is the local fiscal multiplier? Evidence from Chinese counties pp. 343-352

Qingwang Guo, Chang Liu and Guangrong Ma

The allocation of entrepreneurial efforts in a rent-seeking society: Evidence from China pp. 353-371

Zhiqiang Dong, Xiahai Wei and Yongjing Zhang

Political transition and bank performance: How important was the Arab Spring? pp. 372-382

Saibal Ghosh

Can state language policies distort students’ demand for education? pp. 383-399

Alexander Muravyev and Oleksandr Talavera

Checks and balances outside the government: an introduction to the symposium pp. 400-403

Eric Brousseau and Jérome Sgard

Inside and outside: The modernized hierarchy that runs China pp. 404-415

Barry Naughton

Endogenous legal traditions and economic outcomes pp. 416-433

Carmine Guerriero

Information sharing and the volume of private credit in transition: Evidence from Ukrainian bank-level panel dataAuthor-Name: Grajzl, Peter pp. 434-449

Nataliia Laptieva

Courts at work: Bankruptcy statutes, majority rule and private contracting in England (17th–18th century) pp. 450-460

Jérôme Sgard

Volume 44, issue 1, 2016

Trading hard hats for combat helmets: The economics of rebellion in eastern Ukraine pp. 1-15

Yuri Zhukov

Tweeting identity? Ukrainian, Russian, and #Euromaidan pp. 16-40

Megan MacDuffee Metzger, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler and Joshua A. Tucker

Resource misallocation and manufacturing productivity: The case of Ukraine pp. 41-55

Mykola Ryzhenkov

The motherhood wage penalty in times of transition pp. 56-75

Olena Nizalova, Tamara Sliusarenko and Solomiya Shpak

Security of property rights and transition in land use pp. 76-91

Denys Nizalov, Suzanne Thornsbury, Scott Loveridge, Mollie Woods and Olha Zadorozhna

The Great Recession and social preferences: Evidence from Ukraine pp. 92-107

Ralph De Haas, Milena Djourelova and Elena Nikolova

The happiness gap in Eastern Europe pp. 108-124

Simeon Djankov, Elena Nikolova and Jan Zilinsky

Education-job mismatch in Ukraine: Too many people with tertiary education or too many jobs for low-skilled? pp. 125-147

Olga Kupets

The evolution of firm-level distributions for Ukrainian manufacturing firms pp. 148-162

Kim Huynh, David Jacho-Chávez, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Oleksandr Shepotylo and Volodymyr Vakhitov

Violent conflict and online segregation: An analysis of social network communication across Ukraine's regions pp. 163-181

Dinissa Duvanova, Alexander Nikolaev, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy and Alexander Semenov

Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession: A comparison of Germany and Ukraine pp. 182-200

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Norberto Pignatti

Violence and political outcomes in Ukraine—Evidence from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk pp. 201-212

Tom Coupé and Maksym Obrizan