Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 43, issue 4, 2015

Magnet high schools and academic performance in China: A regression discontinuity design pp. 825-843

Albert Park, Xinzheng Shi, Chang-tai Hsieh and Xuehui An

Critical junctures and economic development – Evidence from the adoption of constitutions among American Indian Nations pp. 844-861

Randall Akee, Miriam Jorgensen and Uwe Sunde

Between consumer demand and Islamic law: The evolution of Islamic credit cards in Turkey pp. 862-882

Murat Çokgezen and Timur Kuran

Social interaction, Internet access and stock market participation—An empirical study in China pp. 883-901

Pinghan Liang and Shiqi Guo

Credit market institutions and firm imports of capital goods: Evidence from developing countries pp. 902-918

Dario Fauceglia

Organization matters: Trade union behavior during peace and war pp. 919-937

Ralf R. Meisenzahl

Constitutional rights and education: An international comparative study pp. 938-955

Sebastian Edwards and Alvaro Garcia Marin

Exposure to television and individual beliefs: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 956-980

Tanja Hennighausen

One more ride on the merry-go-round! Public ownership and delayed competition in local public services pp. 981-996

Riccardo Marzano

Off the rails: Is state ownership bad for productivity? pp. 997-1013

Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary

Corruption and management practices: Firm level evidence pp. 1014-1034

Daphne Athanasouli and Antoine Goujard

Fighting corruption or elections? The politics of anti-corruption policies in India: A subnational study pp. 1035-1052

Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Fiscal adjustment in Japanese municipalities pp. 1053-1068

Shun-ichiro Bessho and Hikaru Ogawa

Employment growth heterogeneity under varying intellectual property rights regimes in European transition economies: Young vs. mature innovators pp. 1069-1084

Benjamin Balsmeier and Julie Delanote

Job creation and job destruction in China during 1998–2007 pp. 1085-1100

Hong Ma, Xue Qiao and Yuan Xu

Corporate governance of Chinese privatized firms: Evidence from a survey of non-listed enterprises pp. 1101-1121

Ninghua Zhong

Terms of trade shocks and private savings in the developing countries pp. 1122-1134

Abdur Chowdhury

Banking crises, labour reforms, and unemployment: a comment pp. 1135-1141

Mariya Aleksynska

A reply to “banking crises, labor reforms, and unemployment: A comment” pp. 1142-1147

Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo, Davide Furceri and Dominique Guillaume

A comment to the reply to “banking crises, labor reforms, and Unemployment: A Comment” pp. 1148-1149

Mariya Aleksynska

Volume 43, issue 3, 2015

Does wealth inequality matter for growth? The effect of billionaire wealth, income distribution, and poverty pp. 505-530

Sutirtha Bagchi and Jan Svejnar

In the shadow of the Gulag: Worker discipline under Stalin pp. 531-548

Marcus Miller and Jennifer Smith

Untouchability, homicides and water access pp. 549-558

Catherine Bros and Mathieu Couttenier

How does the entry of large discount stores increase retail employment? Evidence from Korea pp. 559-574

Janghee Cho, Hyunbae Chun and Yoonsoo Lee

Income growth, ethnic polarization, and political risk: Evidence from international oil price shocks pp. 575-594

Markus Brückner and Mark Gradstein

Do legal origins affect cross-country incarceration rates? pp. 595-612

D’Amico, Daniel J. and Claudia Williamson

The comparative effects of independence on trade pp. 613-632

Emmanuelle Lavallée and Julie Lochard

Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia pp. 633-649

Sergei Guriev and Elena Vakulenko

When does local political competition lead to more public goods?: Evidence from Russian regions pp. 650-676

John Nye and Olga Vasilyeva

The labor supply of self-employed workers: The choice of working hours in worker co-ops pp. 677-689

John Pencavel

Transfer behavior in migrant sending communities pp. 690-705

Tanika Chakraborty, Bakhrom Mirkasimov and Susan Steiner

A global macro model for emerging Europe pp. 706-726

Martin Feldkircher

Public information arrival and investor reaction during a period of institutional change: An episode of early years of a newly independent central bank pp. 727-753

Janusz Brzeszczynski and Ali Kutan

The formal and informal institutional framework of capital accumulation pp. 754-771

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat

Revisiting the link between growth and federalism: A Bayesian model averaging approach pp. 772-781

Zareh Asatryan and Lars Feld

Divining the level of corruption: A Bayesian state-space approach pp. 782-803

Samuel Standaert

A global index of information transparency and accountability pp. 804-824

Andrew Williams

Volume 43, issue 2, 2015

Living in the Garden of Eden: Mineral resources and preferences for redistribution pp. 243-256

Mathieu Couttenier and Marc Sangnier

Sectoral technological progress, migration barriers, and structural change in China pp. 257-273

Zheng Jiang and Huimin Shi

Asset stripping and firm survival in mass privatization: Testing the Hoff-Stiglitz and Campos-Giovannoni models in Montenegro pp. 274-289

Matjaž Koman, Milan Lakićević, Janez Prašnikar and Jan Svejnar

Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands pp. 290-322

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota and Jacques Mairesse

Cultural identity, mobility and decentralization pp. 323-333

Christopher Schild and Matthias Wrede

Ethnicity and remittances: Evidence from Kosovo pp. 334-349

Laetitia Duval and François-Charles Wolff

Let the markets begin: The interplay between free prices and privatisation in early transition pp. 350-370

Bruno Rocha

Globalization and the transmission of social values: The case of tolerance pp. 371-389

Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson

Credit constraints, quality, and export prices: Theory and evidence from China pp. 390-416

Haichao Fan, Edwin Lai and Yao Li

Firm size and the impact of securities regulation pp. 417-442

Douglas Cumming, April Knill and Nela Richardson

Brain drain reversal and return subsidy pp. 443-455

Tiantian Dai, Xiangbo Liu and Biancen Xie

Rail access and subjective well-being: Evidence from quality of life surveys pp. 456-470

Wenjie Wu

Measuring the shadow economy using company managers pp. 471-490

Talis Putnins and Arnis Sauka

Regime spoiler or regime pawn: The military and distributional conflict in non-democracies pp. 491-502

J. Atsu Amegashie

Volume 43, issue 1, 2015

Domestic content in China’s exports and its distribution by firm ownership pp. 3-18

Hong Ma, Zhi Wang and Kunfu Zhu

How important are exports for job growth in China? A demand side analysis pp. 19-32

Bart Los, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries

Productivity, profitability, production and export structures along the value chain in China pp. 33-54

Jiandong Ju and Xinding Yu

Cultural vs. economic legacies of empires: Evidence from the partition of Poland pp. 55-75

Irena Grosfeld and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Colonization and development: The long-term effect of Russian settlement in the North Caucasus, 1890s–2000s pp. 76-97

Timur Natkhov

Growth-friendly dictatorships pp. 98-111

Giacomo De Luca, Anastasia Litina and Petros Sekeris

Transformation of the family farm under rising land pressure: A theoretical essay pp. 112-137

Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Income inequality and the tax structure: Evidence from developed and developing countries pp. 138-154

Antonis Adam, Pantelis Kammas and Athanasios Lapatinas

Government expropriation and Chinese-style firm diversification pp. 155-169

Julan Du, Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Demographic age structure and economic development: Evidence from Chinese provinces pp. 170-185

Haifeng Zhang, Hongliang Zhang and Junsen Zhang

Wage determination and distribution in urban China and Vietnam: A comparative analysis pp. 186-203

Lixin Cai and Amy Liu

Caste-based crimes and economic status: Evidence from India pp. 204-226

Smriti Sharma

Comparative political economy of regional transport infrastructure investment in Europe pp. 227-239

Achim Kemmerling and Andreas Stephan