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2005-779: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in China: The Case of Aircraft Manufacturing

Andrea Goldstein

2005-778: Bank Supervision Russian style: Rules versus Enforcement and Tacit Objectives

Sophie Claeys, Gleb Lanine and Koen Schoors

2005-777: Labor Market Trends and Institutions in Belarus

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Vera Volchok

2005-776: Can Vietnam Achieve One of its Millennium Development Goals? An analysis of schooling dropouts of children

Vo Tri Thanh and Trinh Long

2005-774: The Risk Aversion of Banks in Emerging Credit markets: Evidence from India

Sumon Bhaumik and Jenifer Piesse

2005-773: Organized Labor and Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Czech Republic and Romania

Jan Bruha, Delia Ionascu and Byeongju Jeong

2005-771: Non-Linear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Target Zones: A Bumpy Road Towards A Honeymoon Some Evidence from the ERM, ERM2 and Selected New EU Member States

Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma, Balázs Égert and Ronald MacDonald

2005-770: Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Southeastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey: Healthy or (Dutch) Diseased?

Balázs Égert

2005-769: Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Central and Eastern Europe: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Balázs Égert and László Halpern

2005-768: Testing for inflation convergence between the Euro Zone and its CEE partners

Imed Drine and Christophe Rault

2005-767: Labor Mobility during Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Jan Fidrmuc

2005-766: Formation of social capital in Central and Eastern Europe: Understanding the gap vis-à-vis developed countries

Jan Fidrmuc and Klarita Gërxhani

2005-765: Do Regional Integration Agreements Increase Business-Cycle Convergence? Evidence From APEC and NAFTA

Viviana Fernandez and Ali Kutan

2005-764: State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Maxim Bouev

2005-763: The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle Revisited: An “European-Regional” Perspective

Jérôme Héricourt and Mathilde Maurel

2005-762: Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Patrick Puhani

2005-761: Resolution, Recovery and Survival: The Evolution of Payment Disputes in Post-Socialist Europe

William Pyle

2005-760: Official Foreign Exchange Interventions in the Czech Republic: Did They Matter?

Balázs Égert and Lubos Komarek

2005-759: Assessing Market Expectations on Exchange Rates and Inflation: A Pilot Forecasting System for Bulgaria

Michael Berlemann, Kalina Dimitrova and Nikolay Nenovsky

2005-758: Attitudes and Performance: An Analysis of Russian Workers

Susan Linz and Anastasia Semykina

2005-757: Barter, Credit, and Welfare: A theoretical inquiry into the barter phenomenon in Russia

Jose Noguera and Susan Linz

2005-756: Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education In China

Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shi Li and Xiaojun Wang

2005-755: Foreign Exchange Interventions in Croatia and Turkey: Should We Give a Damn?

Balázs Égert and Maroje Lang

2005-754: Targeting Relative Inflation Forecast as Monetary Policy Framework for Adopting the Euro

Lucjan Orlowski

2005-753: Internet Entrepreneurship: Networks and Performance of Internet Ventures In China

Bat Batjargal

2005-752: Network Triads: Transitivity, Referral and Venture Capital Decisions in China and Russia

Bat Batjargal

2005-751: SOFTWARE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS AND PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE VENTURES IN CHINA AND RUSSIA

Bat Batjargal

2005-750: Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Lihui Tian and Saul Estrin

2005-749: Financial Development and Technology

Solomon Tadesse

2005-748: Banking Fragility and Disclosure: International Evidence

Solomon Tadesse

2005-747: Consolidation, Scale Economies and Technological Change in Japanese Banking

Solomon Tadesse

2005-746: Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of Europe’s Regional Liberalization Agreements

Yener Kandogan

2005-745: Quality of Institutions, Credit Markets and Bankruptcy

Christa Hainz

2005-744: How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China

Sumon Bhaumik and Saul Estrin

2005-743: Inflation Targeting, Between Rhetoric and Reality. The Case of Transition Economies

Daniel Daianu and Laurian Lungu

2005-742: How Does Law Affect Finance? An Empirical Examination of Tunneling in an Emerging Market

Vladimir Atanasov, Conrad S. Ciccotello and Stanley Gyoshev

2005-741: DO INSIDER TRADING LAWS MATTER? SOME PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE

Laura Nyantung Beny

2005-740: Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Elizabeth Brainerd and David Cutler

2005-739: Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Berk Özler

2005-738: The Marketing Structure in Agribusiness during the Transition in Bulgaria

Steve Murray, Yordan Staykov, and Valentin Katzerov

2005-737: Passive Creditors

Koen Schoors and Konstantin Sonin

2005-736: From a currency board to the euro: Public attitudes toward unilateral euroization in Bulgaria

Neven Valev

2005-735: Dictators and Their Viziers: Agency Problems in Dictatorships

Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

2005-734: Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

2005-733: Businessman Candidates: Special-Interest Politics in Weakly Institutionalized Environments

Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin

2004-732: Measuring the Institutional Change of the Monetary Regime in a Political Economy Perspective (Groups of interest and monetary variables during the Currency Board introduction in Bulgaria)

Nikolay Nenovsky and Yorgos Rizopoulos

2004-731: IMPACT OF REGULATED PRICE ADJUSTMENTS ON PRICE VARIABILITY IN A VERY LOW INFLATION TRANSITION ECONOMY: CASE OF ARMENIA

Aghassi Mkrtchyan

2004-730: Reform, FDI and Economic Growth: Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare

Bruno Merlevede and Koen Schoors

2004-729: The Effects of Transition and Political Instability On Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: Central Europe and the Balkans

Josef Brada, Ali Kutan and Taner Yigit

2004-728: INSTITUTIONAL DISTANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN EMERGING ECONOMIES

Delia Ionascu, Klaus Meyer and Saul Estrin