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2004-727: Explaining Patterns of Corruption in the Russian Regions

Phyllis Dininio and Robert W. Orttung

2004-726: The Politics of Institutional Learning and Creation: Bank Crises and Supervision in East Central Europe

Gerald A. McDermott

2004-725: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: A WINNING COMBINATION Generating a World’s View based on Buckley and Casson and Hirschman’s Books

Tamir Agmon

2004-724: IMPORTING HIGH-RISK CAPITAL AND REVEALING HIDDEN COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES

Tamir Agmon

2004-722: Russia from Bust to Boom: Oil, Politics or the Ruble?

Bruno Merlevede, Koen Schoors and Bas van Aarle

2004-721: Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

2004-720: An Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Russia from 1996-2002

Rita Hansberry

2004-719: Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

2004-718: The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms: Evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic

Irena Grosfeld and Iraj Hashi

2004-717: Wage Determination Under Communism and In Transition: Evidence from Central Europe

Swati Basu,, Saul Estrin and Jan Svejnar

2004-716: The Evolution of Cross-Region Price Distribution in Russia

Konstantin Gluschenko

2004-715: Languages in the European Union: The Quest for Equality and its Cost

Jan Fidrmuc and Victor Ginsburgh

2004-714: Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behavior

Jan Fidrmuc and Orla Doyle

2004-713: International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999

Witold Henisz, Bennet A. Zelner and Mauro F. Guillen

2004-712: Votes and Vetoes: The Political Determinants of Commercial Openness

Witold Henisz and Edward D. Mansfield

2004-711: INTEREST GROUPS, VETO POINTS AND ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT

Witold Henisz and Bennet A. Zelner

2004-710: Firms’ Price Markups and Returns to Scale in Imperfect Markets: Bulgaria and Hungary

Rumen Dobrinsky, Gabor Korosi, Nikolay Markov and László Halpern

2004-709: The Stability and Growth Pact from the Perspective Of the New Member States

Gábor Orbán and György Szapáry

2004-708: CONTRACT VIOLATIONS, NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS, AND WAGE ARREARS IN RUSSIA

John Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter

2004-707: Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Sumon Bhaumik, Klaus Meyer and Saul Estrin

2004-706: Economic Reform in Tanzania and Vietnam: A Comparative Commentary

Brian Van Arkadie and Do Duc Dinh

2004-705: Beliefs about Exchange-Rate Stability: Survey Evidence From the Currency Board in Bulgaria

Neven Valev and John Carlson

2004-704: Returns to Schooling in China Under Planning and Reform

Belton Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

2004-703: Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Belton Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Xiaojun Wang

2004-702: What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John Earle and Daniela Lup

2004-701: The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

2004-700: Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

2004-699: SELF-SELECTION AND EARNINGS DURING VOLATILE TRANSITION

Ralitza Dimova and Ira Gang

2004-698: ECOLOGY AND VIOLENCE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF WAR

Timothy L. Fort and Cindy A. Schipani

2004-697: Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Ira Gang and Robert C. Stuart

2004-696: Firm Ownership and Internal Labor Practices in a Transition Economy: An Exploration of Worker Skill Acquisition in Vietnam

Jed Friedman

2004-695: The Unanticipated Effects of Insider Trading Regulation

Artyom Durnev and Amrita S. Nain

2004-694: Volatile Interest Rates, Volatile Crime Rates: A new argument for interest-rate smoothing

Garett Jones and Ali Kutan

2004-693: Money Market Liquidity under Currency Board – Empirical Investigations for Bulgaria

Petar Chobanov and Nikolay Nenovsky

2004-692: Credibility and adjustment: gold standards versus currency boards

Jean-Baptiste Desquilbet and Nikolay Nenovsky

2004-691: Impact of Cross-listing on Local Stock Returns: Case of Russian ADRs

Elena Smirnova

2004-690: Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and State Ownership in China: Evidence from New Panel Data*

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

2004-689: Diverging Paths: Transition in the Presence of the Informal Sector

Maxim Bouev

2004-688: WHAT CAUSES BANK ASSET SUBSTITUTION IN KAZAKHSTAN? EXPLAINING CURRENCY SUBSTITUTION IN A TRANSITION ECONOMY

Sharon Eicher

2004-687: Financial Sector Returns and Creditor Moral Hazard: Evidence from Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand

Jian Tong and Chenggang Xu

2004-686: Instability in Exchange Rates of the World Leading Currencies: Implications of a Spatial Competition Model among Central Banks

Dirk Engelmann, Jan Hanousek and Evžen Kočenda

2004-685: Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets

Jan Hanousek, Evžen Kočenda and Jan Svejnar

2004-683: Mission Implausible III: Measuring the Informal Sector in a Transition Economy using Macro Methods1

Jan Hanousek and Filip Palda

2004-682: The Other Side of the Moon: The Data Problem in Analyzing Growth Determinants

Jan Hanousek, Dana Hájková and Randall Filer

2004-681: Consumers' Opinion of Inflation Bias Due to Quality Improvements

Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

2004-679: Privatization Matters: Bank Efficiency in Transition Countries

John P. Bonin, Iftekhar Hasan and Paul Wachtel

2004-678: Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986—1998

Dean Jolliffe and Nauro Campos

2004-677: Governance and Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Central And Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States

Valentina Hartarska

2004-676: Equilibrium Exchange Rates in the Transition: The Tradable Price-Based Real Appreciation and Estimation Uncertainty

Balázs Égert and Kirsten Lommatzsch

2004-675: Productivity Growth and the Real Appreciation of the Accession Countries' Currencies

Kirsten Lommatzsch and Silke Tober