Comparative Economic Studies articles from December 2006

Comparative Economic Studies archives from December 2006

Political competition and financial reform in transition economies (1).
December 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION In 1990s, governments in the formerly state-socialist economies of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union embarked on efforts to adopt market-oriented policies towards their financial sectors. As with previous efforts in much of...

Overcoming the curse of hydrocarbon: goats and governance in the oil funds of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
December 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION The management of oil revenues--which are volatile, unpredictable, and ultimately exhaustible--offers important opportunities but can also greatly complicate economic policy-making. To tackle this management challenge, many...

Introduction to symposium 'environmental management in transition'.
December 1, 2006... Without making any claim of causation, the evidence of reduced impacts on the natural environment is strong and widespread. Since the collapse of communism and central planning, air emissions and wastewater discharges have declined dramatically...

Explaining environmental management in Central and Eastern Europe.
December 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Late in the 20th century, a historic series of events caused the downfall of the economic system of planning that characterised the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for as much as 70 years. We examine the...

The adoption of environmental management practices in a transition economy.
December 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Environmental management in transition economies is difficult because economic and institutional change creates significant risks and uncertainty for strategic decisions (Peng, 2000) and this is particularly true for the...

Pollution, production, and sectoral differences in a transition economy.
December 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Recent economic studies examine the factors driving corporate environmental performance in transition economies (eg, Bluffstone, 1999). Our study analyses firm-level environmental performance, as measured by the level of air...

Voluntary environmental agreements when regulatory capacity is weak (1).
December 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION The conventional approach to industrial pollution control is to establish laws requiring firms to cut emissions. Voluntary regulation, by contrast, provides incentives--but not mandates--for pollution control. In...

Liberalization and Growth in Asia, 21st Century Challenges.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Liberalization and Growth in Asia, 21st Century Challenges Mohamed Adrift and Ahmed M. Khalid Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA, 2004, 399pp. Asia is now in the world's spotlight. To a great extent, it appears, the driving force of the...

Transition and Economic Development in India.(India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Transition and Economic Development in India Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg Routledge: New York and London, 2003, 374pp. India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond Kaushik Basu (ed) MIT Press:...

Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism.
December 1, 2006... Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism Gerald A. McDermott, University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2003, pp. 295. Describing how the former Communist countries of East-Central Europe have managed...

What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrial Nations?(Book review)
December 1, 2006... What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrial Nations? Edward N. Wolff (ed) Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA, 2004, pp. xxxi, 392, index. This book contains 12 highly useful essays, half of which deal with countries...

Managing European Union Enlargement.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Managing European Union Enlargement Helge Berger and Thomas Moutos (eds) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004, 313pp. On 1 May 2004, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia...

The French Economy in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The French Economy in the Twentieth Century Jean-Pierre Dormois Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK and New York, 2004, xviii+ 151 pp., index. Your transatlantic steamer has sunk, and you are on a lifeboat in the English Channel....

Privatization in Latin America: Myths and Reality.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Privatization in Latin America: Myths and Reality Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (eds) Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA, 2005, pp. 506. This volume is devoted to analyzing relatively recent privatization efforts...