Comparative Economic Studies articles from December 2008

Comparative Economic Studies archives from December 2008

13th Dubrovnik Economic Conference symposium.(Symposium Introduction)(Conference news)
December 1, 2008... The Croatian National Bank's annual Dubrovnik conferences are a mainstay for research on a changing world economy. The tradition established by the Central Bank of Croatia continued with the 13th Dubrovnik Economic Conference that was held on...

Bank regulations are changing: for better or worse?(Symposium Paper)(Report)
December 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Is the bank-regulatory environment in countries improving and making financial systems more efficient and stable? A decade after the East Asian crisis and the ever-growing importance of developing-country-banking systems, the...

Lessons from financial liberalisation in Scandinavia.(Symposium Paper)
December 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION This study examines the causes and consequences of the financial crises that hit the Scandinavian or Nordic countries in the early 1990s and extracts lessons from this experience. (1) The focus is on the macroeconomic record...

Are weak banks leading credit booms? Evidence from emerging Europe.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
December 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION In an environment of brisk credit growth, supervisors tend to watch carefully whether weak banks are starting to expand rapidly. (1) Sounder banks may have a competitive advantage in meeting the demand for credit owing to...

Central bank institutional structure and effective central banking: cross-country empirical evidence.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
December 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Over the last decade, the legal and institutional frameworks governing central banks and financial market regulatory authorities throughout the world have undergone significant changes. New central banks needed to be organised...

The impact of the USD/EUR exchange rate on inflation in the Central and East European countries.(Symposium Paper)(United States dollar, euro)(Report)
December 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION During the last few years, there has been growing empirical support for the idea that external factors might have a leading role in explaining business cycles in small open economies. (1) In particular, import prices and...

From Illyria towards capitalism: did labour-management theory teach us anything about Yugoslavia and transition in its successor states?(50th Anniversary Essay)(Essay)
December 1, 2008... JEL Classifications: J54, O52, P13, P37, P52 INTRODUCTION In 1958, Benjamin Ward published his seminal paper, 'The Firm in Illyria: Market Syndicalism'. He suggested that some Eastern European economies were shifting from socialist...

The Piratisation of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Piratisation of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry Marshall I. Goldman London and New York, Routledge, 2003, 289 pp. For Vladimir Putin the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 represented 'the greatest geopolitical catastrophe' of...

Performance and Strategies of Banks in Transition Economies.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Performance and Strategies of Banks in Transition Economies Rainer Haselmann Metropolis-Verlag: Marburg, 2006, 226pp. This study applies a methodology usually applied to bank performance in established market economies to the...

External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil Lance Taylor (ed). Oxford University Press: New York, NY, 2006, 528pp. This edited volume offers detailed accounts of the experiences of 14 emerging economies with...

Institutions, Development and Economic Growth.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Institutions, Development and Economic Growth Theo S. Eicher and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa (eds). CESifo Seminar Series, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2006, pp. 293, index. While economic theory has traditionally focused on mostly...

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm, Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. x, 321, index, $36, ISBN: 9780-300-109412. ...

The Russian Economy: From Lenin to Putin.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Russian Economy: From Lenin to Putin Steven Rosefielde Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, 2007, xvi + 260pp., $69.95. ISBN 13:978-1-4051-1337-3 (hardcover). In this textbook, Steven Rosefielde outlines how he understands the...

The Challenges of Sustained Development: The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in East-Central Europe.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Challenges of Sustained Development: The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in East-Central Europe Frane Adam, Matej Makarovic, Borut Roncevic and Matevz Tomsic Central European University: Budapest, Hungary, 2005. Sustainable...

The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu and Nigel Wadeson Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 89 [pounds sterling], 808pp, 2006. Both an important reference work in the field of...

Famine in North Korea. Markets, Aid, and Reform.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Famine in North Korea. Markets, Aid, and Reform Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland Columbia University Press: New York, NY, 2007, pp. 309, $35. Index. ISBN: 0231 140 002 This is an excellent study of North Korea's famine of the...

Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan and Samuel Bowles (eds) Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007.357pp, $35, ISBN:0.91-12879-0. One of the greatest challenges facing...

Association for comparative economic studies - 2009 meetings.(Association News)
December 1, 2008... The programme for the Association's Meetings in San Francisco in January 2009 is now available on the Association's website http://www.acesecon.org/.

Zora Pryor.(Association News)(Obituary)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Association notes with regret that Zora Pryor, a longtime member of the Association, passed away on 23 August 2008. She was the author of monographs oil the labour force of Bulgaria and of Poland, as well as the author of a number of...