Comparative Economic Studies articles from June 2009

Comparative Economic Studies archives from June 2009

Energy issues and challenges in emerging economies.(Introduction to the Symposium)(Essay)
June 1, 2009... The management of oil and gas revenues, which are volatile, unpredictable, and ultimately exhaustible, offers important opportunities, but can also greatly complicate economic policy making. In his introduction to the economic theory of the...

Corruption and economic development in energy-rich economies.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION Data limitations and the complexity of the oil and gas industry have impeded the efforts of researchers to study and uncover the links between the rents generated by oil revenues and high levels of corruption as well as the...

Using energy resources to diversify the economy: agricultural price distortions in Kazakhstan.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION After becoming independent at the end of 1991, Eazakhstan went through a severe recession, which was prolonged by the 1998 Russian Crisis and only turned around in 1999. (1) In sharp contrast, in the first decade of the 21st...

Russia from bust to boom and back: oil price, Dutch disease and stabilisation fund.(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION Russia is the largest neighbour of the enlarged European Union (EU). The economies of the EU and Russia are increasingly integrated through rising flows of goods, services, capita! and people between the two blocks. Russia...

Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo.(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION Economists have often viewed social conflict as an outcome of competition to control natural resources (Hirshleifer, 1995) in contexts where collective action is costly or infeasible. Others have argued that such competition...

The European Economy Since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The European Economy Since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond Barry Eichengreen Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007, pp. 495; index. doi:10.1057/ces.2008.39 This major work by a well-known international...

Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives Jessica S Wallack and TN Srinivasan Cambridge University Press: New York, NY, 2006, pp. 516, index. doi:10.1057/ces.2008.32 Much admired across the globe, federalism...

By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey Janos Kornai The MIT Press: Cambridge and London, 2006, 461pp. doi:10.1057/ces.2008.40 Readers who know Janos Kornai mainly through his works have here an...

International Perspectives on Household Wealth.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... International Perspectives on Household Wealth Edward N Wolff (ed), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, 2006, 447 pp. ISBN: 978-1845421168; Price: $180 doi:10.1057/ces.2008.52 Although considerable research has...

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... From Communists to Foreign Capitalists Nina Bandelj Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2008, 303pp. doi:10.1057/ces.2008.53 Central planning was replaced by a system in which the search for profit results in ubiquitous...