Comparative Economic Studies articles from March 2003

Comparative Economic Studies archives from March 2003

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... Comparative Economic Studies (2003) 45, 1. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces. 8100007 This issue marks a new beginning for Comparative Economic Studies. Palgrave is our new publisher. We feel that there will be many advantages in this new...

Institutions matter in transition, but so do policies.
March 1, 2003... `When I was growing up in Peru, I was told that the farms I visited belonged to farming communities and not to the individual farmers. Yet as I walked from field to field, a different dog would bark. The dogs were ignorant of...

Credit allocation and farm structures in the Czech Republic, 1993-1997.
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION During the reforms in Central Europe, the emergence of market-oriented family farms, replacing communist-type wage-labour farms, has been limited compared to initial expectations. Although the early view was that...

Moral Hazard in property tax administration: a comparative analysis of the Czech and Slovak Republics.
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION As the transition in central and east Europe proceeds, fiscal decentralisation is expected to enhance the efficiency of public services as government is brought closer to the people. The ideas supporting this view of...

East and West German family policy compared: the distribution of childrearing costs (1).
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION A major problem in evaluating economic output and well-being is presented by nonmarket reproductive work, most of which is performed by women. Regardless whether it is deemed desirable to compensate such work in some way, its...

Smoking in Russia: the `Marlboro Man' rides but without `Virginia Slims' for now.
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (Lopez, 1997), smoking has become, or soon will be, the leading cause of death throughout the world and in Eastern Europe in particular. In this respect Russia faces an...

Lending Credibility: the International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Randall W Stone Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2002 Comparative Economic Studies (2003) 45, 104-108. doi:10.1057/palgrave, ces.8100004 The debate on the IMF's responsibility for the late 1990s collapse of the Russian economy is...