Recently added articles from Comparative Economic Studies:
Energy issues and challenges in emerging economies.(Introduction to the Symposium)(Essay)
Jun 01, 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 supply of oil, Banks emphasised that 'the world ...
Corruption and economic development in energy-rich economies.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
Jun 01, 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 corruption-development link in energy-rich ...
Using energy resources to diversify the economy: agricultural price distortions in Kazakhstan.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
Jun 01, 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 century, the country has experienced ...
Russia from bust to boom and back: oil price, Dutch disease and stabilisation fund.(Report)
Jun 01, 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 also plays an important strategic role as a ...
Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo.(Report)
Jun 01, 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 does not necessarily explain the ...
The European Economy Since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond.(Book review)
Jun 01, 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 economist examines how ...
Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives.(Book review)
Jun 01, 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 promises both ...
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey.(Book review)
Jun 01, 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 opportunity to ...
International Perspectives on Household Wealth.(Book review)
Jun 01, 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 examined the ...
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists.(Book review)
Jun 01, 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 change, stress, ...