Recently added articles from The European Journal of Comparative Economics:

The Determinants of Actual Migration and the Role of Wages and Unemployment in Albania: an Empirical Analysis*

Jan 01, 2008; Cattaneo, Cristina ... Abstract The paper explores the determinants of internal migration in Albania, adopting the Harris-Todaro approach to migration: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level wages and unemployment, included in ...

Comparing Direct and Indirect Taxation: The Influence of Framing on Tax Compliance

Jan 01, 2008; Watrin, Christoph; Ullmann, Robert ... Abstract Standard theory of the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxation implicitly assumes that compliance is not influenced by the framing of the taxes. According to our findings, this is not the case. Using an experimental approach, we examine whether framing the tax payment ...

Formal and informal institutional change: the experience of postsocialist transformation

Jan 01, 2008; Chavance, Bernard ... Abstract Diversity of trajectories of post-socialist transforming economies is a stylized fact of this experience of system change. The paper explores the relations between change in formal and informal rules in historical perspective, discussing new institutional views about rationality ...

The Euro's Effects on Trade in a Dynamic Setting

Jan 01, 2008; de Nardis, Sergio; De Santis, Roberta; Vicarelli, Claudio ... Abstract This paper provides an update on estimates of the euro effect on trade integration among EMU economies, taking into account the aggregate bilateral exports of 23 OECD countries for the sample period 1988-2004. We consider 13 exporting European countries and 23 importing ...

Determinants of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Russian Regions

Jan 01, 2008; Ledyaeva, Svetlana; Linden, Mikael ... Abstract A modification of Barro and Sala-i-Martin empirical framework of growth model is specified to examine determinants of per capita growth in 74 Russian regions during period of 1996-2005. We utilize both panel and cross-sectional data. Results imply that in general regional growth ...

Twin Crises in Turkey: A Comparison of Currency Crisis Models 1

Jan 01, 2008; Yilmazkuday, Hakan ... Abstract This paper analyzes the twin crises in Turkey experienced in 2000 and 2001. After a detailed survey of currency crisis models, together with a brief descriptive overview of the crises in Turkey, the similarities among the twin crises in Turkey and the models that have been ...

The European Labour Market Regional Dimensions

Jan 01, 2008; Huber, Peter ... The European Labour Market Regional Dimensions Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Sergio Destefanis (editors)1 by Peter Huber, Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Vienna This collective volume is published at a time when, in conjunction with the enlargement of the European Union and the ...