Institute for the Study of International Aspects of Competition

Books

• Microeconomics: Optimization, Experiments, and Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 326.
• The Effects of Economic Reform in Yugoslavia: Investment and Foreign Trade Policy, 1959–76. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1983. Pp. xi, 189.

Articles

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• The Labor Supply of Nurses and Nursing Assistants in the United States. Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 31, no. 4 (fall 2005), pp. 585–99.
• Serving the Medicaid and Medicare Populations: Nursing Labor Market Dynamics. (With Matthew Bodah and Leonard Lardaro.) Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting, Industrial Relations Research Association, 2003, pp. 199–205.
• Comparative Analysis of Reduced-Rank Regression: A Case Study Using Soviet Union Expenditure Data. (With R. Choudary Hanumara and Andrada I. Pacheco.) 2002 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, pp. 2592–95. Reprinted in International Journal of Business and Economics, vol. 3, no. 1 (spring 2004), pp. 38–42.
• “Marx’s Concept of an Economic Law of Motion.” History of Political Economy,, vol. 32, no. 2, (summer 2000), pp. 381-94.
• Cones of Diversification in a Model of International Comparative Advantage. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, vol. 9, no. 2 (June 2000), pp. 193-211.
• Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic Development: Is There a Link? (With Catherine Humblet and Louis Putterman.) Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 47, no. 3 (April 1999), pp. 471–95.
• Income Distribution, Government Transfers, and the Problem of Unequal Influence. (With William Bassett and Louis Putterman.) European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 15 (1999), pp. 207-28.
• Bureaucratic Behavior Modeled by Reduced-Rank Regression: The Case of Expenditures from the Soviet State Budget. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 34, no. 1 (Feb. 1998), pp. 173–87.
• Self-Managed Market Socialism and the Yugoslav Economy, 1950–91. Comparative Economic Systems: Models and Cases, seventh edition, ed. Morris Bornstein. Burr Ridge, Illinois: Irwin, 1994, pp. 322–52.
• Comparative Advantage and Resource Reallocation in Ukraine. The Economy of Ukraine: Past, Present and Future, ed. George Chuchman and Mykola Herasymchuk. Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1993, pp. 206–17.
• The Supply of Labour by Individuals to a Chinese Collective Farm: The Case of Dahe Commune. (With Louis Putterman.) Economica, vol. 60, no. 240, Nov. 1993, pp. 381–96. Also published as chapter six in Continuity and Change in China’s Rural Development: Collective and Reform Eras in Perspective, by Louis Putterman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 177–91.
• Asymmetric Min Condition and Estimation for Disequilibrium Markets: Comment. Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, fall 1993, pp. 49–52.
• Allocation of Investment among Soviet Republics in the 1980s. In The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System, ed. Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich, London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 157–73.
• Regional’noye raspredeleniye investitsiy v SSSR v 80-e gody. Ekonomika Ukrainy, no. 12, Dec. 1991, pp. 38–45. [Published in Ukrainian as: Rehional’nyj rozpodil investicij v SRSR u 80-i roki. Ekonomika Ukrajiny, no. 12, Dec. 1991, pp. 38–45.]
• Aggregation of Slack and Shortage in Centrally Planned Economies: Comment. Economics of Planning, vol. 24 (1991), pp. 59–61.
• Does Ownership Matter? A Little Empirical Evidence. Jahrbuch der Wirtschaft Osteuropas, vol. 14 (1990), no. 2, pp. 170–71.
• Yugoslav Economic Performance and Prospects: An Analysis Based on a Bayesian Vector Autoregression. In Pressures for Reform in the East European Economies. U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, 1989, vol. 2, pp. 70–83.
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Productivity: An Econometric Analysis of CES and Translog Functions. (With Borislav Skegro.) European Economic Review, July 1989, pp. 1115–33.
• Trends in the Share of Skilled Occupations in Total Employment. International Journal of Manpower, 1989, no. 1, pp. 10–15.
• The Yugoslav Economy and Market Socialism. In Comparative Economic Systems: Models and Cases, sixth edition, ed. Morris Bornstein. Homewood, Illinois: Irwin, 1989, pp. 234–58.
• Are Economic Fractures Widening? (With Borislav Skegro.) In Yugoslavia: A Fractured Federalism, ed. Dennison Rusinow. Washington: The Wilson Center, 1988, pp. 142–55.
• Slack, Shortage, and Discouraged Consumers in Eastern Europe: Estimates Based on Smoothing by Aggregation. Review of Economic Studies, July 1988, pp. 493–506.
• Da li se dezintegriraju privrede socijalistickih republika i autonomnih pokrajina? Empirijska analiza razdoblja 1963–1984. (With Borislav Skegro.) Ekonomski pregled, 1987, no. 9–10, pp. 441–54.
• Soviet Socioeconomic Development: A Fold Catastrophe? Comparative Economic Studies, fall 1987, pp. 70–93. [Correction: spring 1988, p. 127.]
• PQLI as a Measure of Comparative Performance: Comment. Comparative Economic Studies, summer 1986, pp. 59–68.
• Search, Selection, and Shortage in an Industry Composed of Labor-Managed Firms. Journal of Comparative Economics, March 1986, pp. 26–40.
• Stabilization Measures in Yugoslavia. In East European Economies: Slow Growth in the 1980’s. U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, 1986, vol. 3, pp. 561–74.
• Systemic Influences on the Physical Quality of Life: A Bayesian Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data. Journal of Comparative Economics, June 1985, pp. 145–63.
• Capitalistic and Market Socialistic Distribution of Lifetime Property Income: Comment. Atlantic Economic Journal, Dec. 1984, p. 73.
• The Impact of Economic Reform on Macroeconomic Policy in Yugoslavia: Some Econometric Evidence. Economic Analysis and Workers’ Management, 3, 1983, pp. 213–43.
• Marginal and Conditional Probabilities of Excess Demand. Economics Letters, 1981, pp. 159–62.
• Macroeconomic Adjustment and Foreign Trade of Centrally Planned Economies. (With Richard Portes and David Winter.) National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 736 (1981).

Book Reviews

• David F. Hendry and Jurgen A. Doornik, Empirical Model Discovery and Theory Evaluation: Automatic Selection Methods in Econometrics. Choice, vol. 52, no. 7, March 2015, pp. 1198-99.
• David Cutler, The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too, Choice, vol. 52, no. 4, December 2014, p. 666.
• Peter E. Rossi, Bayesian Non- and Semi-parametric Methods and Applications. Choice, vol. 52, no. 3, November 2014, p. 500.
• Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. Choice, vol. 51, no. 9, May 2014, p. 1646.
• Douglas E. Hough, Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why. Choice, October 2013.
• Anders Åslund, ed., Russian Economic Reform at Risk. Journal of Economic Literature, March 1997, pp. 180–181.
• Malcolm R. Hill and Richard McKay, Soviet Product Quality. Slavic Review, winter 1989, pp. 672–73.
• S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies, ed. Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy 1928–1930. Journal of Economic Literature, June 1989, pp. 624–25.
• Gregory C. Hildebrandt, ed., Rand Conference on Models of the Soviet Economy, October 11–12, 1984. Journal of Comparative Economics, 1987, pp. 261–64.
• Branko Horvat, Politicka ekonomija socializma. Slavic Review, summer 1987, pp. 332–33.
• Silvana Malle, The Economic Organization of War Communism, 1918–1921. Journal of Economic Literature, Dec. 1987, pp. 1861–63.
• János Kornai, Contradictions and Dilemmas. Journal of Economic Literature, Sept. 1987. pp. 1324–26.
• Ota Sik, For a Humane Economic Democracy. Journal of Economic Literature, Sept. 1986, pp. 1233–34.
• Michael Ellman, Collectivization, Convergence, and Capitalism: Political Economy in a Divided World. Journal of Economic Literature, March 1986, pp. 94–95.
• János Kornai, Economics of Shortage and Growth, Shortage and Efficiency, and János Kornai and Bela Martos (ed.), Non-price Control. Contributions to Political Economy, March 1984, pp. 85–91.