Publications

"Exploring Tax Evasion in the Context of Political Uncertainty," Economic Systems, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2013), pp. 141-154, with Joel Owen.

Are Property Rights Enough? Re-evaluating a Big-Bang Claim," The Economics of Transition, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2009), pp. 75-96, with Joel Owen.

Should Governments Compete for Foreign Direct Investment?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 59, No. 2 (February 2006), pp. 230-248, with Joel Owen.

Voucher Privatization: A Detour on the Road to Transition?The Economics of Transition, Vol. 10, No. 3, (November, 2002), pp. 553-583, with Joel Owen.

Choosing Between Big-Bang and Gradualist Reforms: An Option Price Approach," Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 28, No. 1 (March, 2000), pp. 95-107, with Joel Owen.

Optimal Voucher Privatization Fund Bids When Bidding Affects Firm Performance,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 24, No. 1 (February, 1997), pp. 25-43, with Joel Owen.

Designing an Optimal Privatization Plan for Restructuring Firms and Industries in Transition,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 21, No. 1 (August, 1995), pp. 1-28, with Joel Owen.

Comment on “Hardening of the Budget Constraint Under the PostSocialist System,” by Janos Kornai, Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 9, No. 1 (March, 1997).

Privatization: Choosing the Optimal Time Path,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 17, No. 4 (December, 1993), pp. 715-736, with Joel Owen.

On the Existence of Franchise Contracts and Some of Their Implications,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 10, No. 4 (December, 1992), pp. 567-593, with Joel Owen.

Product Availability as a Strategic Variable: The Implications of Regulating Retailer Stockouts,” Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4 (December, 1990), pp. 379-395, with Julianne Nelson.

A `Big Mac' Approach to Denationalization,” Comparative Economic Studies, XXXII, No. 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 82-92, with Joel Owen.

An Equilibrium Model of a Second Economy Market in a Centrally Planned Economy,” Journal of Comparative Economics, XII, No. 4 (December, 1988), pp. 546-569, with Joel Owen.

Rationed and Walrasian Markets for the Same Good: A Rational Expectations Determination of the Relative Prices,” Economics Letters, Vol. 25, No. 3 (1987), pp. 221-224, with Joel Owen.

Initial Public Offerings: An Equilibrium Model of Price Determination,” Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 2, No. 3 (new series), Summer 1987, pp. 266-284, with Joel Owen. Professional adaptation: pp. 285-298.

“Industrial Policy in Japan: Brief Overview and Evaluation: Comment,” in R. Sato and P. Wachtel (eds.), Trade Friction and Economic Policy. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Stochastic Rationing by Waiting List,” Economics Letters, 20 (1986), pp. 311-314, with Joel Owen.

Disequilibrium Theory, Waiting Costs and Saving Behavior in Centrally Planned Economies: A Queuing Theoretic Approach,” Journal of Comparative Economics, VIII, No. 3 (September, 1984), pp. 301-321, with Joel Owen.

“Government, Technological Opportunities and The Emergence of The Computer Industry,” in Herbert Giersch (ed.), Emerging Technologies: Consequences for Economic Growth, Structural Change, and Employment. Institut fur Weitwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel, Symposium 1981, with Almarin Phillips. (This is a modified version of the chapter in the Nelson volume.) This has also been translated into Italian and reprinted in D. Archibugi and E. Santarelli (eds.), The Theory and History of Technological Change. Milan: Franco Angeli, 1987.

“The Computer Industry,” in Richard Nelson (ed.), Government and Technical Progress. New York: Pergamon Press, 1982, pp. 162-232, with Almarin Phillips.

“The Deregulation of Banking: Comment,” in L. Goldberg and L. White (eds.), The Deregulation of The Banking Securities Industries. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1979, pp. 263-266.

The Disequilibrium Model in a Controlled Economy: Comment,” American Economic Review, LXIX (September, 1979), pp.721-725.

Competition in the Soft Drink Industry,” The Antitrust Bulletin, XXIV (Summer, 1979), pp. 263-283.

Territorial Exclusivity in the Soft Drink Industry," Journal of Industrial Economics, XXVII (September, 1978), pp. 85-96.

'Giantism' As An Unbalanced Growth Strategy: An Econometric Investigation of the Soviet Experience, 1928-1940,” Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, IV, No. 2 (1977), pp. 205-222.  (This journal was renamed to The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review in 1992.)

Polish Postwar Economic Growth: Comment on Whalley and Flakierski,” Soviet Studies, XXVII (October, 1975), pp. 639-642. (This journal was renamed to Europe-Asia Studies in 1993.)

Purges and Production: Soviet Economic Growth 1928-1940,” Journal of Economic History, XXXV (September, 1975), pp. 567-591.