Publications

by members of

Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland (United States)

Working papers

2008

1. Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell, 2008. "Fostering Civil Society to Build Institutions: Why and When," Electronic Working Papers 08-002, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Peter Murrell & Radu Paun, 2008. "Caveat venditor: The conditional effect of relationship-specific investment on contractual behavior," Electronic Working Papers 08-001, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Harry Kelejian & Peter Murrell & Oleksandr Shepotylo, 2007. "Spatial Spillovers in the Development of Institutions," Electronic Working Papers 07-001, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Donald Clarke & Peter Murrell & Susan Whiting, 2006. "The Role of Law in China's Economic Development," Electronic Working Papers 06-002, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Peter Murrell, 2006. "Institutions and Transition," Electronic Working Papers 06-001, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell, 2005. "Allocating Law-Making Powers: Self-Regulation vs. Government Regulation," Electronic Working Papers 05-002, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Omar Azfar & Peter Murrell, 2005. "Identifying Reticent Respondents: Assessing the Quality of Survey Data on Corruption and Values," Electronic Working Papers 05-001, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell, 2004. "Lawyers and Politicians: The Impact of Organized Legal Professions on Institutional Reforms," Electronic Working Papers 04-002, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Peter Murrell, 2003. "Firms Facing New Institutions: Transactional Governance in Romania," Electronic Working Papers 03-001, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Kathryn Hendley & Peter Murrell, 2003. "Which mechanisms support the fulfillment of sales agreements? Asking decision-makers in firm," Electronic Working Papers 03-002, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
3. Peter Murrell, 2003. "The Relative Levels and the Character of Institutional Development in Transition Economies," Electronic Working Papers 03-003, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
4. Peter Murrell, 2003. "Institutions and Firms in Transition Economies," Electronic Working Papers 03-004, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. Djankov, Simeon & Murrell, Peter, 2002. "Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey," CEPR Discussion Papers 3319, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Kathryn Hendley & Peter Murrell & Randi Ryterman, 1998. "Law, Relationship, and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprise," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 72, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]
2. James H. Anderson & Georges Korsun & Peter Murrell, 1998. "Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft Budgets? Evidence on the Effects of Ownership and Decentralization in Mongolia," Electronic Working Papers 98-002, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
3. Kathryn Hendley & Peter Murrell & Randi Ryterman, 1998. "Law, Relationships, and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises," Electronic Working Papers 98-001, University of Maryland, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

1997

1. Barry Ickes & Peter Murrell & Randi Ryterman, 1997. "End of the Tunnel? The Effects of Financial Stabilization in Russia," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 50, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]
2. James Anderson & Georges Korsum & And Murrell, 1997. "Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft budgets after Mass Privatization? Evidence from Mongolia," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 83, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2009

1. Omar Azfar & Peter Murrell, 2009. "Identifying Reticent Respondents: Assessing the Quality of Survey Data on Corruption and Values," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 57(2), pages 387-411, 01. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell, 2009. "Fostering civil society to build institutions," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 17(1), pages 1-41, 01. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. Grajzl, Peter & Murrell, Peter, 2007. "Allocating lawmaking powers: Self-regulation vs government regulation," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(3), pages 520-545, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell, 2006. "Lawyers and politicians: the impact of organized legal professions on institutional reforms," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 251-276, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Hendley, Kathryn & Murrell, Peter, 2003. "Which mechanisms support the fulfillment of sales agreements?: Asking decision-makers in firms," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(1), pages 49-54, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Anderson, James H. & Korsun, Georges & Murrell, Peter, 2003. "Glamour and value in the land of Chingis Khan," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 34-57, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Murrell, Peter, 2003. "Firms facing new institutions: transactional governance in Romania," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(4), pages 695-714, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Simeon Djankov & Peter Murrell, 2002. "Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 40(3), pages 739-792, September.

2000

1. Anderson, James H & Lee, Young & Murrell, Peter, 2000. "Competition and Privatization Amidst Weak Institutions: Evidence from Mongolia," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 38(4), pages 527-49, October.
2. Anderson, James H. & Korsun, Georges & Murrell, Peter, 2000. "Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft Budgets? Evidence on the Effects of Ownership and Decentralization in Mongolia," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(2), pages 219-246, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. James H. Anderson & Georges Korsun & Peter Murrell, 1999. "Ownership, exit and voice after mass privatization," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 7(1), pages 215-243, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Murrell, Peter, 1996. "How Far Has the Transition Progressed?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 10(2), pages 25-44, Spring. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Murrell, Peter & Dunn, Karen Turner & Korsun, Georges, 1996. "The Culture of Policy-Making in the Transition from Socialism: Price Policy in Mongolia," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 45(1), pages 175-94, October.

1995

1. Peter Murrell, 1995. "The Transition According to Cambridge, Mass," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 33(1), pages 164-178, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1993

1. Murrell Peter & Wang Yijiang, 1993. "When Privatization Should Be Delayed: The Effect of Communist Legacies on Organizational and Institutional Reforms," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 385-406, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1992

1. Murrell, Peter, 1992. " Evolutionary and Radical Approaches to Economic Reform," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 25(1), pages 79-95.

1991

1. Murrell, Peter, 1991. "Symposium on Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 5(4), pages 3-9, Fall. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Murrell, Peter, 1991. "Can Neoclassical Economics Underpin the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 5(4), pages 59-76, Fall. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Murrell, Peter, 1991. " The Effect of (the Absence of) Multinationals' Foreign Direct Investment on the Level of Eastern European Trade," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 151-60.
4. Kennelly, Brendan & Murrell, Peter, 1991. " Industry Characteristics and Interest Group Formation: An Empirical Study," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 70(1), pages 21-40, April.
5. Murrell, Peter & Olson, Mancur, 1991. "The devolution of centrally planned economies," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2), pages 239-265, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Murrell, Peter & Ryterman, Randi, 1991. "A methodology for testing comparative economic theories: Theory and application to East-West environmental policies," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 582-601, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
7. Murrell, Peter, 1991. "Public choice and the transformation of socialism," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2), pages 203-210, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1990

1. Coughlin, Peter J & Mueller, Dennis C & Murrell, Peter, 1990. "Electoral Politics, Interest Groups, and the Size of Government," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 28(4), pages 682-705, October.
2. Coughlin, Peter J. & Mueller, Dennis C. & Murrell, Peter, 1990. "A model of electroral competition with interest groups," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 307-311, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Murrell, Peter, 1990. "Result-oriented and process-oriented evaluations of indicative planning," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(4), pages 555-559, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1988

1. Magenheim, Ellen & Murrell, Peter, 1988. "How to Haggle and to Stay Firm: Barter as Hidden Price Discriminatio n," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 26(3), pages 449-59, July.

1986

1. Murrell, Peter, 1986. "A note on variables and observations in factor analysis," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(2), pages 319-325, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1985

1. Murrell, Peter, 1985. "The size of public employment: An empirical study," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 424-437, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1984

1. Murrell, Peter & Miller, Jeffrey, 1984. "The Applicability of information-revealing incentive schemes in economic organizations," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 277-289, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Murrell, Peter, 1984. "Incentives and income under market socialism," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 261-276, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1983

1. Peter Murrell, 1983. "The Economics of Sharing: A Transactions Costs Analysis of Contractual Choice in Farming," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 14(1), pages 283-293, Spring. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1982

1. Murrell, Peter, 1982. "Product Quality, Market Signaling and the Development of East-West Trade," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 20(4), pages 589-603, October.

1981

1. Peter Murrell, 1981. "Endogenous Technological Change and Optimal Growth," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 7(2), pages 97-109, Apr-Jun. [Downloadable!]
2. Miller, Jeffrey & Murrell, Peter, 1981. "Limitations on the use of information-revealing incentive schemes in economic organizations," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(3), pages 251-271, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Murrell, Peter, 1981. "An evaluation of the success of the hungarian economic reform: An analysis using international-trade data," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(4), pages 352-366, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1980

1. Murrell, Peter, 1980. " The Use of the Maximin Principle as a Criterion for Just Savings," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 82(1), pages 15-24.
2. Murrell, Peter, 1980. " Optimal Growth Models as Economic Planning Tools," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 92-101.

1979

1. Murrell, Peter, 1979. "The Performance of Multiperiod Managerial Incentive Schemes," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 69(5), pages 934-40, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Miller, Jeffrey & Murrell, Peter, 1979. "The problem of equity in determining managerial rewards in public enterprises : A comment on A. Bergson, "Managerial risks and rewards in public enterprises"," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(4), pages 407-415, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Murrell, Peter, 1979. "Planning and coordination of economic policy in market economies," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 145-166, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1977

1. Murrell, Peter & Green, Donald W, 1977. "Non-Price Rationing of Intermediate Goods in Centrally Planned Economies: A Comment," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 45(1), pages 175-81, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Books

2008

1. Martens,Bertin & Mummert,Uwe & Murrell,Peter & Seabright,Paul & Ostrom Elinor, 2008. "The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521055390, 12.

2002

1. Martens,Bertin & Mummert,Uwe & Murrell,Peter & Seabright,Paul & Ostrom Elinor, 2002. "The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521808187, 12.

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