I have recently completed a paper on Russian Enterprise Behavior and Restructuring. This paper can be downloaded as a pdf file by clicking here

To obtain any of these papers, send a note to bwickes@psu.edu. To find the abstract of any paper, click on the highlighted portion of the title.

Some Current Working Papers:

• "Equilibrium Goods Runs: The Generation of Shortages in Socialist Economies," (with J. Zhang)
• The Organization of Markets and Its Role in Macroeconomic Stabilization During Transition (with Randi Ryterman)
• The Myth of Monopoly: A New View of Industrial Structure in Russia," (with Annette Brown and Randi Ryterman)
• On Your Marx, Get Set, Go," (with Randi Ryterman and Stoyan Tenev)
• "Inflation Stabilization in Reforming Socialist Economies: The Myth of the Monetary Overhang" Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. XXXII, Summer 1991 (with John Cochrane)
• "The Interenterprise Arrears Crisis in Russia," Post-Soviet Affairs (formerly Soviet Economy), Vol. 8, Oct-Dec, 1992 (with Randi Ryterman)
• "International Business Cycles", American Economic Review, Vol. 83, 3, June 1993 (with S. Ahmed, P. Wang and S. Yoo)
• "Roadblock to Economic Reform: Interenterprise Debt and the Transition to Markets," Post-Soviet Affairs, (formerly Soviet Economy), Vol. 9, 3, July-Sept. 1993 (with Randi Ryterman)
• "Departures from the Ruble Zone: The Implications of Adopting Independent Currencies," The World Economy, Vol. 17, 3, May 1994, (with L. Goldberg and R. Ryterman)
• "Macroeconomics in Russia," in E. Lazear, editor, Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia, Hoover, 1995, (with J. Cochrane)

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