Law, Property Rights and Institutions

Donald Clarke, Peter Murrell, and Susan Whiting, in China's Great Economic Transformation, Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski eds. Cambridge University, 2008.  Chinese-language edition forthcoming from World Publishing Group, Shanghai, 2008.

Allocating Law-Making Powers: Self-Regulation vs. Government Regulation
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell, Journal of Comparative Economics, 35(3), September 2007, pp. 520–545

Lawyers and Politicians: The Impact of Organized Legal Professions on Institutional Reforms

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell, Constitutional Political Economy, 17(4), pp. 251-276, December, 2006.

Institutions and Firms in Transition Economies

Peter Murrell

2005, published in Handbook of New Institutional Economics, edited by Claude Ménard and Mary Shirley, Springer

The Relative Levels and the Character of Institutional Development in Transition Economies

Peter Murrell

2003, published in Political Economy of Transition and Development: Institutions, Politics and Policies, edited by Nauro Campos and Jan Fidrmuc, ZEI Studies in European Economics and Law, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Firms Facing New Institutions: Transactional Governance in Romania

Peter Murrell

Glamour and Value in the Land of Chingis Khan

James H. Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

March 2003, Journal of Comparative Economics, 31(1), pp 34-57

Which mechanisms support the fulfillment of sales agreements? Asking decision-makers in firms

Kathryn Hendley and Peter Murrell

January 2003 Economics Letters, 78(1), pp 49–54

Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey

Simeon Djankov and Peter Murrell

Reforma curţilor comerciale în România [The reform of the commercial courts in Romania]

Peter Murrell

2002, published in Politici Publice, Teorie şi practică, edited by in Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Sorin Ioniţă, Editura Polirom

Kathryn Hendley, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

2001, Wisconsin Law Review, no. 3, pp 639-679

Assessing the Value of Law in the Economic Transition from Socialism: An Introduction

Cynthia Clement and Peter Murrell

2001, published in Assessing the Value of Law in Transition Economies, edited by Peter Murrell, University of Michigan Press

Law Works in Russia: The Role of Legal Institutions in the Transactions of Russian Enterprises

Kathryn Hendley, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

2001, published in Assessing the Value of Law in Transition Economies, edited by Peter Murrell, University of Michigan Press

Agents of Change or Unchanging Agents? The Role of Lawyers within Russian Industrial Enterprises

Kathryn Hendley, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

Summer 2001, Law and Social Inquiry, 26(3), pp 201-231

How Does the Transitional State Behave? Evidence from Retained State Ownership in

Mongolian Privatization

Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

2000, published in Planning, Shortage, and Transformation, edited by Eric Maskin and Andras Simonovits, MIT Press

Law, Relationships, and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises

Kathryn Hendley, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

June 2000, Europe-Asia Studies, 52(4), pp 627-656

Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft Budgets? Evidence on the Effects of Ownership and Decentralization in Mongolia

James H. Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

June 2000, Journal of Comparative Economics, 28(2), pp 219-246

Competition and Privatization Amidst Weak Institutions: Evidence from Mongolia

James H. Anderson, Young Lee and Peter Murrell

October 2000, Economic Inquiry, 38(4), pp 527-549

Do Repeat Players Behave Differently in Russia? An Evaluation of Contractual and Litigation Behavior of Russian Enterprises

Kathryn Hendley, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

A Regional Analysis of Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises

Kathryn Hendley, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

1999, McGill Law Journal, 44(2), pp 433-472

Ownership, Exit, and Voice after Mass Privatization: Evidence from Mongolia

James H. Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

1999, Economics of Transition, 7(1), pp 215-243

The Relationship between Economic Growth and the Speed of Liberalization During Transition

Berta Heybey and Peter Murrell

1999, Journal of Policy Reform, 3(2), pp 121-137

Missed Policy Opportunities During Mongolian Privatization: Should Aid Target Research Institutions

Peter Murrell

1997, published in Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Countries, edited by Christopher C. Clague, Johns Hopkins University Press

Enterprise-State Relations after Mass Privatization: Their Character in Mongolia

James H. Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

1997, MOCT-MOST, 7(4), pp 81-99

Observations on the Use of Law by Russian Enterprises

Kathryn Hendley, Barry Ickes, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

January-March 1997, Post-Soviet Affairs, 13, pp 19-41

The Effects of Government Decentralization During Transition: Evidence on Enterprise-State Relations in Mongolia

James H. Anderson, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

April 1997, Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 38(4), pp 230-246

End of the Tunnel? The Effects of Financial Stabilization in Russia

Barry Ickes, Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

April-June 1997, Post-Soviet Affairs, 13, pp 105-133

How far has the transition progressed?

Peter Murrell

Spring 1996, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10(2), pp 25-44

The Culture of Policy-Making in the Transition from Socialism: Price Policy in Mongolia

Karen Turner Dunn, Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

October 1996, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 45(1), pp 175-194

Reform's Rhetoric-Realization Relationship: The Experience of Mongolia

Peter Murrell

1995, published in The Evolutionary Transition to Capitalism, edited by Kazimierz Poznanski, Westview Press

The Transition According to Cambridge, Mass.

Peter Murrell

March 1995, Journal of Economic Literature, 33(1), pp 164-178

The Politics and Economics of Mongolia's Privatization Program

Georges Korsun and Peter Murrell

May 1995, Asian Survey, XXXV(5), pp 472-486

The Theory of Planning

Peter Murrell

1994, published in The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Warren J. Samuels and Marc R. Tool, Aldershot

Playing Political Economy: The Goals and Outcomes of Russia's Economic Reforms of 1992

Peter Murrell

Spring 1994, International Journal of Political Economy, 24(1), pp 34-51

What is Shock Therapy? What Did it Do in Poland and Russia?

Peter Murrell

April-June 1993, Post-Soviet Affairs, 9(2), pp 111-140

When Privatization Should Be Delayed: The Effects of Communist Legacies on Organizational and Institutional Development

Peter Murrell and Yijiang Wang

June 1993, Journal of Comparative Economics, 17(2), pp 385-406

Evolutionary and Radical Approaches to Economic Reform

Peter Murrell

1992, Economics of Planning, 25(1), pp 79-95

Economic Reform, Economic Performance, and Arms Reduction in Eastern Europe: Insights

from Evolutionary Economics

Peter Murrell

1992, published in The Macroeconomic Dimension of Arms Reduction, edited by F. Gerard Adams, Westview Press

Evolution in Economics and in the Economic Reform of the Centrally Planned Economies

Peter Murrell

1992, published in The Emergence of Market Economies in Eastern Europe, edited by Christopher C. Clague and Gordon Rausser, Blackwell

Conservative Political Philosophy and the Strategy of Economic Transition

Peter Murrell

Peter Murrell and Randi Ryterman

1991, Journal of Comparative Economics, 15(4), pp 582-601

The Effect of (the Absence of) Multinationals' Foreign Direct Investment on the Level of Eastern European Trade

Peter Murrell

1991, Economics of Planning, 24(3), pp 151-160

Multinational Corporations in the Eastern European Transition

Peter Murrell

1991, published in Multinationals in the New Europe and Global Trade in the 1990's, edited by M. Klein and Paul Welfens, Springer

Can Neoclassical Economics Underpin the Economic Reform of the Centrally-Planned Economies?

Peter Murrell

Fall 1991, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5(4), pp 59-76

Symposium on Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Peter Murrell

Fall 1991, introductory article to symposium in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5(4), pp 3-10

The Devolution of Centrally Planned Economies

Peter Murrell and Mancur Olson

Public Choice and the Transformation of Socialism: An Introduction

Peter Murrell and Andras Nagy, ed.

June 1991, opening essay of a special issue of Journal of Comparative Economics, 15(2), pp 203-210

Industry Characteristics And Interest Group Formation: An Empirical Study

Brendan Kennelly and Peter Murrell

April 1991, Public Choice, 70(1), pp 21-40

The Implications of East-West Economic Cooperation for the Market Economies

Peter Murrell

1990, published in Perestroika and East-West Economic Relations: Prospects for

the 1990's, edited by Michael Kraus and Ronald Liebowitz, New York University Press

Big Bang Versus Evolution: Eastern European Economic Reforms in the Light of Recent

Economic History

Peter Murrell

1990, published in PlanEcon Report, VI(26), (A Revised Version of a Report Presented to the Panel of Economic Advisors of the Congressional Budget Office, June 1990)

Result-Oriented and Process-Oriented Evaluations of Indicative Planning

Peter Murrell

Electoral Politics, Interest Groups, and the Size of Government

Peter Coughlin, Dennis C. Mueller and Peter Murrell

October 1990, Economic Inquiry, 28(4), pp 682-705

A Model of Electoral Competition with Interest Groups

Peter Coughlin, Dennis C. Mueller and Peter Murrell

1990, Economics Letters, 32(4), pp 307-311

How to Haggle and Stay Firm: Barter as Mutual Price Discrimination

E. Magenheim and Peter Murrell

1988, Economic Inquiry, 26(3), pp 449-460

A Note on Variables and Observations in Factor Analysis

Peter Murrell

1986, Journal of Development Economics, 21(2), pp 319-325

Interest Groups and the Size of Government

Dennis C. Mueller and Peter Murrell

1986, Public Choice, 48(2), pp 125-146

Interest Groups and the Political Economy of Government Size

Dennis C. Mueller and Peter Murrell

1985, published in Public Expenditure and Government Growth, edited by Alan Peacock and Francesco Forte, Blackwell

The Size of Public Employment: An Empirical Study

Peter Murrell

December 1985, Journal of Comparative Economics, 9(4), pp 424-437

The Applicability of Information-Revealing Incentive Schemes in Economic Organizations

J. Miller and Peter Murrell

September 1984, Journal of Comparative Economics, 8(3), pp 277-289

Incentives and Income Under Market Socialism

Peter Murrell

September 1984, Journal of Comparative Economics, 8(3), pp 261-276

An Examination of the Factors Affecting the Formation of Interest Groups in OECD Countries

Peter Murrell

1984, Public Choice, 43(2), pp 113-149

The Comparative Structure of the Growth of West German and British Manufacturing Industry

Peter Murrell

1983, published in The Political Economy of Growth, edited by Dennis C. Mueller, Yale University Press

The Economics of Sharing: A Transactions Cost Analysis of Contractual Choice in Farming

Peter Murrell

Spring 1983, The Bell Journal of Economics, 14(1), pp 283-292

Did the Theory of Market Socialism Answer the Challenge of Ludwig von Mises? A Reinterpretation of the Socialist Controversy

Peter Murrell

Spring 1983, History of Political Economy, 15(1), pp 92-105

Product Quality, Market Signaling, and the Development of East-West Trade

Peter Murrell

Comparative Growth and Comparative Advantage: Tests of the Effects of Interest Group Behavior on Foreign Trade Patterns

Peter Murrell

1982, Public Choice, 38(1), pp 35-53

The Comparative Structure of Growth in the Major Developed Capitalist Nations

Peter Murrell

An Evaluation of the Success of the Hungarian Economic Reform: An Analysis Using International Trade Data

Peter Murrell

December 1981, Journal of Comparative Economics, 5(4), pp 352-366

National Economic Planning in the West: An Interpretation

Jeffrey Miller and Peter Murrell

Limitations on the Use of Information Revealing Incentive Schemes in Economic Organizations

Jeffrey Miller and Peter Murrell

September 1981, Journal of Comparative Economics, 5(3), pp 251-270

Endogenous Technological Change and Optimal Growth

Peter Murrell

April 1981, Eastern Economic Journal, 7(2), pp 97-109

The Microeconomic Efficiency Argument for Socialism Re-Revisited

Peter Murrell

Optimal Growth Models as Economic Planning Tools

Peter Murrell

1980, Economics of Planning, 16(2), pp 92-101

The Use of the Maximin Principle as a Criterion for Just Savings

Peter Murrell

Representation of Choice in Long-Term Planning

Peter Murrell

Fall 1979, American Economist, 23(2), pp 24-30

The Problem of Equity in Determining Managerial Rewards in Public Enterprises

Jeffrey Miller and Peter Murrell

December 1979, Journal of Comparative Economics, 3(4), pp 407-415

The Performance of Multiperiod Managerial Incentive Schemes

Peter Murrell

December 1979, American Economic Review, 69(5), pp 934-940

Planning and Coordination of Economic Policy in Market Economies

Peter Murrell

June 1979, Journal of Comparative Economics, 3(2), pp 145-166

Non-Price Rationing of Intermediate Goods in Centrally Planned Economies: A Comment

D. W. Green and Peter Murrell

January 1977, Econometrica, 45(1), pp 175-181