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Volume 16, No. 1, January-February-March 2005

Theme of the Issue:  Entrepreneurship and Barriers to Entry

Russian Entrepreneurs: Tell Me Who Your Friends and Family Are...
Simeon Djankov, Gerard Roland, Edward Miguel,Yingui Qian, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Entrepreneurs in Latvia: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle
Vyacheslav Dombrovsky

Barriers to Entrepreneurship 
Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven,and Raghuram Rajan

Business Owners’ Growth Expectations in Lithuania
Ruta Aidis and Tomasz Mickiewicz

Banking Deregulation Promotes “Creative Destruction”
Marianne Bertrand, Antoinette Schoar, and David Thesmar

No Exit?
William Tompson

Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta

Lobbying on Entry
Enrico Perotti and Paolo Volpin

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Evidence from Romania
David Brown, John Earle and Dana Lup

Financing Conditions for Small and Medium Enterprises in the New EU Member States
Ulrich Volz

Doing Business—2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth
Simeon Djankov

Russia’s Small Business Climate Continues to Improve
Oleg Zamulin

Russian Customs: A Barrier to Foreign Trade, Investments and Entry?
Ksenia Yudaeva and Konstantin Kozlov

Discussion

Representatives of SME Organizations in Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Russia Talk about Entrepreneurship

New Findings

Who Bears the Cost of Russia's Military Draft? 
Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov

How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China
Sumon Bhaumik and Saul Estrin

India's Reform Attracts Interest in Beijing
Suman Bery

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