Economic Policy is a new journal being launched jointly by CEPR and two French partners, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. It will offer an independent, non-partisan, European forum for analyses of topical policy issues in economics. The articles will be specially commissioned from leading economists in Britain, other European countries and elsewhere. Each article will provide an up-to-date, non-technical survey of current research on a specific policy question. The papers for each issue of Economic Policy will be discussed by the Economic Policy Panel. A summary of the Panel's comments will follow each commissioned paper.

The Economic Policy Panel will include: Giorgio Basevi, University of Bologna; Michael Bruno, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Willem Buiter, LSE ; Rudiger Dornbusch, MIT; David Hendry, Nuffield College, Oxford; Ravi Kanbur, University of Essex; Louka Katseli, Yale University and Centre for Economic Planning and Research, Athens; Mervyn King, London School of Economics; Paul Krugman, MIT; Jacques Mairesse, ENSAE, Paris; Jacques Melitz, INSEE, Paris; Patrick Minford, University of Liverpool; Torsten Persson, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm; John Vickers, Nuffield College, Oxford; and Mike Wickens, University of Southampton. Further appointments will be announced soon.
Papers have already been commissioned for the first issue and will be discussed at the June 1985 Panel meeting in Paris. The first issue of Economic Policy will be published in October 1985.