· Highlights of this issue

· North-South-North Macroeconomic Interactions

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· Economics of Technology policy - Hi-tech analyisis

· Anglo French Colloquium - Quantitative economic history

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Agricultural policies - against the grain

· UK Fertility - Parenthood still popular

· Unemployment Insurance - Insecurity at a premium

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· When International Policy Coordination Matters: An Empirical Analysis by Matthew B Canzoneri and Patrick Minford

· Trade Policy with Increasing Returns and Imperfect Competition: Contradictory Results from Competing Assumptions by James R Markusen and Anthony J Venables

· The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c. 1850-1914: A Reinterpretation by Simon Szreter

· Policy Design and Operation in a Macroeconomic Model with a Managed Exchange Rate under Different Expectational Regimes by Nicos M Christodoulakis, David Vines and Martin Weale

· Monetary Policy Interactions under Managed Exchange Rates by Francesco Giavazzi and Alberto Giovannini

· The Consistency of Optimal Policy in Stochastic Rational Expectations Models by David Backus and John Driffill