Bulletin Issue 30-31 (December 1988/ February 1989) - Contents

· Highlights of this issue

· Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Commodity Prices - Imported Inflation?

· Financial Markets - Crash Course

· Microeconomic Policy Coordination

· North-South Interactions - Empirical Modelling of the World

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

· 1992 Capital Liberalization - Debt Management Problem

· International Monetary Reform - Too many chefs?

· Agricultural Protection - Digging for Victory

· UK Economic Performance - Curing the Supply Side

· 1992 Capital Liberalization - Can EMS Survive?

· Lone-Parent Families - Labour of the Unloved?

The following CEPR Publications are available to order:

· The European Monetary System edited by Francesco Giavazzi, Stefano Micossi and Marcus Miller

· International Policy Coordination

· The Changing Population of Britain edited by Heather Joshi

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Voluntary Export Restraints: UK Restrictions on Imports of Leather Footwear from Eastern Europe by L Alan Winters and Paul A Brenton

· The Labour Force Participation of Older Men in Britain, 1951-81 by Paul Johnson

· Can the EMS Be Exported? Lessons from Ten Years of Monetary Policy Coordination in Europe by Francesco Giavazzi and Alberto Giovannini

· Protectionism and the US Trade Deficit: An Empirical Analysis by W Helkie, Andrew J Hughes Hallett, G J Hutson and Jaime Marquez

· The National Security Argument for Agricultural Protection by L Alan Winters

· The Factorial Distribution of Income in the Union Bargaining Model by Michael Beenstock

· A Democratic Model of the `Rent-Sought' Benefit Cycle by Michael Beenstock

· The Fiscal and Monetary Dynamics of Israeli Inflation: A Cointegrated Analysis 1970-1987 by Michael Beenstock and Michael Ben-Gad

· Imperfect Competition, Expectations and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy by Neil Rankin

· British Economic Growth Before and After 1979: A Review of the Evidence by Nicholas F R Crafts

· Costs of Inflation by John Driffill, Grayham E Mizon and Alistair Ulph

· Abolishing Exchange Control: The UK Experience by Michael J Artis and Mark P Taylor

· Securitization and Commodity Contingency in International Lending by Ronald W Anderson, Christopher L Gilbert and Andrew Powell

· Wages and Prices in Europe: A Test of the German Leadership Thesis by Michael J Artis and Dilip M Nachane

· Is the European Monetary System a DM-Zone? by Paul De Grauwe

· The Exchange-Rate Question in Europe by Francesco Giavazzi

· Exchange Rate Bands and Realignments in a Stationary Stochastic Setting by Marcus H Miller and Paul Weller

· Dealing with Debt: The 1930s and the 1980s by Barry Eichengreen and Richard Portes

· Food Security and International Security by Alexander H Sarris

· Employment Dynamics Among British Lone Mothers by John F Ermisch and Robert E Wright

· The Duration of Lone Parenthood in Britain by John F Ermisch and Robert E Wright