Bulletin Issue 29 (October 1988) - Contents

· Highlights of this issue

· The European Monetary System

· Global Economic Interactions - Look South

· Growing Elderly Population - Workers wanted, apply next century

· Economic Aspects of International Security

· ISIT - New Trade Economies

· Strategic Trade Policy - Chip off the old bloc

· European Research Workshop in International Trade

· Financial Regulation - Short circuits?

· Blueprints for Exchange Rates - Nouveau regime?

The following CEPR Publications are available:

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

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Strategic R&D Policy by John Beath, Yannis Katsoulacos and David Ulph

· International Capacity Choice and National Market Games by Anthony J Venables

· Gender Discrimination in the British Labour Market: A Reassessment by Robert E Wright and John F Ermisch

· Daycare Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden by Siv Gustafsson and Frank Stafford

· Imperfect Competition, Underemployment Equilibria and Fiscal Policy by Marco Pagano

· Income Taxes and Women's Economic Dependency: A Comparison of West Germany and Sweden by Siv Gustafsson

· How Do Fixed-Exchange-Rates Regimes Work? The Evidence from the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and the EMS by Alberto Giovannini