· Highlights of this issue

· A European Central Bank

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· Anglo-French Colloquium - Population economics

· Commodity Prices - Primary concerns

· European Financial Markets Network - Firm contracts

The following lunchtime Meetings were discussed in this issue:

· 1992 - Bitter Pill for Pharmaceuticals

· 1987 Stock Market Collapse - Crash Barriers

· National Rate Hypothesis - Deflation in history

· Non-Tariff Barriers - Out of step

· 1992 Financial Liberalization - Don't bank on it

· 1992 Financial Liberalization - Branch reform?

· The Thatcher decade - Oiling the wheels of industry

The following Publication was discussed in this issue:

· Economic Policy

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Stabilization Policy, Fixed Exchange Rates and Target Zones by George S Alogoskoufis

· Measurement Issues, the Productivity Slowdown and the Explosion of Computer Power by Martin N Baily and Robert J Gordon

· The European Monetary Union: An Agnostic Evaluation by Daniel Cohen and Charles Wyplosz

· Structure and Performance: Global Interdependence of Stock Markets Around the Crash of October 1987 by Elisabetta Bertero and Colin P Mayer

· Solving Stochastic Saddlepoint Systems: A Qualitative Treatment with Economic Applications by Marcus H Miller and Paul Weller

· The Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Deregulation by Jacques Mélitz and Christian Bordes

· Insider Forces and Wage Determination by Stephen J Nickell and Sushil Wadhwani

· Structural Adjustment in European Retail Banking: Some Views from Industrial Organisation by Damien J Neven

· Debt Relief and Secondary Market Discount by Daniel Cohen

· Does 1992 Come Before or After 1990? On Regional Versus Multilateral Integration by André Sapir

· Competition in Spanish Banking by Ramon Caminal, Jordi Gual and Xavier Vives

· The Thatcher Miracle? by Richard Layard and Stephen J Nickell

· Ten Years of Mrs. T. by Charles R Bean and James S V Symons