Bulletin Issue 40

Bulletin Issue 40 (Aug 1990) - Contents

In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

Conferences

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· Policy Formation - Political Constraints

· Macroeconomic Policy - The External Constraint

· Exchange Rate Management - Currency Bands

Workshops

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Spain and the European Community

· European Research Workshop in International Trade

· Eastern Europe - Payments Union Proposals

· Financial Markets - ESF Network Meeting

CEPR Publications

· Monitoring European Integration

· Unity with Diversity in the European Economy: the Community's Southern Frontier. Edited by Christopher Bliss and Jorge Braga de Macedo

Lunchtime Meetings

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

· European Integration - Spain and the EMS

· Corporate Finance - Germany and the UK

· European Integration - Economic and Monetary Union

· European Integration - Regional Issues

Meeting

The following meeting was discussed in this issue:

· International Macroeconomics Programme Meeting

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Is There a Case for the MTFS? by Peter Westaway and Simon Wren-Lewis

· Trade Policy Under Imperfect Competition: A Numerical Analysis by Anthony J Venables

· Long Term Contracts in International Trade by Dalia Marin and Erwin Amann

· Fiscal Policy Independence in a Monetary Union by Paul R Masson and Jacques Mélitz

· Secondary Market Prices Under Alternative Debt Reduction Schemes: An Option Pricing Approach with an Application to Mexico by Stijn Claessens and Sweder van Wijnbergen

· Capital Flight and Tax Competition: Are there Viable Solutions to Both Problems by Alberto Giovannini and James R Hines Jr

· Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries by Francesco Giavazzi and Marco Pagano

· Reflections on the Fiscal Implications of a Common Currency by Willem H Buiter and Kenneth M Kletzer

· Fiscal Policy Interdependence and Efficiency by Willem H Buiter and Kenneth M Kletzer

· The Welfare Economics of Cooperative and Uncooperative Fiscal Policy by Willem H Buiter and Kenneth M Kletzer

· Exchange Rate Bands with Price Inertia by Marcus H Miller and Paul Weller

· Flexibility, Investment and Growth by Giuseppe Bertola

· On Relative Shocks and Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union by George S Alogoskoufis

· International Costs and Benefits from EMU by George S Alogoskoufis and Richard Portes

· When Does Coordination Pay? by Marcus H Miller and Mark H Salmon

· The Empirical Modelling of NIE Exports: An Evaluation of Different Approaches by Vito A Muscatelli, T G Srinivasan and David Vines

· Initial Public Offerings in the UK, USA and Japan by Tim Jenkinson

· Portuguese Industry and the Effect of EC Membership by Cristina Corado