Bulletin Issue 41 (October 1990) - Contents

In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

Feature

· Monitoring European Integration

· Innocenzo Gasparini for Economic Research

Conference

· International Trade - The Uruguay Round

Lunchtime Meetings

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Corporate Finance - Initial Public Offerings

· Environmental Economics - Acid Rain

CEPR Publications

The following CEPR Publications are available to order:

· Monitoring European Integration

· ESF Network Working Papers

· Economic Policy 11

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· European Financial Integration: A Framework for Policy Analysis by Colin P Mayer and Damien J Neven

· The Term Structure of Interest Rates, Structural Stability and Macroeconomic Policy Changes in the UK by John Driffill

· A Model of Currency Depreciation and the Debt-Inflation Spiral by Maurice Obstfeld

· Economic Change in Poland by Olivier Jean Blanchard and Richard Layard

· Banks and Securities Markets: Corporate Financing in Germany and the UK by Colin P Mayer and Ian Alexander

· Worker Absenteeism: An Analysis Using Microdata by T A Barmby, C D Orme and John G Treble

· Industrial Policy in the Presence of Wage Distortion: The Case of the US Auto and Steel Industries by Jaime de Melo and David Tarr

· Multi-Period Competition with Switching Costs by Alan Beggs and Paul Klemperer

· National Insolvency: A Test of the US Intertemporal Budget Constraint by Michael R Wickens and Merih Uctum

· Perceived Constraints for Dutch Unemployment Policy by Hugo A Keuzenkamp and Frederick van der Ploeg

· Gross Labour Market Flows in Europe: Some Stylized Facts by Michael C Burda and Charles Wyplosz

· Price and Trade Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Design of Policy Coordinaton by Daniel Cohen and Charles Wyplosz

· Trade Reform, Policy Uncertainty and the Current Account : A Non-Expected Utility Approach by Sweder van Wijnbergen

· Acid Rain by David M G Newbery

· The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations by Tim Besley, S Coate and Glen Loury

· Exchange Rates, Policy Convergence and the European Monetary System by Ronald MacDonald and Mark P Taylor

· ECU Interest Rates and ECU Basket Adjustments: An Arbitrage Pricing Approach by Martin Klein and Sigrid M Müller

· Product Line Competition and Shopping Costs: Why Firms May Choose to Compete Head-to-Head by Paul Klemperer

· Trade Policies and Development: Some New Issues by Dani Rodrik

· EMU and Asymmetries and Adjustment Problems in the EMS by Axel A Weber

· The Consequences of German Economic and Monetary Union by Michael C Burda

· Why Industrial Policies Fail: Limited Commitment by Larry S Karp and J M Perloff

· Trends and Cycles in Foreign Lending by Barry Eichengreen

· Relaxing the External Constraint: Europe in the 1930s by Barry Eichengreen

· Costs and Benefits of Monetary Union by Barry Eichengreen

· Credibility and Stabilization by Rudiger Dornbusch

· Experiences with Extreme Monetary Instability by Rudiger Dornbusch

· Policies to Move from Stabilization to Growth by Rudiger Dornbusch

· The Roles of Monetary Policy in the Process of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe by Peter Bofinger

· A Multilateral Payments Union for Eastern Europe? by Peter Bofinger

· The Price of LDC Debt by Daniel Cohen and Richard Portes