Bulletin Issue 46 (August 1991) - Contents

In This Issue

ˇ Highlights of this issue

Feature

ˇ External Constraints on Macroeconomic policies in Europe

Conference

ˇ Macroeconomic Linkages - Dynamic Asian Economies

ˇ Economic Transformation of Eastern Europe

Workshop

ˇ European Research Workshop in International Trade

Lunchtime Meetings

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

ˇ Aid to the Soviet Union - The Grand Bargain?

ˇ European Integration - Implications for EFTA

ˇ European Integration - The Role of Foreign Competition

ˇ Eastern Europe - The Next Steps

ˇ Labour Economics - European Unemployment

CEPR Publications

ˇ External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy: The European Experience

ˇ European Science Foundation - Network in Financial Markets

ˇ PHARE Papers Published

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

ˇ The Interaction of Monetary Policy and Wages by Thorvaldur Gylfason and Assar Lindbeck

ˇ Expected and Predicted Realignments: The FF/DM Exchange Rate During the EMS by Andrew K Rose and Lars E O Svensson

ˇ Bargaining for the Choice of Monetary Policy Instruments in a Simple Stochastic Macro Model by Martin Klein

ˇ Stochastic Process Switching and Intervention in Exchange Rate Target Zones: Empirical Evidence from the EMS by Axel A Weber

ˇ Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? Evidence from Regional Data by Paul De Grauwe and Wim Vanhaverbeke

ˇ Brussels on a Single Money by Jacques Mélitz

ˇ Competition in the British Electricity Spot Market by Richard Green and David M G Newbery

ˇ An Analysis of the Hungarian Tax Reform by David M G Newbery

ˇ The Path of Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction by Richard Portes

ˇ Cost Asymmetries in International Subsidy Games: Should Governments Help Winners or Losers? by J Peter Neary

ˇ Do the Benefits of Exchange Rates Outweigh Their Cost? The Franc Zone in Africa by Shantayanan Devarajan and Dani Rodrik

ˇ Unanticipated Inflation and Government Finance: The Case for an Independent Common Central Bank by Frederick van der Ploeg

ˇ The European Central Bank: Reshaping Monetary Politics in Europe by Alberto Alesina and Vittorio Grilli

ˇ Dually-Traded Italian Equities: London vs. Milan by Marco Pagano and Ailsa Röell

ˇ Distributive Politics and Economic Growth by Alberto Alesina and Dani Rodrik

ˇ Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policies in the World Economy by Vittorio Grilli and Nouriel Roubini

ˇ Exchange Rate Risk and Imperfect Capital Mobility in an Optimizing Macromodel by Neil Rankin

ˇ Strategies for the International Protection of the Environment by Carlo Carraro and Domenico Siniscalco

ˇ Financial Innovation and the Neutrality of Money by Michael J Moore