Bulletin Issue 50

Bulletin Issue 50/51 (April/June 1992) - Contents

Feature

· Market Structure, Industrial Organization
and Competition Policy in Europe

Conferences

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· Finance and Development - Regionalism and Growth

· International Macroeconomics Programme Meeting

· Eastern Europe - Transition and its Consequences

· Banking Competition - Financial Intermediation

· International Trade - Regional Integration

· Labour Economics - European Aging

· Labour Economics - German Unification

Workshops

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Taxation in Eastern Europe

· European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets

Lunchtime Meetings

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Eastern Europe - Polish Agriculture

· Inflation and Exchange Rates - Elections in the UK

· European Monetary Union - An Optimal Currency?

· Migration - A Common Policy for Europe?

· European Integration - External Effects of '1992'

· Currency Markets - Magic Numbers?

· Eastern Europe - Enterprises in Transition

· Eastern Europe - Trading Potential

· Structural Adjustment - LDCs and Eastern Europe

· Competition Policy - A Wider Public Interest?

CEPR Publications

· Economic Policy 14

· Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture

· Occasional Papers 6 and 7

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Public Finance in Models of Economic Growth by Robert J Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

· Fiscal Policies and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime by Gabriel De Kock and Vittorio Grilli

· Fiscal Federalism and Optimum Currency Areas: Evidence for Europe from the United States by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Jeffrey Sachs

· Distributional Conflicts, Power and Multiple Growth Paths by Gilles Saint-Paul and Thierry Verdier

· The Marshall Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program by J Bradford De Long and Barry Eichengreen

· Covered Purchasing Power Parity, Ex-Ante PPP and Risk Aversion by Michael J Moore

· Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomics: A Survey by Huw David Dixon and Neil Rankin

· Biased Contests and Moral Hazard: Implications for Career Profiles by Margaret A Meyer

· The Marshall Plan: Economic Effects and Implications for Eastern Europe and the Former USSR by Barry Eichengreen and Marc Uzan

· Fiscal Policy Coordination and EMU: A Dynamic Game Approach by Andrew Brociner and Paul Levine

· Incentives and the Management of Enterprises in Economic Transition: Capital Markets Are Not Enough by Ken Mayhew and Paul Seabright

· Towards a European Migration Policy by Thomas Straubhaar and Klaus F Zimmermann

· Privatization in Hungary: Past, Present and Future by Konstantine Gatsios

· Shocking Aspects of European Monetary Unification by Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen

· Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement by Gene M Grossman and Alan B Krueger

· How Long Do Unilateral Target Zones Last? by Bernard Dumas and Lars E O Svensson

· Is There a Conflict Between EC Enlargement and European Monetary Unification? by Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen

· The Adjustment Towards National Solvency in Developing Countries: An Application to India by Subrata Ghatak and Paul Levine

· The Adjustment Mechanism by Maurice Obstfeld

· Counter-Inflationary Policy in the Framework of the EMS by Michael J Artis

· Problems of Post-CMEA Trade and Payments by Dariusz K Rosati

· Models of Economic Integration and Localized Growth by Giuseppe Bertola

· Trade Unions, Wages and Structural Adjustment in the New German States by Michael C Burda and Michael Funke

· Industrial Policy and Restructuring in Eastern Europe by Gordon A Hughes and Paul Hare

· A Multilateral Payments Union for the Commonwealth of Independent States: Why and How? by Peter Bofinger and Daniel Gros

· Market Socialism and the Managerial Labour Market by Gérard Roland and Khalid Sekkat

· The Price of EMU Revisited by Patrick Minford, Anupam Rastogi and Andrew J Hughes Hallett

· Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence by George S Alogoskoufis, Ben Lockwood and Apostolis Philippopoulos