Bulletin Issue 49

Bulletin Issue 49 (February 1992) - Contents

In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

Feature

· The Transition to Economic and Monetary Union in Europe

Conferences

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· Growth Theory - New Developments

· European Integration - A Single Market?

· Eastern Europe - Hungary in Transition

Lunchtime Meetings

The following lunchtime meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Female Employment - Child Care and Mothers' Earnings

CEPR Publications

The following CEPR Publications are available to order:

· A Single Currency for Europe: Monetary and Real Impacts by Clive Crook

· Adjustment and Growth in the European Monetary Union edited by Francisco Torres and Francesco Giavazzi

· Hungary: An Economy in Transition edited by István Székely and David Newbery

· Trade Flows and Trade Policy edited by L Alan Winters

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Saving and Endogenous Growth: A Survey of Theory and Policy by Willem H Buiter

· Investigating Private and Public Savings-Investment Gaps in EC Countries by Fernando C Ballabriga, Juan J Dolado and José Viñals

· Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies by Alberto Alesina, Gerald D Cohen and Nouriel Roubini

· Monopoly, Tying and Reciprocity: An Application to International Trade by Dalia Marin

· The Trading Potential of Eastern Europe by Zhen Kun Wang and L Alan Winters

· Time Varying Devaluation Risk, Interest Rate Differentials and Exchange Rates in Target Zones: Empirical Evidence from the EMS by Axel A Weber

· Privatization in Eastern Europe: Irreversibility and Critical Mass Effects by Gérard Roland and Thierry Verdier

· Education, Democracy and Growth by Gilles Saint-Paul and Thierry Verdier

· Human Capital, Investment and Migration in an Integrated Europe by Michael C Burda and Charles Wyplosz

· Labour Mobility and German Integration: Some Vignettes by Michael C Burda and Charles Wyplosz

· Monetary Policy in Stage Two of EMU by Michael J Moore and Thomas O'Connell

· Common Currency Areas and Currency Unions: An Analysis of the Issues by Paul R Masson and Mark P Taylor

· From EMS to EMU by Michele Fratianni, Jürgen von Hagen and Christopher Waller

· Household Portfolios in Hungary, 1970-1990 by István Abel and István P Székely

· Export Supply and Import Demand in Hungary (An Econometric Analysis for 1968-1989) by László Halpern and István P Székely

· Psychological Barriers in the Foreign Exchange Market by Paul De Grauwe and Danny Decupere

· Polish Agriculture in Transition: Does it Hurt to be Slapped by an Invisible Hand? by Larry S Karp and Spiro Stefanou

· East Germany, West Germany, and their Mezzogiorno Problem: An Empirical Investigation by Andrew J Hughes Hallett and Yue Ma

· Transition Problems in Economic Reform: Agriculture in the Mexico-US Free Trade Agreement by Santiago Levy and Sweder van Wijnbergen

· Debt Service, Foreign Direct Investment and Transformation to Market: A Simple Model by István Abel and John P Bonin

· The `Big Bang' Versus `Slow but Steady': A Comparison of the Hungarian and the Polish Transformations by István Abel and John P Bonin

· Efficiency in the Peseta Forward Exchange Rate Market by Juan Ayuso, Juan J Dolado and Simón Sosvilla-Rivero

· The Political Economy of Transition in the Soviet Union by Gérard Roland

· Monetary Policy in Stage Two of EMU: What Can We Learn From the 1980s? by Michael J Artis