Bulletin Issue 53

Bulletin Issue 53/54 (Oct/Dec 1992) - Contents

Feature

· Is Bigger Better? - The Economics of EU Enlargement

News

· Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy

Conferences

· The Exchange Rates - The Nordic Economy

· Free Enterprise or Welfare State

Workshops

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Production and Trade in the New Europe

· International Taxation

· European Economic History

· Post-war European Growth

· Financial Markets and Real Economic Behaviour

Discussion Meetings

The following Discussion Meetings were discussed in this issue:

· European Monetary Union - Should the French Vote Yes

· The Monetary Future of Europe - Prospects for Maastricht

· EMS and EMU - After the Fall

· Post-war Growth - The 'Thatcher Experiment'

· European Integration - Can We Afford One Europe

· Macroeconomic Modelling - The UK Experience

· Eastern Europe - Enterprise Restructuring

CEPR Publications

The following CEPR Books can be ordered

· Is Bigger Better? The Economics of EC Enlargement

· Economic Policy in Political Equilibrium

· The New Regionalism in Trade Policy

· Economic Policy 15

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Ageing and Unemployment by Schmidt

· Wage Bargaining Structure, Employment and Economic Integration by Jean-Pierre Danthine and Jennifer Hunt

· Enterprise Debt and Economic Transformation: Financial Restructuring of the State Sector in Central and Eastern Europe by David Begg and Richard Portes

· Taxes and Subsidies in the Transforming Hungarian Economy by Ernö Zalai and Tamás Révész

· National Insurance Against Unevenly Distributed Shocks in a European Monetary Union by Jacques Mélitz and Silvia Vori

· Target Zone Models with Price Inertia: Some Testable Implications by Alan Sutherland

· Earnings Uncertainty and Precautionary Saving by Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Daniele Terlizzese

· Restructuring Enterprises in Eastern Europe by Wendy Carlin and Colin P Mayer

· Fiscal and Monetary Policy Under EMU: Credible Inflation Targets or Unpleasant Monetary Arithmetic? by Paul Levine and Joseph Pearlman

· Monetary Policy and Reputational Equilibria: A Resolution of the Non-Uniqueness Problem by Ali al-Nowaihi and Paul Levine

· Deregulation of the European Banking Industry (1980-1991) by Jordi Gual and Damien J Neven

· Competition When Consumers Have Switching Costs: An Overview by Paul Klemperer

· Making Sense of the Soviet Trade Shock in Eastern Europe: A Framework and Some Estimates by Dani Rodrik

· Ageing, Migration and Labour Mobility by Rainer Winkelmann and Klaus F Zimmermann

· Macroeconomic Import Functions with Imperfect Competition. An Application to the EC Trade by Joaquim Oliveira-Martins and Joël Toujas-Bernate

· Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show by Stephen N Broadberry

· Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle by Gilles Saint-Paul

· Was the Thatcher Experiment Worth it? British Economic Growth in a European Context by Nicholas F R Crafts

· Macroeconomic Shocks, the ERM, and Tri-Polarity by Tamim Bayoumi and Mark P Taylor

· The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain by Timothy J Hatton, George R Boyer and Roy E Bailey

· Why Do Market Shares Matter?: An Information-Based Theory by Ramon Caminal and Xavier Vives

· Endogenous Growth, Human Capital, and Industry Wages by Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

· The New Regionalism: A Country Perspective by Jaime de Melo, Arvind Panagariya and Dani Rodrik

· A Primer on the MFA Maze by Riccardo Faini and Jaime de Melo

· Estimates of Bilateral Trade Elasticities and Their Implications for the Modelling of `1992' by Paul A Brenton and L Alan Winters

· Why Have a Target Zone? by Paul Krugman and Marcus H Miller

· Monetary Union, Money Demand and Money Supply: A Review of the German Monetary Union by Jürgen von Hagen

· Understanding the High Interest Rates on Italian Government Securities by Alberto Giovannini and Gustavo Piga

· Arbitration in International Trade by Alessandra Casella

· Economic and Monetary Union in Europe by Charles R Bean

· Unemployment, Consumption and Growth by Charles R Bean and Christopher Pissarides

· The Implications of Space for Competition by Suzanne Scotchmer and Jacques-François Thisse

· Exchange Rate Bands and Optimal Monetary Accommodation Under a Dirty Float by Roel M W J Beetsma and Frederick van der Ploeg

· A Simple Model of Money and Taxes and an Illustration with Brazilian Data by Alberto Giovannini and Bart Turtelboom

· Mass Migration, Unions, and Fiscal Migration Policy by Anette Gehrig, Schmidt and Klaus F Zimmermann

· Federal Fiscal Constitutions. Part I: Risk Sharing and Moral Hazard by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

· Macroeconomic Adjustment Under Bretton Woods and the Post-Bretton-Woods Float: An Impulse-Response Analysis by Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen

· Eastern Germany Since Unification: Wage Subsidies Remain a Better Way by David Begg and Richard Portes

· Who Benefits from Antidumping Legislation? by Kym Anderson, Nicolas Schmitt and Jacques-François Thisse

· Inefficient Diversification in Multimarket Oligopoly with Diseconomies of Scope by Huw David Dixon

· Commodity Tax Competition Under Destination and Origin Principles by Ben Lockwood

· After the Honeymoon: On the Economics and the Politics of Economic Transformation by Charles Wyplosz

· Instability of the Velocity of Money: A New Approach Based on the Evolutionary Spectrum by Michael J Artis, Robin Bladen-Hovell and Dilip M Nachane

· The Competitiveness of Hungarian Industry by Thomas Michael, Tamás Révész, Paul Hare and Gordon A Hughes

· The Advantage to Hiding One's Hand: Speculation and Central Bank Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market by Utpal Bhattacharya and Paul Weller

· Enterprise Reform in Eastern Europe by Sweder van Wijnbergen