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Bulletin
No 59
Winter
1993/94
IN
THIS ISSUE...
The first article of this Bulletin reports the final conference of
the Centre's research programme on `Comparative Experience of Economic
Growth in Postwar Europe'. This issue also reports two conferences on
regional integration, workshops on the Japanese economy, migration and
competition policy, and discussion meetings on German immigration, the
prospects for regional and multilateral liberalization after the Uruguay
Round, and the lessons for trade policy from the experience of the
1930s.
Post-war
Growth
Economists and economic historians at an Oxford conference
considered the implications of recent insights from economic theory and
developments in the analysis of institutions for the assessment of
economic growth in Europe since 1945.
Regionalism
Participants in a joint Barcelona conference with the Institut d'Anàlisi
Econòmica and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra focused on the relationships
between trade, growth and regional integration, with particular emphasis
on the policy implications of the widening and deepening of economic
integration in Europe.
Economic
Geography
A joint conference with the Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo
considered theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between
economic geography with trade, growth, market integration, labour
markets and technological change.
The
Japanese Economy
Participants in an Oxford workshop considered the impact of Japanese
institutions on savings behaviour, competition policy, education and
training, and long-term growth.
Migration
Papers presented at a Paris workshop considered the historical
experience of migration from and within Southern Europe, prospects for
increased East-West migration, and the impact of migrant flows on host
countries.
Competition
Policy
A joint Brussels workshop with the European Centre for Advanced
Research in Economics considered recent research into the appropriate
design of competition policy and regulation of public utilities for
Europe and the US.
Discussion Meetings
At a joint Bonn
meeting
with the Anglo-German Foundation, Klaus F Zimmermann argued that Germany
can benefit from the continued, regulated migration, in particular that
of highly-skilled workers from Central and Eastern Europe.
At a joint Brussels
meeting
with the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics, Jaime
de Melo considered the implications for the multilateral trading system
of the world's increased division into regional blocs.
Barry Eichengreen reviewed the lessons of the breakdown of international
trade and monetary cooperation
in the 1930s for the design of trade policy after the Uruguay Round.
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