Bulletin Issue 57 (Summer 1993) - Contents

In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

Conferences

· Labour Markets - The Skills Gap

· International Macro Policy - North-South Linkages

· European Summer Symposium in Marcoeconomics

· European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory

· European Integration - EC Enlargement

· European Research Workshop on International Trade

· Modelling Growth and Integration

· Environmental Economics - Sustainable Development

· New Trade Theories: Empirical Evidence

· Organized Crime - Theories of the Firm

· ESF Network in Financial Markets Summer Symposium

· Primary Financial Markets

· Eastern Europe - New Currencies

Workshops

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Industrial Economics - Market Structure

· Financial Regulation

· International Finance

· Economic History - Post-war European Growth

· Economic Growth in Postwar Europe

Discussion Meetings

The following discussion meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Central Europe - A Progress Report

· Labour Markets - European Ageing

· Competition Policy - European Merger Control

· Corporate Finance - A Future for Banks?

· Trade Liberalization and Growth - Environmental Effects

· Capital Mobility - Finance and Development

· Economic Policy: The Options for Spain

· International Trade - US-EC Farm Confrontation

CEPR Books

The following CEPR Books can be ordered:

· New Dimensions in Regional Integration edited by Jaime de Melo and Arvind Panagariya

· Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe edited by Paul Johnson and Klaus F Zimmerman

· Merger in Daylight: The Economics and Politics of European Merger Control by Damien Neven, Robin Nuttall and Paul Seabright

· Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation edited by Colin Mayer and Xavier Vives

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· The Political Economy of the Exchange Rate Mechanism by Patrick Minford

· Diffusion of Technical Change and the Decomposition of Output into Trend and Cycle by Marco Lippi and Lucrezia Reichlin

· Competition Through Fares and Fare Accesses on the Air Transport Market by Martino Ajmone Marsan and Fiorella Padoa Schioppa Kostoris

· German and American Wage and Price Dynamics: Differences and Common Themes by Wolfgang Franz and Robert J Gordon

· Growth and External Debt by Daniel Cohen

· Trade as an Engine of Political Change. A Parable by Alessandra Casella

· Two Notes on Economic Growth and the Solow Model by Daniel Cohen

· Sources and Propagation of International Business Cycles: Common Shocks or Transmission? by Fabio Canova

· Detrending and Business Cycle Facts by Fabio Canova

· Revenue-sharing Subsidies as Employment Policy: Reducing the Cost of Stimulating East German Employment by Dennis J Snower

· The Output Decline in Central and Eastern Europe: A Classical Explanation by Peter Bofinger

· Green Policies in a Small Open Economy by A Lans Bovenberg and Frederick van der Ploeg

· Domestic Distortions and International Trade by James E Anderson and J Peter Neary

· Signalling Debt Sustainability by Francesco Drudi and Alessandro Prati

· Liquidity Effects and the Determinants of Short-term Interest Rates in Italy (1991-92) by Ignazio Angeloni and Alessandro Prati

· Lobbying Incentives and the Pattern of Protection in Rich and Poor Countries by Kym Anderson

· The Determinants of Realignment Expectations Under the EMS - Some Empirical Regularities by Zhaohui Chen and Alberto Giovannini

· Public Debt in the USA: How Much, How Bad and Who Pays? by Willem H Buiter

· On the Feasibility of a One- or Multi-Speed European Monetary Union by Alberto Alesina and Vittorio Grilli

· The Political Economy of Capital Controls by Alberto Alesina, Vittorio Grilli and David Milesi-Ferretti

· Convergence in Growth Rates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation by Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

· History, Geography and Regional Economic Integration by Kym Anderson and Hege Norheim

· International Migration, Capital Mobility and Transitional Dynamics by Richard E Baldwin and Anthony J Venables

· The Dynamic-Optimizing Approach to the Current Account: Theory and Evidence by Assaf Razin

· Foreign Direct Investment in the European Community: Some Policy Issues by Damien J Neven and Georges Siotis

· Real and Monetary Aspects of French Exchange Rate Policy Under the Fourth Republic by Gilles Saint-Paul