· Central and Eastern Europe – Unemployment Policy

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The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Structural Change and Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe: Some Key Issues by Michael C Burda

· Public Pension Reform, Demographics, and Inequality by Robert K von Weizsäcker

· Uneven Technical Progress and Job Destructions by Daniel Cohen and Gilles Saint-Paul

· Learning by Doing, Precommitment and Infant-Industry Protection by Dermot Leahy and J Peter Neary

· The Causes of Post-War Slumps and Miracles. An Evaluation of Olsonian Views on German Economic Performance in the 1920s and the 1950s by Karl-Heinz Paqué

· Training, Earnings and Mobility in Germany by Rainer Winkelmann

· European and American Regionalism: Effects on and Options for Asia by Kym Anderson and Richard H Snape

· An Exercise in Futility: East German Economic Growth and Decline, 1945-89 by Albrecht Ritschl

· Asymmetric Information, Agency Costs and Innovative Entry by David B Audretsch

· Economic Growth in Post-War Belgium by Isabelle Cassiers, Philippe De Villé and Peter M Solar

· Wage Bargaining in Industries with Market Power by A Jorge Padilla, Samuel Bentolila and Juan J Dolado

· Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the US and EU: A Real Story About European Monetary Union by Tamim Bayoumi and Alun Thomas

· Collusive Conduct in Duopolies: Multimarket Contact and Cross-Ownership in the Mobile Telephone Industry by Philip M Parker and Lars-Hendrik Röller

· An Analysis of US International Trade Commission Decisions in Antidumping, Countervailing Duty and Safeguard Cases by Robert E Baldwin and Jeffrey W Steagall

· Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience by Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

· Evaluating Welfare Losses Under R&D Rivalry and Product Differentiation by Yannis Katsoulacos and David Ulph

· Fiscal Constraints and the Speed of Transition by Bankim Chadha and Fabrizio Coricelli

· Post-War Growth of the Danish Economy by Peder J Pedersen

· Education, Income Distribution, and Growth: The Local Connection by Roland Bénabou

· Business Cycles in a Small Open Economy by Isabel Correia, Joao C Neves and Sérgio Rebelo

· Financial Reform in Israel: A Case of Gradualism by Leonardo Leiderman and Gil Bufman

· The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism by Gilles Saint-Paul

· The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap by Dennis J Snower