Bulletin Issue 61 (Summer 1994) - Contents

In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

Conferences

· Finance and Industrial Organization - Theories and Evidence

· Financial Economics

· The Atlantic Economy - Trade and Finance

· Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates in Europe

· Stock Market Performance - International Business Cycles

· European Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics

Discussion Meetings

The following discussion meetings were discussed in this issue:

· European Monetary Union - Abandoning Maastricht

· Central and Eastern Europe in Transition

· Eastern Europe - The International Dimension

· Labour Mobility - States and Regions

· Unemployment Policy - Europe's Problem

· European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory

· Post-war Growth in Europe

CEPR Books

The following CEPR books are available to order:

· Captial Mobility: The Impact on Consumption, Investment and Growth edited by Leonardo Leiderman and Assaf Razin

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank and The East Asian Miracle by Dani Rodrik

· The Political Economy of State Aids in the European Community: Some Econometric Evidence by Damien J Neven

· Tying Trade Flows: A Theory of Countertrade by Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer

· Differences in the Labour Market Behaviour Between Temporary and Permanent Migrant Women by Christian Dustmann

· The Financing of Industry, 1970-89: An International Comparison by Jenny Corbett and Tim Jenkinson

· Some Political Aspects of Unemployment by Gilles Saint-Paul

· Searching for the Virtues of the European Model by Gilles Saint-Paul

· Sources of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: How Important are Nominal Shocks? by Richard Clarida and Jordi Galí

· Changes in the Relative Demand for Skills in the UK Labour Market by Stephen J Machin

· Knowledge Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production by David B Audretsch and Maryann P Feldman

· Convergence Empirics Across Economies with (Some) Capital Mobility by Danny T Quah

· Environmental Policy Under Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Structure by Yannis Katsoulacos and Anastasios Xepapadeas

· Unification and the Policy Predicament in Germany by Andrew J Hughes Hallett, Yue Ma and Jacques Mélitz

· Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth by William Easterly, Robert King, Ross Levine and Sérgio Rebelo

· Unemployment Persistence and the Unemployment-Productivity Relation by Dennis J Snower

· Price Inertia and Production Lags by Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J Snower

· Patterns of Unemployment: An Insider-Outsider Analysis by Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J Snower

· Can Foreign Aid Accelerate Stabilization? by Alessandra Casella and Barry Eichengreen

· Multilateral Tariff Cooperation During the Formation of Customs Unions by Kyle Bagwell and Robert W Staiger

· The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants by Schmidt

· Migration and Growth: The Experience of Southern Europe by Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Venturini

· The Great Wars, the Great Crash, and the Unit Root Hypothesis: Some New Evidence About An Old Stylized Fact by Dan Ben-David and David H Papell

· Cross-Section Estimation of the Matching Function: Evidence from England and Wales by Melvyn G Coles and Eric Smith

· Temporal Aggregation Bias in Stock-Flow Models by Kenneth Burdett, Melvyn G Coles and Jan C van Ours

· A Formal Model of Optimum Currency Areas by Tamim Bayoumi

· Shocks and the Viability of a Fixed Exchange Rate Commitment by Torben M Andersen

· Convergence, Competitiveness and the Exchange Rate by Andrea Boltho

· Human Capital Distribution, Technological Progress, and Economic Growth by Oded Galor and Daniel Tsiddon

· Product Variety and Welfare under Discriminatory and Mill Pricing Policies by George Norman and Jacques-François Thisse

· Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe After World War II by Barry Eichengreen

· Earnings and Seniority in Japan. A Re-appraisal of the Existing Evidence and a Comparison with the UK by Giorgio Brunello and Kenn Ariga

· Irish Economic Growth, 1945-88 by Cormac O'Gráda and Kevin H O'Rourke

· The Empirics of Economic Growth in Previously Centrally Planned Economies by Edward E Leamer and Mark P Taylor