Bulletin Issue 63 (Spring 1995) - Contents

In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

Research

· EU Trade with Eastern Europe - Adjustment and Opportunities

· Trade Liberalization with the East - Which EU Industries are Sensitive?

· Trade Policy in Eastern Europe - Countering Protectionism

· The Europe Agreements - Preserving Free Trade?

Workshops

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Corporate Governance - Competing Models of Capitalism

· Environmental Policy - Links with International Trade

· Industrial Organization - Empirical Analysis

· Industrial Organization - R&D Spillovers

· European Labour Markets - Institutions and Unemployment

Conferences

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· Financial Constraints - International Perspectives

Discussion Meetings

The following Discussion Meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Auditors and Firms - Too Cosy?

· European Monetary Union - What Next?

· Exchange Rate Risk - The Limits of Hedging

Discussion Papers

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Trade with Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Greece by Sophia Dimelis and Konstantine Gatsios

· Trade and Foreign Direct Investment with Central and Eastern Europe: Its Impact on Spain by Carmela Martín and Jordi Gual

· Seniority, Earnings and Unions by Alison L Booth and Jeff Frank

· The Uruguay Round and Trade in Manufactures and Services. General Equilibrium Simulations of Production, Trade and Welfare Effects of Liberalization by Jan I Haaland and Truls Cook Tollefsen

· Linking Competition and Trade Policies in Central and East European Countries by Bernard Hoekman and Petros C Mavroidis

· Antitrust-based Remedies and Dumping in International Trade by Bernard Hoekman and Petros C Mavroidis

· Firm Location and Job Creation in Cities by Masahisa Fujita, Jacques-François Thisse and Yves Zenou

· Trade Policy and Regional Integration: Implications for the Relations between Europe and Africa by Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

· Regional Decentralization and the Soft Budget Constraint: The Case of China by Yingyi Qian and Gérard Roland

· Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy by Robert K von Weizsäcker

· Globalization and the Inequality of Nations by Paul Krugman and Anthony J Venables

· Efficiency and Expectations Revisited: A Foreign Exchange Market with Bayesian Players by Nicos M Christodoulakis, Sarantis C Kalyvitis and Nicos V Karamouzis

· The Political Economy of Trade Regimes in Central Europe by László Csaba

· What is the Domain of the Welfare State? by Dennis J Snower

· Capital Mobility in Neoclassical Models of Growth by Robert J Barro, N Gregory Mankiw and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

· Locational Competition versus Cooperation in Labour Markets: An Implicit Contract Reinterpretation by Michael C Burda and Antje Mertens

· The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture by Robin Gowers and Timothy J Hatton

· Social Security and Migration in an Ageing Europe by Jürgen von Hagen and Uwe Walz

· French Post-war Growth: From (Indicative) Planning to (Administered) Market by Pierre Sicsic and Charles Wyplosz

· The Europe Agreements: Implications for Trade Laws and Institutions. Lessons from Hungary by André Sapir

· A Positive Theory of Social Security by Xavier Sala-i-Martin

· Search in the Labour Market, Incomplete Contracts and Growth by Daron Acemoglu

· A Dynamic Model of Collusion by Daron Acemoglu

· Consumption, Income, and International Capital Market Integration by Tamim Bayoumi and Ronald McDonald

· Restraining Yourself: Fiscal Rules and Stabilization by Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen

· On the Optimality of Consumption Across Canadian Provinces by Tamim Bayoumi and Ronald McDonald

· Optimal Target Zones: How an Exchange Rate Mechanism Can Improve Upon Discretion by Marcus H Miller and Lei Zhang

· Environmental Regulation and the Location of Polluting Industries by Michael Rauscher

· The Relation Between Voting Power and Policy Impact in the European Union by Mika Widgrén

· Apprenticeship and After: Does it Really Matter? by Rainer Winkelmann

· The Role of Government Aid to Firms during the Transition to a Market Economy: Russia 1992-94 by Jacques Mélitz and Claire Waysand

· Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States by Stephen N Broadberry and Karin Wagner

· Commercial Policy and Dynamic Adjustment Under Monopolistic Competition by Christian Keuschnigg and Wilhelm Kohler

· Foreign Exchange Intervention and International Policy Coordination: Comparing the G-3 and EMS Experience by Axel A Weber

· What does the Political Economy Literature on Trade Policy (Not) Tell Us That We Ought to Know? by Dani Rodrik

· Currency Board or Central Bank? Lessons from the Irish Pound's Link with Sterling, 1928-79 by Patrick Honohan

· The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on European Union Trade by André Sapir, Khalid Sekkat and Axel A Weber

· Testing Long-run Neutrality: Empirical Evidence for G7 Countries with Special Emphasis on Germany by Axel A Weber

· Who Should Run Trade Policy in Eastern Europe and How? by L Alan Winters

· Central European Countries' Trade Laws in the Light of International Experience by Patrick A Messerlin

· Trade Law and Environmental Issues in Central and East European Countries by Michael Rauscher

· Industrial and Trade Policies for the Emerging Market Economies by David B Audretsch

· Monetary Policies in the EMS: Lessons from the Great Recession of 1991-3 by Paul De Grauwe

· Marketplaces and Matching by Melvyn G Coles and Eric Smith

· France and the CEECs: Adjusting to Another Enlargement by Olivier Cadot and Jaime de Melo

· The Geography of the Gold Standard by Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau