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Bulletin
No 66 Spring 1996
IN THIS ISSUE...
This issue of the Bulletin reports publications and discussion meetings on
European Integration; conferences on commercial policy, banking sector reform
and new economic geography; workshops on labour market dynamics, market
microstructure, competition policy, trade and migration, the Japanese economy,
income inequality and exchange rates and monetary policy in Europe.
Flexible
Integration
A CEPR publication calls for significant economic, political and legal reforms
of the European Union. To avoid a stalemate, the report proposes a solution that
combines flexibility with political integration.
Commercial
Policy Analysis
At a conference in Geneva researchers studied dynamic issues in applied
commercial policy analysis.
Banking
Sector Reform
Researchers and policy-makers from Eastern and Western Europe discussed a report
on banking sector development in Central and Eastern Europe, at the first
Economic Policy Initiative forum in Warsaw.
The
New Economic Geography
A joint conference with GIIS in Geneva discussed issues related to Trade,
Location and Technology.
Labour
Market Dynamics
At a workshop in Berlin both theoretical and empirical aspects of the flow
approach to labour market analysis were considered. International
Trade
The annual European Research Workshop in International Trade took place in
Thessaloniki Competition
Policy
A workshop in Lausanne examined all aspects of European competition policy. Exchange
Rates
A joint workshop with IGIER in Milan investigated the economics of exchange
rates and the informational value of financial asset prices for European
monetary policy. Migration
and Trade
At another workshop with IGIER researchers analysed the impact of trade and
migration on the sending country.
The Economy of Japan
Recent research on the Japanese financial and labour markets was presented
at a workshop in Berlin. Finance
in Europe
The Institut d'Anàlisi Economia (CSIC) in Barcelona hosted a workshop on
market microstructure. Income
Inequality
At a workshop in Vigo, researchers reviewed recent theoretical and empirical
work to provide an explanation for the shifts in income inequality ,
distribution of wages and unemployment.
Among Recent Discussion Papers
Assar Lindbeck and Dennis Snower consider the contemporary organizational
restructuring of production and work and derive some salient implications
for the labour market. Richard
Baldwin, Jan Haaland and Rikard Forslid study the
investment creation and investment diversion effects of the EU's single market
programme. Jorge
Padilla and Marco Pagano question why lenders
spontaneously contribute valuable information on their customers to their
competitors. Kai-Uwe
Kühn and Xavier Vives analyse whether competition
policy should prevent vertical integration by an upstream firm with market
power in order to safeguard downstream competition. Tito
Boeri and Michael Burda investigate the role of
active labour market policy in maintaining low unemployment in the Czech
Republic. Roel
Beetsma and Lans Bovenberg examine public debt
accumulation in a monetary union.
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