Bulletin Issue 69 (Summer 1997) - Contents


In This Issue

· Highlights of this issue

· Labour Markets - Rigidities and Unemployment

The following conferences were discussed in this issue:

· EMU - The Monetary Transmission Mechanism

· EMU - Fiscal and Monetary Policies

· Japan - Comparative Perspectives on Economic Policy and Behaviour

· Labour Markets - Unemployment Dynamics

The following CEPR Books can be ordered:

· Economic Policy 23

· Economic Policy 24

· Fiscal Policy in Transition

The following workshops were discussed in this issue:

· Competition Policy - European Perspectives

· Economic Geography - Location and Regional Convergence

· Labour Market Dynamics - Structural Change

The following discussion meetings were discussed in this issue:

· Innovation - Stimulating

· EMU - Who Will Join?

· Unskilled Labour - Declining Fortunes

· Central and Eastern Europe - Tax and Benefit Reforms

The following Discussion Papers were discussed in this issue:

· Phases of Imitation and Innovation in a North-South Endogenous Growth Model by David Currie, Paul Levine, Joseph Pearlman and Michael Chui

· Small Firms, Contracting-out, Computers and Wage Inequality: Evidence from UK Manufacturing by Jonathan Haskel

· The Effect of Immigrant Admission Criteria on Immigrant Labour Market Characteristics by Alan Barrett

· The Time-varying NAIRU and its Implications for Economic Policy by Robert J Gordon

· Macroeconomic Policy in the Presence of Structural Maladjustment by Robert J Gordon

· Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach by Daron Acemoglu and Thierry Verdier

· The Rise and Fall of Elites: A Theory of Economic Development and Social Polarization in Rent-seeking Societies by Alberto Ades and Thierry Verdier

· More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States by Aldo Rustichini, Andrea Ichino and Daniele Checchi

· Investment and Demand Uncertainty by Luigi Guiso and Giuseppe Parigi

· Do Exchange Rates Move to Address International Macroeconomic Imbalances? by Matthew B Canzoneri, Javier Vallés and José Viñals

· Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations? by Jordi Galí

· International Migration, Welfare and the Provision of Public Goods by Konstantine Gatsios, Panos Hatzipanayotou and Michael S Michael

· Trade and Competition Policy in the WTO system by Bernard Hoekman

· Multilateral Disciplines on Government Procurement: What's In It For Developing Countries? by Bernard Hoekman

· Does Inflation Matter for Growth? by Thorvaldur Gylfason and Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson

· The Burden of Intervention: Externalities in Multilateral Exchange Rates Arrangements by Marc Flandreau

· Four Essays and a Funeral: Budgetary Arithmetic under the Maastricht Treaty by Andrew J Hughes Hallett and Peter McAdam

· Trust and Search in Vietnam's Emerging Private Sector by Stephan Haggard, John Mcmillan and Christopher Woodruff

· Is the Natural Rate a Reference Point? by Marika Karanassou and Dennis J Snower

· International Implications of German Unification by Hans-Werner Sinn

· Current Account Sustainability: Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences by David Milesi-Ferretti and Assaf Razin

· Price-level Targeting versus Inflation Targeting: A Free Lunch? by Lars E O Svensson

· Inflation Forecast Targeting: Implementing and Monitoring Inflation Targets by Lars E O Svensson

· Unemployment and Wages of Ethnic Germans by Thomas Bauer and Klaus F Zimmermann

· Hyperinflation and Stabilization: Cagan Revisited by Marcus H Miller and Lei Zhang

· On the Foundations of Wage Bargaining by Paola Manzini and Dennis J Snower

· Business Formation and Aggregate Investment by Christian Keuschnigg

· Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany by Peter Geil, Andreas Million, Ralph Rotte and Klaus F Zimmermann

· Mergers for Market Power in a Cournot Setting and Merger Guidelines by Ramon Faulí-Oller

· A Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Greece by Tryphon Kollintzas and Vanghelis Vassilatos

· Institutions and Labour Reallocation by Giuseppe Bertola and Richard Rogerson

· Hedging and Gambling: Corporate Risk Choice when Informing the Market by François Degeorge, Boaz Moselle and Richard Zeckhauser