The proceedings of CEPR's fourth joint conference with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Tokyo Center for Economic Research, held in Tokyo on 9/10 January 1992 and reported in issue no. 49 of this Bulletin, are now available as a Special Conference Issue (Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1992) of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. This issue contains the following papers:

`Editors' Introduction', Takatoshi Ito and Hiroshi Yoshikawa

`Regional Growth and Migration: A Japan-United States Comparison', Robert J Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

`The Market Size, Entrepreneurship, and the Big Push', Kiminori Matsuyama

`Growth, Productivity, and Access to the World Financial Markets', Daniel Cohen

`Financial Intermediary Services and Growth', Ross Levine

`Historical Accidents and the Persistence of Distributional Conflicts', Gilles Saint-Paul and Thierry Verdier

`Optimal Size and Composition of Government Spending', Jisoon Lee

`Corporate Hierarchy, Promotion, and Firm Growth: Japanese Internal Labor Market in Transition', Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Yasushi Ohkusa and Yoshihiko Nishiyama

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