CEPR/ESRC Macroeconomic Workshop

A CEPR/ESRC Macroeconomics Workshop, organized jointly with the University of York, was held in York on 20 March 1998.  The workshop was organized by Michael Wickens (University of York and CEPR) under the auspices of the ESRC Resource Centre established at CEPR in 1993 to provide networking, dissemination, support and training services to the UK economics community.

The papers presented were as follows:

‘Monetary Union and Economic Reform’
Anne Sibert (Birkbeck College, London, and CEPR) and
Alan Sutherland (University of York and CEPR)

‘No Credit for Transition: Efficiency Wages, the Maastricht Treaty and German Unemployment’
John Driffill (University of Southampton and CEPR) and
Marcus Miller (University of Warwick and CEPR)

‘An Analysis of the ‘Stability Pact’’
Roel M J W Beetsma (University of Maastricht and CEPR) and
Harald Uhlig (CentER, Tilburg University, and CEPR)

‘Asset Bubbles, Domino Effects and ‘Lifeboats’: Elements of the East Asian Crisis’
Hali J Edison (Federal Reserve System),
Pongsak Luangaram (University of Bristol) and
Marcus Miller (University of Warwick and CEPR)

‘Financial Crises with Application to Asia’
Richard Portes (London Business School and CEPR)