The seventh annual European Research Workshop in International Trade was held in Rome during 8/11 September. The meeting was organized by Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of International Studies, Geneva, and Co-Director of CEPR's International Trade programme, Riccardo Faini, Professor of Economics at the Università degli Studi di Brescia, and Research Fellow at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research, Milan, and in CEPR's International Trade and Human Resources programmes, Konstantine Gatsios, Lecturer in Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Research Fellow in CEPR's International Trade and Industrial Organization programmes, and Fabrizio Onida, Director of the Centro Studi sui Processi Internazionalizzazione (CESPRI) and Professor of Economics at the Università Bocconi, Milano. It was funded by the Commission of the European Communities as a Euroconference under its Human Capital and Mobility programme. CEPR gratefully acknowledges the generous hospitality of the Istituto di Aggiornamento e Formazione and the additional financial support provided by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and by the Ford Foundation as part of CEPR's research programme on `Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy'. The following papers were presented:

`Regional Economic Integration', Richard Baldwin and Anthony Venables (LSE and CEPR)

`Why do Car Prices Differ so Much Before Tax Between European Countries?', Harry Flam (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, and CEPR) and Håkan Nordström (GATT Secretariat, Geneva, and CEPR)

`Public Policy Towards R&D in Oligopolistic Industries', Peter Neary (University College Dublin and CEPR) and Dermot Leahy (University College Dublin)

`International Trade Theory: The Evidence', Edward E Leamer (University of California, Los Angeles) and James Levinsohn (University of Michigan)

`Globalization and the Inequality of Nations', Anthony Venables and Paul Krugman (MIT and CEPR)

`Location and Market Integration', Jan Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, and CEPR) and Ian Wooton (University of Western Ontario and CEPR)

`Factor Mobility, Trade Liberalisation and Economic Geography', Michael Gasiorek (University of Sussex)

`Learning by Doing, Precommitment and Infant-Industry Protection', Dermot Leahy (University College Dublin) and Peter Neary (University College Dublin and CEPR)

`Taste for Imports and Market Integration', Pedro P Barros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CEPR) and Xavier Martinez-Giralt (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

`Industrial Location and Public Infrastructure', Philippe Martin (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and CEPR) and Carol Ann Rogers (Georgetown University)

`Trade Effects of Minimum Quality Standards With and Without Deterred Entry', Stefan Lutz (Universität Mannheim)

`Trade Restrictions and Endogenous Quality Choice', Iñigo Herguera, Praveen Kujal and Emmanuel Petrakis (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)

`Trade and U.S. Relative Wages: Preliminary Results', Robert E Baldwin and Glen G Cain (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

`Labour Force Growth, Trade, and Employment', Joseph François (GATT Secretariat, Geneva, and CEPR)

`Should Europe Adopt a Single Election Day?', André Sapir (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and CEPR) and Khalid Sekkat (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles)