A workshop of the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets on `International Taxation' took place at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, on 25/26 September. The workshop was organized by Colin Mayer (City University Business School, London, and CEPR) and Cornelius Schilbred (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration), with the financial sponsorship of Norsk Hydro, Conoco and Statoil. The following papers were presented:

`Transaction Taxes and Trading Volume on Stock Exchanges <196> An International Comparison', Jan Ericsson (Universität Konstanz) and Thore Johnsen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

`International Repercussions of Capital Income Taxation in Large Countries: The Source versus the Residence Principle', Thomas Alslev Christensen (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Copenhagen) and Sren Bo Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School and CEPR)

`Jeux sans Frontières', Ravi Kanbur (World Bank and CEPR) and Michael Keen (University of Essex)

`Information Sharing and Tax Competition Among Governments', Philippe Bacchetta (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona) and Maria Paz Espinosa (Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao)

`Convergence Growth Rates: The Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation', Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University and CEPR) and Chi-Wa Yuen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

`Productive Efficiency, Exchange Efficiency and European Tax Harmonization', Michael Devereux (Keele University) and Mark Pearson (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)

`Taxes and the From of Ownership of Foreign Corporate Equity', Roger Gordon (University of Michigan) and Joosung Jun (Yale University)

`Optimal Taxation, Capital Mobility and Tax Evasion', Guttorm Schjelderup (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

Selected papers presented at workshops of the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets are now available on subscription. For a list of ESF Network Working Papers currently available please contact CEPR.