Economics for the New Europe

ISBN-13: 9780333560327 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 417 str.

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Opis

The papers in this book examine the changes and the problems emerging in the New Europe, assess some of the forces at work and discuss various outcomes and solutions. The areas covered include labour market, including migration, unemployment, bargaining and industrial relations; the integration of eastern Europe in the New Europe; the role of the private sector in saving, and of the public sector in mobilising domestic financial resources; and the fiscal policy of the single European Market.

Spis treści

The International Economic Association - Acknowledgements - List of Contributors and Participants - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Preface; R.Brunetta - Introduction; R.Brunetta, C.Carraro, R.Faini, F.Giavazzi, N.Rossi, D.Siniscalco - PART 1 HUMAN RESOURCES - Introduction; R.Brunetta - Unemployment and Inequality in Europe: What to Do; R.Layard - Global Effects of Eastern European Rebuilding and the Adequacy of Western Saving: An Issue for the 1990s; J-P.Fitoussi & E.S.Phelps - The Institutional Infrastructure for International Competitiveness: A Comparative Analysis of the United Kingdom and Germany; D.Soskice - Comment: Unemployment in Eastern Europe; E.Malinvaud - PART 2 THE POLICY ISSUES IN EUROPE - Introduction; F.Giavazzi - Growth Theory: Lessons for Eastern Europe; D.Cohen - The Transition to Convertibility for Eastern Europe and the USSR; R.Portes - Fiscal Rules in the European Monetary Union: A No-entry Clause; A.Giovannini & L.Spaventa - Comment: Sequencing an Credibility of Economic Reform; D.M.Nuti - PART 3 PUBLIC SECTOR AND DISTRIBUTION - Introduction; N.Rossi - Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income; A.B.Atkinson & J.Micklewright - Mobilisation of Savings in Eastern European Countries: The Role of the State; V.Tanzi - Comment: Institutions for the Transition to the Free Market; D.M.Gordon - Comment: Saving, Income Distribution and the Role of Incentives; A.Sandmo - Comment: Saving, Income Distribution and German Union E.W.Streissler - PART 4 COMPETITION, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT - Introduction; C.Carraro & D.Siniscalco - Corporate Strategy and Competition Policy in the Post 1992 Single Market; A.Jacquemin - Oil and the Gulf Crisis; R.Mabro - Environmental Issues in the New Europe; K.G.M ler - Comment: The Gulf Crisis and Previous Crises; C.A.Bollino - Comment: Environment Competition Policy and Oil; J.S.Flemming - PART 5 TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT - Introduction; R.Faini - EC Development Policies and their Effects on Developing Countries: A Review; E.Grilli - Eastern European Economic Reform: the Implications for the European Community; A.Smith - Foreign Resources and Developing Country Growth: A Three-Gap Analysis; L.Taylor - Comment: EC Development Policies; F.Onida - PART 6 ECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES FOR THE 1990s - Panel Contribution: The Transition from Communism to an Alternative Economic Organisation; K.J.Arrow - Panel Contribution: The Soviet Union on the Road to a Market Economy; O.T.Bogomolov - Panel Contribution: What is a New Europe?; E.Malinvaud - Panel Contribution: Economic Policies for the Nineties: An Ex-ante Review; S.Zecchini