CESifo Forum

2000

CESifo Forum 4 / 2000

Focus: Reform of the International Architecture: Realistic and Romatic Reforms of the International Financial System (Barry Eichengreen) - The Report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission: Comments on the Critics (Allan H. Meltzer) - The Financial Stability Forum (Svein Andresen); Pro and Contra: Should Taxes be Reduced to Offset a Higher Oil Price: Pro: Heavily Taxing Fuel is Antisocial (Christian Geronderau) - Contra: Taxes on Motor Fuel Should not be Reduced (Michal Hoel); Spotlights: Electricity to Grow Faster than Any Other End-use Fuel - E-Commerce is Growing Worldwide; DICE Reports: Social Welfare Reform - Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills - Are We Really Runing out of Jobs?; Conference Report: Issues of Monetary Integration in Europe; Trends: Economic Survey International, Statistical Update

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CESifo Forum 3 / 2000

Focus: E-commerce and Taxation: Taxation of Electronic Commerce - a U.S. View (Hal R. Varian) - Alternatives to the Concept of Permanent Establishment (Charles E. McLure jr.) - Electronic Commerce and VAT Burdens (Patrick Wille); Pro and Contra: Foreign Exchange Intervention: Pro: The ECB Should Intervene to Support the Euro (Nils Thygesen) - Contra: There's No Point in Intervention to Support the Euro (Adam Posen); Special: The Accidental Redistribution of Seignorage Wealth in the Eurosystem (Hans-Werner Sinn and Holger Feist); Spotlights: The Euro, Interest Rates and European Economic Growth - Active Labour Market Policies Running into Trouble - European Payment Habits Compared: German Firms Pay the Fastest; DICE Reports: Employment-conditional Tax Credit and Benefit Systems; Trends: Economic Survey International, Statistical update.

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CESifo Forum 2 / 2000

Focus: The European Monetary Union - The Monetary Policy of the Euorpean Central Bank: Strategy and Implementation (Otmar Issing) - Future Challenges for the ECB (Herman Remsperger) - The Eurosystem in the International Monetary System (Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa) - One Euro from the Atlantic to the Urals? (Daniel Gro�) - A Perspective on the Euro: Why is the external value of the euro currently low? (Giancarlo Corsetti); Pro and Contra Inflation Targeting: Pro (Peter Bofinger), Contra (Franco Reither); Spotlights: Euro-zone exports: From gloom to boom - Fiscal monitoring in the euro-area - Netherlands: Emplyoment performance; DICE Reports: Productivity is not everything - An international comparison of the sources of prosperity, Recruitment of hoghly skilled labour abroad - the practice of selected OECD countries; Trends: Economic Survey International, Statistical Update.

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CESifo Forum 1 / 2000

Introducing: CESifo Forum - a new quaterly; Focus: Unemployment in the United States and in Europe - A contrast and its reasons (Robert Solow), Europe's unemployment: No policy issue, a policy issue for Europe or for member states or for both (Alfred Steinherr), Labour markets in the European Union (Giuseppe Bertola), Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millenium (Wolfgang Franz), Product market regulation and labour market outcomes (Micheal C. Burda), The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment (Christoph M. Schmidt); Pro and Contra Minimum Wages: Pro - The role of minimum wage in the modern welfare state (Juan Jos� Dolado), Contra - The statutory minimum wage: Dangers in success (Judith Shapiro); Spotlights; DICE Reports; Conference Report; Trends.

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