1. Did the European unification induce economic growth? In search of scale effects and persistent changes

   • Patrick Vanhoudt

   Articles Pages: 193 - 220

2. Product market competition, unemployment and income disparities

   • Hans Gersbach

   Articles Pages: 221 - 240

3. Multinationals, production efficiency, and spillover effects: The case of the U.S. auto parts industry

   • Yumiko Okamoto

   Articles Pages: 241 - 260

4. Converging on the learning curve: Theory and application to German regional data

   • Lucas Bretschger
   • Hansjörg Schmidt

   Articles Pages: 261 - 279

5. The third leg of the stool: Financial stability as a prerequisite for EMU

   • Ivo J. M. Arnold

   Articles Pages: 280 - 305

6. Monetary policy shocks and interest rates: Further evidence on the liquidity effect

   • Tony Caporale
   • Barbara McKiernan

   Articles Pages: 306 - 316

7. State-space estimation of rational bubbles in the Yen/Deutsche Mark exchange rate

   • S. Kirk Elwood
   • Ehsan Ahmed
   • J. Barkley Rosser

   Articles Pages: 317 - 331

8. East-west intra-industry trade dynamics

   • Jarko Fidrmuc
   • Daniela Grozea-Helmenstein
   • Andreas Wörgötter

   Shorter Papers & Comments Pages: 332 - 346

9. Does IMF conditionality benefit lenders?

   • Stephen T. Easton
   • Duane W. Rockerbie

   Shorter Papers & Comments Pages: 347 - 357

10. Book reviews

    • Stefan Voigt
    • Helmut Wagner
    • Jens Hoiberg

    BookReview Pages: 358 - 373

11. Neue bücher

    Announcement Pages: 374 - 376