Volume 35
March/April 2000 · Number 2

Editorial

• The IMF Debate

  Otto G. Mayer

Articles

• Competition among the Regions in Euroland

  Andreas Rees, Michael Sonnenholzner

• Bailing in the Private Sector - On the Adequate Design of International Bond Contracts

  Gerhard Illing

• Are Changes in Spreads of External-Market Debt also Induced by Contagion?

  José Carlos Wong

• Speculative Attacks in Emerging Markets: The Role of Macroeconomic Fundamentals

  Bernd Schnatz

• Are Trade Restrictions to Protect the Balance of Payments Becoming Obsolete?

  Karen McCusker

• Price-Quality Competition in the Exports of the Central and Eastern European Countries

  Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen

Economic Trends

• Relaxation on the Oil Market

  Klaus Matthies