Volume 38
November/December 2003 · Number 6

Editorial

• Why Growth Is So Important

  Thomas Straubhaar

Forum

• EU Cohesion Policy: Challenges and Responses

  John Bachtler, Michel Barnier, Damian Lluna, Gerhard Stahl, Astrid Ziegler

Articles

• How Efficient is Joint Decision-Making in the EU? Environmental Policies and the Co-Decision Procedure

  Francisco Torres

• Real and Nominal Convergence in the Central and East European Accession Countries

  Sabine Herrmann, Axel Jochem

• Do Currency Boards Increase the Credibility of Exchange-rate Pegs?

  Heiner Brockmann, Horst Keppler

• The New ECB Voting System: Some Room for Improvement

  Ralf Fendel, Michael Frenkel

• Recovering from Cancún: the EU Responsibility

  Jacob Kol, L. Alan Winters

• Russia’s Reluctance to Ratify Kyoto: an Economic Analysis

  Carsten Vogt

Economic Trends

• Revised HWWA Commodity Price Index

  Klaus Matthies

Index

• Index