Volume 43 · September/October 2008 · Number 5

Editorial

• Financial Crisis: High Cost of “non Europe”

  Daniel Gros

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Forum

• Lessons from the Financial Crisis: New Rules for Central Banks and Credit Rating Agencies?

  Paul De Grauwe, Karel Lannoo, Thomas Mayer

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Articles

• Open Letter to European Leaders on Europe’s Banking Crisis: A Call to Action

  Alberto Alesina, Richard Baldwin, Tito Boeri, Willem Buiter, Francesco Giavazzi, Daniel Gros, Stefano Micossi, Guido Tabellini, Charles Wyplosz, Klaus F. Zimmermann

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• Emerging Markets and the Global Monetary System: The Challenge of Rising Inflation

  Hermann Remsperger, Adalbert Winkler

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• Off-label Drugs vs. the Merits of Centralised Regulatory Control

  Ralf Boscheck

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• Comparing the Administrative and Financial Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions in 7 EU Countries

  Michael Mitsopoulos, Theodore Pelagidis

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• The Russian Tax System and Its International Competitiveness

  Alexander Pogorletskiy, Fritz Söllner

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Economic Trends

• Regionalisation of Trade and Regionalism in Trade Policy – Patterns, Strategies and Impact

  Georg Koopmann, Lars Vogel

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Index

• HWWI Index of World Market Prices of Commodities

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