Volume 43
September/October 2008 · Number 5

Editorial

• Financial Crisis: High Cost of “non Europe”

  Daniel Gros

Forum

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

  Paul De Grauwe, Karel Lannoo, Thomas Mayer

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

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

  Hermann Remsperger, Adalbert Winkler

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

  Ralf Boscheck

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

  Michael Mitsopoulos, Theodore Pelagidis

• The Russian Tax System and Its International Competitiveness

  Alexander Pogorletskiy, Fritz Söllner

Economic Trends

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

  Georg Koopmann, Lars Vogel

Index

• HWWI Index of World Market Prices of Commodities