Economic Policy 55

by De Menil, Georges; Portes, Richard; Sinn, Hans-Werner; Bertola, Giuseppe; Martin, Philippe; Van Ours, Jan

• ISBN13: 9781444306835
• ISBN10: 1444306839
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-04-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.

• Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging policy topics early
• Papers are specially commissioned from first-class economists and experts in the policy field
• The editors are all based at top European economic institutions and each paper is discussed by a panel of distinguished economists
• This unique approach guarantees incisive debate and alternative interpretations of the evidence

Author Biography

The Managing Editors of Economic Policy:

Giuseppe Bertola is Professore Ordinario di Economica Politica, Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Universita di Torino.

Philippe Martin is Professor at the Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and CERASENPC and a Research Fellow at CEPR.

Jan van Ours is Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University.

The Senior Editors of Economic Policy:

Georges de Menil works at the Delta Ens, France.

Richard Portes lectures in the Department of Economics, London Business School.

Hans-Werner Sinn is based at the Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich.

Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction.

1. The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? (Marcello Estevão and Filipa Sá).

2. Investigating capitalism aversion (Augustin Landier, David Thesmar and Mathias Thoenig).

3. Competition in off-patient drug markets: Issues, regulation and evidence (Panos Kanavos, Joan Costa-Font and Elizabeth Seeley).

4. Predictability of aid: Do fickle donors undermine aid effectiveness? (Oya Celasun and Jan Walliser).