"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper explores price differences in the European Union (EU) pharmaceutical market, the EU's fifth largest industry. With the aim of...

"In 1980, the EEC aluminium industry produced over 2 million tonnes of primary aluminium and over 1 million tonnes of secondary aluminium. Energy consumption was 11 million toe per year and energy savings of 1 million toe were obtained between 1976 and 1979 by improvement in specific energy use....

"Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral banking linkages among twenty industrial countries in...