EIB Papers Volume 02. n°2/1997

•  Preface by Sir Brian Unwin
  

The 1997 EIB Prize

• First Prize:
  What is the optimum strategy for freezing exchange rate parities at the start of EMU? (Bernadette Frédérick and Peter Vanden Houte)
• Second Prize:
  Eurobanking, a new world (Jean Dermine)
• Joint Third Prize:
  The dynamics of European integration (Daniel Gros)
• Joint Third Prize:
  On the efficiency of national social security systems in the European Union (Martin Kolmar)
• Awards for Authors under 30:
  Financial System models, corporate governance and capital investment in OECD countries: Some stylised facts ( Pablo de Andrés and Felix J. Lopez Iturriaga)
  A more stable stability pact (Volker Köllmann and Andri Kopperschmidt)
  How can enlargement of the European Union be reconciled with monetary construction? ( Jerôme Vacher)