EIB Papers Volume 04. n°2/1999

The 1999 EIB Prize

• Preface by Sir Brian Unwin, President
  
• The winning essays (Daphne Venturas)
  First Prize:
• Are European regional policies delivering? (Philippe Martin)
  Second Prize:
  
• Hard currency and sound credit: A financial agenda for Central Europe (Rudi Dornbusch and Fransesco Giavazzi)
  Third Prize:
  
• Deregulation, integration and market structure in European banking (Jordi Gual)
  Special Topic Prize:
  
• Solving the unemployment puzzle in Europe (Jens Verner Andersen and Jorn Henrik Rasmussen)
  Prizes for authors under the age of 30:
  
• Summaries of essays by Hendrik Hassheider, Daniel Piazolo and Carsten Sprenger

Recent EIB Research

• How well do European loan markets work? Some insights from the financial structure of SMEs in three countries  (Rien Wagenvoort and Christopher Hurst)

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