The proceedings of CEPR's fifth joint annual conference with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Tokyo Center for Economic Research, held in Tokyo on 11/12 January 1993 and reported in issue no. 55/56 of this Bulletin, are now available as a Special Conference Issue (Vol. 7, No. 4, December 1993) of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. This issue contains the following papers:

`Editors' Introduction', Kazuo Ueda and Takatoshi Ito

`What Lessons Should Japan Learn from the U.S. Deposit-Insurance Mess?', Edward J Kane

`Evaluating Deposit Insurance for Japanese Banks', Steven Fries, Robin Mason and William Perraudin

`The Stability of the Japanese Banking System: A Historical Perspective', Shiro Yabushita

`How Has the Basle Accord Affected Bank Portfolios?', Brian J Hall

`Influence of the Japan Development Bank Loans on Corporate Investment Behavior', Akiyoshi Horiuchi and Qing-Yuan Sui

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