Part 1 Introductory surveys and methodological essays: Labour supply, commodity and the taxation of households, Francois Laisney and Gerhard Wagenhals; preference restrictions in microeconomics models of life-cycle behaviour under uncertainty; Richard Blundell, Vanessa Fry, Costas Meghir; duration models, Jean-Pierre Florens; business surveys and the behaviour of firms, Marc Ivaldi; the information contents of responses from business surveys, Gerd Ronning; what can we learn about firms' output, employment and pricing decisions from business surveys, William Low, James McIntosh, Fabio Schiantarelli; strong concentration ordering, Claude Fourgeaud, Christian Gourieroux, Jacqueline Pradel; functional averages and statistical inference, M.Dujancourt, Christian Gourieroux. Part 2 Applications: Labour supply and hours constraints, Manuel Arellano, Costas Meghir; preference interdependence and habit formation in family labour supply, Arie Kapteyn and Isolde Woittiez; simulation of VAT reforms for France using cross-section data, Rafiq Baccouche, Francosi Laisney; unemployment duration benefits - a study using UNEDIC data, Jean-Pierre Florens, Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet, Patrick Werquin; an empirical study of inventory and order appraisals from business surveys by covariance structure models, Marc Ivaldi; optimal scrapping, vehicle operating costs and the estimation of the benefits to highway improvements, Andrew Chesher; employment, innovation aand export activity - evidence from firm-level data, Horst Entorf, Winfried Pohlmeier; company expectatation and new information - an application of Kalman filtering, Colin Mayer and M.Mors.
