Economic Policy 69

Managing Editors of Economic Policy: Tullio Jappelli is CSEF Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II. Philip Lane is Professor of International Macroeconomics at Trinity College Dublin. Philippe Martin is Professor at the Universite Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne and CERASENPC and a Research Fellow at CEPR. Jan van Ours is Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University. The Senior Editors of Economic Policy: Georges de Menil works at the Delta Ens, France. Richard Portes lectures in the Department of Economics, London Business School. Hans-Werner Sinn is based at the Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich.

• Editors Introduction 1. Finance and employment (Marco Pagano and Giovanni Pica) 2. Foreign banks and foreign currency lending in emerging Europe (Martin Brown and Ralph De Haas) 3. The international experience of minimum wages in an economic downturn (Peter Dolton and Chiara Rosazza Bondibene) 4. Educational achievement of second-generation immigrants: an international comparison (Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini and Gianandrea Lanzara)