| Contents |
The obstacle course to a market economy in Israel / Avi Ben-Bassat -- Reducing the relative size of government in Israel after 1985 / Michel Strawczynski and Joseph Zeira -- A monetary labyrinth: instruments and the conduct of monetary policy in Israel, 1987-1998 / Joseph Djivre and Daniel Tsiddon -- The disinflation process in Israel in the past decade / Nissan Liviatan and Nathan Sussman -- Israeli inflation from an international perspective / Stanley Fischer and David W.H. Orsmond -- Reform in the Israeli financial system and the flow of funds of publicly traded manufacturing firms / Asher A. Blass and Oved Yosha -- Pension fund reform / Avia Spivak -- Liberalization in the capital account of the balance of payments / Daniel Gottlieb and Mario I. Blejer -- The import-liberalization and abolition of devaluation substitutes policy: implications for the Israeli economy / Yoram Gabai and Rafael Rob -- Structural changes in the Israeli public utilities: the reform that never was / Reuben Gronau -- Integration of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the Israeli labor market / Zvi Eckstein and Yoran Weiss -- The flexibility of the Israeli labor market / Yael Artstein -- Capital accumulation, productivity, and growth in the Israeli economy / Zvi Hercowitz -- Structural change and the emergence of Israel's high-tech sector / Moshe Justman -- The rise of earning inequality / Momi Dahan. |
