Beiträge zur Fünften Internationalen Frühjahrskonferenz des HWWA-Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung vom Mai 1998. Inhalt: I.: Jacques Pelkmans: Atlantic Economic Co-operation: the Limits of Plurilateralism (11-36); Joe Saloom: Global Change, National Interest and Transatlantic Responses: An American View (37-45). II.: Richard E. Baldwin / Joseph F. Francois: Is it Time for a TRAMP? Quantitative Perspectives on Transatlantic Liberalization (49-68); Juergen B. Donges: "Is it Time for a TRAMP?" - No Comment (69-73). III.: Peter B. Kenen: EMU and Transatlantic Economic Relations (77-94); Otmar Issing / Bernhard Winkler: On the Credibility of Co-ordination. Comment (95-99). IV.: Bettina Burger: Transatlantic Economic Relations: Common Interests and Conflicts in High Technology and Industrial Policies (103-123); Claude E. Barfield: Common Interests and Conflicts in High Technology and Industrial Policies. Comment (125-131). V.: Stefan Tangermann: The Common and Uncommon Agricultural Policies - An Eternal Issue? (135-161); Tim Josling: The Common and Uncommon Agricultural Policies - An Eternal Issue? Comment (163-167). VI.: Jens van Scherpenberg: Regulation and Market Access in Service Trade. Transatlantic Conflicts and Common Interests (171-186).