Economic Policy 39

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Editors' Introduction. 1. What Determines EU Decision Making? Needs, Power or Both?: Heikki Kauppi and Mika Widgren. 2. Are Contributuions to Public Pension Programmes a Tax on Employment?: Richard Disney. 3. Budgetary Risks from Real Estate and Stock Markets: Felix Eschenbach and Ludger Schuknecht. 4. European Product Market Integration After the Euro: Charles Engel and John H. Rogers.