Abstracts of papers to be presented at the 54th ISI Session, Berlin, August 2003

Events	page
54th ISI Session, Berlin, 2003	5
Preliminary Programme	6
IFC News
Application for ISI Section Status	9
IFC Conferences in 2004 and 2005	9
Abstracts
The use of hedonic methods for quality-adjusted prices	16
Use of statistics in developing monetary policy	18
The sectoral and geographical allocation of holdership of negotiable instruments	21
Trade in services - a challenge to statisticians	25
Part I: The GATS-agreement and the four modes of supply	25
Part II: The Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services and its implementation	27
Part III: Methodological and analytical aspects of trade in services	29
The use of surveys in financial statistics	31
Fisher's short stories	37
Fisher's short stories on wealth 75-79: Economic policy and social insurance	37
Short stories on wealth	45

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