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TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 15 ARTICLES DARDIS, RACHEL and HORACIO SOBERON-FERRER / The Demand for Small Cars in the United States: Implications for Energy Conserva- tion Strategies FALLON, MARC / Cross-Border Consumer Litigation: Individual Tort Issues in Europe GIBSON, LEIGH / Access to Justice and Consumer Redress within a Single Market GER, GULIZ / The Positive and Negative Effects of Marketing on Socioeconomic Development: The Turkish Case HENSEN, CHRISTOPH, A.J.F.M. / Consumers and the Conflict of Laws in Dutch Legal Practice HONDIUS, EWOUD / Introduction to the Symposium on Cross-Border Complaints HULS, NICK / American Influences on European Consumer Bankruptcy Law JOUSTRA, CARLA / Cross-Border Consumer Complaints in Private International Law PESTOFF, VICTOR A. / Third Sector and Co-Operative Services — An Alternative to Privatization RACHAGAN, S. SOTHI / Protection against Unfair Trade Practices in Malaysia — Law, Enforcement, and Redress in a Developing Country RATCHFORD, BRIAN T. and POLA GUPTA / On Estimating Market Efficiency VERBEKE, WILLEM / Advertising, Product Quality, and Complex Evolving Marketing Systems VON HOFFMANN, BERND / Consumer Contracts and the 1980 Rome EC-Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations VON HUIZEN, PHILIPP H.J.G. / Who’s Afraid of an Open Insurance Market? WILHELMSSON, THOMAS / Administrative Procedures for the Control of Marketing Practices — Theoretical Rationale and Perspectives Journal of Consumer Policy 15: 505-507, 1992. TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTES AND REPORTS ARRIGHI, JEAN MICHEL / Integration and Consumer Protection: The Case of Latin America SINGH, SUPRIYA / Banking Deregulation and Its Effects on Australian Consumers — The Policy Debate COMMUNICATIONS Editorial Note HJORTH-ANDERSEN, Chr. / Alternative Interpretations of Price-Quality Relations MAYNES, E. SCOTT / Salute and Critique: Remarks on Ratchford and Gupta’s Analysis of Price-Quality Relations REIFNER, UDO / The Difficulties of Conducting Social Research With a Moral Commitment: In Memory of David Caplovitz CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONSUMER LAW HARLAND, DAVID / Reform of the Law of Product Liability in Australia L’HEUREUX, NICOLE / Effective Consumer Access to Justice: Class Actions European Consumer Law Group / Opinion on the Third Generation of Directives in the Life and Non-Life Insurance Sector DOCUMENTATION Commission of the European Communities / Amended Proposal for a Council Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Commission of the European Communities / Proposal for a Council Directive on the Protection of Consumers in Respect of Contracts Negotiated at a Distance (Distance Selling) Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts-Documents Related to the Common Position Adopted by the Council of the European Communities with a View to the Adoption of Council Directive 92 / EEC Editor’s Note TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK REVIEWS EVERINGHAM, ROLAND and STEPHEN WOODWARD (Eds.): Tobacco Litigation — The Case against Passive Smoking (Norbert Reich) FURST, Elisabeth L., RITVA PRATTALA, MARIANNE EKSTROM, LOTTE HOLM, and UNNI KJAERNES (Eds.): Palatable Worlds (Eva Barlésius) GR@NMO, SIGMUND, Folke Olander, and Arild Danielsen: Konsumen- teninflytande i samhillet — en referensram fér empiriska un- ders6kningar (Consumers’ Influence in Society - A Frame of Reference for Empirical Studies) (Liisa Uusitalo) KUHLMANN, EBERHARD: Verbraucherpolitik (Hans Rask Jensen) MITCHELL, JEREMY: Banker’s Racket or Consumer Benefit? A Consumer View of the Single European Market for Financial Services (Norbert Reich) REIDENBACH, R. ERIC and DONALD ROBIN: Ethics and Profits: A Convergence of Corporate America’s Economic and Social Respon- sibilities (Robert R. Kerton) SMITH, N. CRAIG: Morality and the Market: Consumer Pressure for Corporate Responsibility (Robert R. Kerton) VAHRENKAMP, KAI: Verbraucherschutz bei asymmetrischer Informa- tion (Christian Schade) YOUNG, BRIAN M.: Television Advertising and Children (Ronald J. Faber) BOOK NOTES 118, 220, 343, 5 ANNOUNCEMENT