%0 Journal Article %T Abelian Flavour Symmetries in Supersymmetric Models %A E. Dudas %A C. Grojean %A S. Pokorski %A C. A. Savoy %J Physics %D 1996 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)90123-6 %X We propose a theory of flavour based on abelian horizontal gauge symmetries and modular invariances. We construct explicit supergravity models where the scale of the horizontal $U(1)$ symmetry breaking is fixed by the Green-Schwarz mechanism for anomaly cancellation. The supersymmetric spectrum is obtained in terms of the $U(1)$ charges which are determined by the Yukawa matrices. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9606383v1