Recently added articles from NBER Reporter:
Empirically evaluating economic policy in real time.(The Martin Feldstein Lecture)
Sep 22, 2009; Taylor, John B. ... To honor Martin Feldstein's distinguished leadership and extraordinary contributions to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Feldstein Lecture addresses an important question in applied economics, with an application to economic policy. In this inaugural lecture I consider ...
Search technologies and retail competition.(Research Summaries)
Sep 22, 2009; Ellison, Glenn ... When the Internet first came into wide consumer use, one heard a lot about the promise of "frictionless commerce." New search technologies would make it easy for consumers to find the exact product they wanted at the lowest possible price. Whether such a future comes to pass is obviously ...
Measuring tariff evasion and smuggling.(Research Summaries)
Sep 22, 2009; Fisman, Raymond ... Tales of bribery and corruption date back to the beginning of recorded history. By the time the historian Suetonius was at work documenting the antics of Roman leaders, his chronicles were filled with extorting senators, vote-buying Caesars, and judges-for-sale. Needless to say, we do not ...
How labor institutions influence firms and labor markets.(Research Summaries)
Sep 22, 2009; Kleiner, Morris M. ... During the past year, perceived market failures have resulted in financial and product markets being encouraged to increase their level of government regulation. The labor market, however, continues to be one segment of the economy with the most extensive and deeply ingrained role for ...
Dynamic measures of inflation.(Research Summaries)
Sep 22, 2009; Reis, Ricardo ... While the definition of inflation is widely agreed upon--"a continuing rise in the general price level" according to Merriam-Webster--turning it into a concrete measure is much more difficult. One key obstacle is figuring out how to combine all of the price changes in the economy into a ...
NBER profile: Glenn Ellison.
Sep 22, 2009; ... Glenn Ellison is a Research Associate in the NBER's Industrial Organization Program and the Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at MIT. Ellison received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1987, an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in ...
NBER Profile: Raymond Fisman.(research associate from National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Raymond Fisman is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program in Corporate Finance. He is also the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. Fisman received his ...
NBER Profile: Morris M. Kleiner.(research associate from National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Morris M. Kleiner is a Research Associate in the NBER's Labor Studies Program. He is also the AFL-CIO chair of labor policy and professor at the Humphrey Institute and the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota. Kleiner received his M.A. and Ph.D. in ...
NBER Profile: Ricardo Reis.(research associate from National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ricardo Reis is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Monetary Economics and Economic Fluctuations and Growth. He is also a professor of economics at Columbia University. Reis received his B.Sc. from the London School of Economics and ...
32nd International Seminar on Macroeconomics conferences.(Conferences)(Conference news)
Sep 22, 2009; ... NBER'S 32nd International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM) took place on June 12 and 13. NBER Research Associates Jeffrey Frankel of Harvard University and Francesco Giavazzi of Bocconi University served as ISOM co-chairs. Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School, and Kenneth D. West, ...
Twentieth Annual EASE conference.(Conferences)(European Association of Science Editors)(Conference notes)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The NBER, the China Center for Economic Research, the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, the Korea Development Institute, the Singapore Management University, and the Tokyo Center ...
NBER Conference in Beijing.(Conferences)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Conference notes)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The eleventh annual NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy took place at the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) in Beijing on July 2 and 3. The conference program was jointly arranged by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the CCER at Beijing University, and ...
The Economics of Household Saving.(Conferences)
Sep 22, 2009; ... NBER Research Associate Erik Hurst of the University of Chicago and NBER President James Poterba of MIT are codirecting a two-year research project on the "The Economics of Household Saving" At the inaugural research meeting for this project, which was held on July 18, the following papers ...
Thirtieth NBER Summer Institute held in 2009.(NBER News)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In the summer of 2009, the NBER held its thirtieth annual Summer Institute. Over 1800 economists from more than 300 different universities and other economic research organizations throughout the world attended. "There were 42 distinct meetings, representing all of the nineteen NBER ...
Methodology lectures focus on data collection and field experiments.(NBER News)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In 2007, the NBER Summer Institute introduced a new workshop series focused on empirical methodology and econometric tools. The workshops are designed to present overviews of current statistical and other methodological tools in a format that will assist empirical researchers in carrying ...
Insurance project workshop.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The NBER's Working Group on Insurance, directed by Research Associates Kenneth Froot of the Harvard Business School and Howard Kunreuther of the University of Pennsylvania, met in Cambridge on June 10. These papers were discussed: * Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER; Amy ...
Japan project meets.(Program and Working Group Meetings)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The NBER together with the Center on the Japanese Economy and Business, The Center for Advanced Research in Finance, the European Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Australia-Japan Research Centre held a project meeting on the Japanese economy in Tokyo on June 30-July 1. The National ...
Economic fluctuations and growth research meeting.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(Brief article)(Conference notes)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Cambridge on July 11. NBER Research Associates Mark Bils, University of Rochester, and Julio J. Rotemberg, Harvard Business School, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: * Fatih Guvenen, University of ...
Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 23.(Bureau Books)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 23, edited by Jeffrey R. Brown and James M. Poterba, is now available from the University of Chicago Press Journals Division for $60.00 (clothbound).This annual series of volumes presents current academic research findings on taxation and government ...
Studies of Labor Market Intermediation.(Bureau Books)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, edited by David H. Autor, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this October for $110.00. From the traditional craft hiring hall to the website "Monster.com" many different institutions are designed to facilitate the ...
