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NBER Reporter archives from December 1991
The business cycle dating process.
December 22, 1991... The 1990 Peak
In April 1991, the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee determined that a recession had started in July 1990. Figure 1 shows the data that most strongly influenced the committee: real personal income less transfers, real...
Exchange rates targets.
December 22, 1991... When massive speculative attacks shattered the system of fixed exchange rates among industrial countries in early 1973, policymakers viewed the shift to generalized floating rates as a tactical retreat. Nearly 19 years later, however, most...
International aspects of taxation. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... Nearly 40 economists attended an NBER conference on "The International Aspects of Taxation" in New York on September 27 and 28. The program, organized by NBER Research Associates Alberto Giovannini, Columbia University; Joel B. Slemrod,...
Retrospective on the Breton Woods System. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... On October 3-6, the NBER commemorated the 20th anniversary of the end of the postwar fixed exchange rate system with "A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System," held in New Hampshire at the site of the original conference. Some of the...
Unemployment and wage determination. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... The NBER and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) cosponsored a conference on "Unemployment and Wage Determination" in Cambridge on October 17-18. Joseph E. Stiglitz, NBER and Stanford University, and Dennis J. Snower, CEPR and...
Economic growth. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... Members and guests of the NBER's Project on Economic Growth met in Cambridge on October 25 and 26. Project Directors Robert J. Barro, Harvard University, and Paul M. Romer, University of California, Berkeley, organized the following program:...
Political economy. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... The NBER sponsored a conference on Political Economy in Cambridge on November 15-16. Faculty Research Fellow Alberto Alesina and Morris Fiorina, both of Harvard University, and Roger Noll, Stanford University, organized the program:
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Tax policy and the economy. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... The NBER's Sixth Annual Conference on "Tax Policy and the Economy" was held in Washington on November 19. The program was organized by NBER Tax Program Director James M. Poterba of MIT. Five papers were discussed:
Steven F. Venti, NBER and...
Economics of the environment. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... Over 70 economists gathered in Cambridge on December 13 and 14 for an NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Economics of the Environment." R. Glenn Hubbard, on leave from the NBER at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Jeffrey K....
International comparisons of private sector training. (Conferences)
December 22, 1991... The NBER and the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, jointly sponsored a conference on "International Comparisons of Private Sector Training" in London on December 16 and 17. The program, organized by NBER Faculty...