NBER Reporter articles from December 2001

NBER Reporter archives from December 2001

Public Economics. (Program Report).(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... James M. Poterba (*) There have been major changes in U.S. tax policy, and much discussion of possible changes in expenditure programs, since my report three years ago on the Public Economics (PE) Program. The Economic Growth and Taxpayer...

Integrating multinational firms into international economics. (Research Summaries).
December 22, 2001... James R. Markusen (*) As recently as the mid-1980s, research on multinational firms was almost entirely separate from research on international trade. The latter was dominated by general-equilibrium models using the twin assumptions of...

Monetary policy.
December 22, 2001... Frederic S. Mishkin (*) From the beginning of my academic career, my research has always been driven by an interest in the role of monetary policy in the economy, even when it dealt with somewhat different topics such as econometric...

Twin crises.(financial crises in Mexico and Thailand)
December 22, 2001... Aaron Tornell (*) Many recent crises, including the Tequila and Asian crises, have been different from earlier periods when currency crises coincided with banking crises, and fiscal deficits were not the main villains. My research with...

NBER Profile: Judith M. Gueron.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Judith M. Gueron, President of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), was elected a director-at-large of the NBER at the October meeting of NBER's Board of Directors. Gueron received a B.A. in economics from Radcliffe College...

NBER Profile: James R. Markusen.(National Bureau of Economic Research)
December 22, 2001... "Jim" Markusen has been an NBER Research Associate since 1990 in the Program on International Trade and Investment. He is also the Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Markusen earned his B.A....

NBER Profile: Frederic S. Mishkin.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Frederic S. Mishkin is a Research Associate in the NBER Programs in Monetary Economics and Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia...

NBER Profile: Aaron Tornell.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Aaron Tornell is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in the Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics and a professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his undergraduate degree in economics...

Tax Policy and the Economy. (Conferences).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Sixteenth Annual Conference on TAX POLICY and the Economy, organized by James M. Poterba of NBER and MIT, took place in Washington, D.C. on October 30. These papers were discussed: Robert Moffitt, NBER and Johns Hopkins...

Macroeconomic Policy in a Dynamic, Uncertain Economy. (Conference).
December 22, 2001... An NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Macroeconomic Policy in a Dynamic, Uncertain Economy" took place in Cambridge on November 30 and December 1. Organizers Susanto Basu, NBER and University of Michigan, and Simon Gilchrist, NBER and...

Third annual conference in India. (Conferences).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... On December 17-19, the NBER and India's National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) again brought together a group of ten NBER economists and about two dozen economists from Indian universities, research institutions, and government...

Utgoff to lead statistical agency. (Bureau News).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... NBER Director Kathleen P. Utgoff has been nominated commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Utgoff was previously vice president of the Center for Naval Analyses, a research and development center in Virginia, where she was responsible...

Health Care. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Health Care, directed by Alan M. Garber, NBER and Stanford University, met in Cambridge on October 26. They discussed these papers: Michael Baker and Mark Stabile, NBER and University of Toronto, and Catherine Den,...

Public Economics. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... Over 50 members and guests of the NBER's Program on Public Economics, directed by James M. Poterba of NBER and MIT, met in Cambridge on November 1 and 2. The following papers were discussed: Douglas B. Bernheim, NBER and Stanford...

Monetary Economics. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... Members and guests of the NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met in Cambridge on November 2. Ben S. Bernanke, NBER and Princeton University, organized this program: Lawrence J. Christiano and Martin Eichenbaum, NBER and Northwestern...

Macroeconomics and Individual Decisionmaking. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Working Group on Macroeconomics and Individual Decisionmaking, directed by George A. Akerlof University of California at Berkeley, and Robert J. Shiller, NBER and Yale University, met in Cambridge on November 3. The following papers...

Asset Pricing. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... Nearly 75 members and guests of the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met in Cambridge on November 9. Organizers Luis M. Viceira and Tuomo Vuolteenaho, both of NBER and Harvard University, chose these papers to discuss: Ravi Bansal, Duke...

Higher Education. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education, directed by Charles T. Clotfelter of NBER and Duke University, met in Cambridge on November 9. They discussed these papers: Michael S. McPherson, Macalester University, and Morton O. Schapiro,...

Corporate Finance. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met in Cambridge on November 16. Program Director Raghuram Rajan, NBER and University of Chicago, chose these papers for discussion: Michael C. Jensen, Harvard University, "Paying People to Lie: The...

Market Microstructure. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure met in Cambridge on November 30. Organizers Bruce Lehmann, NBER and University of California at San Diego; Andrew W Lo, NBER and MIT; Matthew Spiegel, Yale University; and Avanidhar...

Risks of Financial Institutions. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Project on Risks of Financial Institutions met in Cambridge on November 30. Mark Carey, Federal Reserve Board, and Rene Stulz, NBER and Ohio State University, organized this program: Torben G. Andersen, NBER and Northwestern...

International Trade and Investment. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... Members and guests of the Program on International Trade arid Investment met at the Bureau's California office on December 7-8. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra of NBER and University of California, Davis, organized the meeting. These papers...

Productivity. (Bureau News).
December 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Productivity met in Cambridge on December 7. Mark J. Roberts, NBER and Pennsylvania State University, organized this program: Tor Jakob Kiette, University of Oslo, and Arvind Raknerud, Statistics Norway, "How and Why...

Innovation Policy and the Economy, volume 2. (Bureau Books).
December 22, 2001... Innovation Policy and the Economy, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, is available from the MIT Press for $25.00 in paperback or $58.00 clothbound. This volume is the second in an annual series that presents research on the...