NBER Reporter articles from December 2005

NBER Reporter archives from December 2005

Public economics.(Program Report)
December 22, 2005... Researchers in the NBER Public Economics Program study many of the core issues that have been at the center of recent national policy debates. While the Public Economics Program is broadly concerned with the economic role of government, an...

The contribution of science and technology to production.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2005... Economists have long recognized that knowledge is a factor of production, and even the most important factor, given its role in labor quality and the design of capital goods. Still, it is one thing to assert a general proposition and quite...

Foreign direct investment behavior of multinational corporations.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2005... There is increasing recognition that understanding the forces of economic globalization requires looking first at foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs): that is, when a firm based in one country locates or...

Race and twentieth-century American economic history.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2005... Two recent anniversaries have put a spotlight on the economic history of race-related public policy in the United States--the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision and the fortieth anniversary of the...

Globalization and new comparative economic history.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2005... Globalization is probably one of the most overused words in economics, as it is in many other realms of academic and public debate. Nonetheless, it cannot be avoided, if only because an understanding of the modern world requires us to confront...

NBER profile: James Adams.(research associate)(Brief Article)(Biography)
December 22, 2005... James Adams is a Research Associate in the Productivity Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. Before...

NBER profile: Bruce A. Blonigen.
December 22, 2005... Bruce A. Blonigen is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment and the Knight Professor of Social Science in the economics department at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in economics from...

NBER profile: William J. Collins.
December 22, 2005... William J. Collins is a Research Associate in the NBER's Development of the American Economy Program and an Associate Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. Both his A.B. (1993) and his Ph.D. (1998) degrees in economics are from...

NBER profile: Alan M. Taylor.(research associate)(Brief Article)(Biography)
December 22, 2005... Alan M. Taylor is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on the Development of the American Economy, International Finance and Macroeconomics, and International Trade and Investment. He is also a Professor of Economics and a Chancellor's...

Risks of Financial Institutions.(Conferences)
December 22, 2005... An NBER Conference on the Risks of Financial Institutions was held in Cambridge on November 10. Mark Carey; Federal Reserve Board. and Rene M. Stulz, NBER and Ohio State University, organized the meeting, at which the following papers were...

IASE: Strengthening Global Financial Markets.(Conferences)
December 22, 2005... The NBER and Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) jointly sponsored a meeting of the Inter-American Seminar on Economics in Brazil on December 2 and 3. This Seminar focused on "Strengthening Global Financial Markets."...

Structural Changes in the Global Economy.(Conferences)
December 22, 2005... On December 9 and 10, an NBER/Universities Research Conference on "Structural Changes in the Global Economy: Implications for Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation" took place in Cambridge. NBER Research Associates Andrew B. Abel, The...

18th Annual TRIO Conference.(Conferences)
December 22, 2005... The Eighteenth Annual TRIO Conference, so-named because it is jointly sponsored by the NBER, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER), took place on December 9 and 10 in Tokyo. This...

Science Watch ranks NBER first in citations.(Bureau News)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... Science Watch, the bimonthly newsletter of Thomson Scientific, named the NBER as the institution with the most cited publications in economics and business. The NBER also ranked third in "citation impact" as measured by the number of citations...

Monetary economics.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met in Cambridge on November 4, NBER Research Associates Michael D. Bordo of Rutgers University and Julio J. Rotemberg of MIT organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed: Gauti...

Health Care Program meeting.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Health Care Program met in Cambridge on November 4. NBER Research Associate David M. Cutler, of Harvard University, and Program Director Alan M. Garber, of Stanford University, organized the meeting. These papers were presented: ...

Macroeconomics and Individual Decisionmaking.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Macroeconomics and Individual Decisionmaking met in Cambridge on November 5. Working Group Directors George A. Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley; and Robert J. Shiller, NBER and Yale University, set the...

Asset Pricing.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met in Cambridge on November 11. Jessica Wachter, NBER and The Wharton School, and Luis M. Viceira, Harvard Business School, organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed: Bernard Dumas,...

Corporate Finance.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met at the Harvard Business School on November 11. Heitor Almeida and Daniel Wolfenzon, NBER and New York University Stern School of Business, organized this program: Viral Acharya, London Business...

Behavioral Economics.(Bureau News)(Discussion)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Economics, directed by NBER Research Associates Robert J. Shiller of Yale University and Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, met in Cambridge on November 12. The following papers were discussed: ...

Higher Education.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education met in Cambridge on November 17. Director Charles T. Clotfelter, NBER and Duke University, organized this program: Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University and NBER, and Albert Yoon, Northwestern...

Education Program meeting.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Education Program met in Cambridge on November 18. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby, NBER and Harvard University, chose the following papers for discussion: David N. Figlio, University of Florida and NBER, "Why Barbie Says...

Political Economy.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Political Economy, directed by NBER Research Associate Alberto F. Alesina of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on November 19. The following papers were discussed: Timothy Besley, London School of Economics;...

International Trade and Investment.(Bureau News)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met at the Bureau's California office on December 2 and 3. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra of University of California, Davis, organized the meeting. The following papers were...

Productivity Program meeting.(National Bureau of Economic Research)
December 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Productivity, met in Cambridge on December 2. Program Director Ernst R. Berndt of MIT and Pierre Azoulay, NBER and Columbia University, organized the meeting. The agenda was: Amy Finkelstein and Daron Acemoglu, MIT and...

Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History.(Bureau Books)
December 22, 2005... Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, is available from the University of Chicago Press. This NBER Conference Report may be purchased for $75.00 from: University of...

The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920.(Bureau Books)
December 22, 2005... The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920, by B. Zorina Khan, is available from Cambridge University Press for $60.00. An examination of the evolution and impact of American...

NBER Working Papers on-line.(Current Working Papers)
December 22, 2005... A complete list of all NBER Working Papers with searchable abstracts, and the full texts of Working Papers (issued since November 1994) are available at http://www.nber.org/wwp.html to anyone located at a university or other organization that...