NBER Reporter articles from December 2006

NBER Reporter archives from December 2006

Productivity.(National Bureau of Economic Research program report)
December 22, 2006... It is now seven years since Zvi Griliches, the NBER's Productivity Program Director for its first twenty years, passed away in October 1999. Due in large part to Zvi's enormous intellectual legacy and the extraordinary efforts he expended in...

Exchange rate regimes, globalization, financial crises, and monetary policy.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2006... My research in the past decade has concentrated largely on four related themes that I discuss in this article: Exchange Rate Regimes, Globalization, Financial Crises, and Monetary Policy. Exchange Rate Regimes As discussed in the Fall...

The microeconomic evidence on contagion, capital controls, and capital flows.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2006... On December 19, 2006, Thailand implemented restrictive capital controls on foreign investment and the Thai stock index fell by over 15 percent before trading was halted. Investors quickly began to draw comparisons to the summer of 1997, asking...

Tax policy towards energy and the environment.(Research Summaries)
December 22, 2006... My research over the past several years has focused on the role of taxes and other instruments in environmental and energy policy. I have focused mainly on instrument design issues in a general equilibrium framework, as well as on the...

NBER profile: Charles H. Dallara.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... Charles H. Dallara was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors at its Fall 2006 meeting. Dallara, who is a Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), will serve as a Director-at-Large. Prior to joining the lie...

NBER profile: Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. was elected a Director-at-Large by NBER'S Board of Directors at its Fall 2006 meeting. Ferguson is the Chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation and Head of Financial Services and member of the Executive Committee...

NBER profile: Kristin J. Forbes.
December 22, 2006... Kristin Forbes is an NBER Research Associate in the Program on International Finance and an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She received her B.A., summa cum laude with highest honors, from Williams College...

Conference on Retirement Research.(National Bureau of Economic Research conference)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Aging held a Conference on Retirement Research on October 20 and 21. The conference organizers were NBER Research Associates Jeffrey R. Brown of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jeffrey Liebman of Harvard...

Macroeconomics and individual decision making.(Conferences)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Working Group on Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making held a conference in Boston on November 4. Working Group Directors George Akerlof, University of California at Berkeley, and Robert Shiller, NBER and Yale University,...

Inter-American Seminar on Economics: Informality, Corruption, and Institutions.(Conferences)
December 22, 2006... The NBER and FEDESARROLLO co-sponsored this year's Inter-American Seminar on Economics (IASE) on "Informality, Corruption, and Institutions." The conference, which was held in Bogota, Colombia, on December 1 and 2, was organized by NBER...

Financial Reporting and Taxation.(Conferences)
December 22, 2006... The NBER held a conference on "Financial Reporting and Taxation" in Cambridge on December 7. Douglas Shackelford, NBER and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, organized this program: Michelle Hanlon, University of Michigan, and...

Behavioral Responses to Taxation and Social Insurance Programs.(Conferences)
December 22, 2006... An NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Behavioral Responses to Taxation and Social Insurance Programs" took place in Cambridge on December 8-9. Organizers Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, both of NBER and University of California, Berkeley,...

20th Annual TRIO Conference.(Conferences)
December 22, 2006... The Twentieth 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 15 and 16 in Tokyo. This...

2006 awards and honors.(NBER News)
December 22, 2006... A number of NBER researchers received honors, prizes, awards, and professional kudos during 2006. In alphabetical order, those so honored (excluding honors by the individual's own university) are: Daron Acemoglu received the 2005 John Bates...

China Working Group meeting.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Working Group on China met in Cambridge on October 13. NBER Research Associate Shang-Jin Wei of the IMF organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed: Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER; Lena Edlund,...

Health Care Program meeting.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on October 20. David Meltzer, NBER and University of Chicago, organized the program. These papers were discussed: Amy Finkelstein and Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER, "Input and Technology...

Entrepreneurship Working Group meeting.(Program and Working Group Meeting)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
December 22, 2006... The Entrepreneurship Working Group met in Cambridge on October 20. Group Director Josh Lerner, NBER and Harvard Business School, organized this program: Steven J. Davis, NBER and University of Chicago; John Haltiwanger, NBER and University...

International Finance and Macroeconomics.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on October 27. Research Associates Charles Engel and Linda Tesar, organized the program. The following papers were discussed: Enrique G. Mendoza, International...

Public Economics.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on November 2-3. Joshua Rauh and Austan Goolsbee, NBER and University of Chicago, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and NBER;...

Monetary Economics.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met in Cambridge on November 3. Christopher House and Matthew D. Shapiro, NBER and University of Michigan, organized the meeting, at which these papers were discussed: Michael Elsby and Gary Solon,...

Higher Education.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education met in Cambridge on November 9. Working Group Director Charles T. Clotfelter of Duke University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Susan M. Dynarski, Harvard University and NBER,...

Education Program Meeting.(Program and Working Group Meeting)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Education, directed by Caroline M. Hoxby of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on November 9 and 10. These papers were presented and discussed at the meeting: Mark Hoekstra, University of Pittsburgh, "The Effect of...

Asset Pricing.(Program and Working Group Meeting)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, on November 20. NBER researchers Leonid Kogan, Sloan School of Management at MIT, and Amir Yaron, The Wharton School, organized the meeting. These papers...

Corporate Finance.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met in Cambridge on November 10. NBER Research Associate Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Camelia M. Kuhnen, Northwestern University, and...

Behavioral Economics.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Economics met in Cambridge on November 11. NBER Research Associates and Group Directors Robert J. Shiller of Yale University and Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, organized this program: Am...

Labor Studies.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Labor Studies met in Cambridge on November 17. NBER Research Associates Lawrence E Katz and Richard B. Freeman, both of Harvard University, organized the program. These papers were discussed: Joseph G. Altonji, Yale...

Productivity.(Program and Working Group Meeting)(National Bureau of Economic Research Program on Productivity)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's Program on Productivity met in Cambridge on December 1, 2006. Nick Bloom and Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER, organized the program. These papers were discussed: Jan De Loecker, New York University, "Product...

International Trade and Investment.(Program and Working Group Meeting)
December 22, 2006... The NBER's International Trade and Investment Program met at the NBER's office in California on December 1-2, 2006. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: ...

Globalization and Poverty.(Bureau Books)
December 22, 2006... Globalization and Poverty, edited by Ann Harrison, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $99.00. This NBER Conference Report brings together experts on international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of...

The Risks of Financial Institutions.(Bureau Books)
December 22, 2006... The Risks of Financial Institutions, edited by Mark Carey and Rend M. Stulz, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $99.00. This NBER Conference Report examines the various risks affecting financial institutions and explores a...