NBER Reporter articles from July 2007

NBER Reporter archives from July 2007

The economics of aging.(Program Report)
July 1, 2007... Next year, the leading edge of the baby boom generation turns 62 and becomes eligible to receive Social Security benefits. Projecting forward, the U.S. population aged 62 and older will increase from 45 million to nearly 80 million over a...

Banks, banking, and crises.
July 1, 2007... The subprime mortgage credit crisis demonstrates that while financial intermediaries have changed in many ways, at root their problems remain the same. Indeed, the old problem of banking panics can reappear in new guises. In the subprime...

NBER Profile: Timothy Guinnane.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Occupation overview)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Timothy Guinnane was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors this fall to represent the Economic History Association. He is the Philip Golden Bartlett Professor of Economic History at Yale University. Guinnane received his Ph.D. from...

NBER Profile: Harvey Rosenblum.
July 1, 2007... Harvey Rosenblum, the executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has been elected to the NBER's Board of Directors representing the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). He is a past...

Conferences.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... Inter-American Seminar on Economics The NBER and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella (UTDT) in Buenos Aires, Argentina jointly sponsored this year's Inter-American Seminar on Economics on "Crime, Institutions, and Policies." The conference...