NBER Reporter articles from June 2001

NBER Reporter archives from June 2001

Industrial Organization.
June 22, 2001... Nancy L. Rose [*] The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization (IO) celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. The program has grown to include 34 members who are engaged in research on a wide range of topics. Rather than attempting an...

The Gender Pay Gap.
June 22, 2001... Lawrence M. Kahn [*] Over the past 25 years, the gender pay gap has narrowed dramatically in the United States. In our recent research, we analyze the sources of the relative wage gains for women in the United States, and we study the...

Market-Based Enviromnental-Policy Instruments.
June 22, 2001... Gilbert E. Metcalf [*] The Glean Air Act Amendments of 1990 ushered in a new era in environmental policy, constructing a market in tradable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions at electric utilities in the United States. This law was a...

NBER Profile: Michael J. Brennan.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Michael J. Brennan, the Goldyne and Irwin Hearsh Chair in Money and Banking at UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors this spring to represent the University of California, Los Angeles....

NBER Profile: John S. Clarkeson.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... John S. Clarkeson, Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG), was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors this spring as an at-large member. Clarkeson, who received both his undergraduate degree and his M.B.A. from Harvard...

The Economics of School Choice.
June 22, 2001... An NBER Conference on "The Economics of School Choice," organized by Caroline M. Hoxby, Director of the NBER's Program on the Economics of Education, also of Harvard University, took place on February 22-24. The following papers and discussion...

Innovation Policy and the Economy.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's second annual Conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy, organized by Research Associates Adam Jaffe of Brandeis University, Joshua Lerner of Harvard Business School, and Faculty Research Fellow Scott Stern of MIT, took place...

Sixteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Sixteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics took place in Cambridge on April 2021. Ben S. Bernanke of NBER and Princeton University and Kenneth Rogoff of NBER and Harvard University served as organizers and put together this...

Globalization in Historical Perspective.
June 22, 2001... An NBER Conference on "Globalization in Historical Perspective, organized by Michael D. Bordo, NBER and Rutgers University, Alan M. Taylor, NBER and University of California, Davis, and Jeffrey G. Williamson NBER and Harvard University, took...

Labor in the Global Economy.
June 22, 2001... An NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Labor in the Global Economy" took place in Cambridge on May 11 and 12. Labor. Studies Program Director Richard Freeman, NBER and Harvard University, was the organizer. Eli Berman, NBER and Boston...

The Economics of Aging.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Aging, directed by David A. Wise of NBER and Harvard University, held its most recent in a series of conferences on May 17-20. The following papers, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in an NBER...

Frontiers in Health Policy Research.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's fifth annual conference on "Frontiers in Health Policy Research," organized by Alan M. Garber, took place on June 7 in Bethesda, Maryland. The program was: Jeanette Chung, University of Chicago, and David Meltzer, NBER and...

International Seminar on Macroeconomics.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's 24th Annual International Seminar on Macroeconomics, organized by Jeffrey A. Frankel, NBER and Harvard University, and Francesco Giavazzi, NBER and Bocconi University, was held on June 8-9 at University College Dublin (Ireland). The...

Hoxby to Head Education Program.(NBER Faculty Research Fellow Caroline Hoxby)
June 22, 2001... NBER Faculty Research Fellow Caroline Hoxby, a professor of economics at Harvard University, is the first Director of the NBER's new Program on the Economics of Education. She received her A.B. in Economics from Harvard in 1988, an M.Phil. in...

More NBER Researchers Head to Washington.(Anne 0. Krueger)
June 22, 2001... NBER Research Associate Anne 0. Krueger, a professor of economics at Stanford University, has been named First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Krueger served as Chief Economist of the World Bank in the Reagan...

Moskow Replaces Cooper as Board Vice Chair.(Kathleen B. Cooper; Michael H. Moskow)
June 22, 2001... NBER Director Kathleen B. Cooper, who had been serving as the Board's Vice Chairman, has been confirmed as Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. Director-at-large Michael H. Moskow, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,...

International Trade and Investment.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on March 16 and 17. James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, organized this program: Robert Feenstra, NBER and University of California, Davis, and Gordon...

Well-Being of Children.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on the Well-Being of Children, directed by Jonathan Gruber of MIT, met in Cambridge on April 5. The following papers were discussed: Bruce Sacerdote, NBER and Dartmouth College, "The Nature and Nurture of Economic...

Public Economics.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Public Economics, directed by James M. Poterba of MIT, met in Cambridge on April 6. The following four papers were presented and discussed: Leora Friedberg, NBER and University of Virginia, and Anthony Webb,...

Corporate Finance.
June 22, 2001... Members and guests of the NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met in Cambridge on April 20. Program Director Raghuram G. Rajan chose the following papers for discussion: Raymond Fisman, Columbia University, and R. Glenn Hubbard, NBER and...

Monetary Economics.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Program on Monetary Economics, directed by Ben S. Bernanke of Princeton University, met in Cambridge on April 27. The following papers were discussed: George W. Evans, University of Oregon, and Seppo Honkapohja, University of...

Higher Education.
June 22, 2001... The NBER s Working Group on Higher Education, directed by Charles T. Clotfelter of Duke University, met in Cambridge on May 10 to discuss these papers: Charles T. Clotfelter and Jacob L. Vigdor, Duke University, "Retaking the SAT" ...

Market Microstructure.
June 22, 2001... Members of the NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure met in Cambridge on May 11. Organizers Bruce Lehmann, University of California, San Diego; Andrew Lo, NBER and MIT; Matthew Spiegel, Yale University; and Avanidhar Subramanyam,...

Behavioral Finance.
June 22, 2001... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Finance, organized by Robert J. Shiller, NBER and Yale University, and Richard H. Thaler NBER and University of Chicago, met in Chicago on May 25. The following papers were discussed: Dilip J.. Abreu...

Two Annual NBER Volumes now available from the MIT Press.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 4, edited by Alan M. Garber, and Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by James M. Poterba, are now available from the MIT Press. Both volumes present papers delivered at annual NBER...

Medical Care Output and Productivity.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Medical Care Output and Productivity, edited by David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt, is now available from the University of Chicago Press for $80.00. This NBER conference volume takes aim at the problem of how to measure the productivity...

Prudential Supervision: What Works and What Doesn't.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Prudential Supervision: What Works and What Doesn't, edited by Frederic S. Mishkin, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $50.00. This NBER Conference Report contains eight papers, seven commentaries, and seven discussion...

Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Anne 0. Krueger, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $75.00. This tenth volume in the NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics...

New Developments in Productivity Analysis.(Review)
June 22, 2001... New Developments in Productivity Analysis, edited by Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean, and Michael J. Harper, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $83.00. This volume in the NBER Studies in Income and Wealth series contains an...