NBER Reporter articles from June 2002

NBER Reporter archives from June 2002

Development of the American Economy. (Program Report).
June 22, 2002... Claudia Goldin * The NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy (DAE) investigates long-run economic development and growth, with specific attention to the United States. The DAB'S broad mandate means that its members work...

Performance evaluation in financial economics. (Research Summaries).(U.S.)
June 22, 2002... Andrew Metrick * A mutual-fund manager earns annualized returns of 20 percent per year for a five-year period. Over the same period, the stock market as a whole earns 10 percent per year. Was this manager smart, or just lucky? Some...

Tax systems.(three aspects of tax systems)
June 22, 2002... Joel Slemrod * All tax systems have three aspects. First, they change relative prices, and thus influence and often distort the allocation of resources in the economy. Second, they are instrumental in assigning the burden of government...

NBER Profile: Richard C. Green.(appointed to board of directors, National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S.)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Richard C. Green, the Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Professor of Economics and Management at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration, was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors in April. He will represent...

NBER Profile: Andrew Metrick.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Andrew Metrick is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in the Asset Pricing Program and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Yale in 1989 and...

NBER Profile: Uwe Reinhardt.(appointed to board of directors, National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S.)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Uwe Reinhardt, thc James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics arid Public Affairs at Princeton University, was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors in April to represent that university. A native of Germany,...

Innovation Policy and the Economy. (Conferences).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's third annual conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy rook place in Washington on April 6. The conference was organized by: NBER Research Associates Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University; Joshua Lerner, Harvard University; and Scott...

Firm-Level Responses to Trade Policies. (Conferences).
June 22, 2002... An NBER/Universities Research Conference on "Firm-Level Responses to Trade Policies" took place in Cambridge on May 10 and 11. Bruce Blonigen, NBER and University of Oregon, organized this program: Session 1: Plant-Level Studies Sule...

TAPES conference on income taxation. (Conferences).
June 22, 2002... The NBER and the U.K.'s Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) jointly sponsored this year's TransAtlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES). The May 15-17 conference, held at the Institute's London offices, focused on income taxation. The program,...

Environmental Economics. (Conferences).
June 22, 2002... An NBER Conference on Environmental Economics was held in Newport, Rhode Island, on May 17 and 18. NBER Research Associate Gilbert Metcalf of Tufts University organized this program: Hilary Sigman, NBER and Rutgers University, "Trade and...

Bernanke nominated to Federal Reserve Board. (Bureau News).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... NBER Research Associate Ben S. Bernanke, Director of the NBER's Program on Monetary Economics, has been nominated by the President to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Bernanke, the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck...

Social Security. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Working Group on Social Security met in Cambridge on April 4. Jeffrey Liebman, NBER and Harvard University, and Andrew Samwick, NBER and Dartmouth College, organized the meeting. The program was: Kent Smetters, NBER and...

Public Economics. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Public Economics, directed by James M. Poterba of MIT, met in Cambridge on April 5. The following papers were discussed: William M. Gentry, NBER and Columbia University, and David M. Schizer, Columbia University Law...

Labor Studies. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Labor Studies met in Cambridge on April 12. Program Director Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz, both of Harvard University, organized this program: Robert A. Margo, NBER and Vanderbilt University, "The...

Monetary Economics. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met in Cambridge on April 12. NBER Research Associates Martin Eichenbaum and Lawrence Christiano, both of Northwestern University, organized this program: Michael Woodford, NBER and Princeton...

Corporate Finance. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance, directed by Raghuram G. Rajan, Northwestern University, met in Chicago on April 19. They discussed the following papers: Mike Burkart, Stockholm School of Economics; Fausto Panunzi, Universita di...

Behavioral Finance. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Finance met in Chicago on April 20. NBER Research Associates Robert J. Shiller, Yale University, and Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, organized this program: Christopher K. Polk and Paola...

Health Care. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on May 3. Program Director Alan M. Garber of Stanford University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Dahlia K. Remler and Joshua Graff Zivin, Columbia University, and...

Higher Education. (Bureau News).
June 22, 2002... The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education, directed by Charles T. Clotfelter of Duke University, met in Cambridge on May 3. They discussed these papers: Jerry G. Thursby, Emory University, and Marie C. Thursby, NBER and Georgia Tech,...