NBER Reporter articles from June 2004

NBER Reporter archives from June 2004

Progress report on the Children's Program.(Program Report)
June 22, 2004... The impact of public policy on the well-being of children continues to be a major area of interest for policymakers. Likewise, the economics of children's issues continue to concern members of the Children's Program at the NBER. This Program...

Explaining European unemployment.(Research Summaries)
June 22, 2004... Unemployment, Shocks, and Institutions Anybody attempting to explain the evolution of unemployment in Europe over the last 30 years must confront the following set of facts: First, high unemployment is not a European trait. Until the end of...

The challenge of turning managers into owners.(Research Summaries)
June 22, 2004... During the past two decades, the influence of shareholders has grown dramatically as institutional investors and other shareholder representatives became increasingly vocal and activist in exercising their "ownership rights" over the decisions,...

NBER profile: Ray C. Fair.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Ray C. Fair was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors last fall, representing Yale University. He has been a professor of economics at Yale's Cowles Foundation since 1979. Fair has a B.A. from Fresno State College and a Ph.D. in...

NBER profile: Brian J. Hall.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Brian J. Hall is an NBER Research Associate in the Programs on Corporate Finance, Public Economics, and Labor Studies and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Previously, he spent four years as an assistant...

NBER profile: Thea M. Lee.(National Bureau of Economic Research )(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Thea M. Lee was elected to NBER's Board of Directors in September as the representative from the AFL-CIO. Ms. Lee is Chief International Economist in the Public Policy Department of the AFL-CIO, where she oversees research on international...

Nineteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics.(Conferences)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Nineteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics took place in Cambridge on April 2 and 3. Mark Gertler, NBER and New York University, and Kenneth S. Rogoff, NBER and Harvard University, organized this program: Graziella Kaminsky,...

Innovation Policy and the Economy.(Conferences)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's fifth annual conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy took place in Washington on April 13. The conference was organized by NBER Research Associates Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University; Joshua Lerner, Harvard University; and...

Economics of the Information Economy.(Conferences)
June 22, 2004... An NBER/Universities Research Conference on the "Economics of the Information Economy" took place in Cambridge on May 7 and 8. Organizers Judith Chevalier, NBER and Yale University, and Joel Waldfogel, NBER and the Wharton School, put together...

Conference on Fiscal Federalism.(Conferences)
June 22, 2004... The NBER and the CESifo in Munich co-sponsored a Conference on Fiscal Federalism on May 20-22 in Munich. The conference, part of a series of Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminars, was organized by Roger H. Gordon, NBER and University of...

Yellen to head San Francisco fed.(Bureau News)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Janet Yellen, a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Monetary Economics, has been appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She takes up her position on June 14. Yellen most recently had been a professor of...

Nonprofit fellowship winners for 2004-5.(Bureau News)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Four NBER Fellowships for the Study of Nonprofit Institutions were awarded to faculty members and four to graduate students this spring. The Faculty Grants went to: David Card and Enrico Moretti, both of University of California, Berkeley,...

Entrepreneurship.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on March 19. Its director, Josh Lerner, of NBER and Harvard Business School, organized the meeting. The NBER's Entrepreneurship Working Group, established in the spring of 2003,...

Economics of Education.(Bureau News)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on the Economics of Education met in Cambridge on April 1. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby of Harvard University organized this agenda: Jorn-Steffen Pischke, NBER and London School of Economics, and Alan Manning,...

Children.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Children met in Cambridge on April 2. Program Director Jonathan Gruber, MIT, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Gordon B. Dahl, NBER and University of Rochester. and Enrico Moretti, NBER and...

International Trade and Investment.(Bureau News)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on April 2 and 3. Kala Krishna, NBER and Pennsylvania State University, organized this program: Abhijit V. Banerjee, MIT, and Andrew F. Newman, University College...

Public Economics.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Public Economics met at the Bureau's California office on April 8-9. This meeting was organized by Alan J. Auerbach, NBER and University of California, Berkeley; Roger H. Gordon, NBER and University of California, San...

Asset Pricing.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met in Chicago on April 9. Deborah J. Lucas, NBER and Northwestern University, and Amir Yaron, NBER and The Wharton School, organized this program: Dimitri Vayanos, NBER and MIT, "Flight to Quality,...

Corporate Finance.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance met in Chicago on April 9. Mitchell A. Petersen, NBER and Northwestern University, and Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University, organized this program: Philip Bond, University of Pennsylvania,...

Environmental Economics.(Bureau News)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Environmental Economics met at the Bureau's California office on April 9 and 10. This NBER Working Group undertakes theoretical or empirical studies of the economic effects of environmental policies around the world,...

Behavioral Finance.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Behavioral Finance group, part of NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Economics, met in Chicago on April 10. Robert J. Shiller, NBER and Yale University, and Richard H. Thaler, NBER and University of Chicago, direct the group and...

Labor Studies.(Bureau News)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Labor Studies met in Cambridge on April 16. Program Director Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence E Katz, both of NBER and Harvard University, organized this agenda: George J. Borjas, NBER and Harvard University, "Native...

Monetary Economics.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met in Cambridge on April 16. Laurence M. Ball and Christopher D. Carroll, NBER and Johns Hopkins University, organized this program: Thomas Laubach, Federal Reserve Board, "New Evidence on the...

International Trade and Organizations.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on International Trade and Organizations met in Cambridge on April 24. This group, directed by Gordon Hanson of University of California, San Diego, studies how firms structure their operations in the global economy....

Higher Education.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education met in Cambridge on April 30. The Higher Education Working Group examines aspects of the higher education industry, including admissions, financial aid, enrollment patterns, financing, cost...

Health Care.(Bureau News)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on May 7. NBER Research Associate Dana Goldman, RAND Corporation, organized this program: Paul Gertler, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, and Tim Simcoe, University of...

Market Microstructure.(Bureau News)(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure met in New York on May 7. Working Group Director Bruce Lehmann, NBER and University of California, San Diego, organized the program along with Joel Hasbrouck, Stern School of Business at New...

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 18.(Bureau Books)
June 22, 2004... Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 18, edited by James M. Poterba, will be available this summer from the MIT Press for $25.00 in paperback and $58.00 clothbound. Volume 18 of this NBER series continues the tradition of addressing issues that...

Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7.(Bureau Books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7, edited by David M. Cutler and Alan M. Garber, is available now from the MIT Press. It is priced at $30.00 for the paperback and $70.00 for the clothbound version. The papers in this seventh volume...

College Choices: the Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay for It.(Bureau Books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay for It, edited by Caroline M. Hoxby, will be available for $65.00 from the University of Chicago Press this summer. In this volume, Hoxby and a distinguished group of...

Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean.(Bureau Books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by James J. Heckman and Carmen Pages, will be available this summer from the University of Chicago Press for $95.00. Of the numerous labor regulations that were...

NBER Working Papers on-line.(Current Working Papers)(Illustration)
June 22, 2004... 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...