NBER Reporter articles from March 2002

NBER Reporter archives from March 2002

Productivity. (Program Report).
March 22, 2002... The NBER's research efforts traditionally have been organized along the same lines as university economics departments' Ph.D. fields: labor, public finance, macroeconomics, and so on. The Productivity Program has been a major exception to this...

Monetary policy analysis. (Research Summaries).
March 22, 2002... The past several years have seen very rapid development in the area of monetary policy analysis. (1) One welcome aspect is the convergence of approaches used by academic and central-bank economists. For example, a look at a notable NBER...

Saving and spending retirement wealth. (Research Summaries).
March 22, 2002... I am keenly interested in the mechanisms by which people accumulate and decumulate retirement wealth, as well as the factors that shape this process. The subject is of considerable international concern in light of looming Social Security...

The market for child care. (Research Summaries).
March 22, 2002... Recent research reveals a positive relationship between cognitive skills and labor market success. (1) Developmental psychologists argue that the cognitive, social, and emotional development of children is enhanced by exposure to high-quality...

FDI flows: a critical look. (Research Summaries).(foreign direct investment)
March 22, 2002... The resilience of foreign direct investment (FDI) during financial crises may have led many developing countries to regard this type of international capital flow as the private capital inflow of choice. But evidence on the size of the specific...

Naci Mocan. (NBER Profile).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... H. Naci Mocan has been an NBER Research Associate since 1995 in the Health Economics Program and the Program on Children. Now a Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Colorado at Denver, Mocan...

Olivia S. Mitchell. (NBER Profile).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Olivia S. Mitchell is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs in Aging and Labor Studies. She is also the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Executive Director of the Pension...

Not-for-Profit Organizations. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... An NBER Conference on Not-for-Profit Organizations, organized by Edward Glaeser of NBER and Harvard University, took place on January 18-19. The following papers were discussed: Raymond Fisman, Columbia University; and R. Glenn Hubbard,...

Strategic Alliances. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... An NBER Conference on Strategic Alliances, organized by Josh Lerner, NBER and Harvard University, and Raghuram G. Rajan, NBER and University of Chicago, took place on March 1 and 2. The program was: Mihir A. Desai, NBER and Harvard...

Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... More than 50 economists from several countries, representing universities, governments, and business, gathered in Tokyo on March 18 and 19 for an NBER Conference on "Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan." Magnus Blomstrom, NBER and...

Seventeenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Seventeenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, organized by Mark Gertler, NBER and New York University, and Kenneth S. Rogoff, NBER and Princeton University, was held in Cambridge on April 5 and 6. The following papers were...

Industrial Organization. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... Members and guests of the NBER's Program on Industrial Organization met at the Bureau's California office on January 25 and 26. The meeting was organized by Frank Wolak, NBER and Stanford University, and Catherine Wolfram, NBER and University...

Insurance Project. (Conferences).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Insurance Project held a workshop in Cambridge on February 1. Project Director Kenneth A. Froot, NBER and Harvard University, and Howard Kunreuther, NBER and University of Pennsylvania, organized this program: Christian Gollier,...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 2. Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota, and Michael Kremer, NBER and Harvard University, organized this program: Laurent...

Asset Pricing. (Conferences).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met at the University of Chicago on March 1. Organizers John H. Cochrane and Jesus Santos, both of NBER and University of Chicago, chose these papers for discussion: Andrew Ang, NBER and Columbia...

Development of the American Economy. (Conferences).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Members of the NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy met in Cambridge on March 2. Program Director Claudia Goldin, NBER and Harvard University, organized the meeting at which these papers were discussed: Richard Sylla,...

International Trade and Investment. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... Members and guests of the NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on March 15 and 16. M. Scott Taylor, NBER and University of Wisconsin, organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed: Antoni...

Productivity. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... Members and guests of the NBER's Program on Productivity and Technological Change met in Cambridge on March 15. Timothy F. Bresnahan, NBER and Stanford University, organized this program: Ashish Arora, Carnegie Mellon University; Marco...

International Finance and Macroeconomics. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on March 22. Research Associates Richard K. Lyons and Andrew K. Rose, both of the University of California, Berkeley, organized this program: Michele Cavallo,...

Program on Children. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Program on Children, directed by Research Associate Jonathan Gruber of MIT, met in Cambridge on April 4. They discussed these papers: Lance Lochner, NBER and University of Rochester, "A Theoretical and Empirical Study of...

Environmental Economics. (Conferences).
March 22, 2002... The NBER's Working Group on Environmental Economics met in Cambridge on April 6. Don Fullerton, NBER and University of Texas, organized this program: Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University, and Brent Sohngen, Ohio State University, "Optimal...

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001. (Bureau Books).
March 22, 2002... NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001, edited by Ben S. Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff is available from the MIT Press. The goals of this annual conference are to present, extend, and apply frontier work in macroeconomics and to stimulate research on...

Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 5. (Bureau Books).
March 22, 2002... Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 5, edited by Alan M. Garber, is now available from the MIT Press. This series presents economic research on health care and health policy issues. Garber, the volume's editor, directs the NBER's...

Two new NBER Books on Social Security Available. (Bureau Books).
March 22, 2002... The University of Chicago Press has just published two new NBER books on Social Security: The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform, edited by Martin S. Feldstein and Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Social Security...

Petrin is 2002/3 Griliches Fellow. (Bureau News).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Amil Petrin, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in the Productivity Program and a member of the economics faculty at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, has been selected to receive the Zvi Griliches Fellowship at the NBER for...

Three NBER National Fellows named. (Bureau News).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The NBER recently announced the selection of National Fellows for 2002/3. These National Fellows will spend one academic year at the Bureau's office in Cambridge, and will devote their time to research and writing in the area of their program...