NBER Reporter articles from March 2003

NBER Reporter archives from March 2003

Monetary economics. (Program Report).
March 22, 2003... Understanding what monetary policy can do to enhance economic performance (and, just as importantly, what it cannot do) is a continuing challenge for economic policymakers around the world. Researchers in the NBER's Monetary Economics Program...

Explaining exchange rate behavior. (Research Summaries).
March 22, 2003... In an era characterized by increasingly integrated national economies, the exchange rate is the key relative price in open economies. As such, a great deal of attention has been focused on characterizing its behavior. Unfortunately, it is...

Health, income, and inequality. (Research Summaries).
March 22, 2003... Richer, better-educated people live longer than poorer, less-educated people. According to calculations from the National Longitudinal Mortality Survey which tracks the mortality of people originally interviewed in the CPS and other surveys,...

Patents. (Research Summaries).
March 22, 2003... The past twenty years have seen very significant changes in U.S. patent law and policy, strengthening the rights of inventors and significantly expanding those rights across the globe. The United States has broadened areas in which patents can...

NBER profile: Menzie Chinn.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Menzie Chinn is a Research Associate in the NBER's International Finance and Macroeconomics Program and is a National Fellow at the NBER during the 2002-3 academic year. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of California at Santa...

NBER profile: Angus S. Deaton.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Angus S. Deaton is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Health Care and is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School His current...

NBER profile: Jean Olson Lanjouw.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Jean O. Lanjouw is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Program on Productivity She is also a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development,...

New Development in Empirical International Trade. (Conferences).(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Center for Economic Policy Research)
March 22, 2003... The 15th annual TRIO conference -- one in a series sponsored by the NBER, CEPR, and TCER to bring together economists from the United States, Europe, and Japan -- on "New Development in Empirical International Trade" took place in Tokyo on...

Fourth annual conference in India. (Conferences).(National Bureau of Economic Research)(India's National Council for Applied Economic Research)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... On January 13-15, 2003 the NBER and India's National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) again brought together a group of NBER economists and about two dozen economists from Indian universities, research institutions, and government...

Inflation Targeting. (Conferences).(National Bureau of Economic Research)
March 22, 2003... An NBER Conference on Inflation Targeting, organized by Michael Woodford of NBER and Princeton University, took place on January 23-25. The conference agenda was: Mervyn A. King, Bank of England, "What has Inflation Targeting Achieved?"...

Mankiw to Chair CEA. (Bureau News).(National Bureau of Economic Research)(N. Gregory Mankiw)(United States Council of Economic Advisers)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... NBER Research Associate N. Gregory Mankiw, Director of the National Bureau's Program of Research on Monetary Economics, has been nominated by President Bush to become Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. His appointment requires Senate...

Romers to direct NBER's Monetary Economics Program. (Bureau News).(Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... NBER Research Associates Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer will succeed N. Gregory Mankiw as co-directors of the NBER's Program on Monetary Economics. Christina Romer is currendy the Class of 1957 Professor of Economics at the...

Holtz-Eakin to head CBO. (Bureau News).(Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Congressional Budget Office)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, who has been affiliated with the NBER since 1985, has been chosen to head the Congressional Budget Office. On leave as a professor of economics at Syracuse University, he most recently had been Chief Economist of the...

Ruth P. Mack dies at age 99. (Bureau News).(member of the National Bureau of Economics Research staff)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Ruth Prince Mack, a member of the NBER's research staff in New York City from the 1940s through the 1960s, died in early March. She was 99 years old. Mack was the author of a Technical Paper in 1954 tided Factors Influencing Consumption:...

Insurance Project. (Bureau News).(summary of group meeting from January 31 and Februrary 1)
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Insurance Project, directed by Kenneth A. Froot, NBER and MIT, and Howard Kunreuther, NBER and University of Pennsylvania, met in Cambridge on January 31 and February 1. The following papers were discussed: J. David Cummins,...

Entrepreneurship. (Bureau News).(summary of items discussed at February 1 working group meeting)
March 22, 2003... The NBER's new Working Group on Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on February 1. Josh Lerner, NBER and Harvard University, organized this program: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, NBER and University of California, Los Angeles,...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth. (Bureau News).(list of papers discussed at the February 7, 2003 National Bureau of Economic Research meeting)
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in San Francisco on February 7. Fernando Alvarez, NBER and University of Chicago, and Robert King, NBER and Boston University, organized this program: Andrew Ang, NBER and Columbia...

Industrial Organization. (Bureau News).(papers discussed at the February 7 and 8, 2003 National Bureau of Economic Research meeting)
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization met at the Bureau's California Office on February 7 and 8 Dennis W Carlton and Austan Goolsbee, both of NBER and University of Chicago, organized the program meeting, at which these papers were...

Personnel Economics. (Bureau News).(papers discussed at March 6 and 7, 2003 meeting)
March 22, 2003... A new NBER Working Group on Personnel Economics met in Cambridge on March 6 and 7. Edward P. Lazear, NBER and Stanford University, organized the meeting, at which these papers were discussed: Edward P. Lazear and Paul Oyer, Stanford...

Development of the American Economy. (Bureau News).(papers discussed at March 8, 2003 meeting)(includes "General Purpose Technologies")
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Development of the American Economy met in Cambridge on March 8. Program Director Claudia Goldin of Harvard University organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed: Howard Bodenhorn and Christopher S....

Health Economics. (Bureau News).(includes overview of NBER Working Paper No. 9405)(summary of papers discussed at March 14, 2003 Program on Health Economics meeting)
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on March 14. Program Director Michael Grossman organized the meeting, at which these papers were discussed: David E. Bloom, NBER and Harvard University, and David Canning and Jaypee...

Productivity Program meeting. (Bureau News).(National Bureau of Economic Research)
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Productivity met in Cambridge on March 14. Shane Greenstein, NBER and Northwestern University, organized thc meeting. These papers were discussed: Barbara K. Atrostic and Sang Nguyen, Center for Economic Studies, "IT...

International Finance and Macroeconomics. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on March 21. Richard Lyons, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, and Andres Velasco, NBER and Harvard University, organized this program: Andrew...

International Trade and Investment. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on March 28 and 29. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra, NBER and University of California, Davis, organized. this program: Andrew K. Rose, NBER and University of...

Program on Children. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Children, directed by Jonathan Gruber of MIT, met in Cambridge on April 3. Members and guests discussed these papers: Anna Aizer, Princeton University, "Got Health? Advertising, Medicaid, and Child Health" Karen...

Public Economics. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 10 and 11. Program Director James M. Poterba, NBER and MIT, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Brian G. Knight, NBER and Brown University, "Parochial...

Asset Pricing. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met in Chicago on April 11. Program Director John H. Cochrane and Lubos Pastor, both of NBER and University of Chicago, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Antonios Sangvinatsos, New York...

Corporate Finance. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Corp orate Finance met in Chicago on April 11. Program Director Raghuram Rajan and Per Stromberg, both of NBER and University of Chicago, organized this program: Ulf Axelson, University of Chicago, "Security Design...

Behavioral Finance. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Finance met in Chicago on April 12. Nicholas Barberis and Richard H. Thaler, both of NBER and University of Chicago, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: Alan B. Krueger, NBER and...

Environmental Economics. (Bureau News).
March 22, 2003... The NBER's Working Group on Environmental Economics met in Cambridge on April 12. Don Fullerton, NBER and University of Texas, Austin, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: David F. Bradford, NBER and Princeton University,...

Globalization in Historical Perspective. (Bureau Books).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Globalization in Historical Perspective, edited by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this spring for $95. This volume collects eleven papers and comments and a...

Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past. (Bureau Books).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past, edited by Dora L. Costa, is available from the University of Chicago Press this spring for $75. The rise in life expectancy and retirement rates in the...

The Economics of School Choice. (Bureau Books).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Economics of School Choice, edited by Caroline M. Hoxby, is available now from the University of Chicago Press for $75. Since the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions about...

NBER Working Papers on-line. (Current Working Papers).
March 22, 2003... 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...