NBER Reporter articles from March 2004

NBER Reporter archives from March 2004

Health economics.(Program Report)(health care issues)
March 22, 2004... In the five years since my last report on the NBER's Program in Health Economics, the program has changed from one based mainly in the Bureau's New York office to one with a national presence. The number of program members has increased...

Life annuities and uncertain lifetimes.(Research Summaries)
March 22, 2004... As the baby boom generation begins the transition into retirement, concerns about retirement income security are rising in importance on the agenda of policymakers and academic researchers across the globe. Recent decades have witnessed many...

Housing supply.(Research Summaries)(growth in housing rates)
March 22, 2004... In 1981, Lawrence Summers noted the 35 percent increase in real housing prices between 1965 and 1980 and argued that this increase could be explained by inflation. Summers (1) and Poterba (2) persuasively showed that higher levels of inflation...

Taxes, competition, and the information economy.(Research Summaries)
March 22, 2004... The growth of the information economy--the Internet, computers, media, and the like--has generated massive amounts of debate in popular and policy circles. More than that, though, it has raised many interesting subjects for economic research....

Taxation and household portfolio behavior.
March 22, 2004... The personal income tax has a critical effect on the rate of return that households earn on their investments. Taxes reduce the rate of return, and they do so to different degrees for different assets. Assets that generate mostly capital gains,...

NBER profile: Jeffrey R. Brown.(Brief Article)(Biography)
March 22, 2004... Jeffrey R. Brown is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on Public Economics and the Economics of Aging and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. from Miami...

NBER profile: Austan Goolsbee.(Brief Article)(Biography)
March 22, 2004... Austan Goolsbee is an NBER Research Associate and a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business where he has taught since 1995. He is also the lead editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and a Senior...

NBER profile: Michael Grossman.(Brief Article)(Biography)
March 22, 2004... Michael Grossman is a "child" of the NBER. He has been affiliated with the Bureau since 1966 when Victor Fuchs hired him as a research assistant. Currently, he directs the NBER's Health Economics Program and is Distinguished Professor of...

NBER profile: Jeffrey M. Perloff.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Jeffrey M. Perloff joined the NBER's Board of Directors last fall as the representative of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is a Fellow of that organization, and a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the...

Organizational economics.(Conferences)(economic analysis of financial derivatives)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics, directed by Robert Gibbons of MIT, met in Cambridge on December 12 and 13. This Working Group studies governed transactions (that is, those that do not occur in frictionless markets)....

Fifth annual conference in India.(National Council for Applied Economic Research)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... On January 17-20, 2004 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...

Health care.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on November 14. Laurence C. Baker and Jay Bhattacharya, NBER and Stanford University, organized this program: Jill Horwitz, University of Michigan, "Does Corporate Form Matter? Service...

National security.(Bureau News)(security concerns)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on National Security, directed by NBER President Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on November 21. This Working Group deals with the wide range of issues that affect national security, with a...

Market microstructure.(Bureau News)(research on the economics of securities markets)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure, directed by Research Associate Bruce Lehmann of University of California, San Diego, met on December 11. The Market Microstructure Group is devoted to theoretical, empirical, and experimental...

Economic fluctuations and growth.(Bureau News)(analysis)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in San Francisco on February, 6. The meeting organizers were Ricardo J. Caballero, NBER and MIT, and Peter J. Klenow, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The program was: Valerie...

Insurance.(Bureau News)(discussion)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Insurance, directed by Kenneth A. Froot, NBER and Harvard University, and Howard Kunreuther, NBER and University of Pennsylvania, met in Cambridge on February 6 and 7. Insurance, from a theoretical perspective, is a...

Industrial organization.(Bureau News)(environmental concerns)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization, directed by Nancy L. Rose of MIT, met at the NBER's California office on February 20 and 21. Severin Borenstein, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, and Alan Sorensen, NBER and University...

Development of the American economy.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Development of the American Economy met in Cambridge on March 6. Program Director Claudia Goldin of Harvard University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed: B. Zorina Khan, NBER and Bowdoin College, and...

Productivity.(Bureau News)(pharmaceutical industry)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Productivity met in Cambridge on March 12. The meeting was organized by Ernst R. Berndt, NBER and MIT, and Chad Syverson, NBER and University of Chicago. The following papers were discussed: Boyan Jovanovic, NBER and...

International finance and macroeconomics.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on March 19. Richard K. Lyons, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, and Andres Velasco, NBER and Harvard University, organized this program: ...

Health economics.(Bureau News)(public health issues)
March 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on March 26. Program Director Michael Grossman, also of City University of New York, organized this program: Ted J. Joyce, NBER and Baruch College, "Some Simple Tests of Abortion and...

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003.(Bureau Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth S. Rogoff, will be available from the MIT Press this spring for $32.00 in paperback and $65.00 clothbound. The NBER Macroeconomies Annual presents, extends, and applies...

Seeking a Premier Economy: the Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000.(Bureau Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000, edited by David Card, Richard Blundell, and Richard B. Freeman, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this spring. Part of the Comparative...

Perspectives on the Economics of Aging.(Bureau Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, is available from the University of Chicago Press this spring for $75.00. This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation...

Growth and Productivity in East Asia.(Bureau Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Growth and Productivity in East Asia, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, will be available soon from the University of Chicago Press. This is the thirteenth conference volume resulting from the NBER's East Asia Seminar on Economics. It...

NBER working papers on-line.(Current Working Papers)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Illustration)
March 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...