NBER Reporter articles from March 2005

NBER Reporter archives from March 2005

International trade and investment.(Program Report)
March 22, 2005... The International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program does research on patterns of international trade and foreign direct investment; policies designed to influence the level of trade and investment; and their consequences on importing and...

World trade flows, 1962-2000.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... A new dataset of worldwide bilateral wade data by commodity, for 19622000, is available from www.nber.org/data (choose: International Trade Data; World Trade Data; NBER-United Nations trade data; documentation is presented in NBER Working Paper...

Mental health and public policy.(Research Summaries)
March 22, 2005... Mental illnesses are debilitating diseases affecting millions of people each year. These conditions constitute five of the top ten leading causes of disability worldwide. Depression alone is responsible for more than one in every ten years of...

Social returns to human capital.
March 22, 2005... My research focuses on different areas in applied microeconomics. One of these areas is the economics of education. My work on this area centers on the issue of social returns to human capital. After 40 years of research on the relationship...

Political and economic forces sustaining social security.
March 22, 2005... Government officials, regardless of their political persuasion, are increasingly serious about Social Security reform. Politicians have long recognized that the success and longevity of their policies depend on the economic and political...

Policy evaluation in macroeconomics.
March 22, 2005... Much of our recent research has been devoted to developing and applying tools for the evaluation of macroeconomic stabilization policy. This choice of topic is motivated by the fact that by the late 1990s empirical research using macroeconomic...

Conferences.(on economic conditions)
March 22, 2005... Bordo and Meissner assemble data on nearly 30 countries from 1880 to 1913 and examine debt crises, currency crises, banking crises, and twin crises. They pay special attention to the role of foreign currency and gold clause debt, currency...

Productivity.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Productivity met in Cambridge on December 10. Program Director Ernst R. Bern&, also of MIT, chose the following papers to discuss: Rupert Harrison, IFS and UCL; Jordi Jaumandreu, UC3M; Jacques Mairesse, NBER and...

Economic fluctuations and growth.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 4. NBER Research Associates John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, and Robert Shimer, University of Chicago, organized the...

Industrial organization.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization, directed by Nancy L. Rose of MIT, met in Stanford on February 4 and 5. Patrick Bajari, NBER and Duke University, and Ali Hortacsu, NBER and University. of Chicago, organized the meeting. These...

Insurance workshop.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Insurance, directed by NBER Research Associate Kenneth A. Froot of Harvard Business School and Howard Kunreuther of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, met in Cambridge on February 18. In addition to the...

Cohort studies.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies met in Cambridge on February 25. NBER Research Associate Dora L. Costa of MIT directs the group and organized the meeting. The NBER's Working Group on Cohort Studies investigates changes in well...

National security.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on National Security, directed by NBER President Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on February 25. These papers were discussed: Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric Werker, Harvard University, "How Much...

Productivity.
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Productivity met in Cambridge on March 4. Research Associates Ernst R. Berndt of MIT and Wolfgang Keller of the University of Texas organized this program: Anusha Chari and Paige P. Ouimet, University of Michigan. and...

Development of the American Economy.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy, directed by Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on March 5. These papers were discussed: Reuven Glick, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Man M....

Entrepreneurship.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on March 11. The Group's Director Josh Lerner of NBER and Harvard University Organized this program: Manju Puri, NBER and Duke University, and David T. Robinson, Duke...

Urban economics.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Urban Economics met in Cambridge on March 11. This group brings together scholars who work on the economics of cities. The overarching theme of the group is the causes and consequences of metropolitan density, but it...

International finance and macroeconomics.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on March 18. NBER Research Associates Menzie D. Chinn, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Andres Velasco, Harvard University, organized this program: Linda...

Children's program.(education)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Children, directed by Research Associate Jonathan Gruber of MIT, met m Cambridge on April 1. They discussed these papers: Brian A. Jacob, NBER and Harvard University, and Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University, "An...

International trade and investment.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on April l and 2. Research Associate Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon, organized the meeting. The program was: David Hummels, NBER and Purdue University, and...

Behavioral finance.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Behavioral Finance met in Cambridge on April 9. Organizers Nicholas C. Barberis and Robert J. Shiller, both of NBER and Yale University, chose these papers for discussion: Andrea Frazzini, Yale University, and...

Monetary economics.(Bureau News)
March 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on Monetary Economics met in Cambridge on April 15. Organizers Lars E.O. Svensson and Mark W. Watson, both of NBER and Princeton University, chose these papers to discuss: Refet S. Gurkaynak, Brian Sack, and Eric T....

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2004.(Bureau Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2004, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth S. Rogoff, is available from the MIT Press for $35.00 in paperback and $70.00 clothbound. The NBER Macroeconomics Annual presents, extends, and applies pioneering work in...

NBER Working Papers on-line.(Current Working Papers)
March 22, 2005... 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...