NBER Reporter articles from March 2007

NBER Reporter archives from March 2007

Monetary economics.(Program Report)
March 1, 2007... The subject matter of monetary economics encompasses a large part of macroeconomics. Most obviously, monetary economics is concerned with the conduct, effects, institutions, and history of monetary policy. But it extends far beyond that. The...

Households, institutions, and financial markets.(Research Summaries)
March 1, 2007... Economists studying asset pricing have begun to grapple seriously with the extraordinary diversity of financial market participants. Investors, including both households and financial institutions, differ in their overall resources, current and...

Conferences.
March 1, 2007... Innovation Policy and the Economy The NBER's eighth annual Conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy took place in Washington on April 12. The conference was organized by NBER Research Associates Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University,...

Bernanke speaks at NBER's Summer Institute.(NBER News)(Ben S. Bernanke)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke spoke to the NBER's Summer Institute in Cambridge on July 10. Bernanke, formerly an academic himself who taught at Princeton, was an NBER Research Associate from 1994 to 2002, and served as...

Finkelstein is 2007/8 Griliches Fellow.(NBER News)(Amy N. Finkelstein)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Amy N. Finkelstein, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in the Public Economics, Aging, and Health Care Programs and an associate professor of economics at MIT, has been selected to receive the Zvi Griliches Fellowship at the NBER for the academic...

Program and working group meetings.(Company overview)
March 1, 2007... International Trade and Investment The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on March 30 and 31. NBER Faculty Research Fellow Lee G. Branstetter of Carnegie Mellon University organized the program. These...