NBER Reporter articles from September 2002

NBER Reporter archives from September 2002

Labor Studies. (Program Report).
September 22, 2002... Labor economists like numbers. With datasets containing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of observations readily available on the NBER website (www.nber.org/data/) and from numerous other sources, and with increasingly powerful...

Raising incomes by mandating higher wages. (Research Summaries).
September 22, 2002... A number of policy proposals and initiatives have been used in the United States in an attempt to reduce poverty, or more generally to assist low-income families, by increasing the incomes of families at the bottom end of the income...

Monetary policy.
September 22, 2002... Actions by the Federal Reserve are commonly thought to be a key determinant of short-run macroeconomic fluctuations. Much of my recent research analyzes this crucial link between monetary policy and economic activity. Some of the papers look...

The New Comparative Economics.
September 22, 2002... The traditional field of "Comparative Economics," which deals with comparisons of socialism and capitalism, died with the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union a decade ago. But from its ashes, and from the challenging...

NBER profile: Josh S. Weston.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Josh S. Weston has represented the Committee for Economic Development on the NBER's Board of Directors since 1994. Weston is the retired chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), which provides paychecks for more than 30 million...

NBER profile: Gavin Wright.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Gavin Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University. Wright chaired the Stanford Economics Department for the past two years, having previously served as chair from 1989 to 1993. He also is a...

Frontiers in Health Policy Research. (Conferences).
September 22, 2002... Thc NBER's sixth annual conference on "Frontiers in Health Policy Research," organized by David M. Cuder and Alan M. Garber, took place on May 29 in Bethesda, Maryland. The program was: Opening Remarks: Alan M. Garber, NBER and Stanford...

International Seminar on Macroeconomics. (Conferences).
September 22, 2002... The NBER's 25th Annual International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM), organized by James A. Stock, NBER and Harvard University, and Lars E.O. Svensson, NBER and Princeton University, was held on June 14-15 at the European Central Bank in...

East Asian Seminar on Economics focuses on productivity. (Conferences).
September 22, 2002... The NBER's Thirteenth Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE), sponsored jointly with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKU), Korea Development Institute (KDI), Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER), Chung-Hua...

NBER Conference in Beijing. (Conferences).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The fifth annual NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy, jointly sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the China Center for Economic Research at Beijing University, took place in Beijing on June 30-July 2. This...

The Argentina crisis. (Conferences).
September 22, 2002... A conference on Argentina's financial and currency crisis, organized by NBER Research Associates Jeffrey A. Frankel, Harvard University, and Sebastian Edwards, University of California at Los Angeles, took place in Cambridge on July 17. This...

College decisions, how students actually make them, and how they could. (Conferences).
September 22, 2002... An NBER confcrcnce on higher education, organized by Caroline M. Hoxby, took place on August 14 and 15. Hoxby directs NBER's Program on Education and teaches at Harvard University. The topic of the conference was "College Decisions, How...

New Directors and Officers elected by NBER Board. (Bureau News).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... At its annual meeting in September, the NBER's Board of Directors elected a new Chair and Vice Chair, Michael H. Moskow and Elizabeth E. Bailey. Moskow is President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and first joined the NBER's Board in...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth.
September 22, 2002... Roughly one hundred academic macroeconomists from all over the world gathered in Cambridge on July 20 to attend the summer research meeting of NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth. The meeting was organized by Lawrence Christiano,...

Twenty-third NBER Summer Institute held in 2002.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... In the summer of 2002, the NBER held its twenty-third annual Summer Institute. More than 1200 economists from universities and organizations throughout the world attended. The papers presented at dozens of different sessions during the...

Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets. (Bureau Books).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets is available from the University of Chicago Press this fall for $100.00. This NBER conference report, over 700 pages in length, was edited by Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel. In this...

NBER Working Papers on-line. (Current Working Papers).(Illustration)
September 22, 2002... 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...