NBER Reporter articles from September 2003

NBER Reporter archives from September 2003

Economic Fluctuations and Growth.(Program Report)
September 22, 2003... The NBER's Research Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth marks its 25th anniversary this year. During the long U.S. economic expansion of the 1990s--the longest in the chronology maintained by the NBER--topics related to growth played a...

Capital account opening, international reserves, and development: evidence and some policy controversies.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2003... One salient feature of the global economy over the last 20 years has been the embrace by developing countries of financial reforms, leading to growing opening of capital accounts. The adjustment process to financial integration has been rocky:...

The two life cycles of human creativity.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2003... At what stage of their lives are great innovators most creative? There are two very different answers to this question. Some great innovators make their most important discoveries suddenly, very early in their careers. In contrast, others...

Capital income taxes.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2003... In public economics the conventional wisdom has been that taxes on capital income generate high efficiency costs with few offsetting benefits. (1) Average tax rates on the return to capital are measured to be very high, (2) as are marginal tax...

NBER profile: Joshua Aizenmann.(National Bureau of Economic Research )(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Joshua Aizenman is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment and a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy and M.A. in...

NBER profile: David Galenson.(National Bureau of Economic Research )(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... David W. Galenson is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies and a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He received both his undergraduate and his graduate degrees in economics from Harvard University. ...

NBER profile: Roger H. Gordon.(National Bureau of Economic Research )(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Roger H. Gordon is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program in Public Economics and a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His current research interests include positive and normative issues in the...

Frontiers in Health Policy Research.(Conferences)
September 22, 2003... The NBER's seventh annual conference on "Frontiers in Health Policy Research," organized by David M. Cutler, NBER and Harvard University, and Alan M. Garber, NBER and Stanford University; took place on June 6 in Washington, DC. The program was:...

History of Corporate Ownership: The Rise and Fall of Great Business Families.(Conferences)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
September 22, 2003... The NBER held a conference on "The History of Corporate Ownership: The Rise and Fall of Great Business Families" in Alberta, Canada on June 21-22. NBER Research Associate Randall Morck, University of Alberta, organized this program: ...

Taxation and Saving.(Conferences)
September 22, 2003... An NBER Conference on Taxation and Saving, organized by James M. Poterba of NBER and MIT, took place on August 1 and 2. The following papers were discussed: Andrew A. Samwick, NBER and Dartmouth College, "Mutual Fund Choice in 529 Plans:...

Japan conference.(Conferences)
September 22, 2003... The NBER, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Center for International Reseach on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE), and European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) jointly organized a conference on the Japanese economy in Tokyo on...

New directors elected by NBER board.(Bureau News)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... At its annual meeting in September, the NBER's Board of Directors elected five new directors. The newest at-large NBER Board member is Jessica P. Einhorn. She is Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced international Studies at Johns...

Rajan heading to the IMF.(Bureau News)(International Monetary Fund appoints Raghuram G. Rajan)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... NBER Research Associate Raghuram G. Rajan, who directs the NBER's Program on Corporate Finance, has been appointed Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He will succeed another NBER...

Jolls to co-direct NBER's Program on Law and Economics.(Bureau News)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Christine Jolls)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Christine Jolls, an NBER Research Associate and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), is joining her Harvard colleague Steven Shavell as co-director of the NBER's Program of Research on Law and Economics. Jolls holds a B.A. from...

Twenty-fourth NBER Summer Institute held in 2003.(Bureau News)(National Bureau of Economic Research)
September 22, 2003... In the summer of 2003, the NBER held its twenty-fourth 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...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth.(Bureau News)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Cambridge on July 19. Organizers Andrew Abel, NBER and University of Pennsylvania, and Valerie Ramey, NBER and University of California, San Diego, chose these papers for discussion:...

The Chinese Economy.(Bureau News)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy, organized by Shang-Jin Wei, NBER and International Monetary Fund, met in Cambridge on October 3. The participants in this first meeting of the working group included NBER Research Associates and...

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 17.(Bureau Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 17, edited by James M. Poterba, is available from the MIT Press for $25.00 in paperback and $58.00 clothbound. This NBER series presents current NBER research in the areas of taxation and government spending....

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2002.(Bureau Books)(book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2002, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth S. Rogoff, is available from the MIT Press for $32.00 in paperback and $65.00 clothbound. The NBER macroeconomics Annual presents, extends, and applies pioneering work in...

Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan.(Bureau Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan, edited by Magnus Blomstrom, Jennifer Corbett, Fumio Hayashi, and Anil K Kashyap, is available this fall from the University of Chicago Press for $70.00. As the much-lauded "miracle" of Japan's...

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