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NBER Reporter archives from September 2004
Corporate finance.(Program Report)
September 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Corporate Finance has a strong and dedicated core group and, in its brief existence (since 1991), has initiated some very promising avenues of research. Narrowly interpreted, corporate finance is the study of the...
Labor market intermediation: what it is, why it is growing, and where it is going.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2004... Two developments--one institutional, one technological--are changing how employers identify, evaluate, and select job candidates. The institutional change is the rapid diffusion of "non-standard" work relationships in the United States and the...
New perspectives on international debt and exchange rates.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2004... My research over the past couple of years has focused on rethinking international debt and exchange rates, particularly, but not exclusively, for developing countries.
A Revised History of Exchange Rates
The choice of exchange rate...
Macroeconomic determinants of international trade.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2004... Introduction
Much research on international trade patterns focuses on deep primitive causes of trade, such as differences in national factor endowments, preferences, or technologies. In much of my recent research in the area, I examine...
Capital gains taxes and equity prices.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2004... The extent to which individual shareholders' taxes affect equity, prices is central to valuation and tax policy. Historically, the dividend tax has attracted more scholarly, attention than the capital gains tax. Even today, the debate between...
NBER profile: David Autor.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... David Autor is a Faculty, Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on Labor Studies and Education. He is also the Pentti J.K. Kouri Associate Professor of Economics at MIT. Autor is currently engaged in two research programs, one on the growth of...
NBER profile: Kenneth S. Rogoff.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Kenneth S. Rogoff is an NBER Research Associate in the Programs on International Finance and Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Economic Fluctuations and Growth. He is also the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of...
NBER profile: Douglas A. Shackelford.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Douglas A. Shackelford is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program in Public Economics. He is also the Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation and the Senior Associate Dean of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler...
International seminar on macroeconomics.(Conferences)
September 22, 2004... The NBER's 27th Annual International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM), organized by Richard H. Clarida, NBER and Columbia University, and Francesco Giavazzi, NBER and Bocconi University, was held on June 18-19 at the University of Iceland....
Frontiers in health policy research.(Conferences)
September 22, 2004... The NBER's eighth 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 24 in Washington, DC. The program was:...
East Asian seminar on economics focuses on monetary policy.(Conferences)
September 22, 2004... Taiwan has experienced deflation since 1999, but prices gradually stabilized and began increasing slowly in 2004. During the period of deflation, the price structure changed. The GDP price deflator (PGDP) decreased, as did the CPI by a smaller...
NBER conference in Beijing.(Conferences)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... The sixth 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 July 1-3. When...
The aftermart of debt restructuring and default.(Conferences)
September 22, 2004... An NBER Inter-American Seminar on Economics, focusing on the aftermath of debt restructuring and default, took place in Cambridge on July 12. Research Associates Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles, and Carmen M. Reinhart,...
Corruption and reform.(Conferences)
September 22, 2004... An NBER conference on "Corruption and Reform" organized by Research Associates Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, both of Harvard University, took place in Salem, Massachusetts on July 30 and 31. The program was:
Matthew Gentzkow, Harvard...
Khan is 2004/5 Griliches fellow.(Bureau News)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... B. Zorina Khan, an NBER Faculty, Research Fellow in the Productivity Program and a member of the economics faculty, at Bowdoin, has been selected to receive the Zvi Griliches Fellowship at the NBER for the academic year 2004/5. This fellowship,...
Twenty-fifth NBER Summer Institute held in 2004.(Bureau News)(National Bureau of Economic Research )
September 22, 2004... In the summer of 2004, the NBER held its twenty-fifth annual Summer Institute. More than 1300 economists from universities and organizations throughout the world attended. The papers presented at dozens of different sessions during the...
Economic fluctuations and growth.(Conferences)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Cambridge on July 1, NBER Research Associates Mark Bils of the University of Rochester and Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan, organized this program:
David S. Johnson,...
Market microstructure.(Conferences)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... The NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure, directed by Research Associate Bruce Lehmann of University of California, San Diego, met on July 30 in Los Angeles. The meeting was organized by Lehmann; Matthew Spiegel, Yale School of...
NBER working papers on-line.(Current Working Papers)(National Bureau of Economic Research )
September 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...