NBER Reporter articles from September 2005

NBER Reporter archives from September 2005

The Development of the American Economy.(Program Report)
September 22, 2005... The research interests of Development of the American Economy (DAE) program members are expansive. Temporally, their work has spanned virtually all of recorded history; geographically, it has traversed much of the globe; by economic sub-field,...

Impatience and savings.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2005... When making decisions with immediate consequences, economic actors typically display a high degree of impatience. Consumers choose immediate pleasures instead of waiting a few days for much larger rewards. Consumers want "instant...

Bank regulation and supervision.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2005... A large body of research suggests that banks matter for human welfare. Most noticeably, banks matter when they fail. Indeed, the fiscal costs of banking crises in developing countries since 1980 have exceeded $1 trillion, and some estimates put...

Corporate governance and financial globalization.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2005... In his recent book, Thomas L. Friedman makes the case that globalization leads to a flat world. (1) By that, he means that it removes obstacles that, in the past, would have prevented firms and individuals from competing with each other across...

NBER profile: David I. Laibson.
September 22, 2005... David I. Laibson is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Aging, Economic Fluctuations, and Asset Pricing. He is also a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Laibson received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard in 1988, his...

NBER profile: Ross Levine.
September 22, 2005... Ross Levine is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics and the Harrison S. Kravis University Professor and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Also at Brown, Levine is the Paul Dupee...

Conferences.
September 22, 2005... Economic Regulation NBER Research Associate Nancy L. Rose of MIT organized a conference on Economic Regulation that took place on September 9 and 10 m Cambridge. The following papers were discussed: Dennis Carlton, University of...

Bernanke: long-time NBER researcher.(Bureau News)(Ben S. Bernanke )(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... Former NBER Research Associate Ben S. Bernanke has been nominated by President George W. Bush to become the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, If confirmed, he will replace Chairman Alan Greenspan when his term expires in...

Two NBER research associates to join CEA.(Bureau News)
September 22, 2005... NBER Research Associates Katherine Baicker and Matthew J. Slaughter will join the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) if confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Baicker, an Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of...

Nakahara Prize goes to Hoshi.(Bureau News)(Takeo Hoshi)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... Takeo Hoshi, an NBER Research Associate from the University of California, San Diego, won the Japan Economic Association's 2005 Nakahara Prize. The prize is awarded every year to honor one outstanding Japanese economist under the age of 45. The...

Twenty-sixth NBER Summer Institute held in 2005.(National Bureau of Economic Research)
September 22, 2005... In the summer of 2005, the NBER held its twenty-sixth 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...

Japan project meets.(Bureau News)
September 22, 2005... The NBER together with the Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies held a project meeting on the Japanese economy in Tokyo on September 15-16. The co-chairs of the meeting were:...

The Chinese Economy.(Bureau News)
September 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy, organized by Shang-Jin Wei, NBER, University of Maryland, and International Monetary Fund, met in Cambridge on September 30. This Working Group provides a forum for discussing recent research...

Entrepreneurship Working Group.
September 22, 2005... The NBER's Entrepreneurship Working Group met in Cambridge on October 7. NBER Research Associate Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School. organized the meeting, at which the following papers were discussed: Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth...

Market Microstructure meeting.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... The NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure, directed by Research Associate Bruce Lehmann of University of California, San Diego, met on October 7 m Cambridge. The meeting was organized by Lehmann; Duane Seppi of Carnegie Mellon...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth research meeting.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... NBER Research Associates Susanto Basu of Boston College and Miles S. Kimball of the University of Michigan organized the fall research meeting of NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth. It took place on October 21 at the Federal...

International Finance and Macroeconomics.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on October 21. NBER Research Associates Charles M. Engel, University of Wisconsin, and Linda Tesar, University of Michigan, organized this program: Gita...

Public Economics Program meeting.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005... The NBER's Public Economics Program met in Cambridge on October 27-28. NBER Faculty Research Fellow Raj Chetty and NBER Research Associate Emmanuel Saez. both of the University of California. Berkeley, organized the program. These papers were...

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 19.(Bureau Books)
September 22, 2005... Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 19, edited by James M. Poterba, will be available this fall from the MIT Press for $25.00 in paperback and $58.00 clothbound. Volume 19 of this NBER series continues the tradition of addressing issues that are...

Measuring Capital in the New Economy.(Bureau Books)
September 22, 2005... Measuring Capital in the New Economy, edited by Carol Corrado, John C. Haltiwanger, and Daniel E. Sichel, is available now from the University of Chicago Press for $99. In this NBER Study of Income and Wealth, the contributors--including...

A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers.(Bureau Books)
September 22, 2005... A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, edited by Randall K. Morck, will be available from the University of Chicago Press in November 2005. This NBER Conference volume costs $90. ...

Current working papers.(National Bureau of Economic Research)
September 22, 2005... NBER Working Papers On-Line 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...