NBER Reporter articles from September 2008

NBER Reporter archives from September 2008

Stepping down as NBER president.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Martin Feldstein)
September 22, 2008... My decision to step down as president of the NBER was a very difficult one. The NBER has been the central focus of my professional life. I have taken great satisfaction from watching the Bureau grow and become the nation's leading economic...

Who pays for obesity?(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2008... The rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past few decades has attracted much interest by economists about its cause, but far less interest in its economic consequences. Of particular importance is the question: who pays for...

Capital flows, taxation, and institutional variation.(Research Summaries)(Company overview)
September 22, 2008... Tariff reductions, falling transport costs, and reduced barriers to international capital flows have created extensive opportunities for multinational firms and investors in increasingly integrated global markets. For example, the outbound...

Labor markets and business cycles.(Research Summaries)
September 22, 2008... Why are workers unemployed sometimes? Why do unemployed workers coexist with job vacancies? How much does the incidence and the duration of unemployment rise during economic downturns, and why? Much of my research during the last five years has...

NBER profile: Jay Bhattacharya.
September 22, 2008... Jay Bhattacharya is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER'S Programs on Health Care and Health Economics and an assistant professor in the Centers for Health Policy and for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR) at Stanford University's...

NBER profile: Mihir D. Desai.(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mihir A. Desai is a Research Associate in the NBER's Public Economics and Corporate Finance Programs, the co-director of the NBER's India Program, and a Professor and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard...

NBER profile: Robert Shimer.(National Bureau of Economic Research )(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... Robert Shimer is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in economics from Yale University in...

Frontiers in Health Policy Research.(Conferences)
September 22, 2008... The NBER'S "Frontiers in Health Policy Research" conference was held on June 11 in Washington, D.C. NBER Reseach Associates David M. Cutler of Harvard University, Alan M. Garber of Stanford University, and Dana Goldman of RAND Corporation,...

TAPES conference on income taxation.(Conferences)(Conference news)
September 22, 2008... The NBER's Trans-Adantic Public Economics Seminar tackled the topic of income taxation this year. The group met on June 12 and 13 at the Paris School of Economics. Conference organizers Roger H. Gordon, University of California, San Diego and...

Nineteenth Annual EASE conference.(Conferences)(Conference news)
September 22, 2008... The NBER, the China Center for Economic Research, the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research; the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Korea Development Institute, the Productivity Commission of Australia, the Singapore...

31st International Seminar on Macroeconomics.(Conferences)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2008... NBER'S 31st International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM) took place on June 20 and 21 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Slovenia is the first of the transition economies to have achieved access to the euro. This was the thirtieth anniversary of the...

NBER Conference in Beijing.(Conferences)(National Bureau of Economic Research)(Brief article)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2008... The tenth annual NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy took place at the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) in Beijing on July 2-4. The conference program was jointly arranged by the National Bureau of Economic Research,...

New directors for public economics program.(NBER News)
September 22, 2008... NBER Research Associates Raj Chetty and Amy N. Finkelstein now co-direct the NBER's Program on Public Economics, replacing James M. Poterba who became NBER's President on July 1. Chetty is a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at the...

Twenty-ninth NBER Summer Institute held in 2008.(NBER News)
September 22, 2008... In the summer of 2008, the NBER held its twenty-ninth annual Summer Institute. Nearly 1800 economists from universities and organizations throughout the world attended. The papers presented at dozens of different sessions during the four-week...

Market Design Working Group.(NBER News)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... The NBER's newest Working Group, focusing on Market Design, was established this fall. NBER Research Associate Susan Athey of Harvard University and NBER Faculty Research Fellow Parag Pathak of MIT will co-direct the group. Over the past...

Japan project meets.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2008... The NBER together with the Center on the Japanese Economy and Business, The Center for Advanced Research in Finance, the European Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Australia-Japan Research Centre held a project meeting on the Japanese...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth research meeting.(Program and Working Group Meetings)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2008... The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth held its annual summer research meeting in Cambridge on July 12. Andrew B. Abel, Wharton School and NBER, and Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:...

Asset Prices and Monetary Policy.(Bureau Books)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2008... Asset Prices and Monetary Policy, edited by John Y. Campbell, is available from the University of Chicago Press This NBER Conference Report costs $85.00. Economic growth, low inflation, and financial stability are among the most important...

The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches.(Bureau Books)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2008... The Analysis of Firms and Employees, an NBER Conference Report edited by Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till yvon Wachter, will be available in October from the University of Chicago Press. The price of the...