NBER Reporter

The NBER's Economics of Education Program has just celebrated its first anniversary, having started officially in September 2001....

Many economists believe that new goods are at the heart of economic progress, and that innovative goods are...

The field of monetary policy continuously provides new challenges for economic research. For instance, the experience of Japan...

Many OECD economies have experienced sharp increases in wage and income inequality over the past several decades. In...

Economists have long viewed the patent system as a crucial lever with which policymakers can affect the speed...

Daron Acemoglu is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs in Labor Studies and Economic Fluctuations and Growth...

Josh Lerner is an NBER Research Associate in the Corporate Finance Program and the Productivity Program. In addition,...

Frank R. Lichtenberg is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Productivity and Program on Health Care....

The NBER, CEPR, CIRJE, and EIJS jointly organized a conference on the Japanese economy in Tokyo on September...

The NBER's Seventeenth Annual Conference on Tax Policy and the Economy, organized by James M. Poterba of NBER...

The NBER and ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico jointly organized the 2002 Inter-American Seminar on Economics, which took place...

The NBER held a conference on "Organizational Economics" in Cambridge on November 22-23. NBER Research Associate Robert Gibbons,...

An NBER-Universities Research Conference on the topic "Economic Analysis of Government Expenditure Programs" took place in Cambridge on...

Mark B. McClellan, a former NBER Research Associate and professor of economics at Stanford University; has been confirmed...

Mervyn A. King, who had been an NBER Research Associate since 1978 in the Programs in Public Economics,...

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Chicago on October 18. Organizers Daron Acemoglu, NBER...

The NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics met in Cambridge on October 18. Organizers Charles M. Engel,...

The NBER's Program on Labor Studies met in Cambridge on October 18. Program Director Richard B. Freeman of...

The NBER's Working Group on International Trade and Organizations met in Cambridge on October 26. The group's director,...

The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on November 1. Alan M. Garber, NBER and Stanford...