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NBER Books in Progress

Updated January 27, 2010

Preliminary Chapters of Books in Progress and Journals

The following conference volumes are in the preliminary stages of publication. They have not yet been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. Subsequent drafts will be made available to allow greater access to the latest research being conducted at the NBER. These pages will be updated as individual chapters are submitted and revised, and as new titles are added to the list of Books in Progress.




Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24
    Jeffrey R. Brown, editor
    Conference held September 24, 2009

Regulation versus Litigation
    Daniel Kessler and Andrei Shleifer, editors
    Conference held September 11-12, 2009

Commodity Prices and Markets
 East Asia Seminar on Economics Volume 20
    Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, editors
    Conference held June 26-27, 2009

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009
    Lucrezia Reichlin and Kenneth West, organizers
    Conference held June 12-13, 2009

Climate Change: Past and Present
    Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel, editors
    Conference held May 30-31, 2009

Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s
    Douglas Irwin and Richard Sylla, editors
    Conference held May 8-9, 2009

Explorations in the Economics of Aging
    David A. Wise, editor
    Conference held May 2009

Cities and Entrepreneurship
    Edward Glaeser, Stuart Rosenthal, and William Strange, organizers
    Conference held May 1-2, 2009

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 10
    Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors
    Conference held April 14, 2009

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009, Volume 24
    Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, editors
    Conference held April 10-11, 2009

Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors
    Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell, editors
    Conference held April 3, 2009

Economic Aspects of Obesity
    Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan, editors
    Conference held November 10-11, 2008

Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Sokoloff
    Dora L. Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, editors
    Conference held November 7-8, 2008

Europe and the Euro
    Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, editors
    Conference held October 17-18, 2008

American Universities in a Global Market
    Charles T. Clotfelter, editor
    Conference held October 2-4, 2008

Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited
    Phil Levine and David Zimmerman, editors
    Conference held September 26, 2008

The Great Inflation
    Michael D. Bordo and Athanasios Orphanides, editors
    Conference held September 25-27, 2008

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment
    Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors
The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia
 East Asia Seminar on Economics Volume 19
    Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, editors
    Conference held June 19-21, 2008

Topics in Demography and the Economy
    John B. Shoven, editor
    Conference held April 11-12, 2008

Incentive and Distributional Consequences of Tax Expenditures
    James M. Poterba, organizer
    Conference held March 27-29, 2008

International Differences in Entrepreneurship
    Joshua Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, editors
    Conference held February 1-2, 2008

The Economics of Agglomeration
    Edward L. Glaeser, editor
    Conference held November 30 - December 1, 2007

The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America
    Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, editors
    Conference held November 29-30, 2007

Labor in the New Economy
    Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Michael Harper, editors
    Conference held November 16-17, 2008

China's Growing Role in World Trade
    Robert Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, editors
    Conference held August 3-4, 2007

International Dimensions of Monetary Policy
    Jordi Gali and Mark Gertler, editors
    Conference held June 11-13, 2007

Research Findings in the Economics of Aging
    David A. Wise, editor
    Conference held May 10-13, 2007

Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk
    Deborah Lucas, editor
    Conference held February 8-9, 2007

Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options
    Douglas L. Kruse, Richard B. Freeman and Joseph R. Blasi, editors
    Conference held September 2006

Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden
    Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg and Robert Topel, editors
    Conference held September 30-October 1, 2005

Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned?
    Nancy L. Rose, editor
    Conference held September 9-10, 2005

Academic Science and Entrepreneurship
    Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, Scott Stern and Marie Thursby, organizers
    Conference held April 1-2, 2005

 
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