Subject: Re: DAE
From: Barry Eichengreen (eichengr@econ.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 00:36:52 EDT
Dear Claudia,
Below are a few short sentences on my current activities.
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Claudia Goldin wrote:
> To DAE Family Members:
>
> Each year I have a meeting with Martin Feldstein to keep him current on
> DAE member activities. If you find the time, please give me a sentence or
> two concerning the following (filling in the blanks below would be much
> appreciated):
>
> 1. What are you currently working on (just a few sentences will do since
> I know of many of your projects)?
>
> I am continuing to work with Michael Bordo on the history of financial
crises. In addition, I am trying to get a new project off the ground on
the topic of financial structure and economic development.
>
>
> 2. What current grants do you have or have applied for (list which are
> through the NBER and which are through your home institution)?
>
>There is a brand new Bordo-Eichengreen NSF grant, half through the Bureau
and half through Berkeley, on the history of financial crises.
>
>
> 3. What academic/research relationships do you have with others/other
> groups in the NBER outside of the DAE (e.g., conferences organized or
> attended, research projects)?
I am just back from ISOM in Dulbin (coorganized by NBER), and I continue
to collaborate with NBER international macro researchers such as Jeff
Frankel and Andy Rose.
>
>
>
>
> 4. Anything else you want me to know about? In particular, are there
> *untenured* members of our profession you want to recommend to
> become FRF's?
>
> I'd like to put an early word in for Kris Mitchener, joining Bill
Sundstrom and Alex Field as an assistant professor at Santa Clara. You
may have seen Kris's coauthored piece with Ian McLean in the JEH 1998. He
has other interesting work on American economic growth and on the Great
Depression in train, and would be an enthusiastic and productive FRF.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to seeing all of you at the 2001 NBER-DAE Summer
> Institute. The program put together by Jeremy, Bill, and Peter is
> spectacular.
>
>
> With regards,
>
>
> Claudia
>
>
