Dear NBER Researchers -
I enjoyed seeing many of you at the 2011 NBER Summer Institute, which
drew more than 2100 participants to fifty-two distinct meetings. I am
very grateful to everyone who helped to organize these meetings, and to
Rob Shannon and the staff of the NBER conference department for their
superb logistical support. Papers from the various sessions can be
found on the NBER website at
http://www.nber.org/confer/2011/SI2011/SI2011.html
The video and slides from Larry Christiano and Jesus
Fernandez-Villaverde's lectures on "Computational Methods and
Macroeconomic Applications" have just been posted at
http://www.nber.org/econometrics_minicourse_2011/
For those of you doing some long-term planning, the 2012 Summer
Institute will run from July 9 - August 3, 2012.
Let me call your attention to several changes in various NBER activities:
* We have introduced a version of the NBER website that is
optimized for smartphones and other mobile devices:
m.nber.org
If you visit this site and have feedback or suggestions for
improvements, please contact Dan Feenberg at feenberg_at_nber.org.
* To recognize the frequent collaboration between the Productivity
Program and the Innovation Policy and Entrepreneurship Working Groups,
the Productivity Program has been renamed the "Productivity, Innovation,
and Entrepreneurship Program."
* The NBER has recently begun to assist researchers in registering
randomized trials at clinicaltrials.gov. Some journals, particularly in
medicine, will not publish the findings from such trials unless they
have been registered in advance. If you would like assistance in this
regard, please contact Alterra Milone at alterra_at_nber.org.
* Michael Grossman is the new director of the NBER's New York
office. He succeeds Bob Lipsey, who passed away in August.
* We are switching the default option on the working paper
submission page to "no paper copies sent to authors." Roughly half of
the authors who submit working papers currently decline to receive any
printed copies of their paper. Of course, even with the new default,
any author who would like to receive paper copies can select that option.
Thank you, as always, for your support of the NBER's research mission.
All best wishes for the new semester.
Jim Poterba
Received on Mon Sep 12 2011 - 08:55:05 EDT
