Dear NBER Researchers -
I hope that you will join me in thanking the 124 organizers of the
54 meetings that made up the 2016 Summer Institute, which featured more
than 500 paper presentations. The meetings attracted 2,763 registered
participants from 440 institutions, and roughly one fifth of the
attendees were first-time Summer Institute participants. For those of
you who are already looking forward to the 2017 Summer Institute, the
meeting dates will be:
Week 1: July 10 - 14 Week 2: July 17 - 21 Week 3: July 24 - 28
Detailed schedules for each week will be posted in January.
Videos of three 2016 Summer Institute activities have been posted
on the NBER website:
* "The Dramatic Economics of the U.S. Market for Higher Education,"
Caroline Hoxby's Martin Feldstein Lecture:
http://nber.org/feldstein_lecture_2016/feldsteinlecture_2016.html
* "Matching Markets and Market Design," the 2016 Methods Lectures, which
were presented by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi,
Parag Pathak, and Al Roth:
http://nber.org/econometrics_minicourse_2016/
* "The Economic Consequences of Brexit," a panel discussion with
presentations by Richard Baldwin, Jeffrey Frankel, Anil Kashyap, Helene
Rey, and Thomas Sampson:
http://www.nber.org/themes/brexit/brexitsummary.shtml
I hope that these videos will be of interest to you and your students.
I would also like to report on a number of recent changes in NBER
leadership. This has been an unusually active year for change, and I am
very grateful to the many researchers who have taken on new
responsibilities.
* David Autor has succeeded David Wise as the Director of the NBER's
Disability Research Center (DRC). Nicole Maestas will serve as
Associate Director.
* Jeff Brown has succeeded David Wise as the Director of the NBER's
Retirement Research Center (RRC). James Choi and Courtney Coile will
serve as Associate Directors. Jeff Liebman will serve as a Senior
Advisor to both the DRC and RRC.
* Liran Einav has succeeded Jonathan Levin as the Director of the
Industrial Organization program.
* Ben Handel and Motohiro Yogo have succeeded Ken Froot and Liran Einav
as Co-Directors of the Insurance working group.
* Hilary Hoynes has succeeded Roger Gordon as the organizer of the
Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Symposium.
* Steve Redding has succeeded Rob Feenstra as Director of the
International Trade and Investment program.
* Helene Rey has succeeded Francesco Giavazzi as co-organizer (with Jeff
Frankel) of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics.
* Jonathan Skinner has succeeded David Wise as Director of the Aging
program.
* Shang-Jin Wei has returned as Director of the China working group,
following Hanming Fang's term as interim director.
* Catherine Wolfram has succeeded Don Fullerton as Director of the
Energy and Environmental Economics program.
In addition, Kate Baicker, David Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, Alan Gustman,
and Kevin Milligan have all stepped up as successor principal
investigators on research projects that were formerly led by David Wise.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the NBER. I hope that you
will not hesitate to send me suggestions for enhancing the NBER's role
in conducting and disseminating economic research, and I wish you all
the best for the new academic year.
Jim Poterba
Received on Thu Oct 06 2016 - 12:25:57 EDT
