Dear NBER Board Members, Researchers, and Staff Members -
I hope that you will join me in congratulating four NBER researchers who
today were honored by the American Economic Association.
Emi Nakamura of the University of California-Berkeley has been named
this year's winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. Emi has made
important contributions in macroeconomics and monetary economics. Her
research, often in collaboration with Jón Steinsson, ranges widely in
empirical macroeconomics, and includes studies of inflation and price
dynamics, the mechanisms by which monetary policy affects real activity,
the impact of fiscal stimulus, and the measurement of price indices.
The prize citation notes that her work "is notable for its creativity in
suggesting new sources of data to address long-standing questions in
macroeconomics." Nakamura is a co-director of the NBER's Monetary
Economics Program, and a Research Associate in three NBER programs:
Economic Fluctuations and Growth, International Finance and
Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics. The full citation for the medal
may be found here:
https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark/emi-nakamura
Three of the AEA's four new Distinguished Fellows also have current NBER
ties. Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at
Harvard University, is a Research Associate in the Corporate Finance and
Law and Economics programs. Edward Lazear, the Davies Family Professor
of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, and the
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
is a Research Associate in the Aging, Education, and Labor Studies
programs. Ariel Pakes, the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard
University, is a Research Associate in the Industrial Organization and
Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship programs.
The AEA press release covering all of the award announcements may be
found here:
https://www.aeaweb.org/news/press-release-awards-2019
All best wishes.
Jim Poterba
Received on Wed May 01 2019 - 13:06:38 EDT
