Dear Board Members, Researchers, and Staff Members -
Please join me in congratulating a number of NBER affiliates who
have been recognized by the American Economic Association for their
outstanding research contributions.
Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley, a
research associate in the Public Economics Program, is this year's
winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.Zucman has made path-breaking
contributions in public finance, using rich new datasets to estimate the
importance of both household and corporate tax evasion and their impact
on revenues as well as reported income and wealth inequality.He also has
pioneered the construction of distributional national accounts that
provide critical insights into the share of national income accruing to
households in different strata of the income distribution and on the
changes in the net-of-tax-and-transfer resource distribution over
time.The prize citation
<
https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark/gabriel-zucman>notes
that his findings provide "key insights that inform policy debates on
the practical design of tax systems around the world."
Three of the AEA's four new Distinguished Fellows are also NBER
researchers.Guillermo Calvo of Columbia University, a leading
contributor in macroeconomics, international finance, and the analysis
of sovereign debt, is a research associate in the International Finance
and Macroeconomics (IFM) Program.Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania, who has made pioneering advances in
the study of pensions, Social Security, and financial literacy, is a
research associate in the Economics of Aging and the Labor Studies
Programs. Maurice Obstfeld of the University of California, Berkeley,
whose research laid the foundation for the analysis of many key issues
in open economy macroeconomics, is a research associate in the Economic
Fluctuations and Growth, IFM, and International Trade and Investment
Programs.The fourth new Distinguished Fellow is economic theorist Drew
Fudenberg of MIT.
The AEA press release covering these and other award announcements
may be found here <
https://www.aeaweb.org/news/press-release-awards-2023>.
All best wishes.
Jim Poterba
Received on Tue May 02 2023 - 12:23:18 EDT
