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NBER: Report on the IO Program
Subject: Report on the IO Program
From: Nancy Rose (nrose@MIT.EDU)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 20:36:55 EST
Marty has invited me to write an article on the IO Program this spring
for publication in the NBER Reporter. This provides an opportunity
to showcase the work of researchers affiliated with the program, and will
form the basis of a presentation on the program that I will make to the
NBER Board of Directors in the fall. I am writing to ask for your
help.
I last wrote on the program in 2001; you can read that report
at:
http://www.nber.org/programs/io/io.html
To ensure that the report is up to date, I would ask those of you with
working papers that you have not yet submitted to the NBER Working
Paper series to do so now. Please don't wait for acceptance at a
journal. If you have research in a department series, or abstracted
on the SSRN, or posted on your website, it's ready for the "yellow
jackets." Remember: you can update working papers when
you later revise them by submitting the new version to the NBER.
This will replace the original version online (though a new hard copy
will not be created).
Working papers are one of the primary metrics of program activity, as
well as an important way for you to show that you are an active member of
the program who values your NBER affiliation. My Reporter article
will focus on research by IO program members--if your research is not in
the WP series, I can't talk about it.
Please send in your existing papers as soon as possible! Continue
to send in research as it reaches WP stage. This is important to
the program and to me. Thanks!
Nominations: In preparation for the spring Board
meeting, program directors will be asked for nominations for new
Faculty Research Fellows (for junior faculty, limited to 3 per year) and
any promotions or new member nominations for Research Associates (for
tenured faculty, limited to 1 or 2 per year).
Let me remind you of the objective: we are looking for researchers
who produce high quality work, but this is a necessary rather than
sufficient condition. Affiliation is not intended to be a
certification of quality; many first-rate IO researchers are not
program members. Rather, the NBER seeks to identify scholars who
will produce applied research of broad interest, put it into the WP
series, be active participants at the program meetings, consider
administering their grant activity through the NBER, and generally become
active members of the program.
You can submit nominations directly to Marty in response to his call
(which will come shortly). But I would appreciate it if you take a
few minutes to think about this, and send your ideas to me as well.
A CV (or link to an on-line vita) and a few words about how you think
these individuals would fit with the IO program objectives would be
helpful. We are very limited in our ability to add new members, but
want to hear from you even if you've nominated someone before who has yet
to become a program member.
I hope to see you at the meetings in Palo Alto in February.
Best wishes,
Nancy
Professor Nancy L. Rose
MIT Department of
Economics
phone:
617-253-8956
50 Memorial Drive,
E52-280B
e-mail:
nrose@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA
02142-1347
fax:
617-253-4096
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