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NBER: Request for information for the NBER IO program
Request for information for the NBER IO program
It was great to see so many of you at the Summer Institute this
year. I am writing on a number of issues of importance to the NBER
IO program. Please accept my apologies for the length of this
email, but I hope you'll stay with it to the end, as I need your
input/information.
Format changes: The IO SI meetings saw record
attendance and were generally well-received; thanks especially to
the IO-side organizers (Glenn Ellison, Judy Chevalier, and Ariel
Pakes) and to the Digitization organizers who put together a great
set of papers for the two days. Thanks also to those who have
replied to the request for feedback on the format changes for Summer
Institute. If you haven't replied (which I would like, whether or
not you attended the IO SI), please do so now:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dC1zLUR4cHJIcThLMWZ3VjNFVmNjYlE6MQ
Reporter article/working paper submissions:
I've been tasked with writing an article on the I.O. program and
its activities for an upcoming issue of the NBER Reporter. This is
a chance to showcase the activity and research contributions of the
IO program and its members, and will focus on the work that has
appeared in the NBER IO Working Paper series since the last Reporter
article in 2006.
If your work is not in the WP series, I can't write
about it. In my initial download of IO papers to prepare
for writing this article, I've discovered that some of you have
well-known papers that were never submitted to the WP series. In
some cases, that may be appropriate-- the NBER WP series is
focused on policy-relevant research, so it's not an ideal forum
for most pure methodology papers (either theory or econometric).
But in other cases, the missing papers include some of the
strongest applied IO work done by an NBER IO program member. Dissemination
of work through the WP series, along with access to the NBER
grants administration process, are the two key benefits of NBER
affiliation. If these aren't creating value for you, we should
talk.
If you have applied IO research papers that you are
circulating/presenting in seminars that are not in the WP
series, PLEASE submit them to the WP series as soon as
possible. I'd include in this papers that you've
presented at an NBER program meeting. NBER WPs are not meant as
an archive for "immediately before publication" versions of
papers (though you can update working papers at any time after
submission to the series to have the NBER download version reflect
your latest revision). They are meant to disseminate research
earlier (years?) before that stage. It is good for the IO
program, good for the NBER, and I think generally good for you to
get your work into the WPs well before the final journal
acceptance. If you're in doubt, I'd be happy to give you names of
other researchers who can discuss the benefits they've seen from
WP distribution of their work.
Please send a short paragraph or two highlighting your
research activities over the past 5 years (particularly
if you haven't put out much of this in recent
working papers, but some of it will be out by the fall).
If your work was recently written up for another NBER program
Reporter article, please let me know so I can cross-reference or
avoid duplicating the discussion.
Sponsored Research/Grants: A user-friendly and
supportive grants administration facility is one of the strengths of
the NBER. The IO program has been slowly increasing its
representation among NBER-administered research grants, which is
terrific for the program and I hope for the relevant researchers.
For those of you who have applied and/or received grants
administered through the NBER, thanks! I would be very happy to
talk with any of you who have yet to work with the NBER team, or to
put you in touch with program members who have active grants to hear
about their experiences.
I hope you enjoy the remainder of your summer.
Best regards,
Nancy Rose
Received on Thu Aug 02 2012 - 13:13:06 EDT
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