Hi everyone,
You should have all received this morning the annual e-mail from
Denis Healy notifying you that the time window for nominating new
individuals for NBER membership is now open.
I want to try to avoid individuals feeling a need to be "strategic"
about the nominating process. We (I and the NBER IO steering
committee) are aiming to appoint individuals who are outstanding IO
economists, and we will use people's CVs and web pages as the primary
way of assessing this. There is no need to write detailed nomination
statements, nor is it advantageous to be nominated by more than one
person. In other words, putting in someone's name and institution
would almost always suffice. The review of the nominated candidates
does not take into account the nomination statement, who nominated a
given individual, or how many nominations a given individual
received. Put differently, the goal of the nomination process is just
to get a set of names/CVs in front of the committee for consideration.
Let me also take this opportunity to point out that almost every year
there are more qualified nominations than the number of new members
we are allowed to add to the IO program, so nominating the same
people (if unsuccessful) year after year is sensible, and generally encouraged.
Cheers,
Liran
Received on Tue Jan 18 2022 - 13:04:20 EST
