Four NBER Researchers Go on Leaves to CEA, SEC

Three NBER researchers have joined the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) as senior economists, and a fourth has been appointed the director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All have taken leave from the NBER for the duration of their public service.

Gopi Shah Goda of Stanford University, an affiliate of the Economics of Aging Program, Susan Helper of Case Western Reserve University, a Productivity Program affiliate, and Damon Jones of the University of Chicago, who is affiliated with the Economics of Aging and Public Economics programs, will provide economic analysis on a range of issues that come before the CEA.

Haoxiang Zhu of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will direct the SEC division that is responsible for overseeing the efficient and fair operation of capital markets.