Pop-Up Journal - Steering Committee
The broader Pop-Up Journal Initiative is guided by an Advisory Board convened by Coefficient Giving and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The NBER leadership team meets regularly with the Advisory Board.
This NBER-hosted Pop-Up Journal, The Returns to R&D is also advised by a dedicated Steering Committee, consisting of researchers who study the economics of R&D and policy experts who apply that research. The Committee members provide advice on the Journal’s direction and scope.
Andrew Fieldhouse is an assistant professor of finance with the Adam C. Sinn ’00 Department of Finance at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. His current research is focused on U.S. housing credit policy and secondary mortgage markets, real estate finance, U.S. business cycles, and R&D, innovation, and growth.
Susan Helper is the Carlton Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on the impacts of organization and supply chain structure on innovation, job quality, and sustainability.
Benjamin Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor in Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Strategy, at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. An NBER affiliate since 2005, his research focuses on the role of innovation and scientific progress in contributing to economic growth.
Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on venture capital, private equity, and the determinants of innovation and productivity growth. He has been an NBER affiliate since 1999.
Olav Sorenson is currently the Joseph Jacobs Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Professor of Strategy and of Sociology, Faculty Director of the Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Chair of the Strategy Area at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. His research pertains to economic geography of entrepreneurship.
Sheila Campbell is an analyst in the Congressional Budget Office’s Microeconomic Studies Division. Before working at the CBO, she was the Chief Technology Officer for Public Diplomacy at the US Department of State. Campbell's recent research has focused on estimating the economic effects of federally funded R&D.