Recent Blog Posts
-
The Year in Research
Dec 31 20089:13 am EDT -
Mind Your Value Judgements
Dec 19 20087:52 pm EDT -
S.E.C. Short-Sale Ban: Pretty Much Useless
Dec 19 20083:45 pm EDT -
Advice from Japan: Don't Forget TARP 1
Dec 19 20082:31 pm EDT -
Chart of the Day: Money Market Stress Easing
Dec 18 20088:57 pm EDT
Links
- Junk Charts
- Economic Principals
- New York Federal Reserve Research
- Sabernomics
- Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Sabermetric Research
- St. Louis Fed Research
- Bluematter
- NBER Working Papers
- TierneyLab
- Numbers Guy
- Social Science Statistics Blog
- DataPoints: The Dismal Scientist Blog
- Institute for the Study of Labor
- Predictably/Irrational
- Decision Science News
- Research Recap
- Econbrowser
- Center for Economic Policy Research
- Economist's View
- B.I.S. Working Papers
- Geary Behaviour Centre
- Real Time Economics
- Federal Reserve Working Papers
- C.B.O. Director's Blog
- Curious Capitalist
- VoxEU
- Freakonomics
- Philadelphia Fed Research
- O.E.C.D. Factblog
- MoneyScience
- Journal of Interest
- STATS Blog
- Email me
- EconTalk
- EconPapers
- Marginal Revolution
- Tim Harford
- Jeff Frankel
- Institute for the Study of Labor
- Social Science Research Network
Jan 26 2008 12:00am EDT
The Next NBER President
David Warsh at Economic Principals reports that with current NBER prez Martin Feldstein set to step down in June after holding the position for 31 years, the Bureau's board is close to naming his replacement:
The front-runners are still thought to be N. Gregory Mankiw, 49, of Harvard University, and James M. Poterba, 49, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both are long-time affiliates of the NBER, which under Feldstein became the nation's premier venue of applied economic research, with more than 1,000 professors of economics and business publishing under its aegis.The more likely choice is textbook author Mankiw. Poterba remains devoted to research.
If you're reading this blog, you probably already know about Mankiw. Poterba's research deals with how tax policy affects spending decisions. He's currently the director of the public economics research at the NBER.
UPDATE
Mankiw:
I am sure that Marty's successor at the Bureau won't be "textbook author Mankiw." The search committee contacted me some time ago to gauge my interest, and after deliberation, I took my name out of the running.
