Four Semiannual Carnegie-Rochester Conferences on Public Policy: University of Rochester, April l989 - Carnegie- Mellon, November 1989

卡内基-罗切斯特公共政策会议旨在促进学术界和政策制定机构的经济学家对重大政策问题的研究和讨论。大学里的经济学家往往不熟悉制度安排在政策问题和政策形成中的约束作用，政府里的经济学家往往不太了解当前的研究及其影响。会议的一个中心目的是提供这些群体之间的相互作用，以便改进对政策问题和政策的经济分析。会议的具体目标是发展最近的研究对政策的影响；将持有不同方法或结论的经济学家聚集在一起，以缩小差异；并揭示制定政策的机构所使用的分析。会议每半年在卡内基-梅隆大学和罗切斯特大学举行一次。每次会议邀请约50名与会者以及来自主办机构的教师和研究生参加。来自美国和外国中央银行以及美国和国际机构的参与者定期出席会议。特别注意有前途的年轻学者的参与。对文件和正式讨论进行编辑和准备以供出版，以扩大会议的影响。该系列会议以往的高质量会议表明，会议组织者有能力完成该项目的目标。

The Carnegie-Rochester Conferences on Public Policy are designed to foster research and discussion of major policy issues by economists from academia and policy-making institutions. Economists in universities are often unfamiliar with the constraining effect of institutional arrangements in the shaping of policy issues and policies and economists in government are often less aware of current research and its implications. A central purpose of the conference is to provide the interaction between these groups in order to improve the economic analysis of policy issues and policy. The specific aims of the conference are to develop the implications of recent research for policy; bring together economists with different approaches or conclusions to narrow the differences; and to uncover the analysis used by institutions that set policies. The conferences are held semi-annually at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Rochester. About 50 participants plus faculty and graduate students from the host institutions are invited to each conference. Participants from U.S. and foreign central banks and U.S. and international agencies attend regularly. Special care is taken to involve promising younger scholars. The papers and formal discussions are edited and prepared for publication to broaden the impact of the conference. The high quality of past meetings in this conference series show that the conference organizers have the ability to accomplish the goals of this project.