Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers

该奖项向美国国家科学基金会女性科学家和工程师学院奖项目下的克里斯蒂娜·罗默博士提供支持。该项目的目标是表彰美国最杰出和最有前途的女科学家和工程师，在研究和教学的学术生涯中，留住她们，并促进她们职业生涯的进一步发展。这一奖项将使研究人员能够继续她的研究兴趣，专注于第二次世界大战前时期商业周期的性质和原因，希望更多地了解现代经济是如何运行的，以及未来可以做些什么来防止或减轻商业周期。将开展三个项目。第一部分将分析宏观经济政策在大萧条期间稳定实际产出的作用。第二个问题将涉及考察战后时代的货币和财政政策是否总体上倾向于抵消或加剧实际产出的变动。第三个项目将扩展PI之前在历史宏观经济数据方面的工作。她之前的工作表明，由于传统的系列数据存在严重缺陷，因此寻找新的、更好的战前数据来源非常重要。

This award provides support to Dr. Christina Romer under the National Science Foundation's Faculty Awards for Women Scientists and Engineers Program. The objectives of this program are to recognize the nation's most outstanding and promising women scientists and engineers in academic careers in research and teaching, to retain them in academia, and to facilitate the further development of their careers. This award will allow the investigator to pursue her research interests which focuses on the nature and causes of business cycles in the period before World War II, in the hopes of learning more about how the modern economy operates and about what can be done to prevent or mitigate business cycles in the future. Three projects will be undertaken. The first will analyze the role of macroeconomic policy stabilization of real output during the Great Depression. The second will involve examining whether monetary and fiscal policies in the post war era have tended to in general to counteract or exacerbate movements in real output. The third project will extend the PI's previous work on historical macroeconomic data. Her previous work has shown that since the conventional series is seriously flawed, it is important to look for new and better sources of prewar data.