Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy for 2000-2001

卡内基-罗切斯特公共政策会议旨在促进学术界和各种政策制定组织的经济学家对重大政策问题的研究和讨论。大学的经济学家通常不熟悉制度安排在政策问题形成中的约束作用，而政府的经济学家通常不太了解当前的研究进展及其影响。该系列会议的主要目标是(1)促进经济科学理论和实证研究的政策相关性，(2)鼓励采用不同方法的分析师交流科学思想，(3)促使学院派经济学家对从业人员的环境有更深入的了解。该建议将争辩说，这些会议在过去的这些方面取得了杰出的成果，并将概述最近对程序所作的调整，这些调整的目的是确保这些会议在今后继续取得成果。会议每半年在罗切斯特大学和卡耐基梅隆大学举行一次。每次会议邀请约50名与会者加上主办机构的教师和研究生。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参加，并特别注意有前途的年轻学者的参与。这些论文是正式的讨论，经过编辑和出版，以扩大会议的影响。

The Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy is designed to foster research and discussion of major policy issues by economists from academia and various policymaking organizations. Economists in universities are often unfamiliar with the constraining effect of institutional arrangements in the shaping of policy issues whereas economists in government are often less aware of current research developments and their implications. The principal objectives of the conference series are (i) to stimulate policy relevance in theoretical and empirical research in economic sciences, (ii) to encourage interchange of scientific ideas among analysts with different approaches, and (iii) to generate greater understanding by academic economists of practitioners' environments. The proposal will argue that the conferences have been outstandingly productive along these lines in the past and it will outline recent adjustments in procedures that have been designed to assure that they will continue to be productive in the future. The conferences are held semi-annually at the University of Rochester and Carnegie Mellon University. About 50 participants plus faculty and graduate students from the host institution are invited to each conference. Participants from U.S. and foreign central banks and U.S. and international agencies attend regularly, and special care is taken to involve promising young scholars. The papers are formal discussions and are edited and published so as to broaden the impact of the conference.