Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy for 2000-2001

罗彻斯特公共政策会议旨在促进学术界和各种决策组织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对政策问题形成的制约作用，而政府里的经济学家往往不太了解当前的研究发展及其影响。该系列会议的主要目标是：（i）促进经济科学理论和实证研究的政策相关性;（ii）鼓励采用不同方法的分析师交流科学思想;（iii）使学术经济学家更好地了解从业者的环境。该提案将指出，各次会议过去在这方面沿着卓有成效，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今后继续卓有成效。会议每半年在罗切斯特大学和卡内基梅隆大学举行。每次会议邀请约50名与会者以及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参加，并特别注意邀请有前途的年轻学者参加。这些文件是正式讨论，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.