Brookings Panel On Economic Activity 2000-2001 in Washington, DC

布鲁金斯学会经济活动委员会旨在将宏观经济研究的重点放在美国和世界经济面临的问题上，以及对解决这些问题至关重要的经济关系上。该小组致力于通过产生、讨论和发表关于广泛的应用宏观经济主题的高质量、相关和及时的研究来实现这一目的。该小组对相关性的概念很宽泛。它包括探索经济的基本特征以及它如何对政策作出反应的研究，以及旨在澄清和量化经济关系的更多应用研究。它关注的是广泛影响经济表现的问题，包括全球相互依存和贸易政策等领域，以及与长期增长、商业周期和经济稳定有关的各种问题。专家小组致力于产生高质量的研究，其运作方法的设计首先考虑到这一目标。它的研究发表在《布鲁金斯学会经济活动论文》(Brookings Papers On Economic Activity)上，与传统期刊相比，它经历了更密集的审查、批评、讨论和编辑过程。在这一过程中，在选择专题和作者时，专家小组主任(首席调查员)得到专家小组顾问的协助，专家小组顾问是具有广泛研究兴趣、专业观点和方法偏好的专家，最积极的是得到由其中九名顾问组成的新成立的咨询小组的协助。主任们对吸收妇女、少数群体和年轻研究人员参与特别感兴趣，他们和咨询小组在挑选研究论文的作者和讨论者时考虑到了这一点。

9986335PerryThe Brookings Panel on Economic Activity aims to focus macroeconomic research on problems confronting the U.S. and world economy and on the economic relationships that are crucial to addressing such problems. The Panel strives to fulfill this purpose by generating, discussing, and publishing high quality, relevant, and timely research on a broad range of applied macroeconomic topics. The Panel's notion of relevance is broad. It includes research to explore fundamental characteristics of the economy and how it responds to policy, as well as more applied research aimed at clarifying and quantifying economic relations. It is concerned with issues affecting economic performance broadly, including areas such as global interdependence and trade policy, as well as the full range of issues associated with long run growth, business cycles, and economic stabilization. The Panel is committed to producing quality research, and its method of operation is designed with that goal foremost in mind. Its research, published in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, undergoes a much more intensive process of review, criticism, discussion and editing than conventional journals can provide. In this process, and in the selection of topics and authors, the directors of the Panel (principal investigators) are aided by the Panel advisers-- experts spanning a broad range of research interests, professional views and methodological preferences-- and, most actively, by a newly formed Advisory Group consisting of nine of those advisers. The directors are especially interested in involving women, minorities and younger researchers and they and the Advisory Group have this in mind in selecting authors and discussants for the research papers.