NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2002-2003, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

自1986年成立以来，国家经济研究局宏观经济学年会的主要目标一直是鼓励有前途的年轻研究人员撰写以经验为导向的论文，以引出和测试新理论的经验含义，以及使用相关理论分析当前感兴趣的经验或政策问题的论文。 在宏观经济学领域内也有一种倾向，即分成不同的思想流派，这些流派之间很少交流。 《宏观经济学年鉴》的另一个目标是为不同观点的宏观经济学家提供一个机会，使他们能够集中注意解决问题的不同方法，不是抽象的，而是联系具体的经验问题。 该系列会议将继续鼓励成熟和有前途的年轻经济学家撰写以经验为导向的论文。此外，该系列将继续作为来自不同宏观经济学流派的经济学家之间交流的论坛。年度会议卷已成为广泛引用和有影响力的研究参考。

Since its inception in 1986, the main goal of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual Conference has been to encourage promising and established young researchers to write empirically oriented papers that draw out and test the empirical implications of new theories as well as papers that use relevant theory to analyze empirical or policy issues of current interest. There has also been a tendency within the field of macroeconomics to split into different schools of thought with little communication between these schools. Another goal of the Macroeconomics Annual has been to provide an opportunity for macroeconomists within different points of view to focus on different approaches to problems, not in the abstract, but in relation to specific empirical issues. The conference series will continue to encourage the writing of empirically oriented papers by both established and promising young economists. In addition, the series will continue to serve as a forum for communication among economists from the different schools of macroeconomics. The annual conference volume has become a widely cited and influential research reference.