NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA ( 2006-2008)

这笔赠款为初级教员参加NBER暑期学院提供了新的资金。二十五年来，NBER的暑期学院为开发新想法和建立协作工作关系提供了理想的环境。夏令营将来自大学、政府和国际组织的经济学家和其他领域的学者聚集在一起，进行为期几天或几周的研讨会、研讨会、会议和合作研究。夏令营为期五到六周，包括由70多个人组织和共同组织的至少40个会议。有来自400多所大学和非学术机构的1200多名参与者，2005年，参加夏季学院的人中有60%以上不是NBER的附属机构。虽然有许多工作即将完成的介绍，但重点放在方案的研讨会方面，在那里提出新的想法，开发初步的研究想法，并制定联合或协调研究工作的计划。努力吸纳各种各样的新参与者，并接触妇女和少数群体。征集论文的呼吁被广泛传播，并可在NBER网站上找到。更广泛的影响：NBER夏季学院对与国际金融稳定、经济生产力和技术、环境法规、社会保障政策和教育政策等主题相关的重要经济政策问题进行及时和有影响力的研究。这些研讨会是经济学研究基础设施中非常宝贵的一部分，有助于大量经济学家的研究。

This grant provides renewed funding for the participation of junior faculty in the NBER Summer Institute. For more than twenty five years, NBER's Summer Institute has offered an ideal environment for developing new ideas and forging collaborative work relationships. Summer Institute brings together economists and scholars in other fields from universities, government, and international organizations for a few days or a few weeks of seminars, workshops, conferences, and cooperative research.The Summer Institute is five to six weeks long, and includes at least 40 sessions organized and co-organized by over 70 individuals. There are more than 1,200 attendees from over 400 universities and non-academic institutions, and in 2005 more than 60% of the individuals who attended Summer Institute were not NBER affiliates. While there are many presentations of work nearing completion, emphasis is placed on the workshop aspects of the program where new ideas are raised, preliminary research ideas are developed, and plans for joint or coordinated research efforts are established. Efforts are made to include a wide variety of new participants, and to reach out to women and minorities. Calls for papers are circulated widely and are available on the NBER website. Broader Impacts: The NBER Summer Institutes generate timely and influential research on important economic policy questions related to such topics as international financial stability, economic productivity and technology, enviornmental regulations, social security policy, and educational policies. The workshops are an invaluable part of the research infrastructure in ecobnomics and assist the research of a large number of economists.