NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 2009, July 2010 and July 2011

这项资助为参加NBER暑期研究所的初级教员提供了新的资助。在超过25年的时间里，NBER的暑期研究所为发展新思想和建立合作工作关系提供了一个理想的环境。暑期学院将来自大学、政府和国际组织的其他领域的经济学家和学者聚集在一起，参加几天或几周的研讨会、讲习班、会议和合作研究。暑期学院为期四周，包括至少40个课程，由80多名个人组织和共同组织。有来自300多所大学和非学术机构的1750多名与会者，2008年参加暑期学院的个人中有64%以上不是NBER的附属机构。虽然有许多接近完成的工作报告，但重点放在项目的研讨会方面，在那里提出了新的想法，发展了初步的研究想法，并制定了联合或协调研究工作的计划。正在努力吸收各种各样的新参与者，并向妇女和少数民族伸出援助之手。论文征集已广泛分发，并可在国家经济研究局网站上查阅。2007年，国家经济研究局在暑期学院开设了一个新项目，为期两天的迷你课程，名为“经济学的新动向”。本课程旨在使研究人员了解计量经济学的最新技术。反馈非常积极，国家经济研究局于2008年举办了第二次小型课程，重点关注时间序列。更广泛的影响：NBER暑期研究所对重要的经济政策问题进行了及时和有影响力的研究，这些问题涉及国际金融稳定、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。这些研讨会是经济学研究基础设施的宝贵组成部分，并协助了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 four weeks long, and includes at least 40 sessions organized and co-organized by over 80 individuals. There are more than 1,750 attendees from over 300 universities and non-academic institutions, and in 2008 more than 64% 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. In 2007 NBER inaugurated a new feature at the Summer Institute, a two-day mini-course entitled "What's New in Econoemtrics." The course is intended to update researchers on the latest techniques in econometrics. The feedback was very positive and NBER held a second-mini-course in 2008 focusing on time-series.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.