Conferences on Economic Activity

该奖项为布鲁金斯经济活动会议和随之而来的会议卷《布鲁金斯经济活动论文》提供了部分资金。这次会议旨在让经济科学家齐聚一堂，专注于对经济政策问题的科学分析。这些问题包括不断变化的劳动力市场、金融机构、全球经济政策、医疗保健、数据改善、不平等和长期经济增长。在会议上提交的论文可在网上向公众查阅。他们进行实证分析，采用广泛的研究方法，重点关注影响美国经济的现实世界问题，包括美国和国外的增长和生产率的未来，劳动力市场面临的挑战，不断改善的经济数据，以及对经济政策对贸易、金融市场、健康、税收、能源和监管影响的科学检验。该奖项通过提高用于决策的经济学的质量来促进国家利益，并为有助于美国经济竞争力的政策提供更好的证据。BPEA会议的特点是组织者、研究人员、讨论者和与会者之间的高度互动。每一位受邀出席的研究人员都经历了三轮密集的回顾、批评、讨论和编辑过程。BPEA鼓励科学家将最好的专业知识应用于紧迫的政策问题，并利用政策问题为该专业指明新科学的方向。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides partial funding for the Brookings Conference on Economic Activity and the accompanying conference volume, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. The conference is designed to bring together economic scientists to focus on the scientific analysis of economic policy issues. These issues include the changing labor market, financial institutions, global economic policy, heath care, data improvement, inequality, and long run economic growth. The papers presented at the conference are available online to the public. They develop empirical analysis, employ a wide range of research methods, and focus on real world problems that affect the US economy, including the future of growth and productivity in the U.S. and abroad, challenges facing the labor market, improving economic data, and scientific examination of the effects of economic policies on trade, financial markets, health, taxes, energy, and regulation. The award promotes the national interest by improving the quality of the economics used in making policy decisions, and provides better evidence for policies that contribute to the competitiveness of the U.S. economy.The BPEA conferences are marked by a high degree of interaction among the organizers, researchers, discussants, and attendees. Each researcher invited to present engages in an intensive process of three rounds of review, criticism, discussion and editing. BPEA encourages scientists to apply the best knowledge of the profession to pressing policy issues and uses policy concerns to point the profession's way toward new science.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.