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...current recession. The committee pinpointed the month when U.S. growth dipped into negative territory by using monthly indicators including gross domestic product and consumption measures, most of which have plunged in recent months. MIT economics professor James M. Poterba ’80, the president of the NBER and a member of the business cycle committee, said yesterday that payroll employment is the strongest indicator in determining the highest point of economic activity. The measure reached a peak last December and has declined every month since then. “This doesn’t provide new information on where...
...Blanchard, Olivier J., and Jordi Gali (2007). "The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks: Why Are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s?" Leaving the Board NBER Working Paper 13368. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, September...
Feldstein, who is well known for his advocacy of free-market economics, led the NBER from 1977 to 1982, and again since 1984. From 1982 to 1984, he served as chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers...
Feldstein said yesterday that he will continue as “an active NBER researcher” and that he is “delighted with the choice of Jim Poterba as my successor...
...outstanding economist and a great manager,” Feldstein said. “He will do an excellent job guiding and evolving the NBER...