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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226262574, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2015
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 59 halftones, 229 line drawings, 136 tables

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability in...

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Business & Economics

Enterprising America Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective

Collins William J., Margo Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261621, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 46 tables

The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world's most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the...

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Business & Economics

Changing Frontier Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

Jaffe Adam B., Jones Benjamin F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226286723, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 97 line drawings, 66 tables

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of t...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2014 Volume 29

Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226268736, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-ninth edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual continues its tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. Two papers in this year's issue deal with recent economic performance...

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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2014 Volume 15

Kerr William R., Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226268422, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The fifteenth volume of Innovation Policy and the Economy is the first to focus on a single theme: high-skilled immigration to the United States. The first paper is the product of a long-term research effort on the impact of immigration to the United...

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Business & Economics

Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

Carroll Christopher D., Crossley Thomas F., Sabelhaus John

ISBN: HB: 9780226126654, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2015
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 97 line drawings, 117 tables

Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects t...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 28

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226208299, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in Volume 28 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs. The first paper explores whether closely held firms are used a...

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Political Science

How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education

Brown Jeffrey R., Hoxby Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...

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Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy

Hulten Charles R., Reinsdorf Marshall B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226204260, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 45 line drawings, 81 tables

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of...

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Business & Economics

Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

Bordo Michael D., Humpage Owen F., Schwartz Anna J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables

During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...

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