National Bureau of Economic Research

The National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) is a US-based " private, nonpartisan nonprofit research organization" devoted to the study of theory and empirical economics focuses, in particular the U.S. economy. The seat is in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). As an objective it sees the unbiased research before and the dissemination of knowledge among politicians, businessmen, and the academic community. The NBER was founded in 1920 and publishes the NBER Working Papers. The current chairman is the economist Martin S. Feldstein.

The NBER is the largest economics research organization in the United States.

Known members

Nobel Laureate

  • Christopher Sims, Thomas Sargent 2011
  • Peter A. Diamond, Dale Mortensen 2010
  • Paul Krugman in 2008
  • Edward C. Prescott 2004
  • Finn Kydland 2004
  • Robert F. Engle 2003
  • Joseph Stiglitz 2001
  • George Akerlof 2001
  • James J. Heckman 2000
  • Daniel L. McFadden 2000
  • Robert C. Merton in 1997
  • Myron S. Scholes 1997
  • Robert E. Lucas 1995
  • Robert W. Fogel 1993
  • Gary S. Becker 1992
  • George J. Stigler 1982
  • Theodore W. Schultz 1979
  • Milton Friedman in 1976
  • Wassily Leontief 1973
  • Simon Kuznets 1971

Board members of the Council of Economic Advisers

Other

Cambridge (Massachusetts) Peter Diamond Dale T. Mortensen Daniel McFadden Myron Scholes Robert Lucas, Jr. Integrated Authority File
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