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Volume Title: Innovations in Economic Research

Volume Author/Editor: NBER

Volume Publisher: NBER

Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/unkn72-2

Publication Date: 1972

Chapter Title: Conference Programs

Chapter Author: Various

Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c4197

Chapter pages in book: (p. 95 - 98) III

Conference Programs

CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN INCOME AND WEALTH

Two conference volumes, Econometric Models Time Period, Unit of Analysis, and Income Con- of Cyclical Behavior (Volume 36) and Interna.- cept in the Analysis of Income Distribution— tional Comparisons of Prices and Output (Vol- James N. Morgan and Jacob Benus, Michigan ume 37), were published this spring. The pro- The Pursuit of Equality—Kenneth E. Boulding, ceedings of the November 1971 Conference on Colorado the Measurement of Economic and Social Per- The Distribution of Wealth in Britain—A. B. At- formance are being prepared for press. kinsôn, University of Essex The next session of the Conference will be New Estimates of the Distribution of Wealth— devoted to Personal Distributions of lhcome and James 0. Smith, Pennsylvania State Wealth and will be held on October 3—4, 1972 at Wealth Distribution in the United States a Cen- Pennsylvania State University. The following pa- tury Ago—Lee Soltow, Ohio pers are planned: Evaluation of Transfer Income Data from Surveys —Dorothy Projector, Social Security Ad- SocialAccountingfor Transfers—RobertJ, ministration Lampman, Wisconsin The BEA and CPS Income Size Distributions: Individual Taxes and the Distribution of Income Some Comparisons for 1964—Edward C. —Benjamin A. Okner, Brookings Institution Budd, Pennsylvania State and Daniel B. Rad- Basic Arithmeticof Income Redistribution— ner, Department of Commerce Harold W. Watts, presently at Yale The Lifetime Distributionof Capital Gains— Members of the Executive Committee are: Martin H. David and Roger F.Miller, Wis- DaleW. Jorgenson (chairman), Edward C. Budd, consin Frank de Leeuw, RobertE.Gallman, Terry The Correlates of Income Instability Among Gigantes, Maurice Liebenberg, F. Thomas Jus- Young and Middle-Aged Men—Herbert S. ter, Joel Popkin, Nestor E. Terleckyj, Beatrice N. Parnes, John A. Shea, and Andrew I. Kohen, Vaccara, and Mildred E. Courtney (secretary). Ohio State Mildred E. Courtney

UNIVERSITIES-NATIONALBUREAU COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH

A Conference on Secular Inflation was held No- Karl Brunner,Phillip Cagan, and Jerome S. vember 5 and 6, 1971, at the Center for Continu- Stein. ing Education, University of Chicago, and the The conference volume, International Mobility proceedings are now being prepared for publi- and Movement of Capital, Fritz Machlup, Walter cation. Jürg Niehans was chairman of the Con- S. Salant, and Lone Tarshis, coeditors, is sched- ference Planning Committee, which alsoin- uled for publication in the fall of 1972, and the cluded Frank Brechling, Martin Bronfenbrenner, proceedings of the Conference on Education as

95 an Industry, Roy Radner, editor, are to be pub- • Massachusetts Institute lished next year. of Technology Richard S. Eckaus The annual meeting of the Universities— McGill Antal Deutsch National Bureau Committee for Economic Re- Michigan State Carl E. Liedhoim search, held in conjunction with the Conference Minnesota James M. Henderson on Secular Inflation, decided to convene a con- New School for ference on the Economics of Environmental Social Research Thomas Vietorisz Quality on November 10 and 11, 1972 at the New York M. lshaq Nadiri Center for Continuing Education. The confer- North Carolina Henry A. Latané ence will be sponsored jointly with Resources for Northwestern Richard B. Heflebower the The Committee also selected three Ohio State Jon Cunnyngham topics to be considered for future conferences. Pennsylvania Almarin Phillips One, being explored by a committee headed by Pittsburgh Janet Chapman Richard M. Rosett, is medical care as an indus- Princeton Albert Rees try. The other two topics under consideration are Queen's David C. Smith the application of economics to social problems, Rochester Richard N. Rosett and international aspects of unemployment and Stanford Moses Abramovitz of meaures to fight unemployment and inflation. Texas Ray Marshall The Committee accepted Brown University as Toronto Richard Bird a new member. There are now thirty-eight uni- Vanderbilt Anthony Tang versities, together with the National Bureau, rep- Virginia Richard T. Selden resented on the Committee. The participating Washington(Seattle) Richard W. Parks universities and their present representatives Washington(St. Louis) Werner Hochwald are: Wisconsin Leonard W. Weiss Yale Richard Ruggies Brown Jerome Stein

Buffalo Daniel Hamberg • Other members of. the Committee, elected as California, Berkeley John M. Letiche members at large for a four-year term, July 1, California, Los Angeles J. C. La Force 1970—June 30, 1974, are: Daniel Creamer, S. A. Carnegie-Mellon Norman Miller Goldberg, George Jaszi, Rodolf A. Rhomberg, Chicago Robert J. Gordon Walter S. Salant, Julius Shiskin, and George J. Columbia Harold Barger Stigler. Robert E. Lipsey is the representative Cornell George J. Staller from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Duke David G. Davies The members of the Executive Committee are Harvard John V. Lintner Carl F. Christ (chairman), Walter S. Salant (vice Illinois John F. Due chairman), Moses Abramovitz, James M. Hen- Indiana Robert W. Campbell derson, Robert E. Lipsey, Almarin Phillips, and Iowa State Dudley G. Luckett David C. Smith. Robert P. Shay is secretary. Johns Hopkins Carl F. Christ Robert P. Shay

96 CONFERENCE ON THE COMPUTER IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH

In 1971 the activities of the Conference cen- A second workshop on Control Theory and tered on the role of the computer in the corn mu- Economic Problems is scheduled for May 5 nication of research information in economics. and 6 at Princeton University. The participants Two workshops were held on this topic. The will be economists, engineers, and control theo- first, which met on June 4 at the Urban Institute, rists. Special emphasis will be placed on sto- was on Communióation in Economic and Social chastic control techniques and contributions to Research: The Media and Computer Technol- econometric . models and stabilizationpolicy ogy. Several problems that confront the present models. system of information dissemination within the The third workshop in the 1972 series, to be economics profession were reviewed, and a held in July, is on Standardization of Documen- number of approaches to an improved system tation for Machine-Readable Data Sets. Some were proposed. . informal work has already been undertaken on On September 18, a workshop was held at the this subject, which was first discussed at the University of Pittsburgh on Computers and the. Time Series Data Bank Workshop of February Documentation of Information. The discussion 1970. The main themes to be covered will in- focused on four main themes: (1) Computeriza- clude standardization of time series, microdata lion of Subject, Author, Title, and Location of and other data sets, standardization of machine- Economic Articles: A Progress Report on Activi- readable documentation of these data sets, and ties from Input to Archives; (2) Production of standardization of human-readable documenta- Handbooks by Computers; (3) Data Bibliogra- tion. phies and Documentation; and (4) Institutional A major conference on the Current Population Cooperation in Computerization. Survey will be held at Pennsylvania State Uni- In addition to these two workshops, a large versity on September 19 and 20, 1972. The basic conference was held on the Role of the Corn- document of the conference will be a paper by puter in Economicand Social Research in Latin the Census Bureau presenting its methodology America, and a new journal, The Annals of Eco.- in data collection and dissemination and its nomic and Social Measurement, was launched.. plansand objectives for the future. Other papers These activities are described in separate re- will be addressed to a wide range of problems ports. The Annals will serve as a major outlet for. associated with the utilization of the microdata the proceedings of the workshops and confer- files from the Population Survey. ences. This Conference series was established by The program for 1972 consists of at least the National Bureau with funds provided by the three workshops and one large conference. The National Science Foundation and International first workshop will be on Prices and Consumer Business Machines Corporation. Expenditures; it is scheduled for April 6 and 7 M. Ishaq Nadiri in Washington, D.C. There will be four ses- sions: (1) Theory and Measurement of Prices; The Rote of the Computer in (2) Measurement and Analysis of Consumer Ex- Latin American Research penditure Data; (3) Dissemination and Use of Price and Expenditure Data; and (4) Collection A conference on the Role of the Computer in and Survey Methods for Price and Expenditure Economic and Social Research in Latin America Surveys. A second round of discussions on was held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, October 25—29, these topics is planned for the spring of 1973 1971, with the aim of bringing together social with a view to suggesting recommendations for scientists from both North and Latin America improved procedures in the production, distri- currently engaged in quantitative research. The bution, and use of data on prices and consumer sponsors and organizers were the National Bu- expenditures. reau of Economic Research, the Colegio de

97 Mexico, the Di Tella Institute, and the Vargas (Vol. 1, No. 2). These and other selected papers Foundation. The Latin American Social Science will also be published in a special conference Research Council (CLASCO) also actively col- volume, and it is hoped that arrangements can laborated in the conference. be made to publish a volume in Spanish as well. Some thirty papers were presented and dis- Future workshops are being planned as a con- cussed, ranging over a broad area of computer tinuing follow-up of this conference. A grant in applications in government statistical systems, support of these projected activities over the data banks, demographic and education sur- next five years has been extended by the IBM veys, model building, international income and World Trade Corporation, which provided fi- price comparisons, and various aspects of eco- nancing for the Cuernavaca conference addi- nomic development andinternationaltrade. tional to the resources contributed by the several Several of the papers have appeared in the sponsoring organizations. Annals of Economic and Social Measurement Richard and Nancy Ruggles

CONFERENCE ON ECONOMETRICS AND MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS

This Conference, funded by a grant from the Na- C. Thurow, MIT (to be relocated during fall of tional Science Foundation, has the objective of 1972) stimulating discussion and research at the fron- Three additional seminars are scheduled to meet tiers of econometrics and mathematical eco- during the spring or fall of 1972. These are: nomics. Since getting under way in November 1970, nine seminar groups have met at different Monetary and Fiscal Analysis—William C. Brai- universities and research centers and have held nard, Yale, and Franco Modigliani, MIT a total of seventeen meetings involving more Quantitative Studies in Industrial Organization— than 150 leading scholars. These seminars and George J. Stigler and Lester G. Telser, Chi- their leaders are: cago Analysis of Micro-Economic Data—James N. General Equilibrium Models—Kenneth J. Arrow, Morgan, Michigan Harvard Evaluation of Econometric Models—Saul H. Hy- Papers and memoranda are circulated in ad- mans and Harold T. Shapiro, Michigan vance of each seminar, and reports are issued Comparison of Econometric Models—Lawrence on the discussions. Several papers stemming R. Klein, Pennsylvania from the seminars are slated for publication in Decision Rules and Uncertainty—Daniel L. Mc- the near future in the Annals of Economic and Fadden, MIT and Berkeley Social Measurement and the Journal of Eco- Decentralized Economic Planning and Program- nomic Literature. One book of essays is planned, ming—RoyRadner, Berkeley and others are envisaged. Research fostered by Distributed Lags and Time Series Analysis— the seminars has also been presented at scien- Christopher Sims, NBER and Minnesota tific and professional meetings. Optimal Economic Growth—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Given the enthusiastic response to the semi- Yale nars and the contribution made to the accelera- Bayesian InferenceinEconometrics—Arnold tion of research, continuation of the program on Zellner, Chicago a long-term basis is contemplated. Micro-Economics of the Public Sector—Lester Gary Fromm

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