37th annual NBER summer institute.

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The NBER hosted its 37th annual Summer Institute during a three-week period in July. There were 2,528 registered participants, a new record. This included 565 researchers who were attending the Summer Institute for the first time. Slightly less than one third of the participants were NBER affiliates.

Stanley Fischer, the Vice-Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, former Governor of the Bank of Israel, and a former NBER Research Associate, delivered the 2014 Martin Feldstein lecture. His topic was "Financial Sector Reform: How Far Are We?" The text of his lecture appears earlier in this issue of the NBER Reporter.

Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Matthew Jackson of Stanford University delivered the 2014 NBER Methods Lectures on "Theory and Application of Network Models." These lectures...