Bernanke: long-time NBER researcher.

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Former NBER Research Associate Ben S. Bernanke has been nominated by President George W. Bush to become the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, If confirmed, he will replace Chairman Alan Greenspan when his term expires in early 2006.

Bernanke, who holds a Bachelors' degree in Economics from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT, was an NBER Research Associate for many years. He authored a total of 34 NBER Working Papers, the first in 1980 and the most recent in 2004.

Bernanke also co-organized the NBER'S Annual Conference on Macroeconomics with Professor Julio Rotemberg of MIT from 1995-8. They served as co-editors of the Macroeconomics Annual volume, published by the MIT Press, during those years.

In the fall of 2000...