Development of the American economy program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy, directed by Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on February 27, 2010. These topics were discussed:

* Nathan Nunn, Stanford University and NBER; William Easterly, New York and NBER; Daniel Berger and Shanker Satyanath, New York University, "Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War"

* Moritz Schularick, Free University of Berlin, and Alan M. Taylor, University of California, Davis and NBER, "Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870 to 2008" (NBER Working Paper No. 15512)

* Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER, "Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s"(NBER Working Paper No. 15573)

* Kenneth Snowden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "The Anatomy of a Residential Mortgage Crisis: A Look Back to the...