Fifth annual conference in India.

• Position: National Council for Applied Economic Research - Brief Article

On January 17-20, 2004 the NBER and India's National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) again brought together a group of NBER economists and about two dozen economists from Indian universities, research institutions, and government departments for their fifth annual conference in India. Mihir A. Desai and Martin S. Feldstein, NBER and Harvard University, and Raghuram G. Rajan, NBER and University of Chicago, organized the conference jointly with Suman Bery and Shashanka Bide of NCAER.

The U.S. participants were: Jagdish Bhagwati, NBER Director and Columbia University; Marianne Baxter and Robert G. King, NBER and Boston University; Michael D. Bordo, NBER and Rutgers University; Mihir A. Desai, Martin S. Feldstein, and Benjamin M. Friedman, NBER and Harvard University; Esther Duflo, NBER and MIT; Karen N. Horn, NBER Director; Anne O...