NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article - Book review

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009, edited by Lucrezia Reichlin and Kenneth West, is available from the University of Chicago Press Journals Division. The clothbound volume is $90.00; the paperback edition is $50.00.

NBER's International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for thirty years. In the conference reported here, the topics discussed included: openness and the fall and rise of stock market correlations between 1890 and 2001; defaults, underwriters, and sovereign bond markets between 1815 and 2007; systemic risk taking and the U.S. financial crisis; and assessing external equilibrium in...