NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief Article

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000, edited by Ben S. Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff, is available from the MIT Press this spring. The goals of this annual conference are to present, extend, and apply frontier work in macroeconomics and to stimulate research on policy issues. The topics covered in the 2000 conference volume are human capital externalities from compulsory schooling laws; the political business cycle; rethinking macroeconomic modeling; how money and banking shocks contributed to the Great Depression; trade policy and economic growth; and the six major puzzles in international macroeconomics.

Both editors are NBER Research Associates in the Programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics. Bernanke...