NBER researchers entering public service in 2013.

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A number of NBER researchers were tapped for public policy positions in the past year. Several resigned from the NBER on account of their new affiliations. John Friedman, formerly a Faculty Research Fellow in the Public Economics, Health Care, and Aging Programs, resigned to join the National Economic Council, where he serves as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. He is on leave from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy.

Research Associate Betsey Stevenson resigned from the NBER's Programs on Law and Economics and Labor Studies to join the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). She is on leave from the University of Michigan, where she is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics.

James Stock, formerly a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Monetary Economics, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, and Asset Pricing, has also been appointed to the CEA. He is on leave from Harvard University, where he is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy.

In addition to the foregoing researchers who have resigned from the NBER, a number of other researchers have taken leave from the NBER to serve in various government positions.

Raghuram Rajan, a past Director of the NBER's Corporate Finance Program and a Research Associate in that program as well as the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, has been appointed Governor of the Royal Bank of India. He is on leave from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he serves as the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance.

Several other researchers are...