New Director Elected to NBER Board.

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At its September 2013 meeting, the NBER Board of Directors elected Richard L. Schmalensee as a new member, representing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Schmalensee, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from MIT, is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, Emeritus, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007, and was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991. Schmalensee is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the...