New Directors elected to NBER Board.

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The NBER's Board of Directors has elected four new members:

Timothy Bresnahan, the Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy at Stanford University and Director of the Center on Employment and Economic Growth in the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, is the new representative of Stanford University. Bresnahan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his bachelor's degree from Haverford College in 1975 and his master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Princeton in 1978 and 1980, respectively. Prior to his election to the Board, he was a Research Associate in the Industrial Organization and the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Programs.

Christopher Carroll, a Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, succeeds Arthur B. Kennickell as the representative of the American Statistical Association. Carroll, who was a Research Associate in the Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics Programs prior to his election, received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1990. Before moving to the Johns Hopkins University in 1995, he worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC. He also...