Middle Period, 1996-2010

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Fed Conference on Quantitative Evidence on Price Determination, Washington, September 29-30, 2005

Bob Lucas
Chris Sims and Greg Mankiw in silhouette at cocktail reception on balcony
Chris Sims
Greg Mankiw listens
Mike Woodford
Stan Fischer speaks while Bob Hall (back of head) and Bob Lucas listen
Stan Fischer

NBER Trip to India, January 12-18, 2005

Angus Deaton and Rob Feenstra (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan. 15)
AnneKrueger, Kirit Parikh, RJG, Graham Ellison, Graham Ingram, MartyFeldstein, and N.K. Singh (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan 15)
Ken Rogoff and Anne Krueger (Conference Coffee Break, Jan. 17)
Marty and Kate Feldstein (dinner at Neemrana, Jan. 17, grainy photo taken with camera-phone)
Marty Feldstein and N. K. Singh, the host (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan 15)
Marty Feldstein in the Neemrana lunch buffet line (Jan. 17)
Mihir Desai, Rob Feenstra, Ann Harrison, RJG (Wipro Campus, Bangalore, Jan. 12)
Natasha and Ken Rogoff, Graham Ingram, Anne Krueger, Marty and Kate Feldstein (Infosys in Bangalore, Jan. 12)
NBER-NCAER Conference Session 4, morning of Jan. 17 (Neemrana Fort-Palace Hotel Conference Room)
Rich Clarida and Rob Feenstra (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan 15)
Rich Clarida, Natasha and Ken Rogoff (Conference Coffee Break, Jan 17)
RichClarida, Mihir Desai, Mrs. Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Suman Bery, KenRogoff (lunch table with the Honorable Chief Minister of Rajasthan,Jan. 18)
RJG in Sikh headdress and bare feet (both required at Sikh Temple, Delhi, Jan. 14

Retirement Dinner for Marcus Alexis and Leon Moses, Allen Center, Evanston, May 21, 2005

Bev and Dale Mortensen
Bob and Margery Coen
Chris Taber and Rob Porter
Dale Mortensen, Darius Gaskins, and Don Jacobs
Dale Mortensen’s tribute
Don Jacobs’ tribute
Gerri and Marcus Alexis
Ian Savage and Sandy Siepka
Julie Gordon and Mark Witte
Larry Christiano and Martha Hellander
Lauren Pachman and Mark Satterthwaite
Leon Moses’ response (he’s age 81)
Marcus Alexis’ response
Rae and Leon Moses
Rob Porter’s tribute
Ron and Jan Braeutigam
Scott Stern and Sandy Fazio
Shane Greenstein and Rob Porter
Stan Reiter and John Ledyard

San Francisco Fed Conference on Productivity, November 17-19, 2005

In underground garage at 2750 Taylor in SF, Ian Dew-Becker with Milton and Rose Friedman (license plate on BMW convertible is MV=PY, doesn’t show up in photo)

Solow Tribute Dinner, Philadelphia, January 8, 2005

Alan and Madeline Blinder
Allen and Lee Sinai and Bob Solow
Beverly and Dan McFadden
Bob Solow’s Final Thoughts on Growth Theory, 1
Bob Solow’s Final Thoughts on Growth Theory, 2
George Akerlof, RJG, and Bob Hall
Jeff Frankel and George Akerlof
Larry Klein (age 84)
Marianne and Rob Engle
Paul Krugman listens impishly
Paul Krugman speaks
Peter Diamond and Olivier Blanchard
Ray Fair, Matt Shapiro, and George Perry
Stan and Rhoda Fischer
Stan Fischer

Conference: NBER Macro research meeting Sept. 29, 2006

The imposing conference room of the NY Fed

Conference: NBER Summer Institute, CRIW Workshop, July 18, 2006

Bart van Ark
Erik Brynjolfsson and Ana Azcorbe
Ernie Berndt
Erwin Diewert and Jack Triplett
John Greenlees (head of the CPI)

Conference: Venice International Seminar, Dinner at Peggy Guggenheim Museum, July 21, 2006

Conference Attendees
Ed Prescott, Nobel prize 2004
Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Philippe Aghion
Mario Draghi, Governor Bank of Italy, and Bob Shiller
Ned Phelps, Nobel Prize winner 2006
Robert A. Mundell, Nobel prize 1999

Dinner in honor of Amartya Sen, AEA Meetings, Boston, January 2006

Amartya Sen and Kitty Galbraith, wife of John KennethGalbraith and mother of Jamie Galbraith, applauding a speaker
Amartya Sen’s Response to the tributes
Carl Kaysen (my teacher and mentor at Harvard in 1960-61)
Larry Summers’ Tribute

Groningen Netherlands Conference in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Angus Maddison, October 27, 2006

A blurry Bart van Ark talking about Angus and his accomplishments
Angus Maddison receives a lifetime achievement award from the Queen of Holland
Angus Maddison receives his award from another angle
Angus Maddison wearing his trademark tennis shoes during afternoon conference session
Angus Maddison’s speech after receiving the award

XVIII International Economic Seminar at Villa Mondragone, south of Rome, June 26-27, 2006

Dale Jorgenson in the buffet lunch line, with wife Linda right behind
Participants hiding in the shade to escape the 95-degree heat at lunch hour
Participants walk into the imposing villa past the catering truck
Waiting for the bus, Dominick Salvatore and Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Waiting for the bus, Ian Dew-Becker and RJG
Waiting for the return bus to Rome, Robert Inklaar and Ian Dew-Becker

NBER Summer Institute, CRIW Workshop, July 16, 2007

Carol Corrado and Bart van Ark

NBER Summer Institute, CRIW Workshop, July 18, 2007

Erik Brynjolfsson, Ian Dew Becker, and Carol Corrado

Brookings Panel Celebration of the Retirement of Bill Brainard and George Perry, September 6-7, 2007

Alan Greenspan and Greg Mankiw
Alan Greenspan, Greg Mankiw, Doug Elmendorf, Larry Summers
Alan Greenspan
Ben Friedman and Bob Hall
Ben Friedman, Bob Hall, Chris Sims
Bill Nordhaus, George Perry, Bill Brainard
Bob Hall
Bob Shiller
Bob Solow, Ian Dew-Becker, Ben Friedman
Bob Solow
Frank Levy
George Akerlof
Greg Mankiw
Ian Dew-Becker, Bob Hall
Larry Katz and Jim Poterba
Larry Summers
Marty Feldstein
Ned Phelps and Alan Krueger
Peter Diamond
Rick Mishkin

Dinner in honor of William J. Baumol, AEA Meetings, Chicago, January 2007

Cornell economist and NYT columnist Robert Frank and Richard Parker, biographer of Galbraith
Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge
William J. Baumol

Session on Productivity Growth, AEA Meetings, Chicago, January 2007

Jack Triplett speaks while Erik Brynjolfsson (left) listens in the foreground

Australasian Econometric Society Meetings, Wellington NZ, July 9-11, 2008

Clive Granger
David Hendry
Rafael Repullo, Executive Vice President of ES
Torsten Persson, 2008 President of ES

Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, April 10-11, 2008

Alan Krueger, Gary Becker, and Ben McCallum
Alberto Alesina
Chad Jones
Daron Acemoglu and Helene Rey
Daron Acemoglu, Chris Sims, Ben Bernanke (dinner speaker), and Robert Barro
Daron Acemoglu, Helene Rey, and Ben Friedman
David Romer, Becky Blank, Daron Acemoglu, and Helene Rey
David Romer
Ed Glaeser
Gary Becker
George Perry, Bill Brainard, and Bill Nordhaus
Greg Mankiw and Larry Summers with Bill Gale behind
Greg Mankiw
Justin Wolfers
Niall Ferguson
Olivier Blanchard
Paul Krugman and Chris Sims
Paul Romer and Bob Hall
Robert Barro

Dinner to Celebrate Martin Feldstein’s 31 Years as President of NBER, Cambridge MA, July 24, 2008

Andrei Schleifer
Andrei Shleifer and Mike Woodford
Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s Lead Economic Adviser
Ben Friedman, Charlotte and Peter Temin
Bob Hall and Ben Friedman
Bob Hall
Caroline Hoxby
Doug Staiger, Jim Stock, and Bruce Meyer
Ed Lazear and Glenn Hubbard (present and past Chairs of Council of Economic Advisers)
Emmanuel Saez
Glenn Hubbard
Jacob Frenkel
Jacques Mairesse and Bron Hall
Jagdish Bhagwati
Jim Poterba, New President of NBER
Justin Wolfers
Kate and Marty Feldstein
Marty Feldstein, President of NBER, 1977-2009
Richard Freeman
RJG with Charlotte Temin
Room full of Feldstein admirers
Summers to Goolsbee, This is the way we did it in the Clinton Administration

Symposium on The Outlook for Future Productivity Growth, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, November 14, 2008

Hayne Leland (winner of the first Ross prize in finance) with RJG
John Fernald and Mary Daly
Symposium attendees. Head of table: Dale Jorgenson, Peter McGoldrick, Dan Sichel, John Williams

ASSA Meetings San Francisco, January 3-4, 2009

Allen Sinai
Bert Hickman
Gavin Wright
Jamie Galbraith
Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge magazine
Kenneth Arrow (age 87)
Kenneth Arrow
Lawrence Klein (age 88)
Michael Boskin

Release of the Boskin Commission report, Dec 4, 1996

NBER Summer Institute July 2001

Phelps Festschrift October 2001

Brookings Panel Senior Advisers’ Meeting, April 4, 2002

Farewell Party for Joe Altonji, Evanston, August 4, 2002

Milton Friedman’s 90th Birthday Conference, Univ. of Chicago, November 2002

NBER Summer Institute July 2002

Final Brookings Workshop on Productivity in the Services, November 21, 2003

Business Cycle Dating Committee Meeting, Cambridge, July 16, 2003

Davos January 2003

March, October 2003

Memorial Dinner for Rudi Dornbusch, Cambridge, July 14, 2003

EEA-ESEM, CEPR Reception, Madrid, August 2004

EEA-ESEM, Scientific Sessions, Madrid, August 2004

NBER Summer Institute, July-August, 2004

Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, September 8-9, 2005

Conference: Celebrating Paul Samuelson’s 90th Birthday, Boston, May 15, 2005