About the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
About BPEA
The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity publishes research on current issues in macroeconomics, broadly defined. BPEA emphasizes innovative analysis that has an empirical orientation, takes real-world institutions seriously, and is relevant to economic policy. Papers are presented and discussed at conferences held twice each year, and the papers and discussant remarks from each conference are published in the journal several months later. Research findings are described in a clear and accessible style to maximize their impact on economic understanding and economic policymaking. For example, a paper featured in the Fall 2009 edition, The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation by Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson, was awarded the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding research containing ideas that the public and private sectors can use to maintain and improve America’s lifelong financial well being.
BPEA Co-Editors
The co-editors of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity are David Romer and Justin Wolfers.
David Romer is the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at Berkeley and is currently a senior resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund. Professor Romer is director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, he is a member of the American Economic Association Executive Committee, and the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. Learn more »
Justin Wolfers is an associate professor in the Business and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School. He is also a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a research fellow of the German Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a visiting scholar with the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. Learn more »
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Contact BPEA
If you have any questions about BPEA, please contact Heather Kirsch:
BrookingsPapers@brookings.edu