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David Cutler

Harvard Economists: Lower health care costs may last

May 9, 2013

A slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean savings of as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade, Harvard economists say.

In a paper published in the May issue of Health AffairsDavid Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and co-author Nikhil Sahni, a senior researcher in Harvard’s Economics Department, point to several factors, including a decline in the development of new drugs and technologies and increased efficiency in the health care system, to explain the recent slowdown.

Gita Gopinath

Harvard Economist Gita Gopinath Offers a Euro Cure

February 28, 2013

When French President François Hollande unveiled a plan in November for a business tax credit and higher sales taxes as a way to revive the economy, he was implementing an idea championed by economist Gita Gopinath. A 41-year-old professor at Harvard University, Gopinath has pushed for tax intervention as a way forward for euro-area countries that can’t devalue their exchange rates.

Weiss Family Program Fund

Weiss Family Program Fund for Research in Development Economics: Funding Opportunities

February 27, 2013

The Weiss Family Program Fund for research in development economics is interested in supporting research by undergraduates, graduate students and junior faculty at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University working in development economics, broadly defined. Projects may address a wide range of issues that affect less developed countries.

James Stock

President Obama Appoints Harvard Professor James Stock to the Council of Economic Advisers

February 4, 2013

The White House recently announced President Obama’s appointment of Harvard Economics Professor James Stock as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

He is the Chief Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers within the Executive Office and has held that position since 2012.

Professor Emmanuel Farhi Awarded the AFSE Edmond Malinvaud Prize for 2011

November 8, 2012

(September 6, 2011) Professor Emmanuel Farhi has recently been awarded the Edmond Malinvaud Prize by the Association Française de Science Economique in Paris, for best published paper among young economists under age 40 in 2011. Professor Farhi’s winning paper is "Progressive Estate Taxation" co-authored with Ivan Werning from MIT and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

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