Summer Institute

The NBER Summer Institute is an annual three-week conference held in Cambridge, MA.

The 48th Annual NBER Summer Institute was held in Cambridge, MA from July 7 to July 25, 2025. The meetings were held in person with many streamed live on YouTube. All meetings were by invitation only. View the schedule of meetings. 

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2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
  • Feldstein Lecture
N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...
2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning"
2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning"
  • Methods Lectures
Background Materials:backgroundAthey, Susan, Undral Byambadalai, Vitor Hadad, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Weiwen Leung...
2024, Economics of Social Security Panel, "Earnings Inequality and Payroll Tax Revenues"
2024, Economics of Social Security Panel, "Earnings Inequality and Payroll Tax Revenues"
  • Panel Discussion

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Feldstein Lectures

2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
  • Feldstein Lecture
N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...
2024, 16th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Cecilia E. Rouse," Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic" cover slide
2024, 16th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Cecilia E. Rouse," Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic"
  • Feldstein Lecture
Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council...
15th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Mario Draghi, "The Next Flight of the Bumblebee: The Path to Common Fiscal Policy in the Eurozone cover slide
2023, 15th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Mario Draghi, "The Next Flight of the Bumblebee: The Path to Common Fiscal Policy in the Eurozone"
  • Feldstein Lecture
Dr. Mario Draghi, who served as President of the European Central Bank and Prime Minister of Italy, presented the 2023...

Methods Lectures

2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning"
2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning"
  • Methods Lectures
Background Materials:backgroundAthey, Susan, Undral Byambadalai, Vitor Hadad, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Weiwen Leung...
2023 Methods Lectures, Jesse Shapiro and Liyang (Sophie) Sun, "Linear Panel Event Studies" Primary tabs
2023 Methods Lectures, Jesse Shapiro and Liyang (Sophie) Sun, "Linear Panel Event Studies"
  • Methods Lectures
Overview: Linear panel event studies are increasingly used to estimate and plot causal effects of changes in policies...
2022 Summer Institute Methods Lectures: Empirical Bayes Methods, Theory and Application image
2022 Summer Institute Methods Lectures: Empirical Bayes Methods, Theory and Application
  • Methods Lectures
Large data sets that include observations on many workers at a given firm, multiple decisions by individual judges,...
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