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Summer Institute

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

The 48th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, MA from July 7 to July 25, 2025. The meetings will be held in person with many streamed live on YouTube. All meetings are by invitation only. The call for papers will be available in January.

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2024, 16th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Cecilia E. Rouse," Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic" cover slide
  • Feldstein Lecture
Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council...
 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...

Summer Institute Schedules

Feldstein Lectures

2024, 16th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Cecilia E. Rouse," Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic" cover slide
  • 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
  • Feldstein Lecture
Dr. Mario Draghi, who served as President of the European Central Bank and Prime Minister of Italy, presented the 2023...
Gita Gopinath The 2022 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Managing a Turn in the Global Financial Cycle Primary tabs
  • Feldstein Lecture
Gita Gopinath, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, delivered the 2022 Martin...

Methods Lectures

 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
  • 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
  • Methods Lectures
Large data sets that include observations on many workers at a given firm, multiple decisions by individual judges,...
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