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		J-PAL Receives BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award The Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory has been awarded a 2009 "Frontiers of Knowledge" Award in the area of "development cooperation" by BBVA Foundation, an affiliate of a large Spanish bank.

		Ricardo Caballero has won the Smith Breeden First Prize First place is awarded to the best paper published in the Journal of Finance during 2008 (joint work with Arvind Krishnamurthy)

		Bengt Holmström has been elected Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society Bengt Holmström has been elected Second Vice President, and will be the First Vice President in 2010, and President in 2011 of the Econometric Society.

		Amy Finkelstein of MIT and NBER has won the CSWEP 2008 Elaine Bennett Research Prize Amy Finkelstein of MIT and NBER has won the CSWEP 2008 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. This prize will be given to her at the annual business meeting of the American Economics Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) on Saturday, January 3, 2009, from 5:00-6:00 pm in the Golden Gate 4 Room of the Hilton San Francisco Hotel.

		Amy Finkelstein and Jeffrey Brown are the 2008 winners of the TIAA-CREF/Paul Samuelson Award MIT faculty member Amy Finkelstein (Ph.D. 2001) and Jeffrey Brown (Ph.D. 1999), the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois, are the 2008 winners of the TIAA-CREF/Paul Samuelson Award for contributions to Lifetime Financial Security.

		President -elect Barack Obama selects economists President-elect Barack Obama has selected Lawrence Summers (SB 1975) to head the National Economic Council, Christina Romer (Ph.D. 1985) as Chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Austan Goolsbee (Ph.D. 1995) As a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Summers, who served in the Treasury Department for eight years in the Clinton administration and was Secretary of the Treasury between 1999 and 2001, is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. Romer is the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley. Goolsbee is the Robert Gwinn Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

		Robert Hall Named President of American Economic Association Robert Hall (Ph.D. '67) is the President-Elect of the American Economic Association for 2009. James Poterba is one of the Association's two Vice-Presidents, and Daron Acemoglu is a newly-elected member of the Executive Committee.

		Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Paul Krugman, MIT Ph.D'77 and a member of our faculty for close to two decades.

		James Poterba is President of the NBER James Poterba became President of the National Bureau of Economic Research on July 1, 2008, and remains on the MIT Economics faculty in a reduced-time position.

		Jonathan Gruber Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences Jonathan Gruber has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the new 2008 fellows, he is joined by MIT Economics graduates Roger Gordon, Jeremy Stein, and Michael Whinston.

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