The
Economics Program supports research designed
to improve the understanding of the processes
and institutions of the U.S. economy and
of the world system of which it is a part.
The Program strengthens both empirical
and theoretical economic analysis as well
as the methods for rigorous research on
economic behavior.
Topics of current interest are computational
economics, the transformation of command
economies, human resource-related issues
(poverty, labor productivity, the family,
gender and racial discrimination, etc.),
and global environmental change.
The Program also funds conferences and
interdisciplinary research that strengthens
links among economics and the other social
and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics
and statistics.
The Program supports research in almost
every subfield of economics, including
econometrics, economic history, finance,
industrial organization, international
economics, labor economics, public finance,
macroeconomics, and mathematical economics.
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