National Bureau of Economic Research

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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit American research organization dedicated to conducting and sharing impartial economic research with public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. It is recognized for determining the start and end dates of recessions in the United States. The NBER has ties to many former chairpersons of the Council of Economic Advisers, notable among them being former NBER president and Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein. Currently, James M. Poterba of MIT serves as the NBER's president and CEO.


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National Bureau of Economic Research

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Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the NBER is a network of more than 1,750 economists who hold primary appointments at North American colleges and universities.

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NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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https://www.nber.org/

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By contrast, we do not find significant effects from China’s retaliatory tariffs.

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US exports to China fell by 26.3 percent while exports to the rest of the world increased modestly, by 2.2 percent.

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Upending a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade flows in 2018 and 2019.

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