NBER Trip to India, January 12-18, 2005
Natasha and Ken Rogoff, Graham Ingram, Anne Krueger, Marty and Kate Feldstein (Infosys in Bangalore, Jan. 12)

Mihir Desai, Rob Feenstra, Ann Harrison, RJG (Wipro Campus, Bangalore, Jan. 12)

RJG in Sikh headdress and bare feet (both required at Sikh Temple, Delhi, Jan. 14)

Rich Clarida and Rob Feenstra (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan 15)

Anne Krueger, Kirit Parikh, RJG, Graham Ellison, Graham Ingram, Marty Feldstein, and N.K. Singh (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan 15)

Marty Feldstein and N. K. Singh, the host (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan 15)

Angus Deaton and Rob Feenstra (Lunch at N.K. Singh House, Delhi, Jan. 15)

NBER-NCAER Conference Session #4, morning of Jan. 17 (Neemrana Fort-Palace Hotel Conference Room)

Ken Rogoff and Anne Krueger (Conference Coffee Break, Jan. 17) the JPE, 1971

Rich Clarida, Natasha and Ken Rogoff (Conference Coffee Break, Jan 17)

Marty Feldstein in the Neemrana lunch buffet line (Jan. 17)

Marty and Kate Feldstein (dinner at Neemrana, Jan. 17, grainy photo taken with camera-phone)

Rich Clarida, Mihir Desai, Mrs. Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Suman Bery, Ken Rogoff (lunch table with the Honorable Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Jan. 18)

Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, March 31, 2005
Front row from left: Francesco Giavazzi, Olivier Blanchard, Greg Mankiw, Jeff Frankel, and Barry Eichengreen

Front row: Richard Portes and Martin Baily

Conference: Celebrating Paul Samuelson's 90th Birthday, Boston, May 15, 2005
Conference dinner venue, ballroom of Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel, built in 1912

Daron Acemoglu (Clark medalist 2005)

Jerry Hausman and Diane Schmalensee

Peter Temin

Textbook rivals Greg Mankiw and Alan Blinder

T. N. Srinivasan

Annie Hall, newly minted econ Ph.D. and famous father Bob

Avinash Dixit

Dale Jorgenson

Rachel McCulloch, Gary Chamberlain, and Dale Jorgenson

Robert Mundell

Bobbie and Bob Solow

Marty Feldstein and Assar Lindbeck

Assar Lindbeck, Olivier Blanchard, and Stan Fischer

Kate Feldstein and Rhoda Fischer

A pensive Frank Fisher

Orley Ashenfelter

Dick Schmalensee

Eytan Sheshinski and Peter Diamond

Susan Hockfield (President of MIT) and Paul Samuelson

Larry Summers and Susan Hockfield

Richard Sutch

Amartya Sen and Daron Acemoglu

Alan Blinder and William Brainard

Larry Kotlikoff

Bengt Holmstrom, Head, Department of Economics at MIT

Jim Poterba

Bob Solow's tribute

Paul Samuelson's concluding speech

Conference: Retirement Dinner for Marcus Alexis and Leon Moses,Allen Center, Evanston, May 21, 2005
Chris Taber and Rob Porter

Shane Greenstein and Rob Porter

Stan Reiter and John Ledyard

Bob and Margery Coen

Julie Gordon and Mark Witte

Ian Savage and Sandy Siepka

Scott Stern and Sandy Fazio

Lauren Pachman and Mark Satterthwaite

Larry Christiano and Martha Hellander

Ron and Jan Braeutigam

Dale Mortensen, Darius Gaskins, and Don Jacobs

Bev and Dale Mortensen

Rae and Leon Moses

Gerri and Marcus Alexis

Dale Mortensen's tribute

Don Jacobs' tribute

Rob Porter's tribute

Marcus Alexis' response

Leon Moses' response (he's age 81)

Econometric Society World Congress, London, August 18-24, 2005: Executive Committee Dinner, August 18, 2005
Richard Blundell (ES President 2006), Torsten Persson (ES President 2008), and Whitney Newey (Program Co-Chair)

Econometric Society World Congress, London, August 18-24, 2005: Reception at HM Treasury, August 20, 2005
Tom Sargent introduces Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England)

Mervyn King recalls from memory the location of all eight previous ES World Congresses

Berverly and Dan McFadden look on

Rafael Repullo (new EVP of ES) and the retiring duo, Julie Gordon and RJG

Econometric Society World Congress, London, August 18-24, 2005: Dedication Ceremony, August 21, 2005
Tom Sargent unveils the plaque in honor of David Ricardo

Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, September 8-9, 2005
RJG surrounded by textbook kings Greg Mankiw and Alan Blinder, with Ian Dew-Becker on the left

Fed Conference on Quantitative Evidence on Price Determination, Washington, September 29-30, 2005
Stan Fischer speaks while Bob Hall (back of head) and Bob Lucas listen

Stan Fischer

Bob Lucas

Mike Woodford

Greg Mankiw listens

Chris Sims

Chris Sims and Greg Mankiw in silhouette at cocktail reception on balcony

San Francisco Fed Conference on Productivity, November 17-19, 2005
In underground garage at 2750 Taylor in SF, Ian Dew-Becker with Milton and Rose Friedman (license plate on BMW convertible is "MV=PY", doesn't show up in photo)

Dinner in honor of Amartya Sen, AEA Meetings, Boston, January 2006
Amartya Sen and his wife applauding a speaker

Amartya Sen's Response to the tributes

Larry Summers' Tribute

Carl Kaysen (my teacher and mentor at Harvard in 1960-61)

XVIII International Economic Seminar at Villa Mondragone, south of Rome, June 26-27, 2006
Participants walk into the imposing villa past the catering truck

Dale Jorgenson in the buffet lunch line, with wife Linda right behind

Participants hiding in the shade to escape the 95-degree heat at lunch hour

Waiting for the return bus to Rome, Robert Inklaar and Ian Dew-Becker

Waiting for the bus, Dominick Salvatore and Jean-Paul Fitoussi

Waiting for the bus, Ian Dew-Becker and RJG

NBER Summer Institute, CRIW Workshop, July 18, 2006
Erik Brynjolfsson and Ana Azcorbe

Bart van Ark

John Greenlees (head of the CPI)

Ernie Berndt

Erwin Diewert and Jack Triplett

Venice International Seminar, Dinner at Peggy Guggenheim Museum, July 21, 2006
Ned Phelps, Nobel Prize winner 2006

Robert A. Mundell, Nobel prize 1999

Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Philippe Aghion

Conference Attendees

Ed Prescott, Nobel prize 2004

Mario Draghi, Governor Bank of Italy, and Bob Shiller

NBER Macro Research Meeting Sept. 29, 2006
The imposing conference room of the NY Fed

Groningen Netherlands Conference in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Angus Maddison, October 27, 2006
Angus Maddison wearing his trademark tennis shoes during afternoon conference session

A blurry Bart van Ark talking about Angus and his accomplishments

Angus Maddison receives a lifetime achievement award from the Queen of Holland

Angus Maddison receives his award from another angle

Angus Maddison's speech after receiving the award