Fortunately, the folks at the American Institute of Economic Research have resurrected the idea.
The National Bureau of Economic Research officially scored the recession as starting in December 2007.
Since 2003, she has been co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Monetary Economics program.
In their controversial April 2012 National Bureau for Economic Research working paper, economists Carmen M.
Justin Yifu Lin is the director of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University.
OECD, whose main job is economic research, has no experience running such a complicated negotiation.
Last week, the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the US entered recession in December 2007.
"The technocrats let the president down, " says James Castle, who heads an economic research group in Jakarta.
But Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the Ifo economic research institute at Munich University, is much more upbeat.
"I'm okay with that, " says Enzio von Pfeil, director of economic research at Clarion Securities in Hong Kong.
Then, as now, surveys showed overwhelmingly that people didn't trust the National Bureau of Economic Research official reports.
"Korea is going to surprise the world, " enthuses Lee, president of the Daewoo Economic Research Institute in Seoul.
The IMF monitors global financial developments, loans money to developing countries, provides technical assistance and does economic research.
Yao Yang, director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, weighed in at China Daily.
Check out the history of U.S. recessions at the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
David Malpass is president of Encima Global, an economic research and consulting firm serving institutional investors and corporate clients.
Prominent among these, of course, is a good Virginia citizen, Dr. Judy Shelton, of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
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Plenty of economic research has shown than unlimited choice often results in paralysis.
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Arthur Laffer, chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research firm in Nashville, Tenn.
"Likely, " says James Poterba, president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the official umpire of U.S. recessions.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) there have been 33 recessions registered in the U.S. since 1854.
Another such quarter and the National Bureau of Economic Research would likely have to declare that another recession has begun.
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Nor will the official arbiter of American recessions, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Even these robust retail sales understate the strength of consumer spending, says Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, a Beijing-based economic research firm.
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Various pieces of economic research show that they do, simply by their existence, increase the GDP of places that have them.
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This is the conclusion of Richard Posner and Tomas Philipson in a 1999 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Moreover, a host of economic research has shown there is no long-run (and perhaps no short-run) tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.
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For this year's ranking we relied on economic research firm Economy.com (owned by Moody's) for its indexes on business and living costs.
Recent economic research has supported the existence of a link by emphasising the role of human capital in promoting growth and innovation.
According to National Economic Research Associates, a consultancy, most buyers paid more for these assets than their regulators thought they were worth.
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