Professor John Taylor to give the inaugural Martin Feldstein Lecture at the NBER in Massachusetts.

On July 10th, 2009 John Taylor will give the first Martin Feldstein Lecture for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Massachusetts.  The lecture will address an important question in applied economics, with an application to economic policy.  The title is: "Empirically Evaluating Economic Policy in Real Time."    This distinguished lectureship has been established to recognize Martin Feldstein's many contributions to the NBER.