The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has appointed three faculty members of UMD’s Department of Economics as Research Affiliates. Boragan Aruoba was appointed as Research Associate in the Monetary Economics Program. Thomas Drechsel was appointed as Faculty Research Fellow in the Monetary Economics Program. And Nolan Pope was appointed as Faculty Research Fellow in the Economics of Education Program.
The NBER is a private nonprofit research organization. According to the NBER, “affiliates are selected through a rigorous and competitive process that begins with a call for nominations each February. Program directors, with the assistance of leading scholars in each field, review these nominations and recommend researchers for new affiliates. Affiliates who have tenure at their home institutions may be appointed as Research Associates; untenured scholars are appointed as Faculty Research Fellows.”
