Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee San Diego, CA January 3, 2013

The second meeting of the 2012 Executive Committee was called to order by President Christopher Sims at 10:00 a.m. on January 3, 2013 in the Gregory Room of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. Members present were: Orley Ashenfelter, Alan Auerbach, David Autor, Janet Currie, Penny Goldberg, Claudia Goldin, Jonathan Gruber, Robert Hall, Anil Kashyap, John Leahy, Rosa Matzkin, Christina Paxson (by telephone), Monika Piazzesi, Andrew Postlewaite, Valerie Ramey, Nancy Rose (by telephone), Peter Rousseau, Christopher Sims, and Michael Woodford. Also attending were: William Nordhaus, newly elected President-Elect; Raquel Fernandez and Paul Milgrom, newly elected Vice-Presidents; and Amy Finkelstein and Jonathan Levin, newly elected Executive Committee members. Attending parts of the meeting to give reports were: Henry Farber, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee for Institutional Review Board Implementation, Marjorie McElroy, Chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Robert Moffitt and Dan Newlon, Chair and Washington Representive of the Committee on Government Relations, James Poterba, Chair of the Ad Hoc Search Committee for Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature (by telephone), and Cecilia Rouse and Gary Hoover, Chair and co-Chair of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. Assistant Secretary-Treasurer John Siegfried, General Counsel Terry Calvani, and staff members Mary Kay Akerman, Michelle DeBlasi, Elizabeth Braunstein, Marlene Hight, Regina Montgomery, Steve Stelling, and Jane Voros also attended. Sims welcomed the newly elected members of the 2013 Executive Committee and noted that this was the final meeting for Hall, Paxson, Rose, Gruber, and Ramey. He thanked them for their service. The minutes of the April 27, 2012 meeting were then approved as written. Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee San Diego, CA January 3, 2013