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April 12-14, 2010
2010 NABE Professional Development Seminar
Making Sense of the Economic Puzzle
Sheraton Crystal City
Arlington, VA
Now in its 7th year, the NABE Professional Development Seminar (PDS) is a convenient, cost-effective program designed to strengthen your knowledge of economic statistics and analytical techniques, enhancing your ability to add value in your workplace. All PDS attendees earn NABE's Certificate in Economic Measurement.
Have you attended the PDS before? Not this PDS!
The 2010 NABE Professional Development Seminar has been expanded and is now jam-packed with new content including sessions on:
- Private sector data sources
- The Fed Beige Book
- The American Communities Survey
- The Federal Reserve's balance sheet
- The Economic Census
The 2010 Professional Development Seminar will feature a dual-track format:
New to the PDS? Stick to Track A to learn about central statistical concepts like measuring employment, GDP and the national accounts, and inflation indexes.
PDS veteran? Focus on Track B to develop a deeper understanding of the Fed Beige Book, the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, the economic census, and measures of regional economic performance.
Both tracks A and B will feature sessions which pair data producers with prominent data users to provide you with an insightful view of how data are compiled and how these same data are utilized by leading analysts. For the full program, click here.
PDS attendees earn NABE's new Certificate in Economic Measurement and will gain:
- a comprehensive knowledge of all major measures of U.S. economic performance including employment, prices, GDP, housing and home prices, and corporate profits;
- insight into how economic statistics are collected and compiled by Federal agencies and private sector data providers;
- familiarity with analytical techniques employed by top practitioners to evaluate economic data.
Optional Skills Session |
CFA CHARTERHOLDERS: Did you know that NABE is a CFA Approved Provider? CFA Charterholders will earn 14 hours of CE credit for attending the 2010 NABE Economic Policy Conference. To claim your CE credit, simply register for the conference, provide your CFA member number at the conference registration desk, and the CE credit for your participation in this program will be automatically recorded in your CE Diary.
Registration
PDS Registration Fees*
NABE Member: $395
Non-member: $625
PDS Registration Fees plus Monday Skills Session
NABE Member: $445
Non-member: $775
* Fees increase by $50 after March 15
Cutoff for NABE Rate at the Sheraton Crystal City is March 19, for more information, click here.
REGISTER NOWComments from 2009 PDS Attendees
"The Professional Development Seminar provided a great opportunity for me to enhance my technical understanding of data sources and macro models as well as network with top-level economists.”
– George Raitu, Economist, National Association of Realtors®
“Two of my team members and I attended the PDS expecting an impersonal, classroom-style event. What we discovered was a very informal, highly interactive and dialogue-based seminar. The small group ‘feel’ of this seminar made all the difference. I would highly recommend this seminar to any professional economist.”
– Chris Crafton, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
April 20, 2010
National Bureau of Economic Research's Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference
National Press Club 529 14th St NW Washington DC
The preliminary program can be found at:
http://www.nber.org/~confer/2010/IPEs10/program.html
If you would like to attend the conference, please reply to this email by March 30, 2010.
Be sure to include your mailing address, affiliation and title in your reply.
Please note whether or not you plan to attend the luncheon, and if you have any dietary requirements.
Please feel free to send this invitation along to colleagues and other interested parties.
For planning purposes, anyone who would like to attend should contact the NBER in advance.
If you have any questions, please contact Rob Shannon at the NBER at 617/868-3900 or rshannon@nber.org
ABOUT NABE: NABE is the premier professional association for business
economists and those who use economics in the workplace. Since 1959,
NABE has attracted the brightest minds and the most prominent figures in
economics, business, and academia to its membership with highly-regarded
conferences, educational and career development offerings, industry
surveys, and its unrivaled networking opportunities. The NABE membership is
organized into eight subject-oriented Roundtables, including: Corporate
Planning, Financial, Health Economics, International, Manufacturing/Industry, Real Estate/Construction, Regional/Utility, and Technology. Past presidents of NABE include former Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System, Alan Greenspan, several former Federal Reserve Governors, and other senior business leaders. For more information, please visit www.nabe.com.
MARCH 12, 2010
Going for Growth 2010:
Real Reforms for Sustainable Economic Recovery
Presentation:
Sean Dougherty, Senior Economist, OECD Economics Department
Discussant:
Donald Marron, President, Marron Economics LLC
Friday, March 12
8:30 AM Registration, 9:00-10:00 AM Presentation
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2325
Register at: www.regonline.com/oecd_breakfast_series_going_for_growth_2010
While the series is free of charge, we ask that you please
register by Thursday, March 11 for security reasons.
Event Description:
The world is currently facing the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Going for Growth 2010 examines the structural policy measures that have been taken in response to the crisis, evaluates their possible impact on long-term economic growth, and identifies the most imperative reforms needed as well as the policy mistakes to be avoided in order to strengthen the recovery. In addition, it provides a global assessment of policy reforms implemented in OECD member countries over the past five years to boost employment and labor productivity. Reform areas include education systems, product market regulation, agricultural policies, tax and benefit systems, health care and labor market policies.
The report argues that while the main thrust of the United States’ policy response to the crisis has been appropriate to stabilize the economy and create jobs, more reforms are still needed. In particular, reforms of financial market regulation, health care, and education policy need to take place in order to create more sustainable and well-balanced growth.
Going for Growth 2010 also addresses key policy challenges in non-OECD G-20 countries – Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. Here, major reforms are needed to sustain growth momentum going forward, by relaxing restrictive business regulation, improving protection of property rights, and deepening financial markets, as well as undertaking other major reforms.
Sean Dougherty, Head of the OECD Going for Growth Unit, will present the main findings of the report.
Sean Dougherty heads the Going for Growth team in the OECD Economics Department in Paris. While at the OECD, he has co-authored the organization’s first economic surveys of both China and India, and is leading the enlargement of Going for Growth to cover G-20 countries. In his role at the OECD, he regularly gives advice to member governments and emerging economies, and frequently interacts with the media. Before joining the OECD, he worked at The Conference Board in New York City, where he covered emerging markets and completed a study of global innovation for the National Science Foundation. An American citizen, Dougherty holds graduate degrees in both Economics and International Relations, as well as a bachelor of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Donald B. Marron is a visiting professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and president of Marron Economics LLC. He also writes about economics, finance, and life at dmarron.com. Dr. Marron previously served in various senior government positions including as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, acting director of the Congressional Budget Office, and executive director of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee. Before his government service, he taught economics and finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, managed large antitrust cases at Charles River Associates in Washington, DC, and served as chief financial officer of a health care software start-up in Austin, TX. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University.
Register at: www.regonline.com/oecd_breakfast_series_going_for_growth_2010
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OECD Washington Center, 202-785-6323
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