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Event Materials
Materials from 2008 events are here. Use the links on the left to find material from previous years. Learn more about NEC podcasts here.
Thursday, July 31 - Update on the U.S. Economy
Donald Marron
Member, Council of Economic Advisors
Podcast
Thursday, July 24 - Fiscal Policy in the Presidential Election
Maya MacGuineas
President, Committee for a Fiscally Responsible Budget
Podcast
Thursday, July 17 - Health-Related R&D Expenditures and Their Implications
Steven Payson,
US Department of Commerce
Slideshow
Tuesday, July 8 - The Economic Outlook
Jeffrey Lacker
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Podcast
Thursday, June 26 - "The Price Isn't Right: The FY 2009 Budget Initiative to Modernize the CPI"
Michael Horrigan, Associate Commissioner, Office of Prices and Living Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Discussant: Bill Wascher, Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Podcast | Slideshow
Thursday, June 19 - "New Evidence on Trends in Income Mobility"
Gerald Auten
U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis
Podcast | Slideshow | Paper
Link to the Treasury Study comparing 1996-2005 mobility to 1987-1996 mobility:
http://www.treas.gov/offices/tax-policy/library/incomemobilitystudy03-08revise.pdf Link to the Working Paper on 1987-1996 Mobility: http://www.treas.gov/offices/tax-policy/library/ota99.pdf
Thursday, June 12 - "Ecological Economics - The Science of Sustainability"
Sabine O'Hara
Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Podcast | Slideshow
Thursday, June 5 - Annual NABE President's Lecture
"Credit Market Developments: Implications for the Global Economy"
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Chief Economist, Ford Motor Company and President, National Association for Business Economics (NABE)
Podcast | Slideshow
Thursday, May 29 - "In Over Our Heads? The State of Household Balance Sheets"
Charles Steindel
Senior Vice President, Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Podcast | Slideshow
Thursday, May 22 - "This Time Is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crisis"
Carmen Reinhart
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Podcast | Slideshow
Thursday, May 15 w/SGE- "Getting Serious about Renewing and Modernizing Public Education"
Cynthia G. Brown
Director of Education Policy, Center for American Progress
Podcast | Slideshow | Rapporteur
Friday, May 9 - “Where is Europe Heading?”
Jean-Paul Betbeze
Chief Economist, Credit Agricole SA
(In conjunction with the Embassy of France)
Podcast | Slideshow | Biography | Rapporteur
Thursday, May 1- "NAFTA at 14: Why the Uproar?
Gary Hufbauer
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Podcast | Slideshow | Rapporteur
April 24 - "Strings Attached? The Economics and Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds"
Tim Adams
Managing Director, The Lindsey Group
Podcast
April 17- "Comparisons of Multifactor Productivity in the Transportation Industries"
Anthony Apostolides
Department of Transportation
Podcast | Slideshow | Rapporteur
"An Analysis of Labor and Multifactor Productivity in Air
Transportation:
1990-2001"
"Estimating Multifactor Productivity in Truck Transportation,
1987-2003"
"Impacts of Productivity Change in Air Transportation on Profits,
Prices,
and Labor Compensation: 1990-2001"
"Productivity Growth in Transportation", Issue Brief Number 10
April 10- "What Can We Learn About Energy Markets from the Covers of The Economist "
Adam Sieminski
Chief Energy Economist, Deutsche Bank
April 3- "Restructuring Financial Regulation"
Randal Quarles
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Podcast | Fact Sheet
March 27- "The Housing and Mortgage Market Outlook
Frank Notfhaft
Chief Economist, Freddie Mac
Podcast | Slideshow
March 20 - “How Should We Treat R & D Expenditures in National Accounts? New Thinking from the BEA”
Carol A. Robbins
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce
Podcast | Slideshow
March 13 - "Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy"
Cynthia Glassman
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Department of Commerce
Podcast | Report |
March 6 - "The Economics of Renewable Energy"
Hermann Scheer
Member of the German Parliament and
Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE)
Podcast
February 28 - "The Economic Report of the President"
Edward Lazear
Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisors
Podcast | Rapporteur
February 21 - "U.S. Immigration: Demographics and the Workplace"
Rakesh Kochhar
Associate Director for Research, Pew Hispanic Center
Slideshow
February 14 - “US Productivity Growth is Slower, Europe’s is Faster: What Does this Tell Us?”
Martin Baily
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Podcast | Rapporteur
February 8 - “The Credit Crunch: The Impact on the Economy ”
Vincent Reinhart
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Podcast
January 31- “CBO's 2008 Budget & Economic Outlook”
Peter Orszag
Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Podcast | Rapporteur
January 24 - “Recession or Soft Landing? The 2008 US Economic Forecast”
Laurence H. Meyer
Macroeconomic Advisers
Podcast | Rapporteur
January 17 - "“An Economic View of the Pandemic Influenza”
Jenny Randall
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Slideshow | Rapporteur
January 10 - “What Do Unions Want from Fringe Benefits?”
Alan Reuther
Legislative Director,
UAW
Podcast
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