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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

HorriganThursday, 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


oharaThursday, June 12 - "Ecological Economics - The Science of Sustainability"

Sabine O'Hara
Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Podcast | Slideshow

 

Hughes-CromwickThursday, 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

SteindelThursday, 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

HufbauerThursday, 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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