National Association for Business Economics
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The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) is the largest international association of applied economists, strategists, academics, and policy-makers committed to the application of economics. Founded in 1959, it is one of the member organizations of the Allied Social Sciences Association
. According to the association's website, "NABE's mission is to provide leadership in the use and understanding of economics.".
The association's membership is divided into ten subject-oriented subdivisions or roundtables: Corporate Planning, Financial, Health Economics, International, Manufacturing, Real Estate/Construction, Regional/Utility, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Transfer Pricing. Each division is referred to as a "Roundtable" and conducts 3-4 webinars and two sessions at NABE meetings each year. NABE also has local and student chapters in many cities and much of the United States.
Alan Greenspan
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NABE Annual Meeting
For over 50 years, the nation’s top business economists have gathered at the NABE Annual Meeting to debate and discuss the economic trends impacting their companies and their outlook for the global and U.S. economies. The NABE Annual Meeting features prominent speakers, lively panel discussions, enlightening educational sessions, and ample networking opportunities. In addition to NABE Members and those in related fields, the NABE Annual Meeting regularly attracts business leaders, government officials, analysts, investors, and scores of members of the business media.
Economic Policy Conference
NABE’s Economic Policy Conference, held annually in the spring in Washington, DC, focuses on the one seemingly-unpredictable variable that regularly confounds many economists and their models: economic policy. A unique opportunity for business economists and those who use economics in the workplace to glean insight from and network with economic policymakers and policy analysts, the NABE Economic Policy Conference has become the premier national event addressing the nexus of economics, business, and policymaking. Speakers at the Economic Policy Conference have included leaders from the Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, Congressional Budget Office, FDIC, and other government agencies, in addition to top analysts at think tanks and other institutions.
Webinars/Teleconferences
Each of the ten NABE Roundtables conducts regular webinars and teleconferences on timely economics topics within its area of interest. These sessions are available to both members and non-members. For a list of upcoming roundtable events, check the NABE web site.
Publications
Business Economics
Business Economics, NABE's quarterly journal, serves as an essential resource and provides practical information for people who apply economics in the workplace. It is the leading forum for debating solutions to critical business problems, analyzing key business and economic issues, and sharing of best-practice models, tools, and hands-on techniques from practitioners in the field of economics.
NABE News
NABE News is a vital membership communication vehicle providing topical information on NABE's activities and members. Each quarter, NABE News answers questions like Who has recently joined NABE? What is the state of funding for the federal statistical agencies? Which NABE Members have recently changed jobs or been promoted? What happened at the most recent NABE conference?
NABE NewsDigest
NABE NewsDigest is a weekly e-newsletter which combines the most recent NABE and NABE Foundation updates with real-time business economics content. NABE NewsDigest pulls from hundreds of blogs, working papers, and op-ed pages to deliver the latest business economics news, information and research to your inbox each week.
NABE Surveys
NABE regularly conducts three surveys of its membership: the Outlook Survey, the Industry Survey, and the Economic Policy Survey. The results of these surveys are greatly anticipated and frequently impact market trading, receiving excellent media coverage and wide use by economists, analysts, investors, and policymakers. As a NABE member, you receive complimentary access to all three survey reports. The NABE Outlook Survey, the most well-known of the NABE surveys, provides the consensus forecast of NABE’s professional economic forecasters.
Education and Career Development
Certificate in Economic Measurement
Data are the raw materials economists use to make sense of the economy through modeling and other forms of analysis. Despite the critical importance of data to economists and analysts, most academic programs spend little time instructing on the topics of where to find and how to use economic data. NABE’s Certificate in Economic Measurement fills in the gaps left by these academic programs.
Econometrics Certificate Programs
Offered twice yearly at Federal Reserve Banks, NABE's Econometrics Seminars are among its most popular offerings. Each Summer, NABE offers the certificate in Applied Econometrics, and each Fall, the certificate in Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting.
EconJobs.org
NABE's career site, EconJobs.org, caters only to those seeking a job or an employee in the field of economics.
in 2010,, former Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers
in 2009, Chief Executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis William Poole
in 2006, Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Paul Krugman
in 1995, and influential economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Milton Friedman
in 1989.
Allied Social Sciences Association
The Allied Social Science Association is a group of academic and professional organizations that are officially recognized by the and are related to the study of social sciences...
. According to the association's website, "NABE's mission is to provide leadership in the use and understanding of economics.".
The association's membership is divided into ten subject-oriented subdivisions or roundtables: Corporate Planning, Financial, Health Economics, International, Manufacturing, Real Estate/Construction, Regional/Utility, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Transfer Pricing. Each division is referred to as a "Roundtable" and conducts 3-4 webinars and two sessions at NABE meetings each year. NABE also has local and student chapters in many cities and much of the United States.
Presidents
The NABE president for 2011-2012 is Dr. Gene Huang, vice president and chief economist of FedEx. Past presidents of the NABE include former Chairman of the Federal ReserveChairman of the Federal Reserve
The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States. Known colloquially as "Chairman of the Fed," or in market circles "Fed Chairman" or "Fed Chief"...
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC...
.
| Name | Term | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC... |
1969 - 1970 | Townsend,Greenspan & Co. |
| Dr. Ellen Hughes-Cromwick | 2007 - 2008 | Chief Economist, Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK... |
| Chris Varvares | 2008 - 2009 | President, Macroeconomic Advisers |
| Dr. Lynn Reaser | 2009 - 2010 | Chief Economist, Point Loma Nazarene University Point Loma Nazarene University Point Loma Nazarene University is a Christian liberal arts college. Its main campus is located on the Point Loma oceanfront in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1902 as a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene.-History:... |
| Dr. Richard L. Wobbekind | 2010 - 2011 | Director of the Business Research Division and Associate Dean for MBA and Enterprise Programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Dr. Gene Huang | 2011 - 2012 | Vice President & Chief Economist, FedEx |
Activities
ConferencesNABE Annual Meeting
For over 50 years, the nation’s top business economists have gathered at the NABE Annual Meeting to debate and discuss the economic trends impacting their companies and their outlook for the global and U.S. economies. The NABE Annual Meeting features prominent speakers, lively panel discussions, enlightening educational sessions, and ample networking opportunities. In addition to NABE Members and those in related fields, the NABE Annual Meeting regularly attracts business leaders, government officials, analysts, investors, and scores of members of the business media.
Economic Policy Conference
NABE’s Economic Policy Conference, held annually in the spring in Washington, DC, focuses on the one seemingly-unpredictable variable that regularly confounds many economists and their models: economic policy. A unique opportunity for business economists and those who use economics in the workplace to glean insight from and network with economic policymakers and policy analysts, the NABE Economic Policy Conference has become the premier national event addressing the nexus of economics, business, and policymaking. Speakers at the Economic Policy Conference have included leaders from the Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, Congressional Budget Office, FDIC, and other government agencies, in addition to top analysts at think tanks and other institutions.
Webinars/Teleconferences
Each of the ten NABE Roundtables conducts regular webinars and teleconferences on timely economics topics within its area of interest. These sessions are available to both members and non-members. For a list of upcoming roundtable events, check the NABE web site.
Publications
Business Economics
Business Economics, NABE's quarterly journal, serves as an essential resource and provides practical information for people who apply economics in the workplace. It is the leading forum for debating solutions to critical business problems, analyzing key business and economic issues, and sharing of best-practice models, tools, and hands-on techniques from practitioners in the field of economics.
NABE News
NABE News is a vital membership communication vehicle providing topical information on NABE's activities and members. Each quarter, NABE News answers questions like Who has recently joined NABE? What is the state of funding for the federal statistical agencies? Which NABE Members have recently changed jobs or been promoted? What happened at the most recent NABE conference?
NABE NewsDigest
NABE NewsDigest is a weekly e-newsletter which combines the most recent NABE and NABE Foundation updates with real-time business economics content. NABE NewsDigest pulls from hundreds of blogs, working papers, and op-ed pages to deliver the latest business economics news, information and research to your inbox each week.
NABE Surveys
NABE regularly conducts three surveys of its membership: the Outlook Survey, the Industry Survey, and the Economic Policy Survey. The results of these surveys are greatly anticipated and frequently impact market trading, receiving excellent media coverage and wide use by economists, analysts, investors, and policymakers. As a NABE member, you receive complimentary access to all three survey reports. The NABE Outlook Survey, the most well-known of the NABE surveys, provides the consensus forecast of NABE’s professional economic forecasters.
Education and Career Development
Certificate in Economic Measurement
Data are the raw materials economists use to make sense of the economy through modeling and other forms of analysis. Despite the critical importance of data to economists and analysts, most academic programs spend little time instructing on the topics of where to find and how to use economic data. NABE’s Certificate in Economic Measurement fills in the gaps left by these academic programs.
Econometrics Certificate Programs
Offered twice yearly at Federal Reserve Banks, NABE's Econometrics Seminars are among its most popular offerings. Each Summer, NABE offers the certificate in Applied Econometrics, and each Fall, the certificate in Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting.
EconJobs.org
NABE's career site, EconJobs.org, caters only to those seeking a job or an employee in the field of economics.
Journal Publication
NABE is the publisher of Business Economics, a scholarly journal that covers different aspects of applied economics and is published quarterly.Adam Smith Award
Since 1982, NABE has awarded the Adam Smith Award to prominent economists and policy makers that have contributed to business economics. Just some of the recipients of the award include, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Janet YellenJanet Yellen
Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
in 2010,, former Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was Director of the White House United States National Economic Council for President Barack Obama until November 2010.Summers is the...
in 2009, Chief Executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis William Poole
William Poole
William Poole , also known as Bill the Butcher, was a member of the New York City gang the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement.-Early life:...
in 2006, Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
in 1995, and influential economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the...
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...
in 1989.