Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE. This episode is a webinar replay from the EMS Preview Webinar, held on June 29.

Seasonality is a common feature of economic data and if not properly addressed, it can cloud our judgment about what the data are telling us. Seasonal adjustment methodologies have been developed to remove these predictable patterns to reveal the underlying trend and cycle. When is seasonal adjustment appropriate? What are the best methods? What are the pitfalls and challenges in analyzing seasonal and seasonally adjusted data? Over the next hour, the session will look at these issues from a user’s perspective to help develop a deeper appreciation for working with economic indicators.

Speaker:
Ataman Ozyildirim, Adjunct Professor, Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College | Slides

Moderator:
Maurine Haver, CBE, Founder and President, Haver Analytics

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! This episode is a webinar replay from the June 27th webinar on the generative AI moment and its implications for retail and customer sectors. The panel explores the exciting and transformative potential of generative AI models in the retail and customer sectors and addresses key questions such as:

Sam Ransbotham, Professor of Analytics at the Boston College, Carroll School of Management

Daniel Rock, Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Martin Spindler, Professor for Data Science, Statistics and Econometrics at Universität Hamburg, and Director at Economic AI

Moderator: Mona Birjandi, NABE Consumer/Retail Roundtable Chair; Principal Economist and Data Scientist, Petco

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! This episode is a webinar replay from the June 22, 2023 webinar, Climate Crisis Economics, presented by the NABE Climate Economics & Finance Roundtable.

The urgent essential race to net-zero is a race of tipping points between looming climate shifts of no return driven by rising GHG emissions and competing industrial strategies designed to support, accelerate, and multiply the linked pathways to a sustainable future. This webinar will highlight the challenges still ahead and discuss how just as climate change happens slowly then fast, so too can policy, firms, and our economies shift suddenly with the right incentives, disincentives, regulations and market responses.  

Speakers:

Stuart Mackintosh, CBE, Executive Director, The Group of Thirty; Chair, NABE Climate Economics & Finance Roundtable

Michael Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! This episode is a webinar replay from the June 8 Economic Measurement Seminar preview webinar on economic statistics from U.S. government and industry sources. The EMS planning committee delivers an overview of the data provided by the U.S. federal statistical system with a special focus on those that will be covered during the conference. They also highlight examples of common misinterpretations of the data and the concepts to focus on in the upcoming EMS sessions.

Slides from this presentation can be downloaded here. For more information on the Economic Measurement Seminar and to register, please visit NABE.com/EMS2023.

Maurine Haver, CBE, Founder and President, Haver Analytics

Michael Horrigan, CBE, President, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Kenneth Kim, CBE, Senior Economist, KPMG

Jack Kleinhenz, CBE, Chief Economist, National Retail Federation

Kathleen Navin, CBE, Senior Business Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Dana Saporta, CBE, Economist

NABE is the premier professional association for business economists and others who use economics in the workplace. Since 1959, NABE has attracted 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. 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.

Following the turmoil in the US, and the rushed merger of Credit Suisse and UBS, there has been some concern about the health of the European banking sector. While on the surface the regulatory regime in Europe may have been stricter to protect the banking sector, this discussion will look at how resilient the sector is and what the authorities should be looking to do in order to protect the sector and the wider economy.

This episode is a webinar replay and was recorded on June 6, 2023.

William Coen, Former Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)   

Philip Davis, Professor of Banking and Finance, Brunel University

Moderator: Yael Selfin, Chief Economist, KPMG in the UK; Chair, NABE International Roundtable

NABE is the premier professional association for business economists and others who use economics in the workplace. Since 1959, NABE has attracted 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. 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.

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! On this episode, Elaine Buckberg, Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, sits down with Federal Reserve Bank of Bank of Philadelphia President and CEO Patrick Harker to discuss all things monetary policy. The conversation took place on June 1, 2023.

Patrick Harker, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Moderated by: Elaine Buckberg, Policy Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

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⁠NABE⁠ is the premier professional association for business economists and others who use economics in the workplace. Since 1959, NABE has attracted the most prominent figures in economics, business, and academia to its membership with highly-regarded conferences, educational and career

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! On this episode, NABE Vice President, Ellen Zentner, sits down with Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin to discuss all things monetary policy. The conversation took place on May 30, 2023.

Tom Barkin, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! On today's episode, NABE President, Julia Coronado, sits down with Indeed Hiring Lab's Economic Research Director for North America, Nick Bunker, to discuss the May employment report.

Be sure to tune in every Monday following the employment report, as we dive into the latest data and events impacting the economy.

Julia Coronado is the President and Founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC, an economic research service that provides a timely and unique perspective on the U.S. and global economy to support decision makers in financial services and other industries.

The U.S. labor market has remained surprisingly tight, with many firms continuing to report labor shortages, even as the broader economy shows signs of cooling. Immigrants have long played an important role in labor supply growth, but the pandemic disrupted normal patterns. This webinar will bring together three leading experts to discuss what the authoritative data say about recent trends in immigration to the United States: The magnitude of flows, the pathways they arrive through, and their skills. | Slides

Alicia Ward, Statistician, Office of Immigration Statistics, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Courtney Shupert, Economist, MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC

Jeanne Batalova, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute

Harry Holzer, John LaFarge, Jr. S.J. Chair and Professor, Georgetown University

Moderator: Aaron Terrazas, NABE Labor Economics Roundtable Chair; Chief Economist, Glassdoor

This episode is the webinar replay of the May 2023 NABE Outlook Survey results webinar held on May 22, 2023. NABE Outlook Survey chair Dana M. Peterson discusses the Q2 forecast results with Outlook Survey Analysts, Ryan Sweet, Brent Meyer, and David Bowers, and takes questions from webinar attendees.

Dana M. Peterson, NABE Survey Chair; Chief Economist, The Conference Board

Ryan Sweet, Chief U.S. Economist, Oxford Economics

Brent Meyer, Assistant Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

David Bowers, Owner and Global Strategist, Absolute Strategy Research Ltd.

The May 2023 NABE Outlook presents the consensus macroeconomic forecast of a panel of 45 professional forecasters (see last page for listing). The survey, covering the outlook for 2023 and 2024, was conducted May 2-9, 2023. The NABE Outlook Survey originated in 1965, and is one of three surveys conducted by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE); the others are the NABE Business Conditions Survey and the NABE Economic Policy Survey. Founded in 1959, the National Association for Business Economics is the professional association for those who use economics in their work. NABE has over 2,900 members and 44 chapters nationwide. Dana M. Peterson (chair), The Conference Board; Jack Kleinhenz, CBE, National Retail Federation; Brent Meyer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Yelena Maleyev, CBE, KPMG; David Bowers, Absolute Strategy Research Ltd; and Ryan Sweet, Oxford Economics, conducted the analysis of survey responses for this report. The views expressed in this report are those of the panelists, and do not necessarily represent the views of their affiliated companies or institutions. This report may be reproduced in whole or in part with appropriate citation to NABE.

To read the full report and learn about our four industry surveys, please visit www.NABE.com/Surveys.