ECON-versations with NABE

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! This episode is a webinar replay from September 6, 2023.

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! On today's episode, NABE President and Vice President, Julia Coronado and Ellen Zentner, discuss the August 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 timely and unique perspectives on the U.S. and global economy to support decision makers in financial services and other industries. Ellen Zentner is the Chief U.S. Economist for Morgan Stanley.

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! This episode is a webinar replay from the Opportunities for Rural America webinar, held on August 29, 2023.

As we navigate a world of slow population growth, structural impediments to higher labor force participation, unstable global supply chains, and price/wage growth, we need to consider how we maximize production from our human and physical capital. Maximizing efficient production cannot be disaggregated from where the production and people are located. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. saw both employment and population move to the most urban parts of the nation. This was not just the move away from agricultural communities that we have seen for centuries; it included movement away from smaller towns and micropolitan areas. Smaller towns and more rural areas in the aggregate continue to underperform urban areas across a number of metrics, including employment-to-population ratios, business and entrepreneurial growth, and poverty rates. Perhaps we are leaving opportunities on the table to leverage the workforce and land in rural areas to create stronger and more inclusive economic growth. Since the pandemic, low (and falling) immigration and birth rates, continued congestion and land scarcity in urban areas, and remote work opportunities, create even greater potential. But how do we engage our rural areas and improve urban-rural connectivity? Join this webinar to learn more about policies that can help us build geographically inclusive and efficient growth.

This episode is the webinar replay of the August 2023 NABE Policy Survey Results Webinar, held on Monday, August 21, 2023. NABE Policy Survey Chair, Mervin Jebaraj, discusses the results and takes audience questions alongside NABE Policy Survey Analyst Holly Wade.

Mervin Jebaraj, Director, Center for Business and Economic Research, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas; NABE Economic Policy Survey Chair

Holly Wade, Executive Director, National Federation of Independent Business Research Center

The August 2023 NABE Economic Policy Survey summarizes the responses of 167 members of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). Conducted semiannually, this survey was administered between July 28 and August 7, 2023.  Survey findings may be reprinted in whole or in part with credit given to NABE. Survey results can be viewed online, including complete tabulations, at www.NABE.com. This is one of three surveys conducted by NABE—the other two are the NABE Outlook Survey and the NABE Business Conditions Survey.  Mervin Jebaraj, University of Arkansas, Survey Chair; Kathy Bostjancic, Nationwide, Sam Khater, Freddie Mac; Kathleen Navin, CBE, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Michelle Robinson, Bureau of Economic

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

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! On today's episode, NABE President, Julia Coronado, sits down with LinkedIn Principal Economist and Head of Macroeconomics, Guy Berger, Ph.D., to discuss the July 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 timely and unique perspectives on the U.S. and global economy to support decision makers in financial services and other industries.

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! This episode is the webinar replay of the July 2023 Business Conditions Survey results webinar, held on July 24, 2023. NABE Business Conditions Survey Chair, Carlos Herrera, and Survey Analyst, Lester Jones, CBE, discuss the Q2 2023 results and the near-term outlook.

Lester Jones, Vice President of Analytics and Chief Economist, National Beer Wholesalers Association

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

Welcome back to ECON-versations with NABE! During this episode, NABE President and Vice President, Julia Coronado and Ellen Zentner, discuss the June 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 timely and unique perspectives on the U.S. and global economy to support decision makers in financial services and other industries. Ellen Zentner is the Chief U.S. Economist for Morgan Stanley.

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