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Session 19: The Effect of the Election on the Fiscal Policy Outlook
3:45-5:00 pm Ballroom A
Where is tax and spending policy headed? Does it matter who is president?
Session Downloads
Elizabeth Robinson, "The 10 Year Budget Outlook" (slides)
Links of Interest
Office of Management and Budget
Speakers
Elinda Fishman Kiss
Teaching Professor
University of Maryland
Elinda Fishman Kiss is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
She has served as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Finance and Accounting at Rutgers University School of Business – Newark and New Brunswick. Prior to teaching at Rutgers she was Corporate Treasurer of Custom Equipment Manufacturing, held various management positions at the Resolution Trust Corporation, and was Vice President of PSFS Bank, Assistant Vice President of Citicorp Investment Bank, and a Commercial Lender at First Pennsylvania Bank. She has also worked as an Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and at the U.S. Treasury.
Dr. Kiss has also taught Finance and Economics at: The College of New Jersey, Drexel University, Pennsylvania State University, The College of New Jersey, Temple University, Wellesley College, West Chester University, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Kiss received her Ph.D. and MA degrees from the University of Rochester and her BA Cum Laude from Washington University in St. Louis.
Elinda Kiss is a member of the Board of Directors of NABE and of Board of Directors of the Financial Management Association. She is past president of the Philadelphia Council for Business Economics.
Her primary areas of research include: European Central Bank, Bank Regulation, Bank Management, Fixed Income Securities, and World Sugar Markets.
Her primary areas of teaching include: Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis and Management, Financial Institutions Management, Financial Instruments and Markets, Managerial Finance, Managerial Economics, Microeconomics, International Finance, Financial Accounting, Accounting for Managers, Financial Statement Analysis, International Banking and Capital Markets.
She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband
Rudolph Penner
Senior Fellow
Urban Institute
Rudolph G. Penner is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and holds the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public Policy. Previously, he was a managing director of the Barents Group, a KPMG Company. He was director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987. From 1977 to 1983, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previous posts in government include assistant director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors. Before 1975, Dr. Penner was a professor of economics at the University of Rochester.
He is past president of the National Economists Club and, in 1989, he was elected to the Board of Directors of NABE and also received the Abramson Prize for the best article published in 1988-89 in Business Economics.
Elizabeth Robinson
Deputy Director
Congressional Budget Office
Beth Robinson currently serves as Deputy Director for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in Washington, D.C. She oversees development for the Congress of objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic- and budget-related legislative decisions. (The agency’s subject matter gives it a broad reach, reflecting the wide array of activities that the federal budget covers and the major role that the budget plays in the U.S. economy.) Further responsibilities include the day-to-day management of the Office, a 235-person organization.
Prior to working at CBO, Beth Robinson served as the Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Review and Concepts at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In that role, she oversaw the development of the President’s annual budget requests and analyzed budget appropriations and execution issues. For several years after she first came to OMB in 1998, she was also a program examiner for defense and energy issues.
From 1989 to 1998, Beth first worked at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment and then was a staff member on the Committee on Science in the House of Representatives.
Beth received her Ph.D. in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Geophysics and subsequently taught at Stanford University. In 1989, she participated in the Geological Society of America’s Congressional Fellows Program, which first took her to Washington, D.C. Beth spent the very earliest part of her career on the West Coast, receiving her B.S. in physics from Reed College in Portland, OR, after beginning her college career at the University of Washington in Seattle.
