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Session 5: The Regional Outlook
Sunday, 3:45- 5:00 pm, Ballroom AB
What is the outlook for the regions and major states in the United States and how will the U.S. industry outlook affect the various regions? To assist your company’s market research, find out which states are likely to be growing most rapidly over the next 18 months.
Sponsored by the NABE Regional/Utility Roundtable
Session Downloads
The Economy is No Longer Jobless: What's Next? by James Diffley (slides)
The Regional Outlook by Sophia Koropeckj (slides)
Global Insight Regional Analysis
Speakers
Richard Wobbekind
University of Colorado
Regional
Utility Roundtable Chair,
presiding
Sophia Koropeckj
Director of Industry Economics
Economy.com
Sophia Koropeckyj is Director of Industry Economics at Economy.com. Ms. Koropeckyj has an ABD from the University of Michigan.
Jim Diffley
Managing Director
Global Insight
James Diffley is Managing Director of Global Insight’s U.S. Regional Services Group, with overall responsibility for Regional Services, including the Regional Core Macroeconomic Service and the Global Insight Real Estate & Construction Service. Since 1998, he has supervised the quarterly economic forecast of the 50 states and over 300 metropolitan areas of the United States. He regularly makes presentations of these regional economic forecasts and analysis to clients, conferences, governmental bodies, and the press.
He is also responsible for customized consulting projects. These have included long-term projections of cigarette consumption, forecasts of capital gains realizations, analysis of the economic impact of the securities industry on New York State, analysis of the impact of changing oil prices on local economies, and the economic impact of various facilities locations.
Diffley came to Global Insight through WEFA, Inc. Prior to joining WEFA, Diffley was supervising tax analyst with the New Jersey Division of Taxation's Office of Tax Analysis from 1988 to 1996, where he was responsible for developing the state economic forecast for the state executive budget and for business tax revenue forecasting. Diffley did his Doctorate of Philosophy training in economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completing all requirements but the dissertation. From 1982 to 1987, he was on the economics faculty at Adelphi University in New York.
