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Session 10: Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina
Presentations
Links of Interest
CBO 9/6/2005 Estimated Impact of Katrina (PDF)
Atlanta Fed: Information for Affected Financial Institutions
Speakers
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Director
Congressional Budget Office
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sixth Director of the Congressional Budget Office, where he was appointed for a four-year term beginning February 4, 2003. Dr. Holtz-Eakin previously served for 18 months as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he also served as Senior Staff Economist in 1989 and 1990.
Dr. Holtz-Eakin is Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, where he has served as Chairman of the Department of Economics and Associate Director of the Center for Policy Research. He also has served as editor of the National Tax Journal, associate editor of the Journal of Human Resources, and as a member of the editorial board for Public Budgeting & Finance, Economics and Politics, Journal of Sports Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Public Works Management and Policy.
In the past, he has held academic appointments at Columbia University and Princeton University. Since 1985, he has been a faculty research fellow and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a member of the Economics Advisory Panel to the National Science Foundation. He also has worked as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has been a consultant to the New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission, the State of Arizona Joint Select Committee on State Revenues and Expenditures, and the New York State Office for the Aging. He has also served as the Executive Director, Tax Study Commission, New York State Assembly.
Dr. Holtz-Eakin has a long-standing and broad interest in the economics of public policy. He has studied the role of federal taxes in home ownership, the contribution of inventories to the business cycle, and a wide variety of topics in state and local government finance. Much of his research has centered on the economics of fundamental tax reform, productivity effects of public infrastructure; income mobility in the United States; and the role of families, capital markets, health insurance, and tax policy in the start-up and survival of entrepreneurial ventures.
John C. Robertson
Regional Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
John C. Robertson is an assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is the team leader for the regional research and Latin American groups at the Atlanta Fed, and is one of the Bank’s senior monetary policy advisers.
Dr. Robertson joined the Atlanta Fed’s research department in January of 1998 from The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research has been published in many distinguished economics journals.
A native of Dunedin, New Zealand, Dr. Robertson holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech in 1992.
Loren C. Scott
President
Loren C. Scott Associates
Dr. Scott is the President of Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., an economic consulting firm whose clients include such large national firms as BellSouth, Bank One, ExxonMobil, and a diversity of others such as Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Placid Oil Refinery, the Louisiana Chemical Association, Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, the Louisiana Judicial Compensation Commission, and the Coushatta Indian Tribe.
His career started at Louisiana State University in 1969 where he spent the next 33 years, rising through the ranks from assistant professor to the prestigious Freeport McMoran Endowed Chair of Economics and the Director of the Division of Economic Development and Forecasting.
Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, he was the chairman of the Economics Department at LSU. During that time, the Department's ranking among the 3,000 economics departments in the U.S. rose from 101st to 35th. He is presently Professor Emeritus at LSU and continues to teach in the Executive MBA and LSU Executive Programs. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching.
Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana econometric (e-con-o-met'-rick) model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy, which are released each September. He has been a co-investigator on over $1 million in grant research at LSU and is the author of over 75 articles and technical reports. He gives 50-70 speeches a year on the state of the economy.
