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Session 15: Contributed Papers Session
Winners of the sixth annual contributed papers competition will present their papers.
Presentations
Cliff Waldman slides (PDF 110 K)
Thomas Siems slides (PDF 1.04 MB)
Xiaobing Shuai slides (PDF 1.36 MB)
Links of Interest
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Speakers
Thomas F. Siems
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Thomas F. Siems is senior economist and policy advisor in the Research
Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He also teaches various
operations research, business and economics courses in the School of
Engineering at Southern Methodist University. He earned a B.S.E. from The
University of Michigan, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from SMU. He has
published more than 50 articles in various academic journals, books and
Federal Reserve publications. He has also published four children’s books
and plans to release another, The Dangerous Pet, very soon.
Cliff Waldman
Economist
Manufacturers Alliance
Cliff Waldman is an Economist with the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI since 2003. He is the author of the research paper The Labor Market in Post-Reform China: History, Evidence, and Implications and of the Quarterly Forecast of U.S. Exports, Global Growth, and the Dollar. He is a participant in the Bloomberg News survey of economists.
Previously he has been President, Waldman Associates; Economist, National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB); Economist, New Jersey Department of Labor.
He has a B.A., Economics and English, from Rutgers University and an M.A., Economics, from Rutgers University.
Xiaobing Shuai
Senior Economist
Chmura Economics & Analytics
Xiaobing Shuai joined Chmura Economics & Analytics in March, 2004. His duties include model building and forecasting regional and macroeconomic trends. His interest rate forecasts are published in the Blue Chip Financial Forecasts, while his forecasts for housing market activities are published in Housing Market Report. His research with CEA also includes regional economic development, workforce development, and other labor market related issues. Previously he worked as a senior analyst with Capital One Financial Corporation in Richmond. His expertise includes credit risk management, NPV analysis, and econometric modeling.
Xiaobing is a native of China and graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai. He pursued graduate study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he obtained the M.A. in Agricultural Economics and the Ph.D in Economics. His thesis, Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: Motives, Structures, and Impacts was awarded the Henry Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award. His papers have been published in International Economic Journal and Environment and Development Economics.
