News Briefs

Last call to register for this month’s skills seminar: Econometrics for the Business Analyst to be held Aug. 20-23 in Chicago. The Advanced Statistical Techniques for Economic Forecasting will be Oct. 15-18 in Atlanta. See the details and register at: http://nabe.com/skills200710/index.htm.

The latest NABE Industry Survey has received outstanding media coverage since its July 23 release, reports Melissa Golding, NABE press officer. Survey spokesman Ken Simonson was interviewed by CNBC, CNN Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, Associated Press Radio, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg News, and Voice of America Radio. Other outlets that covered the survey include Dow Jones, Reuters, the Detroit Free Press, and the Seattle Times.

The Aug. 7 Financial Roundtable Teleconference "Turmoil in Credit Markets: Rational Re-Pricing, or, Emerging Credit Crunch?" featuring Martin Fridson, CFA, FridsonVision LLC, Mark Zandi, Moody's Economy.com Inc, and Joshua Rosner, Graham Fisher & Co, is available as a free podcast download.

The Aug. 7 Technology Roundtable teleconference, "Innovation, The Triple Helix, and the International Networks,” featuring Leigh W. Jerome, Institute for Triple Helix Innovation, Honolulu, HI; Dieter Ernst, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI; and David M. Hart, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, is available as a free podcast download.

NABE will sponsor two sessions at the ASSA Meetings in New Orleans in January, 2008. The first session is "Recent and Prospective Developments in Monetary Policy Transparency and Communications: A Global Perspective" featuring Kevin Kliesen of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, moderator; Kazumasa Iwata, deputy governor, Bank of Japan; Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve Board; Lucas D. Papademos (invited), vice president, European Central Bank; and discussant Michael Woodford, Columbia University. The second session is "Accounting for Stock Options in the National Income Accounts" featuring Rosemary D. Marcuss, deputy director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, moderator; Cynthia A. Glassman, Commerce under secretary for economic affairs; S.P. Kothari, head of Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Management, Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and disscusant R. Glenn Hubbard, dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University School of Business.

Save the dates! The 2008 Washington Policy Conference will be held on March 3-4 and the 50th NABE Annual Meeting on Oct. 5-7, also in Washington, D.C. Stayed tuned for the details.