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John Silvia, former NABE board member and chief economist of Wells Fargo Securities, has been named the new chairman of the NABE Foundation. He succeeds Jack Kleinhenz, president of Kleinhenz & Associates in Cleveland, who has served as chairman since the Foundation was established in 2004.

Mark your calendar for the 26th Washington Economic Policy Conference on March 7-9, 2010, at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. Each year, the policy conference attracts top administration officials, policymakers and economists to debate the most critical policy issues of the day. See information on previous policy conferences here.

Results of the NABE Industry Survey were released October 26 and the survey was discussed in a teleconference by William Strauss, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Shawn DuBravac, Consumer Electronics Association; Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, Fidelity Investments; and Tim Gill, National Electrical Manufacturers Association. A podcast of the teleconference is available for purchase.

NABE members are encouraged to participate actively in the 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, October 9-12 by submitting a paper for the NABE Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Papers Award. E-mail an abstract of no more than 250 words (one page, double-spaced) of a proposed paper (with no author identification) and a biographical (also one-page) sketch no later than March 15, 2010, to Tom Beers, NABE executive director, at tbeers@nabe.com. By April 19, a Selection Committee appointed by Business Economics’ Editor will review the anonymous abstracts, selecting up to eight abstracts. The authors will be requested to provide completed papers for review by June 21. The guidelines for preparation will be the same as those for all manuscripts submitted to Business Economics. These guidelines are printed in Business Economics, and they are also available on the NABE website or on request from the Editor of Business Economics. There is a $1,000 prize for the best paper.

According to the NABE Outlook survey, released October 12, “the Great Recession is over.” The survey coordinators reported that “a vast majority of business economists believe that the recession has ended, but that economic recovery is likely to be more moderate than those typically experienced following steep declines.” Find the complete survey report here.

Nominations are invited for the annual Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics, given in recognition of unusually original and important contributions in the development of economic statistics or in the use of statistics in interpreting the economy. NABE cosponsors the award with the Washington Statistical Society, and the Business and Economics Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. The award will be presented with an honorarium of $750 plus additional recognition from the sponsors. A nomination form and a list of all previous recipients are available on the ASA Website at www.amstat.org/sections/bus_econ/shiskin.html. Completed nominations must be received by March 5, 2010. For questions or more information, please contact Steven Paben, Julius Shiskin Award Committee Secretary, via e-mail at paben.steven@bls.gov or call 202-691-6147.

NABE’s Regional Utility Roundtable sponsored a teleconference September 16 on "A Regional Perspective on Economic Recovery: How is Recovery Progressing in Different Regions of the Country?" Speakers included Jason Bram, senior economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Sieb Hoogstra, director, OCO Global; and Scott Pattison, executive director, National Association of State Budget Officers. Dan Levine, founder of MetroCompare, LLC, was the moderator. The podcast is now available online at http://www.nabe.com/rt/reg/events.html.

The Health Economics Roundtable sponsored a teleconference on September 29 on "While Washington Fiddles - How the Nation's Hospitals are Coping with the Financial Crisis." Speakers were: William C. McGinly, president and CEO of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, and Kristen Franceschi, of DLA Piper, LLP. Richard O'Sullivan, Change Management Solutions, was the moderator. For more information and to download the podcast, go to: http://www.nabe.com/rt/health/events.html

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