Constructing Indexes

Duncan Meldrum, NABE President and Chief Economist, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Economic Statistics from the US Government

Maurine Haver, President, Haver Analytics

Welcome

Duncan Meldrum, NABE President and Chief Economist, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Gross Domestic Product

Robert Parker, Chief Economist, General Accounting Office, moderator
Brooks Robinson, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Shelly Smith, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Joel L. Prakken, Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC

Measuring Employment

Maurine Haver, President, Haver Analytics, moderator
Mary Bowler, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Kevin Kliesen, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

A. International Statistics and Balance of Payments

Rosemary Marcuss, Deputy Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Jeffrey Lowe, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Lea Tyler, Oxford Economics (invited)

B. Prices--Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index

Kathleen Camilli , Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. moderator
Steve Reed, Bureau of Labor Statistics
John W. Mothersole, Principal, Global Insight Inc.

A. Data for Regional Analysis: RIMS/County Business Patterns

John E. Kleinhenz, Kleinhenz & Associates, Inc., moderator
Zoe Ambargis, Bureau of Economic Analysis
David Lenze, University of Florida-Gainesville

B. U.S. Financial Accounts: Flow of Funds

James Smith, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, moderator
Rochelle Antoniewicz, Federal Reserve Board
Gregory Miller, Chief Economist, SunTrust Banks

Concurrent Session III

A. Input-Output and GDP-by-Industry

Jeffrey F. Werling, President – IERF, Inforum/Department of Economics, University of Maryland, moderator
Edward Morgan, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Margaret McCarthy, Faculty Research Assistant, Inforum/Department of Economics, University of Maryland

B. Corporate Profits

Duncan H. Meldrum, NABE President and Chief Economist, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., moderator
Quarterly Financial Report
Yolando M. St. George, Bureau of the Census
Gross Domestic Product
Rosemary Marcuss, Deputy Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Anne Vandenabeele, Economist, Capital Strategy Research

Concurrent Session IV

A. Retail, Wholesale Trade and Inventories

Allen Grommet, Cambridge Consumer Credit Index, moderator
Scott A. Scheleur, Bureau of the Census
Michael P Niemira, Chief Economist, International Council of Shopping Centers

B. ECI, Average Hourly Earnings

Harvey Rosenblum, Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Wayne Shelly, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mary Bowler, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Anirvan Banerji, Director of Research, Economic Cycle Research Institute

Manufacturing and Construction Data

James Meil, Chief Economist, Eaton Corporation, moderator
G. Daniel Sansbury, Bureau of the Census
Sara Johnson, Managing Director, Global Insight, Inc

Production and Capacity Utilization

James F. Smith, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, moderator
Norman J. Morin, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
Yorgos Papatheodorou, Lockwood Greene