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Session 5: Data for Regional Analysis: RIMS/County Business Patterns

Skills Session 1: Gross Domestic Product 2: Measuring Employment 3: International Statistics and Balance of Payments 4: Prices - CPI and PPI 5: Data for Regional Analysis - RIMS 6: US Financial Accounts - Flow of Funds 7: Input-Output and GDP by Industry 8: Corporate Profits and Quarterly Financial Reports 9: Wholesale, Retail Trade, and Inventories 10: ECI, Average Hourly Earnings 11: Manufacturing and Construction Data 12: Production and Capacity Utilization Seminar Home

Session Downloads

Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II) - Zoe Ambargis

Regional Analysis with RIMS and other IO Tools - David Lenze

Session Links

BEA RIMS II page

BEA Regional data

BEARFACTS

Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida

Speakers

John E. Kleinhenz, Kleinhenz & Associates, Inc., moderator

Zoe Ambargis
Program Manager
Bureau of Economic Analysis

Zoe Ambargis is currently program manager for the BEA’s Regional Input-Ouput Modeling System (RIMS II,) and has been the program manager for the last 10 years. She received her Bachelor's degree in math from University of New Hampshire in1980.

Zoe has been with BEA for 22 years, involved in regional economic accounting, analysis and economic modeling. Zoe has served as the BEA’s representative on the North American Industry Classification (NAICS) Products Subcommittee developing a product classification system for the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector. She has been the recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bronze Medal Award for outstanding professional employees. Zoe has written and contributed to a number of articles on regional econometric and input-output modeling, and she has made a number of presentations on RIMS II. She has reviewed manuscripts for journals like the Review of Regional Studies. Zoe has served as a board member of the Southern Regional Science Association, an organization of about 400 regional economists, geographers, sociologists, and other social scientists in the United States and abroad. She has also served as a board member of the Society of Government Economists.

David Lenze
Economist, Bureau of Economic and Business Research
University of Florida-Gainesville

David Lenze is an economist with the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida. For many years he directed its long-term, regional, economic forecasting project. He has published research on transportation, regional economic modeling, and natural disasters and has conducted research for various organizations including the Florida State Legislature, Nissan Motor Corporation, and Piedmont Environmental Council. Currently he is conducting research on teacher labor supply. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University and starting June 1st he will join the Regional Economic Measurement staff at BEA.