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Session 10: Capacity Utilization and Industrial Production
Presentations
Norman J. Morin, A Tour through the Federal Reserve Board’s Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization System (PDF, 774 K)
Charles Steindel, Industrial Data and the Macroeconomy (PDF, 22 K)
Robert Fry, Economic Outlook (PDF, 173 K)
Links of Interest
Capacity Utilization and Industrial Production at the Fed
Speakers
Norman J. Morin
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Board
Norman Morin is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board in the
Industrial Output Section of the Division of Research and Statistics. His
primary responsibilities include forecasting the industrial sector, estimating capacity utilization, and researching topics related to industry output and capacity utilization.
He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at San Diego. He is in his eighth year at the Federal Reserve Board.
Charles Steindel
Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Charles Steindel is a Senior Vice President in the Business Conditions Function. He oversees the Group's analysis and forecasts of U.S. economic conditions. His research interests include consumer spending and saving and productivity growth. He served as president of the Money Marketeers of New York University and the Forecasters Club of New York. He received his bachelor's degree from Emory University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institure of Technology.
Robert Fry
Senior Associate Economist
DuPont
Robert Fry is Senior Associate Economist, DuPont Economist's Office, where he aAnalyzes and forecasts the global economy and its impact on DuPont. He assists DuPont businesses with interpreting economic data and using it to forecast DuPont performance. He speaks frequently to customers, trade associations, and business teams. He is the author of Current Business Developments, a monthly newsletter.
DuPont Economist’s Office (Robert Fry and DuPont Corporate Economist Bob Shrouds) tied for first place in The Wall Street Journal’s semiannual forecasting survey (2nd half 2002), made the top 10 in USA Today’s forecasting survey (March 2004 and March 2005) and Bloomberg’s forecasting survey (October 2004), and won the prestigious Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy (November 2005).
He has a B.S. (Economics) from Ohio University, 1979; Harvard University, A.M. (Economics), 1981, Ph.D. (Economics), 1985.
He is a past chapter president of the Wilmington, DE chapter of the National Association for Business Economics.
