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Session 12: Consumer and Producer Price Indexes

 

Presentations

Maurine Haver slideshow

Joe Cardinale slideshow

Links of Interest

BLS CPI page | PPI Page

Speakers

haverMaurine Haver
President
Haver Analytics

Maurine is President and founder of Haver Analytics Inc., an economic consulting and information services company. Prior to starting Haver Analytics in 1978, she was an economist in the economic forecasting group of General Electric in New York, a member of the International Staff of Companie Bull General Electric in Paris and a consultant in the Foreign Currency Exposure Management Group of the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

Maurine served as President of the National Association of Business Economists (1994-95) and now chairs the NABE campaign for Quality Economic Data that she initiated during her year as president. In her role as Chair of the NABE Statistics Committee, she testifies before Congress on statistical issues, conducts quarterly meetings which bring together producers and users of federal statistics and organizes seminars to help users better understand the statistics available from government and private sources.

Maurine chairs the Business Research Advisory Council of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. She has served as secretary of the Forecasters Club of New York since 1992. She is a past president of the New York Association for Business Economics (1989-90), the Downtown Economists Club (1993-94) and the Money Marketeers of New York University (1998-99). She chaired the board of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) during 2001-2003. She currently serves on the board of Mutual of America and is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the National Economists Club.

Maurine holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Michigan State University, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of New York University and completed her oral exam for a PhD in International Economics at NYU.


meldrumDuncan Meldrum
Chief Economist
Air Products

Duncan Meldrum is the Chief Economist for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., an $8.1 billion industrial gas company serving customers in over 30 countries. As Chief Economist, he assesses the impact of the economic environment on the company’s performance for the executive management team and develops global economic assumptions for the company’s operating plans. He provides operating groups with pricing assistance, contract support and market analyses. He also serves as the company’s economics spokesperson.

He received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1973, a M.S. degree in Operations Research from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Lehigh University in 1992. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Census Bureau. He serves as a director on the boards of the APCI Federal Credit Union and the nonprofit Parkette National Gymnastics Center. He is a past president of the National Association for Business Economics. His other professional associations include the Conference of Business Economists, the National Business Economic Issues Council, and the American Economics Association.


CardenaleJoe Cardinale
Air Products

Joe Cardinale is a senior economist at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., an $8.1 billion industrial gas company serving customers in over 30 countries.  In this position, he assists operating groups with pricing and contract support, market analysis and analysis of the impacts of economic conditions on business performance.  He works with Duncan Meldrum, the Chief Economist, in the development of economic guidelines for the company’s operating plans.  In addition to economics, Joe has spent over ten years with Air Products in their finance function, working primarily with project and cash flow analysis.

Joe earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and policy studies from Dickinson College, an MBA from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, and is working towards a doctorate in economics at Lehigh University.

 

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