National Association for Business Economics
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Formation | 1959 |
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Purpose | Business economics |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
Region served | United States |
Membership | 3,000[1] |
Executive Director | Tom Beers |
Website | http://www.nabe.com |
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) is the largest international association of applied economists, strategists, academics, and policy-makers committed to the application of economics.[1] Founded in 1959, it is one of the member organizations of the Allied Social Science Associations. According to the association's website, "NABE's mission is to provide leadership in the use and understanding of economics.".[2]
NABE was holding its annual conference at the
The association's membership is divided into subject-oriented subdivisions or round tables, including: financial, health economics, international, manufacturing, real estate/construction, regional/utility, small business/entrepreneurship, technology, and transfer pricing. Each round table plans and executes webinars and sessions at NABE meetings each year.[5] NABE also has local and student chapters[6] in many cities and much of the United States.[7]
Leadership
Presidents
Past presidents of the NABE include former
Past presidents include:[10]
Name | Term | Position |
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George W. McKinney Jr. | 1965 – 1966 | Senior vice president, Irving Trust Company
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William Chartener | 1967 – 1968 | Chief economist, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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Alan Greenspan | 1969 – 1970 | Co-founder, Townsend, Greenspan & Co. |
Diane C. Swonk
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1999 – 2000 | Chief economist, KPMG |
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick | 2007 – 2008 | Chief economist, Ford Motor Company |
Chris Varvares | 2008 – 2009 | President, Macroeconomic Advisers |
Lynn Reaser | 2009 – 2010 | Chief economist, Point Loma Nazarene University |
Richard L. Wobbekind | 2010 – 2011 | Director of business research division and associate dean for MBA and Enterprise Programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder |
Gene Huang | 2011 – 2012 | Vice president & chief economist, FedEx |
Ken Simonson | 2012 – 2013 | Chief economist, Associated General Contractors of America |
Jack Kleinhenx | 2013 – 2014 | Chief economist, National Retail Federation |
John Silvia | 2014 – 2015 | Managing director and chief economist, Wells Fargo |
Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly | 2015 – 2016 | Research director, asset allocation, Fidelity Investments |
Stuart P. M. Mackintosh | 2016 – 2017 | Executive director, Group of Thirty |
Mine Yucel | 2017 – 2018 | Senior vice president and research director, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
Kevin Swift | 2018 – 2019 | Chief economist, American Chemistry Council |
Constance Hunter | 2019 – 2020 | Chief economist, |
Manuel Balmaseda | 2020 – 2021 | Chief economist, |
David E. Altig | 2021 – | Executive vice president and director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta[12] |
Activities
- NABE Annual Meeting: The NABE Annual Meeting features speakers, panel discussions, educational sessions, and networking opportunities. In addition to NABE Members and those in related fields, attendees include business leaders, government officials, analysts, investors, and members of the business media.
- Economic Policy Conference: Held annually in the spring in Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, Congressional Budget Office, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other government agencies, in addition to analysts at think tanksand other institutions.
- Webinars/Teleconferences: Each of the ten NABE Roundtables conducts regular webinars and teleconferenceson topics within its area of interest. These sessions are available to both members and non-members.
- Publications: NABE offers a variety of publications. Business Economics, its journal - as below - is best known of these.
- NABE Surveys: NABE regularly conducts three economic forecasters.
Education and career development
- Certified Business Economist: NABE offers continuing education through its Certified Business Economist program which features a comprehensive exam developed and administered by the association. Candidates must have at least a four-year degree, and two years of work experience in applied business economics or in a related field.
- Econometrics Certificate Programs: Offered twice yearly at Federal Reserve Banks, NABE's Econometrics Seminars are among its offerings. Each Summer, NABE offers the Certificate in Applied Econometrics, and each Fall, the Certificate in Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting.
- NABE career site: caters to those seeking a job or an employee in the field of economics.
- No accreditation appears to exists for their educational products or services.
Journal publication
NABE is the publisher of Business Economics, a scholarly journal that covers different aspects of applied economics and is published quarterly.[13] The journal serves as an essential resource and provides practical information for people who apply economics in the workplace. It is the leading forum for debating solutions to critical business problems, analyzing key business and economic issues, and sharing of best-practice models, tools, and hands-on techniques from practitioners in the field of economics.
Adam Smith Award
Since 1982, NABE has awarded the
Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policy
Each March, NABE presents the
Year | NABE |
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2013 | Paul A. Volcker |
2014 | Jean-Claude Trichet |
2015 | Alice Rivlin |
2016 | Stanley Fischer |
2017 | Joseph Stiglitz |
2018 | Mervyn King |
2019 | Alan Greenspan |
2020 | Roger Ferguson |
See also
External links
- NABE homepage Archived 2020-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
References
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- ^ "NABE State Chapters". Archived from the original on 2010-12-10.
- ^ "Diane C. Swonk". lsa.umich.edu. University of Michigan LSA Department of Economics. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- ^ "Grant Thornton names Diane Swonk as chief economist". www.businesswire.com. 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
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- ^ "AIG hires respected economist as global head of strategy and ESG" Roxanne Libatique, Insurance Business magazine, 15 Dec 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
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- ^ "Paul A. Volcker Award". Archived from the original on 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2016-10-05.