On-site brochure - NABE

2008 NABE ANNUAL MEETING
OCTOBER 4-7, 2008
JW MARRIOTT HOTEL
WASHINGTON, DC

WELCOME
Dear Colleague,
SPONSORS
NABE is grateful to the Annual Meeting Sponsors
PLATINUM
Welcome to NABE’s 50th Annual Meeting! Over the
next several days, you’ll have the opportunity to learn
from key global thinkers and policymakers about the
current financial turbulence and how it is likely to play
out over the longer term, affecting incomes and
standards of living worldwide.
In addition, you’ll have opportunities to network with
fellow professionals from around the world. Our goal
is to provide you with new contacts, tools, and
knowledge that you will be able to use and share with
your colleagues immediately.
SILVER
We’d like to extend our thanks for organizing this
meeting to Lynn Reaser, Bank of America; Kevin
Kliesen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Richard
Brown, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and
Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial.
Enjoy the meeting and the celebration of NABE’s 50
years of economic leadership.
Sincerely yours,
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
NABE President
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Annual Meeting Guide ........................................4
Meeting Overview................................................5
Exhibitors.............................................................7
Program Sessions .................................................9
Upcoming NABE Events .....................................16
BRONZE
Altarum
American Chemistry
Council
American Farm
Bureau Federation
CEIC Data
Greenwood & Associates
ISI Group
Medley Global Advisors
Swedbank
Wolters Kluwer
Our thanks and appreciation to The Embassy of the
People’s Republic of China in the United States.
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ADVERTISERS
Action Economics, LLC
BP
CEIC Data
FactSet Research Systems
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Quantitative Micro Software
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Wolters Kluwer
ANNUAL MEETING GUIDE
Registration
The meeting registration booth is located on the
Ballroom Level by the escalators. Registration hours
are as follows:
Saturday, October 4 4 PM to 6 PM
Sunday, October 5 8 AM to 5 PM
Monday, October 6 7 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday, October 7 7 AM to 2 PM
Press Room
The Press Room is located in the State Room and will
be open throughout the meeting.
Admission to Annual Meeting Events
Please wear your conference badge at all times to
gain admission into all the meeting sessions and the
Exhibit Hall. Tickets, which are included in the
registration packets (behind your name badge), are
required for entry into all meal functions.
Pre-registration is required for the Hillwood Mansion
tour, National Press Club dinner, and the Small
Group Dinners.
MEETING OVERVIEW
All sessions and events will take place at the JW Marriott
Hotel except for the Saturday tour and the dinner, the
Sunday reception, and the Monday reception.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Afternoon and Evening
12:30-4:30 Hillwood Mansion Tour
4:30-5:00 NABE Business Meeting
5:00-6:30 NABE President’s Welcome Reception
7:00-9:00 Dinner Honoring NABE’s Past Presidents
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Morning
9:30-10:30 Financial Engineering
10:45-11:45 Professional Presence/Nonverbal
Communication
Afternoon and Evening
12:00-1:30 Luncheon
1:45-3:15 Economic Policy Debate
3:15-3:45 Networking Break
3:45-4:45 Concurrent Sessions 1
5:00-5:30 Long-term Investment Climate
6:00-7:30 Reception at Embassy of China
7:45-9:30 Small Group Dinners
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MEETING OVERVIEW CONTINUED
Monday, October 6, 2008
Morning
7:00-7:45 Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:15 Nobel Panel on Globalization
9:30-10:15 NABE Outlook
10:15-10:45 Networking Break
10:45-11:45 Lessons of the Great Credit
Crunch of 2007-2008
Afternoon and Evening
12:00-1:30 Luncheon
1:45-2:45 Concurrent Sessions 2
3:00-3:30 NABE President Address
3:30-4:00 Networking Break
4:00-5:00 Long-term Fiscal Outlook
5:30-7:00 Reception at FDIC
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Adam Smith Award Address
10:00-10:30 Networking Break
10:30-11:15 Dating Business Cycles
11:30-12:15 Challenges to the Global Economy
12:30-2:00 Luncheon
2:15-3:15 Get Connected Planning Meeting
EXHIBITORS
Exhibitor Hall
Exhibits will be in Salon DE during these hours:
Sunday, October 5 10 AM to 4:00 PM
Monday, October 6 7 AM to 4 PM
Tuesday, October 7 9:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
We will hold all networking breaks and Monday’s
continental breakfast in the exhibit hall.
American Chemistry Council
703-741-5592
January M. Williams
january_williams@americanchemistry.com
www.americanchemistry.com
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
202-691-5862
Eleni Karageorge
Karageorge.Eleni@bls.gov
www.bls.gov
CEIC Data
212-610-2926
Janice Banaria
jbanaria@securities.com
www.ceicdata.com
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
703-562-6071
Velda Fludd
vfludd@fdic.gov
www.fdic.gov
Global Insight Inc
781-301-9324
Elizabeth Foote
beth.foote@globalinsight.com
www.globalinsight.com
Haver Analytics Inc
212-490-7158
Paul-Andre Leblanc
paul@haver.com
www.haver.com
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EXHIBITORS CONTINUED
Macroeconomic Advisers LLC
314-721-4747
Debbie Cason
cason@macroadvisers.com
www.macroadvisers.com
The Mathworks
508-647-7000
www.mathworks.com
OECD
202-822-3870
Kathleen DeBoer
kathleen.deboer@oecd.org
www.oecdwash.org
Quantum4D Inc
415-830-4444
Michael Warner
info@quantum4D.com
www.quantum4d.com
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
413-549-1169
Mark D’Amato
info@remi.com
www.remi.com
Timberlake Consultants
908-686-1251
Noelia Germino
info@timberlake-consultancy.com
www.timberlake-consultancy.com
US Bureau of Economic Analysis
202-606-9687
Robert Wehausen
robert.wehausen@bea.gov
www.bea.gov
US Census Bureau
301-763-6718
Robert Marske
robert.a.marske@census.gov
www.business.census.gov
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PROGRAM SESSIONS
Saturday, October 4, 2008
HILLWOOD MANSION TOUR
12:30-4:30 PM
Meet in the hotel lobby at 12:30 PM for a 12:45 PM
departure. Bus is scheduled to arrive back at the JW
Marriott at 4:30 PM. Advanced registration required.
4:30-5:00 PM
Salon IV
NABE BUSINESS MEETING
Meet the new NABE board of directors and the
roundtable officers. Learn what NABE has accomplished
over the past year and help plan for the future.
5:00-6:30 PM
Garden Terrace
NABE PRESIDENT’S WELCOME RECEPTION
Program sponsor: Americans for the Arts
7:00-9:00 PM
National Press Club, 13th Floor Ballroom
DINNER HONORING NABE’S PAST PRESIDENTS
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE President, presiding
Chris Varvares, NABE Vice President, introductions
Jeffrey Sachs, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Copies of Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded
Planet by Jeffrey Sachs compliments of Medley Global
Advisors. The dinner is sponsored in part by
Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC. The National Press Club
is at 529 14th St. NW, one-half block north of the
hotel. Advance registration required.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
SKILLS SESSIONS
9:30-10:30 AM
Salon II
FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
Kevin Kliesen, Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis, presiding
Erik Heitfield, Federal Reserve Board
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10:45-11:45 AM
Salon II
PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE AND
NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Lynn Reaser, Bank of America, presiding
Kay Wortman, Kay Wortman, Inc.
12:00-1:30 PM
LUNCHEON
Salon I
Sara Johnson, Global Insight, presiding
Lawrence Summers, Harvard University;
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Sponsor: Global Insight
1:45-3:15 PM
ECONOMIC POLICY DEBATE
Salon II
Ken Simonson, Associated General Contractors
of America, introductions
Steve Liesman, CNBC, and Judy Woodruff,
The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, moderators
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Adviser to Senator McCain
TBD, Adviser to Senator Obama
Sponsor: Associated General Contractors of America
3:15-3:45 PM
NETWORKING BREAK
Salon DE
Sponsor: Greenwood and Associates
3:45-4:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1
A. The Role of Free Trade in Controlling
Health Care Costs
Salon G
Devon Herrick, National Center for Policy
Analysis/HERT Chair, presiding
Michael Horowitz, Medical Insights International
Renee-Marie Stephano, Medical Tourism Association
Sponsor: NABE Health Economics Roundtable
B. “Peak Oil” and the Global Energy Challenge
Salon II
Howard K. Gruenspecht, U.S. Energy Information
Administration, presiding
Guy F. Caruso, CSIS
Mark J. Finley, BP America, Inc.
Fareed Mohamedi, PFC Energy
Sponsor: BP
Organized by the NABE Regional Utility Roundtable
C. China and India: Challenges
to their Growth
Salon F
Stuart Mackintosh, The Group of Thirty, presiding
Kulpana Kochhar, International Monetary Fund
Wei Li, Darden School of Business, University
of Virginia
Sponsor: NABE International Roundtable
5:00-5:30 PM
PERSPECTIVES ON THE LONG-TERM
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
Salon II
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Ford Motor Company, presiding
Abby Joseph Cohen, Goldman Sachs
6:00-7:30 PM
RECEPTION
Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
in the United States
Buses will begin boarding at 5:30 PM from the
Pennsylvania Avenue exit of the JW Marriott hotel. The
Embassy address is 2300 Connecticut Avenue Northwest.
Buses will begin departing from the Embassy for the JW
Marriott hotel at 7:15 PM.
7:45-9:30 PM
NABE SMALL GROUP DINNERS
We’ll gather for the small group dinners in the lobby
of the JW Marriott hotel between 7:30 and 7:45 PM.
Restaurant address and other details are in your
registration packet.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
7:00-7:45 AM
Salon DE
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Sponsors: Swedbank and Wolters Kluwer
8:00-9:15 AM
Salon II
THE NEW DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION
Sara B. Potter, CFA, FactSet Research Systems,
introduction
Catherine L. Mann, Brandeis University and Peterson
Institute for International Economics, presiding
Edmund Phelps, Columbia University (Nobel Prize in
Economics, 2006)
Paul Krugman, Princeton University
Sponsor: FactSet Research Systems
9:30-10:15 AM
Salon II
NABE OUTLOOK
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE President/
Ford Motor Company, presiding
Chris Varvares, NABE Vice President/Macroeconomic
Advisers, LLC
Sponsor: CNBC
10:15-10:45 AM
Salon DE
NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsors: Haver Analytics and Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
10:45-11:45 AM
Salon II
LESSONS OF THE GREAT CREDIT
CRUNCH OF 2007-08
Adam Posen, Peterson Institute for International
Economics, presiding
Henry Kaufman, Henry Kaufman & Company
Martin Neil Baily, The Brookings Institution
William Poole, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis
Sponsor: Morgan Le Fay Dreams Foundation
Organized by the NABE Financial Roundtable
12:00-1:30 PM
Salon III & IV
LUNCHEON
THE FUTURE OF MORTGAGE FINANCE
Richard Brown, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, presiding
Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
1:45-2:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2
A. Human Capital
Salon II
Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial, presiding
John Tarnaff, Dreamworks Animation
Linda Barrington, The Conference Board
Sponsor: Mesirow Financial
B. Innovation and Its Measurement
in the 21st Century
Salon F
Sydney Smith Hicks, NABE Corporate Planning
Roundtable Chair, presiding
Christopher L. Magee, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Joseph Kennedy, Economic Statistics Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce
Sponsor: NABE Technology and Corporate
Planning Roundtables
C. U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance
Salon G
Thomas Kevin Swift, American Chemistry
Council, presiding
Ted Chu, General Motors Corporation
James Meil, Eaton Corporation
Thomas Davis, Motorola, Inc.
Sponsor: American Chemistry Council
Organized by the NABE Manufacturing Roundtable
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3:00-3:30 PM
Salon II
NABE PRESIDENT ADDRESS
Chris Varvares, NABE Vice President/
Macroeconomic Advisers, presiding
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE President/
Ford Motor Company
3:30-4:00 PM
Salon DE
NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsor: CEIC Data
4:00-5:00 PM
Salon II
LONG-TERM FISCAL OUTLOOK
David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal, presiding
Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University
Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office
Sponsor: Altarum
5:30-7:00 PM
RECEPTION
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The FDIC address is 515 17th Street Northwest.
Please plan to walk or take a taxi on your own.
Walking maps at NABE registration desk.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
7:30-9:00 AM
Salon I & II
BREAKFAST
A VIEW FROM THE ADMINISTRATION
Lynn Reaser, Bank of America, introduction
Edward Lazear, Chairman, Council of
Economic Advisers
Note: Breakfast service ends at 7:45 AM.
9:00-10:00 AM
Salon FG
ADAM SMITH ADDRESS
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE President/
Ford Motor Company, presiding
Michael Mussa, Peterson Institute for
International Economics
Sponsor: ISI Group
10:00-10:30 AM
Salon DE
NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsor: American Farm Bureau Federation
10:30-11:15 AM
Salon FG
DATING BUSINESS CYCLES
Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research
Institute, introduction
Harvey Rosenblum, Federal Reserve Bank
of Dallas, presiding
Robert Hall, National Bureau of Economic Research
and Stanford University
Sponsor: Economic Cycle Research Institute
11:30-12:15 PM
Salon FG
CHALLENGES TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Gene Huang, FedEx Corporation, presiding
John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund
Sponsor: FedEx Corporation
12:30-2:00 PM
Salon I & II
LUNCHEON
A VIEW FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE President, presiding
Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Sponsor: Bank of America
2:15-3:15 PM
Commerce
GET CONNECTED PLANNING MEETING
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UPCOMING
NABE EVENTS
October 27-30, 2008
Advanced Statistical Techniques
for Economic Forecasting
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Sponsored by the NABE Foundation
March 1-3, 2009
Washington Economic Policy Conference
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel
Across the Potomac from Georgetown
Arlington, Virginia
October 10-13, 2009
51 st NABE Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront
St. Louis, Missouri
National Association
for Business Economics
1233 20th St NW Ste 505
Washington, DC 20036
202-463-6223 202-463-6239 (fax)
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