EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Nov. 21-22, 2013

EVENT: University of Michigan’s 61st annual Economic Outlook Conference

PLACE: Rackham Building Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor

BACKGROUND: U-M economist Daniil Manaenkov will open the conference with “The U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014-2015” at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 21. Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers at the Institute for Social Research, will also present “The Outlook for Consumption in 2014” at 11 a.m.

The next day (Nov. 22) at 9:30 a.m., U-M economist George Fulton, director of the U-M Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, will present “The 2014-2015 Outlook for the Michigan Economy.”

Other presentations include:

• “A Bifurcated Economy; Why QE Hasn’t Helped Small Business” by William Dunkelberg, professor of economics at Temple University and chief economist at the National Federation of Independent Business
• “Forecasting the Recovery from the Great Recession: Is This Time Different?” by Kathryn Dominguez, U-M professor of public policy and economics, and Matthew Shapiro, U-M professor of economics
• “Economic Policy and the Economic Outlook: Help or Hinderance?” by Allen Sinai, chief global economist and strategist at Decision Economics Inc.
• “Will Employers Drop Health Insurance Coverage Because of the Affordable Care Act?” by Thomas Buchmueller, U-M professor of business economics and public policy and of health management and policy
• “$hy and Retiring” by Charles Brown, U-M professor of economics and research professor at the Institute for Social Research
• “U.S. and Midwest Housing and Mortgage Markets by David Berson, senior vice president and chief economist, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
• “The Boom That Hasn’t Gone Bust: Maturation of Bakken Oil Production” by Patrick Barkey, director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana

SPONSOR: U-M Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, Department of Economics

INFORMATION: http://rsqe.econ.lsa.umich.edu/pages/Conference.html