EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Nov. 17-18, 2011

EVENT: University of Michigan’s 59th 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 2012-2013” at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 17. Richard Curtin, director of the Surveys of Consumers at the U-M Institute for Social Research, will also present “The Outlook for Consumption in 2012” at 11 a.m.

The next day (Nov. 18) at 9:30 a.m., U-M economist George Fulton, director of the U-M Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, will present “The 2012-2013 Outlook for the Michigan Economy.”

Other presentations include:

• “U.S. Economic Outlook: A View from Wall Street” by Peter Hooper, managing director and chief economist, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
• “The Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Reform,” by Michael Barr, U-M professor of law and former assistant secretary for financial institutions, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
• “What We Learned about America from the 2010 Census,” by Arnold Jackson, associate director for decennial census, U.S. Census Bureau.
• “The New Housing Demographics,” by David Berson, chief economist and strategist, PMI Group Inc.
• “The Amenity Costs and Benefits of Climate Change in the United States,” by David Albouy, U-M assistant professor of economics.
• “The U.S. Auto Recovery—Why This Time Is Different (or Not),” by David Andrea, senior vice president of industry analysis and economics, Original Equipment Suppliers Association.
• “A Voyage on a Great Lakes Freighter,” by William Stauss, senior economist and economic adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

SPONSOR: U-M Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics

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