Session 16: Contributed Papers
Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award
“Forecasting Components of Consumption with Components of Consumer Sentiment”
James A. Wilcox, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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NABE Contributed Paper Award
“An Empirical Model of the Sources of Innovation in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector”
Jeremy A. Leonard, Economic Consultant, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI
Cliff Waldman, Economist, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI
Sponsor: PNC Financial Services Group
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Speakers
James A. Wilcox,
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
James A. Wilcox is the Kruttschnitt Professor of Financial Institutions at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jim is an award-winning professor, who teaches courses on business conditions, on financial markets and institutions, and on risk management at financial institutions. Jim has published widely on banking, housing and mortgage markets, monetary policy, and business conditions.
From 1999-2001, Jim was the Chief Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Previously, he had served in Washington as the senior economist for monetary policy and macroeconomics for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He a Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and is a founding Fellow of the Filene Research Institute. Jim received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.
Jeremy A. Leonard
Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI
Cliff Waldman,
Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI
Cliff Waldman is an Economist with the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI since 2003. He is the author of the research paper The Labor Market in Post-Reform China: History, Evidence, and Implications and of the Quarterly Forecast of U.S. Exports, Global Growth, and the Dollar. He is a participant in the Bloomberg News survey of economists.
Previously he has been President, Waldman Associates; Economist, National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB); Economist, New Jersey Department of Labor.
He has a B.A., Economics and English, from Rutgers University and an M.A., Economics, from Rutgers University.
