The Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award was instituted in 1999 in honor of retiring Business Economics Editor Ed Mennis. The award consists of a cash prize and free attendance at the NABE Annual Meeting, where the paper is presented. The paper is later published in Business Economics.

2011

Gad Levanon and Ben Cheng, The Conference Board, for their paper "U.S. Workers Delaying Retirement: Who and
Why and Implications for Businesses.”

2010

Mark Vitner, Senior Economist and Managing Director, Wells Fargo, and Azhar Iqbal, Econometrician and Vice President, Wells Fargo for their paper "The Deeper the Recession, the Stronger the Recovery - Is It really That Simple?"

2009

James A. Wilcox, University of California, Berkeley, received the Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award for his article  "Underwriting Mortgage Lending, and House Prices: 1996-2008."

2007

James A. Wilcox, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, “Forecasting Components of Consumption with Components of Consumer Sentiment”

2006

Adam Ratner, West Monroe Partners and Thomas F. Siems, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, "Strengthening Globalization’s Invisible Hand: What Matters Most"

2005

Thomas F. Siems, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, "Who Supplied My Cheese (and Everything Else!)? Supply Chain Management in the Global Economy"

2004

Patrick L. Anderson and Ilhan K. Geckil, Anderson Economic Group, LLC, "Pocketbook Predictions of Presidential Elections”

2003

Ralph Monaco and John Kitchen, "Real-Time Forecasting in Practice"

2002

John Tatom, DePaul University, "Stock Prices, Inflation, and Monetary Policy"

2001

Ernest Goss, Creighton University
"The Internet's Contribution to U.S. Productivity Growth"

2000

William T. Gavin, Vice President & Research Coordinator, and Rachel J. Mandal, Research Analyst, both at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Anticipating Monetary Policy With the Federal Reserve's Beige Book: Re-specifying the Taylor Rule"

1999

R. McFall Lamm, Jr., Managing Director and Chief Strategist, Bankers Trust Company
"Economic Foundations and Risk Analysis in Investment Management"

 

NABE Contributed Paper Award

 

2009

NABE Contributed Paper Awards were presented to four authors:  Rani Isaac, California State Library, and Dan Hamilton and Kirk Lesh, California Lutheran University, for their paper  "Using Aggregate Time Series Variables to Forecast Notices of Default.”  Gad Levanon, The Conference Board, received a Contributed Paper Award for his article  "Evaluating and Comparing Leading and Coincident Economic Indicators."

2007

Jeremy A. Leonard, Economic Consultant, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Cliff Waldman, Economist, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI , “An Empirical Model of the Sources of Innovation in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector”

2006

Jacob De Rooy, Capital College of The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, "Pricing of Mutual Fund Services in Retirement Plans: Evidence From Open-End Equity Funds"

2005

Cliff J. Waldman, Economist, Waldman Associates, “China’s Demographic Destiny and Its Economic Implications: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis”

Dr. Xiaobing Shuai, Senior Economist, Chmura Economics & Analytics, “Are Center Cities the Engines of Growth for their Suburbs?—Evidence from Virginia’s Metropolitan Areas”

2004

Bruce D. Phillips, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation, "The Future Small Business Workforce: Will Labor Shortages Exist?"

2003

Douglas Lamdin, "Corporate Bond risk Premia: Have They Changed and Does the Stock Market Affect It?"
Johnathan McCarthy, "Capital Overhangs: Has INvestment Spending Suffered from a Hangover?"
Elenora Omarova and Christopher Mills, "Predicting Currency Crises -- A Practical Application for Risk"

2002

Jim Deegan, Jim Deegan & Associates, "Age Cohort Analysis and the S&P500 Dividend Yield – the Pig in the Python and a Bear Market"

2001

Charles Steindel and Kevin Stiroh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"Productivity: What Is It, and Why Do We Care About It?"

2000

David R. Payne, Economist/Statistician, U.S. Department of Commerce, "Anticipating Monetary Policy with the Federal Reserve's Beige Book: Re-specifying the Taylor Rule"

1999

Duncan H. Meldrum, Corporate Economist, Air Products & Chemicals Inc "Country Risk and Foreign Direct Investment"