NABE Outlook Award

Beginning with the 2000 annual meeting, an award is given to the most accurate forecaster on the NABE Outlook Panel. The winner of the 2007 NABE Outlook Award is Joel Naroff, Chief Economist, Commerce Bank, and President, Naroff Economic Advisors. The award is based on minimizing the sum of the squared errors of the quarterly GDP and 10-Year Treasury Bond Note for the forecasts dated November 2006 through May 2007.

Winners

2000 Richard Berner, Morgan Stanley
2001 Charles Devlin, DQE, Inc.
2002 Susan Sterne, Economic Analysis Associaties
2003 Maureen Allyn, Independent Economist
2004 Lyle Gramley, The Schwab Washington Research Group
2005 Stephen Gallagher, Societe Generale
2006 The Macroeconomic Advisers forecasting team, St. Louis
2007 Joel Naroff, Commerce Bank and Naroff Economic Advisors