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“The Benefits of Neuroeconomics”
February 6, 2008
11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON, EST
Teleconference participants:
- Kevin McCabe, director, Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics at The George Mason University
- Jason Zweig, senior writer, Money Magazine, and author of Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make you Rich
Techology Roundtable chairperson, Brooks Robinson, will moderate this teleconference.
This teleconference is available as a podcast.
Background:
Neuroeconomics is the experimental study of how emergent mental computations in the brain interact with the emergent computations of institutions to produce legal, political, and economic order. For the NABE membership, the important consideration is “Can knowledge about, and the use of, neuroeconomics enhance the bottom lines of commercial enterprises?”
Purpose of teleconference:
To introduce the teleconference audience to neuroeconomics and to expand the audiences’ understanding of how this field of experimental economics can help improve their economic outcomes now and in the future.
Teleconference goals:
To ensure that the teleconference audience obtains a clear understanding of what neuroeconomics is, and to provide the audience with tools that can be used to begin exploiting the benefits of neuroeconomics.
Key questions to be entertained during the teleconference:
- What is experimental economics?
- What is neuroeconomics and its origin(s)?
- How is neuroeconomics integrated into the economics area of study?
- How does one pursue the study of neuroeconomics?
- How can neuroeconomics assist firms and entrepreneurs in enhancing their economic outcomes?
- Besides private sector business, can neuroeconomics be used to enhance outcomes for other economic sectors; e.g., government (defense and nondefense)?
- Questions from the audience.
“Viewpoints on the R&E Tax Credit: What's Needed Now and Outlook”
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM Eastern
Speakers
Robert Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (Paper)
Philip Beram, Chief Tax Counsel and Executive Director of Tax Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Brooks Robinson, Triple Helix Institute, University of Hawaii, introductions
Eric Graber,
University of Maryland, University College, moderator
Discussion will include:
- Origin and workings of the R&E Tax Credit
- The case for preserving and expanding the R&E Tax Credit
- International comparisons
- Improving implementation of the Alternative Simplified Credit and flat credit for collaborative R&D
- Business profitability issues (industries most affected, high tech. versus low tech. businesses, and small versus large business needs, short-term versus long-term)
- Recommendations, legislative history, Congressional activity, and outlook for extending\modifying the R&E Tax Credit
Biographies
Phil Beram is chief tax counsel and executive director of Tax Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In this capacity, he initiates and oversees tax policy issues and prepares and presents testimony and comments on legislation, regulations, and rules as they relate to tax. He organizes lobbying activities with business and taxpayer groups, and he conducts surveys and studies on tax. He is also responsible for the Chamber’s Taxation Committee
Previously, Beram served as the Chamber’s tax counsel and manager of Accounting Policy and Corporate Governance, researching and analyzing proposed legislation, regulations, rules, and rulings to determine their applicability and impact on the business community, the revenue impact on the federal government, and the national economic impact.
Prior to joining the Chamber, Beram worked as an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as a revenue agent for the Internal Revenue Service, and as international tax coordinator for George Mason University.
Beram is admitted to the bars of both Maryland and the District of Columbia, and is a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland. He received his J.D. from the University of Baltimore, and a bachelor’s of science from the University of Maryland, majoring in accounting and economics.
Robert Atkinson is President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank. He is also author of the State New Economy Index series and the book, The Past and Future of America’s Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth (Edward Elgar, 2005). He has an extensive background in technology policy, he has conducted ground-breaking research projects on technology and innovation, is a valued adviser to state and national policy makers, and a popular speaker on innovation policy nationally and internationally.
Before coming to ITIF, Dr. Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPI’s Technology & New Economy Project. While at PPI he wrote numerous research reports on technology and innovation policy, including on issues such as broadband telecommunications, Internet telephony, universal service, e-commerce, e-government, middleman opposition to e-commerce, privacy, copyright, RFID and smart cards, the role of IT in homeland security, the R&D tax credit, offshoring, and growth economics.
Previously Dr. Atkinson served as the first Executive Director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, a public-private partnership including as members the Governor, legislative leaders, and corporate and labor leaders. As head of RIEPC, he was responsible for drafting a comprehensive economic strategic development plan for the state, developing a ten-point economic development plan, and working to successfully implement all ten proposals through the legislative and administrative branches. Prior to that he was Project Director at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. While at OTA, he directed “The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America,” a seminal report examining the impact of the information technology revolution on America’s urban areas.
He is a board member or advisory council member of the Alliance for Public Technology, Information Policy Institute, Internet Education Foundation, NanoBusiness Alliance, NetChoice Coalition, the Pacific Institute for Workforce Innovation, and the University of Oregon Institute for Policy Research and Innovation. He also serves on the advisory panel to Americans for Computer Privacy, is an affiliated expert for the New Millennium Research Council, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Government, a member of the Reason Foundation’s Mobility Project Advisory Board, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Atkinson was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. In 2007 DOT Secretary Mary Peters appointed him to the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission. He is also a member of the Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, co-chaired by Markle Foundation president Zoe Baird and former Netscape Communications chairman James Barksdale. In 1999, he was featured in “Who’s Who in America: Finance and Industry.” In 2002, he was awarded the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award Silver Medal. In addition, Government Technology Magazine and the Center for Digital Government named him one of the 25 top “Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of Information Technology.” In 2006, Inc. Magazine listed Atkinson as one of “19 Friends” of small business in Washington. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989.
August 7: Innovation, The Triple Helix, and the International Networks*
(*The “Triple Helix” is Academia, Industry, and Government.)
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
3 PM EDT
Brooks B. Robinson, Senior Research Economist for Analysis, Institute for Triple Helix Innovation, Honolulu, HI, moderator (CV)
Speakers:
Leigh W. Jerome, Director, Institute for Triple Helix Innovation, Honolulu, HI (CV)
Dieter Ernst, Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI (Bio1, 2) (Presentation)
David M. Hart, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University (CV)
Sponsored by the Technology Roundtable.
Registration is complimentary for TRT members, $5 for other NABE members and members of the Hawaii Economic Association, and $50 for non-NABE members.
- Technology Roundtable members register here.
- Gold Pass holders register here.
- All other paid registrants should use the secure server.
This teleconference will feature a moderated discussion. Questions to be covered include:
- Is the definition of “innovation” morphing as the global knowledge economy unfolds?
- Why is innovation is important? And what roles are Academia, Industry, and Government to play?
- Does the resurgence of China and India pose a threat to U.S. innovation leadership?
- What do we know about strengths and weaknesses of Asia’s emerging knowledge economies? And what opportunities are beckoning for the U.S.?
- Theoretically, what have we learned about innovation that we can use to help ensure that the nation’s economy continues to grow?
- From a policy perspective, what can the nation do to maintain and accelerate the flow of innovations?
- What are forthcoming efforts by the speakers in the area of innovation?
Previous Events
"Hot Trends in Consumer Electronics"
Shawn DuBravac, Economist, Consumer Electronics Association
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
2:00 pm ET.
The pace of technological innovation in consumer electronics has been unprecedented. Join the Consumer Electronic Association's Economist Shawn DuBravac as he identifies the trends underpinning the consumer electronics industry and what this means for firms both up and down market. The presentation will explore how these trends impact tomorrow's consumer including the continuing debate of DRM as well as the 2009 digital television transition.
Registration
This teleconference is available as a free NABE podcast.
Shawn G. DuBravac, CFA is the lead Economist for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) where he directs CEA’s economic analysis. In this capacity he is responsible for handling analysis of the economy as it relates to the consumer electronics industry including forecasting future economic activity, econometric studies, examining trade flows, and ascertaining relative health of the industry. DuBravac also provides quantitative support for CEA’s legislative initiatives and research into the trends underpinning the industry.
Prior to joining CEA, DuBravac was head research analyst in the Economic Analysis Group of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He holds a B.A. in Economics with Highest Honors from Brigham Young University and completed his graduate studies in economics at George Mason University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of both the Washington Society of Investment Analysts and the National Association of Business Economists. He has published on a wide range of topics in finance, economics, and technology. Additionally, DuBravac is an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at George Washington University.
In his free time, he volunteers in the community by providing financial education through the Virginia Cooperative Extension and supporting the lay ministry of his church. In 2003, he was a recipient of the Attorney General’s Volunteer Award.
DuBravac resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and two sons.
Previous Events
“Shopping for Health Care”
Teleconference sponsored by the NABE Health Economics Roundtable and co-sponsored by the NABE Technology Roundtable.
Speaker:
John C. Goodman, President, National Center Policy for Analysis
This teleconference is available as a free podcast. Download it from the NABE Podcast page, or get it via a free subscription at the iTunes store.
Many Europeans believe that in America health is rationed by price, whereas in Europe it is generally made available for free. In fact, health care is almost as free at the point of consumption in America as it is in Europe. We do not use price rationing. Instead we ration the same way other developed countries ration care - with our time. But rationing by waiting creates a net social loss.
To find radically different physician behavior, one must look at markets where third-party payers are not involved. If health insurance worked like the insurance people purchase for their homes and automobiles, reimbursements would cover the expected cost of care for most providers; but patients would be free to negotiate prices with individual providers and pay more for better service. Some assume that we need a new government program to kick-start needed technological changes. Yet the private sector already has developed many of the tools to solve these problems. And turn patients into medical shoppers.
Nanoeconomic Dynamics: Analyzing Microdata to Understand Regional and Industrial Change-- Part II
A Follow-up teleconference, held in November, 2005.
Dr. Don Hicks, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy (University of Texas at Dallas) will discuss insights on regional and industrial economic "churn" yielded by the analysis of firm and employment microdata. Special attention will be given to a) the emergence of a technology-intensive industry sector in a state economy, b) the evolving contributions of a technology "cluster" to a regional economy, and the independent contributions of "creation" and "destruction" dynamics to productivity growth.
Slide show for teleconference (PDF, 1.06 MB )
Where IT's @: Technology and the Economy
A conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and NABE's
Technology Roundtable
September 10, 2004 at the Dallas Fed. More