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NEC Members Virtual Happy Hour

Please join us for NEC’s first ever virtual happy hour, Thursday, June 4, 5-6pm EST!Re-connect and catch-up with your fellow NEC members. We’ll start a conversation on how re-openings are going across various state and local economies and see where that takes us. Hope to see you there! This event is FREE and open to […]

6/18 NEC Webinar: Freight Transportation & COVID-19 with Luisa Fernandez-Willey (AAR) and Bob Costello (ATA)

Join the National Economist Club in this panel presentation about how the freight transportation sector has been impacted during this pandemic and how they are preparing for the future. Association of American Railroads (AAR) Senior Economist Luisa Fernandez-Willey will join us to discuss the current state of the railroad industry, the movement of key commodities […]

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7/14 NABE Perspectives on the Pandemic Webinar Series: A Conversation with Lael Brainard

The National Association of Business Economists invites active members of the National Economists Club to join in on their webinar series Perspectives on the Pandemic. The series concludes on Tuesday, July 14, with Lael Brainard, Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The conversation will be moderated by Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, CBE, Senior Resident […]

7/30 NEC Members Virtual Happy Hour

Please join us for a Members virtual happy hour, Thursday, July 30, 5-6pm EST! Re-connect and catch-up with your fellow NEC members. Hope to see you there! This event is FREE and open to NEC members only. Registration is required so that we can send you the link. The Zoom link will be sent out […]

8/3 NEC Webinar: ‘The Past, Present, and Future of Business Bankruptcy’ – Katherine Waldock, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Katherine Waldock, an economist at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, will discuss trends in large corporate bankruptcy over the past two decades, as well as shortcomings of the bankruptcy system when it comes to small businesses, and recent improvements that have been made. She will also address the state of bankruptcy since the […]

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9/3 NEC Webinar: ‘The Future of Office Space Post-COVID-19: A Nuanced Approach’ – Victor Calanog, Moody’s Analytics

With the COVID-19 crisis forcing employers to allow staff to work from home, how will the geographic distribution, use, and design of office space evolve? Over what period of time? What principles should guide the evaluation of risks and opportunities for the office sector in the near- and long-term? In this session, Victor Calanog, who […]

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9/10 NEC Webinar: ‘The Role of Public Private Partnerships in Technology Development’ – Rob Atkinson, Information and Technology Innovation Foundation

All too often economists conceive of R&D-based innovation as two separate realms: the public sector supporting basic research and the private sector supporting applied research and development. In fact this is too simplistic and overlooks the considerable market failures in the innovation process and the synergies from government and industry collaborating on research. Rob Atkinson […]

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