9/19/24 NEC Webinar with Joanne Hsu, University of Michigan
September 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
NEC Webinar ‘How Has Partisanship and the Upcoming Election Influenced Consumer Attitudes Toward the Economy?’ with Joanne Hsu, Director of the Surveys of Consumers and Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
Date: Thursday, September 19th
Time: 12pm to 1pm ET
Location: Zoom
The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers has provided data on consumer sentiment and inflation expectations for over 75 years. Dr. Hsu will delve into the role of political partisanship in shaping consumer attitudes toward the economy. Partisan differences in consumer attitudes have been well-documented, but has the role of political polarization changed over time? How is the upcoming Presidential election shaping consumer expectations for the economy?
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About our Speaker:
Joanne W. Hsu (pronounced “shoo”) is the Director of the Surveys of Consumers, tracking leading economic indicators including consumer sentiment and expectations, and a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan and her AB in economics and international relations at Brown University. Her research is primarily in the fields of household finance, labor economics, public economics, and survey methods, with a current focus on financial sophistication and cognition, and consumer experiences with debt. She previously served as a Principal Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where her policy portfolio included the Survey of Consumer of Finances and the consumption forecast, as well as a visiting professor at the Department of Economics, Howard University. She completed her AB in economics and international relations at Brown University.