Quarterly Forecasting Conference: Trials and Tribulations of Perpetuating the Expansion

Join the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business for its quarterly conference around the theme, “Trials and Tribulations of Perpetuating the Expansion.”

Guest Speakers: 

• “Estate Planning in the Era of Defined Contribution Retirement Plans” — Conrad S. Ciccotello, Director/Professor, Reiman School of Finance
• “Open markets: Will trade frictions delay the recovery of Midwest agriculture?” — Eric C. Thompson, Karl H. Nelson Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Bureau of Business Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• ““First Watch on a Long Voyage: U.S. Lodging Industry Update” — Mark Woodworth, Senior Managing Director, CBRE Hotels Americas Research

Forecast of the State and Nation: 

• Rajeev Dhawan, Carl R. Zwerner Chair of Economic Forecasting; Director, Economic Forecasting Center, Georgia State University

About Dr. Rajeev Dhawan: 

Professor Rajeev Dhawan wears a dual hat as holder of the Zwerner Chair of Economic Forecasting and as Director of the Economic Forecasting Center at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. As director of one of the country’s premiere forecasting centers, Dhawan develops forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional and local metro Atlanta economies. These forecasts are regularly published and presented to business executives and the media at the Center’s popular, well-respected quarterly forecasting conferences.

Dr. Dhawan currently serves as the chair of the advisory committee for regional growth for the Atlanta Regional Commission and is also a member of the Georgia Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors since early 2004. He serves on the board of Public Broadcasting Atlanta since 2005, and is a past board member of Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) from 2004 to 2006, and for National Association for Business Economics (NABE) from 2009 to 2011. Dhawan is a frequent panelist for the Global Interdependence Center and he is a regular guest lecturer for the FFIEC’s Conference for Large, Complex Financial Institutions program at the FDIC’s Arlington headquarters.