Business and Economic Statistics
Luncheon to Provide Econom ic Outlook
Global Economic Analysis
Also on Tuesday, the Journal of Business & Stephen Murchison
Economic Statistics will sponsor an invit- Bank of Canada
ed session at 8:30 a.m., Macroeconomic
Forecasting. It will feature the following
Thomas F. Helbling
research economists affiliated with four
International Monetary Fund
institutions that have responsibility for
There is a number of additional ses-
economic policy:
sions on economic statistics and econo-
David Reifschneider
metrics that can be viewed by selecting
the Business and Economic Statistics
Bosworth
U.S. Federal Reserve Board
Section as sponsor from the ASA’s online
Demosthenes Ioannou program at
www.amstat.org/meetings/
European Central Bank jsm/2009/onlineprogram. ■
B
arry Bosworth, senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution, will
speak at the section’s traditional
Speaker with Lunch session on August 4
from 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Bosworth has stated that a sustained
Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
economic recovery seems unlikely until
the uncertainty surrounding the sol-
vency of major financial institutions
has been resolved. He will focus on the
Oster Chosen for
challenges the United States faces in
mounting a recovery, including both
Achievement Award
the budget and trade deficits. The cri-
sis and large wealth losses may trigger a
Cynthia R. Long
long-sought rebalancing of the nation’s
saving and investment.
Bosworth is a senior fellow in the
Oster
Economic Studies program and the
Robert V. Roosa Chair in International
Economics at the Brookings Institution.
His areas of expertise include capital
formation, fiscal policy, inflation, social
T
his year’s Distinguished Achievement Award goes to Robert Oster of the
University of Alabama at Birmingham. Oster has served the TSHS in many
capacities over the past 10 years. Following his appointment as program chair-
security, and international economics.
elect in 1999, he was the book review editor from 2001–2003 and then elected as the
As a Speaker with Lunch event,
2004 section chair. During his three years in the chair-elect, chair, and past-chair roles,
attending requires paying an additional
Oster took on several initiatives, including leading the charter revision committee and
$40 fee when registering for JSM. If you
establishing this biannual Distinguished Achievement Award to recognize outstanding
have already registered, you can still add
service to the section.
this to your r egistration.
In 2006, Oster stepped in on short notice to fill the vacated publications officer
position and is currently serving a second term. He also has contributed many articles
to the TSHS newsletter over the past decade and is an active member of the section
executive committee, offering his assistance wherever needed.
Our section is dependent on the tireless volunteer efforts of members such as Oster.
Congratulations and thank you! ■
JULY 2009 AMSTAT NEWS 57
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