PNREC 2013 – Spokane, May 16 & 17
Congratulations to David Bunting and Kelley Cullen of Eastern Washington University for organizing such a successful PNREC 2013 conference! Thanks are also due to all conference partners, speakers, chairs, and volunteers.
Click here for links to PNREC 2013 presentations.
PNREC 2014 will be held in Portland on May 5-7.
2013 THEME“Regional Competitiveness in the Global Economy”
CONFERENCE DATESMay 16 and 17, 2013
CONFERENCE SITEDavenport Hotel and Tower, Spokane, Washington
PLENARY SPEAKERSPNREC 2013 plenary speakers included:
Patrick Newport (IHS Global Insight),
Peter Hall (Export Development Canada),
Joel Kotkin (Author and speaker).
David Allen Plane (University of Arizona).
Geoffrey Paulin, (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
State and Provincial Outlook Session,
(featured six prominent regional economists).
CONCURRENT SESSIONSThe 2013 PNREC program chair was Kelley Cullen of Eastern Washington University. Click here for a list of breakout and plenary sessions with links to the list of papers and copies of many presentations.
UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM We organized a University Symposium at the conference, conducted by the Economic Outreach team of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco which involved a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting simulation where students took on the role of FOMC members to make monetary policy decisions. Click here for details about the FOMC Symposium