P R O C E E D I N G S


Thirty-First Annual
Pacific Northwest Regional Economics Conference


"Regions in Transition"


April 24-26, 1997Spokane, Washington


Conference AgendaList of PapersList of Abstracts


Preface


The Thirty-First Annual Pacific Northwest Regional Economics conference was held April 24-26, 1997, in Spokane, Washington. The conference theme was Regions in Transition. Plenary sessions, special panel sessions and many individual paper presentations focused on this theme.

These proceedings contain abstracts for 61 of the 64 papers presented at the conference, and unedited five-page summaries for 35 papers submitted for publication on this website. The abstracts and papers may be accessed from the listings posted in the box above.

Featured speakers at the conference included Roger Binner of DRI/McGraw-Hill, who discussed the national economic outlook; Jerry Jordan, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, who addressed the issue of the "Governments' Role in Job Creation"; and Jack Ward Thomas, former Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. The Tiebot Lecture was delivered by Calvin Beale of the USDA Economic Research Service, whose talk was entitled "Forces Underlying the Recent Rebound of Rural Areas and Small Towns."

On behalf of 1997 Conference Planning Committee and the PNREC Board of Directors the generous financial support provided by the following organizations is gratefully acknowledged: Northwest Power Planning Council, Washington Water Power, College of Agriculture and Home Economics--WSU, Cooperative Extension--WSU, Horizon Air, Eastern Washington Office of the Northwest Power Planning Council, Farm Foundation and the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources--WSU.

Gary W. Smith
Chair
1997 Pacific Northwest Regional Economics Conference
Washington State University


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