Presentations
Upcoming
September 29 - October 1, 2024: I am one of the featured speakers for the 66th NABE Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN.
October 17-18, 2024: I will be the keynote speaker for the 2024 Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods, and Applications, to be held at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa.
October 31, 2024: I will be the guest economist for the Arizona Bankers Association Economic Speaker Series to be held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Slides/Videos/Materials from Selected Past Presentations
November 14, 2023: I was a panelist for the next session of Cleveland Fed Conversations on Central Banking, “The Unequal Burden of Inflation,” hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and its Center for Inflation Research.
September 29, 2023: My co-author, Michael Koelle, presented Working from home after COVID-19: Evidence from job postings in 20 countries at Stanford University's Remote Work Conference.
September 27, 2023: I was one of the panelists for Climate Conversations: The Macroeconomy webinar hosted by the National Academies. YouTube.
January 6, 2023: My co-authors, Gabriele Ciminelli and Cyrille Schwellnus, presented our paper, Working from Home after COVID-19: Evidence from Job Postings in 20 Countries? (joint also with Pawel Adrjan, Alexandre Judes, and Michael Koelle) at the American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana. Webcast link here
September 22, 2022: Retrospective of the life and work of my colleague, Fred Joutz for the Federal Forecasters Conference
June 18, 2022: Audio from NPR Weekend Edition: Two economists tell us what we know about rising inflation and the economy right now
May 17, 2022: I took part in the Trailblazing Women Summit as part of the panel: "SHE-CESSION: The Pandemics' Impact on Gender Equality. " Video here.
December 17, 2021: Video here of two of my co-authors presenting our research, "Will it stay or will it go? Analysing developments in telework during COVID-19 using online job postings data” at Telework and Productivity Joint Banque de France and OECD Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) Workshop
November, 2021: Video of "Forecasting Our Economic Future: A conversation with CCAS Dean Paul Wahlbeck and Economics Professor Tara Sinclair"
October 29, 2021: I discussed Chapter 2: Inflation Scares of the IMF's October 2021 World Economic Outlook for the Institute for International Economic Policy. Slides of my discussion are here. Video of the full event is here.
April 12, 2021: I moderated a panel organized by the Digital Trade & Data Governance Hub on the Macroeconomics of Data. Video of the event here
December 7, 2020: I was one of the speakers in the Labour Markets webinar as part of the Resolution Foundation / Money, Macro and Finance Society ‘Economic Challenges’ series: Challenges from the unequal impact on the labour market. Video here.
November 11 - 12, 2020: I served as a panelist on the Role of Big Data, Nontraditional data, and Machine Learning in Economic Policy at the 2020 Banca d'Italia and Federal Reserve Board Joint Conference on Nontraditional Data & Statistical Learning. Slides from my remarks here. Video recording of the panel session here.
November 5, 2020: I was the host and one of the panelists for the virtual naming event of the H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting. Here's the video recording of the event.
October 16, 2020: I served as a panelist in the session: “The industry of High Frequency Data: A view from the Trenches” at the ECB workshop on high frequency data entitled "Tracking the economy with high frequency data." Slides from my remarks here.
October 8 - 10, 2020: I presented Nowcasting Unemployment Insurance Claims in the Time of COVID-19 in a video session as part of the Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods, and Applications, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Video Link
August 8, 2020: I was a panelist at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics Research Group (MERG). “Panel: Perspectives on the Global Economy amidst shutdowns following the COVID-19 pandemic.” Remarks: "The Novel Recession"
July 15, 2020: I was a panelist for the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) webinar on Data, Data Science and COVID-19. Video Link
June 11, 2020: I was a panelist for Human Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Symposium organized by the AgriNuts and Social Science affinity groups of the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF). Video here: https://youtu.be/NK1wab2oap4. Slides here.
February 28, 2020: I presented "Mismatch in the Online Labor Market" in the poster session at the Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium (WALES) in Washington, DC. Tweet thread here.
October 7, 2019: I presented "Recession 2020?" as a panelist at the Society of Government Economists seminar on the Probability of the U.S. or World Entering a Recession in 2020. See this nice Econbrowser post that describes the seminar.
October 1, 2019: I presented research from my work with the Indeed Hiring Lab entitled "Mismatch in Online Job Search" (joint work with Martha Gimbel) at the monetary policy conference at the Federal Reserve Board "Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics."
June 10, 2019: I presented Ambiguous Figures in the US Economy as a keynote speaker at the Beer Institute Annual Membership Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 20, 2019: I participated in a panel discussing data issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's 2019 Financial Markets Conference in Amelia Island, Florida. Here are the slides with my initial remarks: Navigating Private Data for Public Insights, and here's a Tweet thread I put together about my views on the panel. Here's a link to the details including an audio recording of the session.
December 6-7, 2018: I presented "Forecast Evaluation and Macroeconomic Policy" as a keynote speaker at the second macroeconomic modelling workshop at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. NYT article referencing this research: What Is a Recession, and Why Are People Talking About the Next One?
November 8, 2018: I presented Continuities and Discontinuities in Forecasting: A Tribute to the Research of Herman Stekler for the Economics Alumni Lecture at the George Washington University.
October 10-11, 2018: I presented Continuities and Discontinuities in Forecasting as a keynote speaker at the conference Futures Past. Economic Forecasting in the 20th and 21st Century in Hamburg, Germany.
June 26, 2018: I presented "Macroeconomic Data and Forecasts" at the Weidenbaum Center Media Retreat in Cape Cod.
November 15-16, 2017: Evaluating the Quality of New Data Sources at the NABE Tech Economics Conference on Economics in the Age of Algorithms and Experiments in Seattle.
August 21-22, 2017: I was one of the panelists on Global Labour Markets at the CAMA and Australian Treasury Conference on "Structural Changes in the Global Economy: Trends, Puzzles and Implications." Slides of my introductory remarks here.
June 25-28, 2017: I presented "Macroeconomic Data: Fallacies and Forecasts" for the Weidenbaum Center Media Retreat in Cape Cod.
April 28-29, 2017: I presented "Discussion: Inflation Expectations and Forecasts Beyond the Developed World" in the workshop on "Forecasting Issues in Developing Countries," sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters, International Monetary Fund, American University and GW’s Research Program on Forecasting at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC.
April 20, 2017: I presented "Where is the Big Data Revolution in Economic Forecasting?" as one of the morning panelists on for the Federal Forecasters Conference at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC.
April 3, 2017: I presented “Opportunities and Challenges of Constructing Economic Indicators from the Online Labor Market” as part of a panel for the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (OEUS) at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
January 23, 2017: I presented "Economic Policy in the Age of Big Data" at the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
December 6, 2016: I presented “Real Time Economic Indicators from the Online Labor Market: Indeed Job Trends” in a panel on Private Sector Production of Economic Indicators at the FCSM Statistical Policy Seminar in Washington, DC.
June 28, 2016: I presented Macroeconomic Data and Forecasts at the Weidenbaum Center Media Retreat in Cape Cod, MA.
December 7-8, 2015: I presented Old and New Challenges for Forecasting: Recessions, Booms, and Big Data as one of the invited speakers for the 16th IWH-CIREQ Macroeconometric Workshop on December 7-8, 2015 in Halle (Saale), Germany.
June 30, 2015: I presented Evaluating Macroeconomic Forecasts at the Weidenbaum Center Media Retreat in Cape Cod, MA.
December 17, 2014: I presented The Case For and Against Secular Stagnation at the Weidenbaum Center, Washington University in St. Louis.
June 22 - 25, 2014: I presented Macroeconomic Data in Real Time at the Weidenbaum Center Media Retreat in Cape Cod, MA.
March 20 - 21, 2014: I presented Evaluating Forecasts of a Vector of Variables: A German Forecasting Competition in a poster session at the BOE, EABCN, and CAMA conference on Judgement and Combination in Forecasting and Policy Models, in London. Poster here. Related newspaper article here.
January 3 - 5, 2014: I presented Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Macroeconomic Data Revisions at the January 2014 American Economic Association meetings in the Data Revisions and Macroeconomic Analysis section organized by Dean Croushore. Slides here. I also served as a discussant in a session on Information Rigidity in Survey Expectations for the Society of Government Economists sessions at the 2014 American Economic Association Meeting. Slides for "Discussion of Information Rigidities in Economic Growth Forecasts: Evidence from a Large International Panel"
October 11, 2013: I presented Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Macroeconomic Data Revisions at the 9th Annual CIRANO-CIREQ Workshop on Data Revision in Macroeconomic Forecasting and Policy in Montreal, Canada. Slides here. Podcast here.
June 23 - 26, 2013: (U.S.) Macroeconomic Data in Real Time at the Weidenbaum Center Media Retreat in Cape Cod, MA.
November 12, 2012: The U.S. Economy After the Election: Paradoxes and Possibilities Eliot Society Breakfast at the Weidenbaum Center, Washington University in St. Louis.