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Our spring meeting for 2000 was held at the Anne Arundel Community College, Friday, May 5. Our speaker was William Kovacic (George Washington University Law School), currently a Contributing Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal and is co-editor (with Richard Zerbe) of Research in Law and Economics. His talk was entitled “United States vs Microsoft: Turn of the Century Turning Point for U.S. Antitrust Law.”
Our winter meeting for 2000 was held at Towson University, Friday, March 3. Our speaker was Brad Humphreys (UMBC) who spoke about his widely acclaimed “The Stadium Gambit: Professional Sports and Metropolitan Economies.”
Our fall meeting for 1999 was held at the U.S. Naval Academy in the Officers and Faculty Club on Friday, October 29. The speaker was Laurence H. Meyer, Board Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System since 1996, Dr. Meyer has a Ph.D. from MIT. Prior to becoming a member of the Board, he was President of Laurence H. Meyer and Associates, a consulting firm specializing in macroeconomic forecasting and policy analysis.
Our spring meeting for 1999 was held at the British Embassy on Friday, May 28th. Representatives from the British, French and German embassies and from the Institute for International Economics spoke the "Prospects for the Euro and the Implications for TransAtlantic Economic Policy."
Our winter meeting for 1999 was held at the Baltimore Federal Reserve Bank, Wednesday, February 17. Our speaker was Ray Owens of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Dr. Owens heads the regional economics section of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Research Department. His talk was entitled, “Can the U.S. Boom Last? Implications for the Regional Economy.”
Our fall meeting for 1998 was a reception that following the Southern Economic Association’s Fall 1998 Distinguished Lecture by Joseph Stiglitz. The SEA meeting was held at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, 101 West Fayette Street on Sunday November 8. Dr. Stiglitz commented on World Bank Policy and Far East Financial Crisis.
Our spring meeting for 1998 was held at Anne Arundel Community College on Friday, April 17. Our speaker was Kenneth Button, Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University. Dr. Button has recently directed work for the OECD on international aviation and has written over 70 books and 400 academic papers in the field of transportation economics and industrial organization. His talk was entitled “U.S. Airlines and International Markets.”
Our winter meeting for 1998 was held at the Baltimore Federal Reserve Bank, Wednesday, February 17. Our speaker is Ray Owens of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Dr. Owens heads the regional economics section of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Research Department. His talk was entitled, “The Maryland Economy and Economic Development.”
Our fall meeting for 1997 was held at the Loyola College Humanities Center Refectory on Friday, October 24. Our speaker was Patrick Jackman of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dr. Jackman sharied some of his work from the BLS Reponse to the Boskin Commission Report recently given to the JEC. His talk was entitled, “Measurement Issues in the CPI.”
Our spring meeting for 1997 was held at the U. S. Naval Academy in the Officers and Faculty Club on Friday, April 18. Our speaker was Dr. Adrian Kendry who is the Crowe Professor of Defense Industrial Base at USNA and a faculty member at the University of the West of England. His talk was entitled “Sophistry, Calculation and Economics: The Seductive Subversion of European Integration.”
Our winter meeting for 1997 was at Goucher College in the Rosenberg Gallery on Friday, February 21. Our speaker was Ray Turner of Anne Arundel Community College. Dr. Turner led a travel study course to Vietnam and other emerging economies in Southeast Asia in 1996. His talk was entitled “Vietnam Today and Tomorrow: One Economist’s Assessment and Recent Observations.”
Our fall meeting for 1996 was at the Auburn House of Towson State University on Friday, November 8. Our speaker was Douglas Hamilton, Chief, Fiscal Policy Studies, Congressional Budget Office. Prior to joining the CBO in 1984, he worked at the EPA, the Havard School of Public Health and the Tufts U. Medical School. His talk is entitled, “The Retirement of the Baby Boomers: Economic and Budgetary Challenges.”