Announcement - on awards received by various writers of articles, papers published by Business Economics - Brief Article

Business Economics, Oct, 2002

The Editors of Business Economics conferred the following:

* The Adoph G. Abramson Award to

Kevin J. Stiroh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for "Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival: A Review of the Evidence," (January 2002).

* Abramson Scolls to

Robert A. Eisenbeis, Tao Zha, and Daniel Waggoner of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta for "Evaluating Wall Street Journal Survey Forecasters: A Multivariate Approach," (July 2002).

Michael D. Bordo of Rutgers University for "Globalization in Historical Perspective;" (January 2002).

Howard Kunreuther of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania for "The Role of Insurance in Managing Extreme Events: Implications for Terrorism Coverage," (April 2002).

The 2002 NABE Contributed Papers Selection Committee made the following awards:

* Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award to

John A. Tatom, DePaul University, for his paper titled "Stock Prices, Inflation and Monetary Policy."

* NABE Contributed Paper Award to

Jim Deegan, Jim Deegan & Associates, for his paper, "Age Cohort Analysis and the S&P 500 Dividend Yield- the Pig in the Python and a Bear Market."

Both papers appear in this issue of Business Economics.