- Victor Zarnowitz
Victor Zarnowitz is considered a leading scholar on business cycles, indicators, and forecast evaluation. Dr. Zarnowitz is Senior Fellow and Economic Counselor to The Conference Board. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Dr. Zarnowitz earned his Ph.D. in economics (summa cum laude) at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) in 1951. He is Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters, and Honorary Member of the Center for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET). In 2001, he received the William F. Butler Memorial Award from the New York Association for Business Economists. His numerous papers and books include An Appraisal of Short-Term Economic Forecasts (1967), The Business Cycle Today (1972), Orders, Production, and Investment (1973), and Business Cycles: Theory, History, Indicators, and Forecasting (1992). His most recent papers are "Has the Business Cycle Been Abolished?" (1998), "Theory and History Behind Business Cycles" (1999), and "The Old and the New in U.S. Economic Expansion" (2000).
Publications
Zarnowitz, Victor (1985), 'Recent work on business cycles in historical perspective: a review of theories and evidence'. "Journal of Economic Literature" 23 (2), pp. 523-80.
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