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Prof. Rajeev Dhawan
Director
Economic Forecasting Center
35 Broad Street, Suite 200
J. Mack Robinson College
of Business,
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone
Office: (404) 413-7261
Email
Personal: rajeev@rdhawan.com
Office: rdhawan@gsu.edu
Fax: (404) 413-7264
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Rajeev Dhawan wears a dual hat as Associate Professor of Managerial
Sciences and as Director of the Economic
Forecasting Center at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
As director of one of the country's premiere forecasting centers,
Dhawan develops forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional, and local metro Atlanta
economies. These forecasts are
regularly published and presented to business executives and the media at the
Center's popular, well-respected quarterly forecasting
conferences.
He has received several awards for his forecasting
accuracy, including most accurate GDP forecast by Bloomberg News in 2005.
The Bank One Economic Outlook Center at Arizona State
University in 2003 named him the most accurate forecaster for US employment.
He has also been listed among Georgia Trend
magazine's "100 Most Influential Georgians" for three consecutive
years. Dhawan is known for his ability to
articulate complex economic issues in terms that are extremely relevant to
the business community. He is frequently called upon to brief the
boards of private companies and regularly gives keynote speeches at various
industry and trade group events.
A sought-after international speaker, he has presented at conferences in Spain, Argentina,
Canada, Sweden, Japan,
India, Dominican Republic and across the U.S. As a
consultant, he has been commissioned to prepare economic impact reports, home
price forecast models, and provide public policy recommendations.
Dhawan has served as an advisor to several local
and state government agencies and numerous publicly-held companies.
These companies include Georgia Power, Morgan Keegan and Turner Broadcasting, among others. Dhawan
has directed impact analysis studies for Amgen, Northrop Grumman, LA Development Corporation, the California Automobile Import
Alliance and the California Energy Commission. He
has served on the Georgia Governor's Council of Economic Advisors since early
2004.
Frequently contacted by the media for his economic analysis and expertise, Dhawan often appears on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, The Bloomberg Report and the Atlanta
affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. He is sought after for many national and
regional publications, including The Wall Street Journal,
Business Week, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, Los Angeles Times,
Washington Post, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and national wire services
including Associated Press, Reuters and the Dow Jones News Service.
Dhawan's regularly contributes his U.S.
forecast to well-regarded surveys such as Bank One Economic Outlook Survey, Blue Chip Economic
Indicators, Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia's Livingston Survey, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Professional
Forecaster's Survey, National Association of Business
Economists Outlook Survey, USA Today Forecaster's
Survey, and a number of others.
Dhawan's academic research analyzes U.S. business
cycles with a special emphasis on the impact of monetary policy changes on
the growth and survival of small firms.
His industrial organization work quantifies the contribution of
organizational and technological factors
in improving firm efficiency.
Dhawan's other areas of specialization include
small business strategy and entrepreneurship, international industry
comparisons, and econometric modeling.
Dhawan is the author of the book, Firm Size, Financial
Intermediation and Business Cycles, which explores the effect of
credit constraints on U.S.
economic performance with a special emphasis on the role of small firms. His
research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals
including Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior, International of
the Economics of Business and the Journal of Productivity Analysis. His
latest publication in Management Science examines strategies that have
enabled Toyota to dominate U.S. and Japanese automakers.
Currently, he is investigating the role of durable goods
in mitigating the harmful affects of energy prices with the help of a dynamic
stochastic equilibrium model of the U.S. economy.
Prior to joining Georgia State University
in the fall of 2000, he served as director of Econometric Forecasting at the
Business Forecasting Project of the Anderson School of Business at
UCLA. In this role, Dhawan authored quarterly
forecasts for the U.S. and
California
economies, directed economic impact studies and taught in the business
school. He has also taught economics, logistics and statistics courses
at Pepperdine
University and California
State University
at Long Beach.
Dhawan earned a B.A. in Economics, with
honors, from St. Stephen's College in India, a Master's degree in Economics from the
Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University
in India, and a Ph.D. in
Economics from the University of California Los Angeles.
Copyright
© 2005 Rajeev Dhawan
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