| Sunday 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 24H Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Azhar Iqbal, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Measuring U.S. Business Cycles:  A Comparison of Two Methods and Two Indicators of Economic Activities" "The Importance of Housing Variables in Predicting the Economic Fluctuations" "What Helps Forecast U.S. Inflation?- Mind the Gap!" "Determining the Peak and Trough of State Economic Activity" "Hits and Runs: Determinants of the Cross-Country Variation in the Severity of Impact from the 2008-09 Financial Crisis"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Shane R. Dwyer, Clark University  |