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FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD MEMBER LAURENCE MEYER TO DISCUSS MONETARY POLICY, U.S. ECONOMY AT JULY 17 UCSD ROUNDTABLE

Federal Reserve System Board Member Laurence Meyer, recognized as one of the nation’s leading economic forecasters, will discuss the Fed’s monetary policy and what’s ahead for the U.S. economy at the July 17 breakfast meeting of the UCSD Economics Roundtable.  The 7:30 a.m. roundtable will be held at the Faculty Club on the University of California, San Diego campus.

As a governor of the Federal Reserve System, Meyer has played a decisive role in steering the economy since first taking office under Fed chairman Alan Greenspan in 1996.  Meyer has been honored by Business Week for his economic forecasting and twice has been the recipient of the prestigious Annual Forecast Award presented to the most accurate forecaster on the panel for the Blue Chip Economic Indicators.  Prior to his appointment to the Federal Reserve Board, Meyer was president of an economic consulting firm and a professor of economics at Washington University. 

Meyer has also served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He has published numerous articles in professional journals, has authored a textbook on macroeconomic modeling, and has testified before Congress on macroeconomic policy issues.