Dr. Xiaobing Shuai Wins NABE 2005 Contributed Paper Award

Dr. Xiaobing Shuai, a senior economist with Chmura, has won the NABE 2005 Contributed Paper Award, and will be presenting his paper at NABE 2005 annual meeting in Chicago. The same paper will also be published in the October 2005 issue of Business Economics.

Each year, National Association for Business Economics (NABE) invites its members to submit papers for consideration prior to the annual meeting. Only two papers are selected each year for presentation and publication. For more information regarding this award, please visit NABE site.

In his paper, Dr. Shuai investigates the economic relationship between Virginia’s center cities and their suburbs. He develops a statistical test to determine the cause-effect between these two economies and concludes that Virginia’s cities are no longer the growth engines of their suburbs. The opposite is almost true that suburbs are on the verge of becoming the leaders for city economic growth. To further the understanding of what drives city/suburban economy, the study also tests the cause-effect relationship between population growth and employment growth and finds that population growth still exerts a strong influence on employment growth. This knowledge can be useful in designing policies to promote the economic growth of both cities and suburbs.

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