By Cole Hatcher
Three experts will analyze the regional, national, and international economies during Ohio Wesleyan University’s 2025 Economic Outlook Conference.
The free panel discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in Benes Room B of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Panelists for this year’s Economic Outlook Conference are:
Joyce Chen, Ph.D., is a development economist and professor of Economics in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Chen‘s research focuses on demographic differences in labor market outcomes; the complex relationships among migration, climate change, and economic development; and the intra-household allocation of resources. She is active in efforts aimed at enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within academia in particular.
Fadhel Kaboub, Ph.D., is an associate professor of economics at Denison University and president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Kaboub is an expert on designing public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. He currently is working on climate finance and development policies in Africa.
Mark Schweitzer, Ph.D., is a research associate professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and a former senior vice president and research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Schweitzer‘s research interests have included wage rigidities, minimum wages, regional economic growth, and small business finance. His most recent work has focused on equity of access to credit for small businesses.
During the Ohio Wesleyan conference, each expert will speak for 15 minutes and then take questions from the audience and panel moderator Goran Skosples,Ph.D., the Robert L. and Mary C. Milligan Associate Professor of Economics.
Skosples, who joined the OWU faculty in 2006, encourages students to relate each lesson to current events to help them understand the underlying importance of government economic policies in their daily lives. His teaching focus includes economics of transition, macroeconomics, development economics, international economics, research methods, and economic principles.
Ohio Wesleyan’s annual Economic Outlook Conference is co-sponsored by the university’s Department of Economics and Business and by The Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. Learn more at owu.edu/economics or owu.edu/woltemade.
Source: OWU; Photo: Ohio Wesleyan’s annual Economic Outlook Conference explores how the regional, national, and international economies are expected to perform in the coming year. The 2025 conference will be held Jan. 28. Admission is free. (Photo by Paul Vernon)
