REMI is excited to announce a new webinar titled, “2026 State of the Commonwealth: Virginia’s Economy & the War”. This webinar is being presented by Dr. Bob McNab from the Department of Economics in the Strome College of Business and the Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy at Old Dominion University from 2:00-3:00pm ET on Wednesday, June 24th. Please click here to register now for this presentation.
Each year, Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy at Old Dominion University releases a State of the Commonwealth Report that reviews the Virginia economy and contributes to discussions about future outlook for Virginia residents.
In this presentation, Dr. McNab will discuss the Commonwealth of Virginia’s economy with specific attention to the economic impacts of the war with Iran. He will focus on the war’s impact on inflation, higher tariffs, and cuts to the federal workforce. He will also touch on reductions to legal immigration, and foreign student flows into institutions of higher education.
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He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Survey of Professional Forecasters and is an Associate Editor with the Journal of Economic Surveys. Professor McNab has published in Applied Economics, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Defense and Peace Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, and World Development. From 2018 to 2022, he was a member of the Joint Advisory Board of Economists for the Commonwealth of Virginia,
He edits the annual State of the Region: Hampton Roads and State of the Commonwealth reports. Professor McNab has appeared in the Associated Press, China Global Television Network, CNN, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginian Pilot, and Daily Press, among others.
Dr. McNab joined the faculty of the Department of Economics in the Strome College of Business of Old Dominion University in July 2016 and previously was a member of the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California from 2000 to 2016.
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