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The general consensus on Arizona’s economic outlook for the second half of 2013 is this: Arizona, like the nation, is likely to continue growing, but slowly. In some areas of the economy -- like jobs -- we’ll have to get used to a new normal.

Companies have invested heavily in information technology known as Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, which generate everything from basic budget and financial statements to complex forecasts of how to best meet consumer demand.

How confident are you that you understand background facts on economic issues? Attendees at the Annual Economic Outlook luncheon on May 16, 2013, took this test of economic knowledge. Here’s your chance to take the challenge.

The W. P. Carey School’s top economists weighed in on conditions in Arizona and across the nation at the Annual Economic Outlook Luncheon.

 Rumblings in the media hint that rising home prices could be the start of a new bubble, but real estate expert Mike Orr says that researchers who are examining the data don’t believe it. Instead, he says Phoenix is experiencing a market come back.

Although many people may find it hard to believe, the Phoenix area is facing a growing housing shortage, according to real estate experts Mike Orr and Mark Stapp from the W. P. Carey School of Business, who were featured speakers at a forum on April 6.

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With prices on the rise and population growing faster than other places, Phoenix is once again looking good to homebuilders. That means land is very desirable — especially lots ready for development. In this podcast, Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W.

The so-called millennials, like the baby boomers before them, are causing major shifts as they move through life’s stages. And while boomer retirement is impacting the economy, the millennials are poised to drive even more change.

Strategic uncertainty, a career focus for associate economics professor Amanda Friedenberg, occurs when the parties in a negotiation don’t know how the others will behave, perhaps because they’ve never negotiated before.