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The annual Chicago GSB "Business Forecast 2007" featured economics professor and New York Times columnist Austan Goolsbee; Economics Fellow Michael Mussa; and international-risk expert Marvin Zonis. The picture? Slightly cloudy with a chain of pain.

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Austan Goolsbee Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, Chicago GSB Mr. Goolsbee is a professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business where he has taught since 1995. He is also the lead editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Goolsbee received a Fulbright Fellowship for 2006-2007.

In April 2006, he began writing for the Economic Scene columns at the New York Times.

Michael Mussa Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics Mr. Mussa, senior fellow since 2001, served as Economic Counselor and Director of the Department of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 1991-2001, where he was responsible for advising the Management of the Fund and the Fund's Executive Board on broad issues of economic policy and for providing analysis of ongoing developments in the world economy. By appointment of President Ronald Reagan, Mussa served as a member of the US Council of Economic Advisers from August 1986 to September 1988. He was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago (1976-91) and was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester (1971-76). During this period he also served as a visiting faculty member at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Mussa's main areas of research are international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, and municipal finance. He has published widely in these fields in professional journals and research volumes. He is the author of Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy (2002).

Marvin Zonis Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Chicago GSB Principal, Marvin Zonis + Associates, Inc. At Chicago’s Business School, Zonis teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and E-Commerce. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business. He also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global environment. Zonis is a co-founder and Chairman of DSD, a software development company based in Moscow and Chicago. He is a member of the Board of Directors of CNA Financial, the global insurance and financial services firm, the Board of Directors of Go2Call, a VoIP company, the Board of Advisors of Syntek, a European Private Equity Venture Capital Firm focusing on TMT (telecom, media and technology). He is a member of the Comptroller General’s Board of Advisors of the General Accountability Office of the U.S. Government, a Fellow of DiamondCluster International, a global technology consulting firm, a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation Etats Unis, Paris and the Board of Advisers of the Centre for Business Management, Queen Mary University of London.