An Introduction to Inforum
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.. index::
   single: Introduction
   single: Inforum
   single: Interindustry Forcasting
   single: Clopper Almon

`Inforum <http://www.InforumEcon.com>`_ was founded more than 50 years ago by Dr. Clopper Almon, now Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland.  It is dedicated to improving business planning, government policy analysis, and the general understanding of the economic environment.  Inforum accomplishes this mission through:

- Building and using structural economic models of U.S. and other economies.  Inforum pioneered the construction of dynamic interindustry-macroeconomic models that portray the economy in a unique "bottom-up" fashion.

- Working with government and private sector research sponsors to investigate a variety of issues.  Economic projections and analysis using Inforum econometric models are distinguished by detail at the industrial and product level.

- Serving as a training crucible for graduate and undergraduate students who receive valuable training in empirical economics.  Indeed, Inforum graduate research assistants have completed over 40 Ph.D. dissertations, most of which have contributed directly to the infrastructure of Inforum.

- Maintaining active and productive ties with a world-wide network of research associates, each of which uses Inforum modeling methods and software. The Inforum partners have held annual conferences since 1993 to foster cooperation and development of economic knowledge and techniques.

Since its founding in 1967 by Dr. Clopper Almon, Inforum has served government agencies and private sector entities interested in economic analysis facilitated by Inforum's approach.  In particular, Interindustry-Macroeconomic (IM) models combine input-output structure with econometric equations in a dynamic and detailed framework.  Because of their ability to portray the detailed structure of economies over actual time periods, these models fill an important gap in the inventory of existing models of the U.S. and foreign economies.

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   introduction/G7Introduction
   introduction/G72024
   introduction/G72023
   introduction/G72022
   introduction/G72021
   introduction/G72020
   introduction/G72019
   introduction/G72018
   introduction/G72017
   introduction/G72016
   introduction/G72015
   introduction/G72014
   introduction/G72013
   introduction/G72012
   introduction/G72011 
   introduction/G72010 
   introduction/G72009 
   introduction/G72008 
   introduction/G72007