Management Undergraduate Department

Ross Gittell, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire, and Dennis Delay, an economist with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, both said last week that they expect the rate to peak around 8 percent.

Paul Harvey, assistant professor of management at the UNH Whittemore School of Business and Economics, researches workplace issues such as employee behavior and took some time to address those questions and others.

“I think the green economy is part and should be part of an economic recovery, but it can’t be counted on as the single source of growth,” said NEEP vice president Ross Gittell, the James R. Carter Professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

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Experts say ‘green’ economy won’t save New England (Common American Journal - 11/15/09)

The worst of the recession may be over, but a new economic forecast points to a "slow and weak recovery" in the New England states, with job losses likely to continue until the fourth quarter of 2010.

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Forecast: New England economy slow to rebound, by Bob Salsberg (AP) 11/11/09

Despite all the talk of its promise, alternative energy is unlikely to become a driver of the Massachusetts and New England economy, at least for the next several years, according to the nonprofit research group New England Economic Partnership.

Twice as severe as a typical post-World War II recession, the so-called “Great Recession” ended in August, but strong economic growth in the United States still is a few years away, according to analysis by Moody’s Economy.com.

Unemployment will continue to climb in New England for another year, peaking somewhere around 9.4 percent..."Even though the national economy has improved since the spring, many of the fundamentals remain weak," said Ross Gittell, an economist at the University of New Hampshire.

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NEW ENGLAND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: The Great Recession in New England

Wyss spoke about the national economy yesterday at a session with the House and Senate members of the Ways and Means and Finance committees. Also participating were Robert Tannenwald, vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Professor Ross Gittell of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.