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MARK SCHNIEPP, P.h.D
| California Economic Forecast |
Professional Summary
Dr. Schniepp develops real estate and economic forecasts for The First American Title Real Estate and Economic Conferences in Ventura County, the Santa Clarita Valley, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Maria Valley, and the Inland Empire. The findings are routinely presented at public conferences held throughout the year.
He also prepares semi-annual real estate and economic forecast publications for Santa Barbara County, for the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors®. The findings are presented at large public conferences held twice a year in Santa Barbara.
Dr. Schniepp prepares the annual Orange County Economic Outlook together with the UCLA Anderson Forecast each year in November. The publication and the findings are presented at a large public conference in Irvine, California.
Dr Schniepp prepares forecasts for Kaiser Permenente Hospitals. He routinely updates economic forecasts for the 24 counties in California that Kaiser operates in.
Dr. Schniepp is currently Director of the California Economic Forecast in Santa Barbara. The Company prepares a 58 County economic forecast for the California Department of Transportation. The Company has developed a large California County level economic and demographic database.
Dr. Schniepp recently completed economic analysis studies for three large-scale community projects: the 23,000 home Centennial project in Northern Los Angeles County, the 3,200 home Tejon Mountain Village Visitor resort in Southern Kern County, and the 21,000 home Newhall Ranch community in the Santa Clarita valley.
Dr. Schniepp served as senior economist to Kathleen Connel, the California State Controller, from 1999 to 2003. He prepared a commentary on the California economy four times a year in the periodical: The Controller's Quarterly , and maintained a database and forecast models of the California economy used to produce revenue projections for the state.
Dr. Schniepp was Director of the Economic Forecast Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, between 1982 and 2000.
Dr. Schniepp has prepared long-term and short-term projections of economic and demographic activity at the county and state levels. He has 20 years of experience in economic analysis of regional modeling, forecasting, and developing analytical methods to evaluate the economic and financial impacts of alternative projects or policies on local communities.
As a past member of the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Schniepp taught intermediate micro-economic and macroeconomic theory, applied regional modeling, applied econometrics, and forecasting, 1979-1990. He also taught regional modeling in the Department of Geography at UCSB.
Dr Schniepp received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981. His fields of research for the degree were econometrics, regional economics, and natural resource economics