Whether you are a large company with volumes of important data or a small business deciding whether or not to enter into a new line of business, having a useful model is necessary to navigate the challenges that lay ahead.

Mike Kimel, principal consultant and owner of Analytic Economics can do that for you. Mike has helped companies of all sizes in the U.S. and abroad reduce their costs, increase revenues and better understand the dynamics of their marketplace.

Who is Mike Kimel?

Mike earned a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA. He has two Master’s degrees and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics / Economics.

Mike has worked for Pricewaterhouse Coopers and two Fortune 500 companies, at one of which he ran the Economic Policy, Strategic Marketing and Competitive Strategies groups. Mike has also taught Economics and Advanced Statistics at the Graziadio School of Management at Pepperdine University and lectured at UCLA. He speaks three languages (English, Portuguese and Spanish) and is the co-author of Presimetrics.

Custom built models and statistical analysis including but of course not limited to the following:

* Financial modeling

* Marketing research and database marketing

* Customer retention modeling

* Price optimization

* Capital allocation

* Valuation and damage estimates

* Cost modeling

* Risk analysis

* Long and short run forecasting

Other corporate work:

* Strategic plans

* Business Intelligence

* Competition Plans

Mike Kimel, principal at Analytic Economics, is co-author of Presimetrics with Michael E. Kanell of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Presimetrics is about how Presidents did on a wide range of issues. We focus mainly on the Presidents from Eisenhower (1953) to GW Bush (2008), and look at everything from abortion to economic growth and healthcare. In each case, we go back to the original source of the data. For instance, we use figures from the FBI when we look at the murder rate, and get our data on the National Debt from the U.S. Treasury Department. We use that data to look at the change over the length of each administration, from right before it took office to right before it left office, and rank each administration accordingly. Under whom did the economy grow the fastest? Who created the most jobs? What about unwed births, or the deficit? We answer all those questions and many more. And the results often don’t match public perception at all.

But the book is about more than just Presidents and how they did. It’s about policy. See, it turns out that on many issues, administrations that did well shared similar policies. On the other hand, Presidents that did poorly often took the same approach as others that also did poorly.

One policy that often mattered, at least on economic issues, was the President’s approach to taxes. And the effect of tax policy turns out to be very, very different from what most people believe. And that’s a problem, because bad policy leads to slower economic growth, and that has a real effect on all of us. Slower economic growth means fewer jobs, less income and may even increase social problems like divorce and crime.

For more info please visit my Presimetrics page.

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