Barry Keating

Professor Emeritus

Finance

Biography

Barry P. Keating is currently a professor of economics and business analytics in the Department of Finance at the University of Notre Dame. Barry has also served on the faculty of Virginia Polytechnic and State University, as chair of the Notre Dame Department of Finance, as manager of the Journal of Public Choice, and as Salvatori Faculty Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. Barry has consulted for Accenture, the Institute of Business Forecasting, and Forecast X. As co-author of Business Forecasting (McGraw-Hill), now in its Sixth Edition (and soon to be published Seventh Edition), his primary area of interest involves the use of analytics in solving corporate supply chain problems and forecasting. He is currently studying how non-linear models are used in supply chain management. Barry’s work has appeared in Public Choice, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Applied Business Research, among others. Barry has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, and he may be viewed as a primary instructor on Notre Dame's MOOC: Understanding Wireless, released: May 11, 2015.

Background

Education

BBA, University of Notre Dame
MA, Lehigh University
Ph D, University of Notre Dame

Expertise

Predictive Analytics / Business Forecasting
Experimental Economics
Economic Regulation and Government Policy
Not-for-Profit Organizations

Editorial Boards

Editorial Board Member, Applied Marketing Analytics (2015)
Editorial Board Member, Indiana Department of Workforce Development (2009 - 2009)

Publications

Business Forecasting & Predictive Analytics

Barry Keating
Holton Wilson

McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

7th Edition

2026

Basic Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Local Public Projects 2nd Edition

Barry Keating

BEPress

2nd Edition

2017

Well-Being Across Indiana: Is it Related to Good Governance?

Barry Keating
Maryann Keating

The Indiana Policy Review

Summer 2017

2017

Regression Analysis: Understanding and Building Business and Economic Models

Barry Keating

BEPress

Second Edition

2017

Text Into Numbers? Can Marketers Benefit from Unstructured Data?

Barry Keating

Applied Marketing Analytics

2016

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Presentations

Rudimentary Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Local Government Projects, Annual Meeting / Midwest Economics Association (2012)
"Private Firms, Public Entities, and the Middle Ground", Midwest Economics Asociation Annual Meeting (2011)
Using Data Mining to Understand International Capital Restrictions, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting (2010)
Supply Chain Management and Forecasting Problems, Statistical Forecasting Workshop (2009)
Generosity and the Public Goods Problem, Indiana University South Bend (2009)
Data Mining Marketing Datamarts, Data Mining Workshop (2009)
An Introduction to Data Mining Techniques, Data Mining Workshop (2008)
Forecasting and Supply Chain Problems in the Confections Industry , Data Mining Workshop (2008)
New Research in Statistical Forecasting and Data Mining, Ave Maria University (2008)
Regression Trees, Classification Trees, and Nearest Neighbor Models (2008)
Data Mining Tools and Classification Schemes, Statistical Forecasting Workshop (2008)
A Discussion of Veconlab and the use of Mathematica in Economics, ASSA Annual Meeting (2008)
New Product Forecasting and Event Modeling, Statistical Forecasting Workshop (2007)
Practical Methods for Event Models (2007)
The Use of Accuracy Measures and Diagnostic Statistics: A New Look (2007)
New Product Forecasting, New Product Forecasting (2007)
Review of Interactive Economic Tools, American Economic Association Annual Meeting (2007)
Infrequently Used Forecasting Techniques, Invited Presentation (2006)
Intermittent Forecasting Methods and Safety Stocks, Invited Presentation (2006)
Diffusion Modeling and Parameter Selection, Invited Presentation (2006)
Time Series Techniques and Event Models, Invited Presentation (2006)
Forecasting: The Importance of Being Incorrect, QAD Explore Conference (2006)

Awards

Executive Committee of the Wireless Institute, Wireless Institute of Notre Dame (2010)
Kaneb Teaching Excellence Award, University of Notre Dame (2004)
Kaneb Teaching Fellow Award, University of Notre Dame (2004)