Research at BEA | Staff Biography
Borga, Maria
Division:
Balance of Payments Division
Phone:
202–606–9853
E-Mail:
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, 1997
- B.S., French, Pennsylvania State University, 1989
- B.A., Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 1989
Current Areas of Interest
- Offshoring of services and globalization
Working Papers
- “Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms’ Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad”
- with Robert E. Lipsey
- National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 10442
- “Offshoring and the U.S. Balance of Payments”
- with Ralph Kozlow
- BEA Working Paper WP2004–05
- “International Fragmentation of Production and the Intrafirm Trade of U.S. Multinational Companies”
- with William Zeile
- BEA Working Paper WP2004–02
Selected Publications
- “Improved Measures of U.S. International Services: The Cases of Insurance, Wholesale and Retail Trade, and Financial Services”
- University of Chicago Press. International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization, NBER-CRIW Studies in Income and Wealth
- , 2009.
- “Factor Prices, Factor Substitution, and Exporting in U.S. Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad”
- with Robert Lipsey
- The World Economy 32 (January 2009): 30–48
- “Trends in Employment at U.S. Multinational Companies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data”
- Brookings Institution Press. Brookings Trade Forum, 2005. Washington, DC
- “Selected Issues in the Measurement of U.S. International Services”
- with Obie G. Whichard
- Survey of Current Business 82 (June 2002): 36–56.


