Research at BEA | Staff Biography

Katz, Arnold J.

Division:

National Accounts Research Group

Phone:

202–606–9641

E-Mail:

arnold.katz@bea.gov

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Current Areas of Interest

• Conceptual foundations of NIPA treatments
• Measurement of capital services and net stocks

Working Papers

• "Explaining Long-term Differences Between Census and BEA Measures of Household Income"
  • Paper was presented at the 2012 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference
  • Washington, DC, January 10, 2012 (Published as WP-2012-04)
• "Accounting for Obsolescence: An Evaluation of Current NIPA Practice"
  • Paper presented at The 2008 World Congress on National Accounts for Nations
  • Arlington, VA, May 12-17, 2008 (Published as WP-2008-05)
• "An Overview of BEA's Source Data and Estimating Methods for Quarterly GDP"
  • Paper presented at the 10th OCED-NBS Workshop on National Accounts
  • Paris, France on November 6-10, 2006
• “Accounting for Maintenance and Repairs”
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Discussion Paper No. 54, May 1994
• "Alternative Tax Policies to Stimulate Investment"
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Discussion Paper No. 42, August 1989
• "Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Economic Depreciation, Capital Input, and the Net Capital Stock"
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Discussion Paper No. 30, July 1988
• "A Model of Federal Personal Income Tax Receipts for the BEA Quarterly Econometric Model"
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Discussion Paper | No. 17, April 1987
• "An Investment Equation with Separate Cost of Capital Components"
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Discussion Paper No. 2, March 1986
  • An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Forecasting
  • Montreal, Canada on June 9-12, 1985

Selected Publications

• "Estimating Dwelling Services in the Candidate Countries: Theoretical and Practical Considerations in Developing Methodologies Based on a User Cost of Capital Measure"
  • in W. Erwin Diewert, Bert M. Balk, Dennis Fixler, Kevin J. Fox, and Alice O. Nakumura (eds.) in Price and Productivity Measurement, Vol. 1: Housing. Trafford Press, 2009
• “Estimating Dwelling Services in the Candidate Countries: Theory and Application of the User Cost of Capital Measure"
  • Paper presented at the Regional Coordinators’ Workshop of the International Comparison Program | 2003–2005
  • Luxembourg, March 24 – 28, 2003
• "The Chain-Additivity Issue and the U.S. National Economic Accounts"
  • with Ehemann, Christian; Katz, Arnold J.; and Moulton, Brent R.
  • Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 28 (1-2), 2002: 37-49
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• Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth, 1925-94
  • Primary author of U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
  • Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 1999
• "Improved Estimates of Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth, 1929-95"
  • with Shelby W. Herman
  • Survey of Current Business 77 (May 1997): 5–69
• “Accounting for Mineral Resources: Issues and BEA’s Initial Estimates"
  • with Carol S. Carson and J. Steven Landefeld
  • Survey of Current Business 74 (April 1994): 50–72
• "An Analysis of Trends in the Intensity of U.S. Capital Formation and Their Determinants"
  • Journal of Policy Modeling, 8(3), Fall 1986: 433-469.
  • This paper was also presented at the Sixty-first Annual Western Economic Association International Conference held in San Francisco, California on July 1-5, 1986
• "Valuing the Services of Consumer Durables"
  • Review of Income and Wealth, Series 29, December 1983: 405-427
• "The Value of Services Provided by the Stock of Consumer Durables, 1947-79: Alternative User Cost Measures"
  • in BEA Working Paper No.2: Measuring Nonmarket Economic Activity
  • Springfield, VA.: National Technical Information Service, December 1982, Accession No. PB 83-167-395
• "Bounding the Cash-Equivalent Value of In-Kind Income"
  • Paper presented at the Meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations held in New York, N.Y in December 1982
• "The Value of Services Provided by the Stock of Consumer Durables, 1947-77: An Oppurtunity Cost Measure"
  • Survey of Current Business 60 (July 1980): 22–31
• The Cash Equivalent of In-Kind Income
  • with Cooper, Gershon
  • Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, April 1978, Accession No. PB 276-767