Research at BEA | Staff Biography

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, American University, 2002
• Masters, Economics, University of Maryland, 1993
• Bachelors, Economics, University of Maryland, 1990

Current Areas of Interest

• Input-output analysis
• National income accounting
• Industrial organization
• Index numbers

Working Papers

• “Aggregation Issues in Calculating GDP by Industry”
  • with Marshall B. Reinsdorf, and Robert E. Yuskavage
  • NBER Working Paper Series No. 11073, 2005.
• “An Analysis of the Composition of Intermediate Inputs by Industry”
  • with Erich H. Strassner
  • Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques in Montreal, Canada, 2002 (October)

Selected Publications

• “BEA Briefing: Future Directions for the Industry Accounts”
  • Survey of Current Business 89 (March 2009): 29–32
• “Adapting BEA’s National and Industry Accounts for a Health Care Satellite Account”
  • with Brent R. Moulton and Ana Aizcorbe
  • Strategies for a BEA Satellite Health Care Account, National Academies Press, 2009.
• “BEA Briefing: Improving BEA’s Accounts Through Flexible Annual Revisions”
  • with Robert J. Kornfeld, George M. Smith, David F. Sullivan, and Robert E. Yuskavage
  • Survey of Current Business 88 (June 2008): 29–32
• “Comparing the Consumer Price Index and the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index”
  • with Clinton P. McCully and Kenneth J. Stewart
  • Survey of Current Business 87 (November 2007): 26–33
• “A Reconciliation Between the Consumer Price Index and the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index”
  • with Clinton P. McCully and Kenneth J. Stewart
  • September 2007
• “Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating the BEA’s Accounts: Improved Methods for Calculating GDP by Industry”
  • with Marshall B. Reinsdorf, and Robert E. Yuskavage
  • A new Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, edited by D. Jorgenson, J. Landefeld, and W. Nordhaus, University of Chicago Press, 2006
• “Integrating Industry and National Economic Accounts: First Steps and Future Improvements”
  • with Ann M. Lawson, Sumiye Okubo, and Mark A. Planting
  • A new Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, edited by D. Jorgenson, J. Landefeld, and W. Nordhaus, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• “Comparing Price Measures—The CPI and the PCE Price Index”
  • Presentation at the National Association for Business Economics, 2006 Washington Economic Policy Conference in Washington DC, 2006 (March)
• “Preview of the Comprehensive Revision of the Annual Industry Accounts: Integrating the Annual Input-Output Accounts and the Gross-Domestic-Product-by-Industry Accounts”
  • with Mark A. Planting, Mahnaz Fahim-Nader, and Sherlene K. S. Lum
  • Survey of Current Business 84 (March 2004): 38–51