Research at BEA | Staff Biography
Wasshausen, David B.
Division:
Industry Sector
Phone:
202–606–9752
E-Mail:
Education
- M.A., Economics, American University, 1996
- B.A., Economics, Miami University, 1990
Current Areas of Interest
- Input-Output Analysis
- Index number theory
- Price indexes for IT goods and services
- Productivity analysis
- Depreciation profiles
Working Papers
- “The Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts of the United States”
- By Marco Cagetti, Elizabeth Ball Holmquist, Lisa Lynn, Susan Hume McIntosh, and David Wasshausen
- Paper presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, September 2012 | Boston, Massachusetts
- “Sectoral Balance Sheets for Nonfinancial Assets”
- Paper presented at the Conference on Strengthening Sectoral Position and Flow Data in the Macroeconomic Accounts
- Jointly organized by the IMF and OECD February 28 - March 2, 2011 | Washington, DC
- “The Role of Hedonic Methods in Measuring Real GDP in the United States”
- 31st CEIES Seminar, “Are we measuring productivity correctly?”
- October, 2006
Selected Publications
- “Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts”
- with Michael Harper, Brent R. Moulton and Steven Rosenthal
- American Economic Review 99 (May 2009)
- “Information-Processing Equipment and Software in the National Accounts”
- with Bruce Grimm and Brent Moulton
- Measuring Capital in the New Economy, National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth Volume 65, 2005
