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Latest Research

The views expressed in these papers are solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

A Value Chain Approach to Measuring the U.S. Production Structure

This paper develops a framework to examine the factor composition embedded in U.S. value added across final demand components by integrating value-added data with Integrated Industry-Level Production Account (KLEMS) statistics. This approach quantifies factor-specific value added within U.S.… Read more

By Jon D. Samuels, Gonca Senel
Published

Developing Federal Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment Statistics by State

This paper details BEA’s ongoing efforts to develop experimental statistics on federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment by state. These new statistics would provide valuable information for policymaking, research, and business decision-making at the state level,… Read more

By Christian Awuku-Budu, Kyle K. Hood, Kun Li
Published

Updated Experimental Ultimate Host Economy Statistics for U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

This paper provides an update on BEA’s research into ultimate host economy statistics for U.S. direct investment abroad (USDIA). A previous BEA working paper (Brew et al. 2023) explored producing statistics on equity position by… Read more

By Kirsten Brew, Amanda Budny, Jessica Hanson, Ryan Smith, Larkin Terrie, Daniel R. Yorgason
Published

Price Chains and the Origins of PCE Price Growth

Off-the-shelf growth accounting is typically used to assess the sources of economic growth, and recently established approaches to measuring trade in value added are typically used to decompose domestic and foreign content in bundles of final demand. This paper merges the two approaches to… Read more

By Jon D. Samuels
Published