Papers
This page provides access to papers and presentations prepared by BEA staff. Abstracts are presented in HTML format; complete papers are in PDF format with selected tables in XLS format. 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.
The Importance of Pricing the Bundle of Treatments
In this paper, we explore the importance of shifts in treatments for explaining increases in the cost of health care services. Using a large database of health insurance claims for sample patients, we find that there have been shifts in treatment intensity that have an important effect on costs… Read more
State-Level Wage AGI Gap for Tax Years 2000-2002
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), under contract with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Research, undertook an update of BEA’s state-level wage reconciliation for 2000 between BEA wages and salaries and IRS wages and salaries in Adjusted Gross Income. The initial reconciliation… Read more
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income: Methodology and Results for 2001-2004
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) publishes annual estimates of state disposable personal income, the difference between state personal income and state personal current taxes. BEA also publishes annual estimates of personal income for sub-state areas, but BEA does not publish corresponding… Read more
Toward a Health Care Satellite Account
Domestic Outsourcing and Imported Inputs in the U.S. Economy: Insights from Integrated Economic Accounts
Accounting for Obsolescence: An Evaluation of Current NIPA Practice
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) makes estimates of consumption of fixed (CFC) that are used in its estimates of the nation's net income and product. These estimates reflect expected obsolescence and are adjusted for quality change in the underlying capital assets. Recently, some papers… Read more
Appendix C: Adapting BEA's National and Industry Accounts for a Health Care Satellite Account | Strategies for a BEA Satellite Health Care Account: Summary of a Workshop
Appendix C: Adapting BEA's National and Industry Accounts for a Health Care Satellite Account
In March 2008, the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies held a workshop to assist the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with next steps as it develops plans to produce a satellite health care account. This account, designed to improve its measurement of economic activity in… Read more
Methodology for the Industry Estimates in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account
This paper is part of a series that provides the details behind the Bureau of Economic Analysis's (BEA) satellite account on research and development (R&D) activity. It describes the data and experimental methodology used to create the GDP-by-Industry component of the satellite account for… Read more
2007 R&D Satellite Account Methodologies: R&D Capital Stocks and Net Rates of Return
This paper discusses the methodologies used in constructing current- and constant-cost R&D net stocks and depreciation flows in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account. It also constructs net rates of return on private assets inclusive of R&D in a manner consistent with recent issues of the… Read more