Advisory Committees
About the BEA Advisory Committee
The BEA Advisory Committee advises the Director of BEA on matters related to the development and improvement of BEA’s national, regional, industry, and international economic accounts, especially in areas of new and rapidly growing economic activities arising from innovative and advancing technologies, and provides recommendations from the perspectives of the economics profession, business, and government.
The members of BEA's Advisory Committee are:
- Chair: Dale W. Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University
- Alan J. Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley
- Richard B. Berner, Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist, Morgan Stanley
- Michael J. Boskin, Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics, Stanford University
- Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow, Economics Study Program, The Brookings Institution
- Susan M. Collins, Dean of Public Policy, University of Michigan
- Robert J. Gordon, Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University
- Maurine A. Haver, President, Haver Analytics, Inc.
- Charles R. Hulten, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
- Therese J. McGuire, Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- William D. Nordhaus, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, Yale University
- Joel L. Prakken, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Macroeconomic Advisors
- Andrew D. Reamer, Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
The BEA Advisory Committee meets twice yearly. The meeting schedule through Fall of 2009 is as follows:
- May 2, 2008
- November 7, 2008
- May 1, 2009
- November 6, 2009
Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee
BEA Advisory Committee Meetings
May 2, 2008
Agenda (PDF • 73 KB)
Background Material
- Declines in the Volatility Of the U.S. Economy: A Detailed Look, by Bruce Grimm and Brian Sliker (PDF • 1,030 KB)
- Handout for Discussion of: “Declines in the Volatility of the U.S. Economy: A Detailed Look", by Robert Gordon (PDF • 102 KB)
- Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth, by Robert Feenstra, Marshall Reinsdorf, and Matthew J. Slaughter (PDF • 217 KB)
Presentations
- Update on BEA Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 152 KB)
- Sources of Moderation in the Volatility of GDP, by Bruce Grimm and Brian Sliker (PDF • 324 KB)
- Discussion of: “Declines in the Volatility of the U. S. Economy: A Detailed Look", by Robert J. Gordon (PDF • 292 KB)
- Effects of Changes in Terms of Trade on GDP, Productivity and Command-Basis GNP, by Marshall Reinsdorf (PDF • 184 KB)
- Personal Consumption Expenditures: New Classification System, by Clint McCully (PDF • 263KB)
- Comments on New Classification System for PCE, by David Lebow (PDF • 28 KB)
November 2, 2007
Agenda (PDF • 76 KB)
Background Material
- Quarterly GDP by Industry: Progress and Prospects, by Robert E. Yuskavage (PDF •
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- Research and Development Satellite Account Update (PDF • 1,330 KB)
- Tables (PDF • 1,309 KB)
- 2007 Update to Research and Development Satellite Account - News Release (PDF • 28 KB)
- Treatment of International Research and Development as Investment: Issues and Estimates, by Dan Yorgason (PDF • 986 KB)
- Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area News Release (PDF • 3,402 KB)
- Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area Interactive Tables
- Estimates of State Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services: a first brush, by Bettina H. Aten (PDF • 242 kb)
Presentations
- Experimental Quarterly GDP by Industry, by Robert E. Yuskavage (PDF • 376 KB)
- Experimental Industry Estimates in BEA’s R&D Satellite Account, by Carol A. Robbins (PDF • 144 KB)
- Treating R&D as Investment in the International Accounts, by Dan Yorgason (PDF • 157 KB)
- Prototype GDP by Metropolitan Area, by Sharon D. Panek (PDF • 2,244 KB)
- Update on BEA Activities, by Steve Landefeld (PDF • 152 KB)
May 4, 2007
Agenda (PDF • 74 KB)
Background Material
- Relevance and Design of National Health Accounts (PDF • 51 KB)
- Towards Developing a Satellite Account for Health (PDF • 72 KB)
- BEA FY 2008 Budget Fact Sheet (PDF • 76 KB)
- BEA FY 2008 Budget Justification (PDF • 1,466 KB)
Presentations
- Toward a Satellite Account for Health, by Ana Aizcorbe (PowerPoint • 1,883 KB)
- Episode-Based Price Indexes: Plans and Progress, by Ana Aizcorbe (PowerPoint • 1,816 KB)
- Update on BEA Activities, by Steve Landefeld (PowerPoint • 3,223 KB)
November 3, 2006
Agenda (PDF • 74 KB)
Background Material
- Tables for the Research and Development Satellite Account Tables (PDF • 28 KB)
- Research and Development Satellite Account Full Report (PDF • 1,322 KB)
- Research and Development Satellite Account Report Appendix (PDF • 1,350 KB)
- Research and Development Satellite Account News Release
Presentations
- The U.S. R&D Satellite Account: Preliminary Estimates & Future Work, by Sumiye Okubo (PDF • 94 KB)
- R&D Satellite Account: Preliminary Estimates, by Charles Hulten (PDF • 46 KB)
- Measuring Compensation: Comments, by Richard Berner (PDF • 84 KB)
- NIPA Comprehensive Revision Plans, by Brent Moulton (PDF • 105 KB)
- Update of BEA Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 123 KB)
- The PCE Price Index: Core Issues, by Clint McCully (PDF • 229 KB)
- The PCE Price Index: Appendix (PDF • 143 KB)
- Some CPI Core Issues, by John S. Greenless (PDF • 408 KB)
- The PCE as Reference Index for an Inflation Objective at the Fed, by Laurence H. Meyer (PDF • 129 KB)
May 19, 2006
Agenda (PDF • 73 KB)
Presentations
- Update of BEA Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 128 KB)
- Non-Market Accounts, by William D. Nordhaus (PDF • 72 KB)
- Next Steps in External Integration: BEA and BLS, by Robert E. Yuskavage (PDF • 51 KB)
- Next Steps in Internal Integration: Flexible Annual Revisions NIPA Feedback Loop Improved Value Added Reconciliation, by George M. Smith (PDF • 61 KB)
- A Balanced System of Industry Accounts for the U.S. and Structural Estimation of Statistical Discrepancy, by Baoline Chen (PDF • 99 KB)
- The BEA-NSF R&D Satellite Account: Overview, Methods, and Issues, by Sumiye O. Okubo and Carol A. Robbins (PDF • 149 KB)
- Capitalizing R&D: An Idea Whose Time Has Arrived, by Charles R. Hulten (PDF • 152 KB)
- State and Local Government in the NIPAs, by Bruce E. Baker (PDF • 92 KB)
November 4, 2005
Agenda (PDF • 73 KB)
Presentations:
- Update of BEA Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 174 KB)
- Areas Where BEA Should Better Explain Its Measures and Their Uses, by Alan J. Auerbach (PDF • 30 KB)
- How Could the BEA Communicate Better?, by Robert J. Gordon (PDF • 24 KB)
- PCE Deflators for Medical Care: A Progress Report, by Ana Aizcorbe and Nicole Nestoriak (PDF • 188 KB)
- PCE Deflators for Medical Care: A Progress Report, by David Johnson (PDF • 267 KB)
- Thoughts on the International Data, by Edward E. Leamer (PDF • 227 KB)
May 13, 2005
Agenda (PDF • 71 KB)
Presentations:
- Update of BEA Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 56 KB)
- A Framework for Nonmarket Accounting, by Katharine G. Abraham (PDF • 45 KB)
- Where Should BEA Go on Non-Market and Near-Market Accounts?, by William D. Nordhaus (PDF • 101 KB)
- Developing Nonmarket Accounts: Implementation Issues, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 50 KB)
- Update on Revision of International Guidelines: System of National Accounts, by Brent R. Moulton (PDF • 44 KB)
- Update on Revision of International Guidelines: International Transactions Accounts & International Investment Position, by Christopher L. Bach (PDF • 45 KB)
- Interarea Price Levels, by Bettina H. Aten (PDF • 109 KB)
- The BEA/NSF R&D Satellite Project, by Barbara M. Fraumeni and Sumiye Okubo (PDF • 48 KB)
November 5, 2004
Agenda (PDF • 72 KB)
Presentations:
- Update on BEA's Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 137 KB)
- Price, Real Output, and Productivity Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education, by Michael S. Christian, Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson, and Matthew P. Williams (PDF • 168 KB)
- Employer Contributions for Private Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans, by Kurt Kunze (PDF • 78 KB)
- "Offshoring" and the U.S. Balance of Payments, by Ralph Kozlow and Maria Borga (PDF • 103 KB)
May 14, 2004
Agenda (PDF • 26 KB)
Presentations:
- Update on BEA Activities, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 74 KB)
- BEA Regional Accounts: Research Underway, by John Ruser (PDF • 45 KB)
- Comparing Alternative Measures of Income, by Robert Brown (PDF • 115 KB)
- Pensions and Health Insurance, by John Ruser and Keenan Dworak-Fisher (BLS) (PDF • 239 KB)
- Comments on Dworak-Fisher, Ruser, Bishow Proposal, by Alan Heston (Univ. of Penn.) (PDF • 19 KB)
- System of National Accounts Revision, by Brent Moulton (PDF • 41 KB)
- International Guidelines are Being Revised: Balance of Payments Manual, by Ralph Kozlow (PDF • 44 KB)
- NAICS Detail for Earlier Years: Conversion of GDP by Industry, by Robert Yuskavage (PDF • 20 KB)
November 14, 2003
Agenda (PDF • 29 KB)
Presentations:
- Overview of the 2003 Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts, by Carol E. Moylan (PDF • 142 KB)
- Profits in the NIPAs: Benchmark Brings a Clearer Picture, by Rosemary D. Marcuss (PDF • 105 KB)
- Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Economic Accounts, by Rosemary D. Marcuss (PDF • 194 KB)
- Are U.S. MNCs "Exporting Jobs"?, by Ralph Kozlow (PDF • 447 KB)
- Comparability of U.S. and Other Countries GDP Estimates Presentation, by J. Steven Landefeld (PDF • 336 KB)
- A Framework for Nonmarket Accounting, by Katharine G. Abraham (PDF • 17 KB)
- The System of National Accounts for the New Economy: What Should Change?, by Brent R. Moulton (PDF • 151 KB)
May 9, 2003
Agenda (PDF • 25 KB)
Presentations:
- The BEA Industry Accounts, by Sue Okubo (PDF • 39 KB)
- Options for Integrating the Annual Industry Accounts, by Brian C. Moyer (PDF • 37 KB)
- Thinking Through the BEA's Options for Integrating the Industry Accounts, by Robert J. Gordon (PDF • 25,763 KB)
- Benchmark I-O Accounts: Context for Integration and Acceleration, by Ann Lawson and Ted Morgan (PDF • 231 KB)
- Options for Accelerating the Annual Input-Output Accounts, by Mark Planting (PDF • 46 KB)
- Acceleration of BEA Annual Accounts, by Karen Polenske (PDF • 186 KB)
- Overview of Census Bureau Initiatives to Improve BEA Source Data, by Thomas L. Mesenbourg (PDF • 242 KB)
- BEA/Accounting/Tax Measures of Corporate Profits, by Ken Petrick (PDF • 2,528 KB)
- Stock Options, by Ernie Wilcox (PDF • 25 KB)
November 15, 2002
Agenda (PDF • 62 KB)
Presentations:
- Note on the Upcoming Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts, by Brent Moulton (PDF • 81 KB)
- Rethinking the NIPA Treatment of Insurance Services For the Comprehensive Revision, by Dennis Fixler (PDF • 103 KB)
- Separate Recognition of Income and Outlays of Nonprofit Institutions Serving Households, by Ian Mead (PDF • 365 KB)
- Summary of the Revisions to the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA’s) for 1999:I - 2002:I, by Carol Moylan (PDF • 53 KB)
- Presentation of the Revisions to the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA’s) for 1999:I - 2002:I (PDF • 201 KB)
- Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts: Annual Estimates, 1999-2001, and Quarterly Estimates, 1999:I-2002:I, by Eugene Seskin and Stephanie McCulla (From the August 2002 Survey of Current Business) (PDF • 758 KB)
May 3, 2002
Agenda (PDF • 13 KB)
Background Material (PDF • 80 KB)
Presentations:
- Forecasting With NIPA Income Data: Estimation Procedures and Revision Evidence, by Brooks Robinson (PDF • 105 KB)
- The Desirability of Seeking Comparability between NAICS and NACE (ISIC), by Dennis Fixler (PDF • 73 KB)
November 30, 2001
Agenda (PDF • 71 KB)
Presentations:
- "BEA's Preliminary Strategic Plan," by J. Steven Landefeld (including an overview of BEA's Preliminary Strategic Plan for 2001 - 2005 and a detailed matrix summarizing the elements of the Plan with milestones through FY 2005) both revised November 27 (PDF • 111 KB)
- Matrix for the "BEA's Preliminary Strategic Plan," (PDF • 177 KB)
- The Expanding Role of Hedonic Methods in the Official Statistics of the United States, by Brent R. Moulton (PDF • 131 KB)
- Reliability of the National Income and Product Accounts, by Dennis Fixler and Bruce Grimm (revised, January 2002) (PDF • 513 KB)
May 11, 2001
Agenda (PDF • 62 KB)
Presentations:
- Alternative Treatments of Consumer Durables in the National Accounts, by Barbara Fraumeni and Sumiye Okubo (PDF • 85 KB)
- Summary Information on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (PDF • 115 KB)
- An Alternative Methodology: Valuing Quality Change for Microprocessors in the PPI, by Mike Holdway (PDF • 401 KB)
- Selected Price Estimation Work at Other Government Organizations, by Bruce Grimm (PDF • 57 KB)
- Balancing the GDP Account, by G. Christian Ehemann and Brent R. Moulton (PDF • 10 KB)
- Producer Price Indexes for Stockbrokers, Dealers and Investment Banking Companies, by Shelley Winston (PDF • 44 KB)
- Prices for Local Area Network Equipment, by Mark Doms and Christopher Forman (PDF • 211 KB)
- Revisions to GDP, by J. Steven Landefeld and Bruce Grimm (PDF • 13 KB)
- Productivity in the Services Sector, by Jack Tripplett and Barry Bosworth External to BEA: PDF
November 17, 2000
Agenda (PDF • 53 KB)
Presentations:
- Priorities for Industry Accounts at BEA, by Robert E. Yuskavage (PDF • 1,387 KB)
- International Accounts Data Needs: Plans, Progress, and Priorities, by Ralph Kozlow (PDF • 483 KB)
- A Note on the Impact of Hedonics and Computers on Real GDP, by J. Steven Landefeld and Bruce T. Grimm (PDF • 231 KB)
May 5, 2000
Agenda (PDF • 59 KB)
Presentations:
- Measuring the New Economy, by J. Steven Landefeld and Barbara M. Fraumeni (PDF • 114 KB)
- Recognition of Business and Government Expenditures for Software as Investment: Methodology and Quantitative Impacts, 1959-98, by Robert Parker and Bruce T. Grimm (PDF • 167 KB)
- Measurement of Banking Services in the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts: Recent Changes and Outstanding Issues, by Brent R. Moulton (PDF • 30 KB)
About the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC)
The Committee presents advice and makes recommendations to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the Department of Labor, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Census, both of the Department of Commerce, from the perspective of the professional economics and statistics community. The Committee examines the Agencies' programs and provides advice on statistical methodology, research needed, and other technical matters related to the collection, tabulation, and analysis of Federal economic statistics.
The members of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee are:
- Chair: Matthew D. Shapiro, Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Senior Research Scientist of the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
- Ernst R. Berndt, Louis B. Seley Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow, Economics Study Program, The Brookings Institution
- Robert M. Groves, Director, Center for Survey Research and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
- Bronwyn H. Hall, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- John C. Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
- Richard D. Rippe, Economic Consultant
- Joseph Sedransk, Professor of Statistics, Case Western Reserve
- Kirk M. Wolter, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
The FESAC Advisory Committee meets twice yearly. The planned meeting schedule through 2007 is as follows:
- June 8, 2007
- December 14, 2007
Link to the BEA Advisory Committee.
Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meetings
June 8, 2007
Agenda (PDF • 12 KB)
June 9, 2006
Agenda (PDF • 12 KB)
- Services Producer Price Indices: Past, Present, and Future, Roslyn Swick (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Deanna Bathgate (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and Michael Horrigan (Bureau of Labor Statistics) (PDF • 470 KB)
- Addendum (PDF • 896 KB)
- Plans for New PPI Service Sector Aggregation Indexes, Roslyn Swick (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and Maureen Doherty (Bureau of Labor Statistics) (PDF • 30 KB)
- Outliers and Influential Observations in Establishment Surveys, John L. Eltinge (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and Patrick J. Cantwell, (Bureau of the Census) (PDF • 119 KB)
December 9, 2005
Agenda (PDF • 9 KB)
- Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI, Robert Poole (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Frank Ptacek (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Randal Verbrugge (Bureau of Labor Statistics) (PDF • 1,008 KB)
June 10, 2005
Agenda (PDF • 13 KB)
- Progress Toward Completing Historical Production Accounts using the North American Industry Classification System, Michael J. Harper (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Barbara M. Fraumeni (BEA), Susan G. Powers (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and Robert E. Yuskavage (BEA). (PDF • 30 KB)
- Comparison of BEA and BLS NAICS-based Output Measures, Susan G. Powers (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Barbara M. Fraumeni (BEA), Michael J. Harper (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and Robert E. Yuskavage (BEA). (PDF • 185 KB)
- Births and Deaths in Business Surveys, Patricia Getz (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Jurgen Kropf (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Richard Clayton (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Ruth E. Detlefsen (Bureau of the Census), Paul S. Hanczaryk (Bureau of the Census), Ron Jarmin (Bureau of the Census), and Edward D. Walker (Bureau of the Census). (PDF • 797 KB)
December 14, 2004
Agenda (PDF • 13 KB)
- Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income and Beyond, John W. Ruser (BEA), Adrienne T. Pilot (BEA), and Charles Nelson (Bureau of the Census). (PDF • 100 KB)
- Response Rates and Nonresponse in Establishment Surveys - BLS and Census Bureau, Rita Petroni (Bureau of the Census), Richard Sigman (Bureau of the Census), Diane Willimack (Bureau of the Census), Steve Cohen (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and Cldye Tucker (Bureau of Labor Statistics). (PDF • 239 KB)
- Development of an ECI excluding Workers Incentive Pay, Anthony J. Barkume (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and Thomas G. Moehrle (Bureau of Labor Statistics). (PDF • 72 KB)
- Perspective on Response Rates and Nonresponse in Establishment Surveys, Philip Smith (Stat Canada) (PDF • 34 KB)
June 11, 2004 -- canceled
October 17, 2003
Agenda (PDF • 6 KB)
- Imputation in Three Federal Statistical Agencies, John L. Eltinge (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Ralph Kozlow (BEA), Donald M. Luery (Bureau of the Census) (PDF • 88 KB)
- Examining the Discrepancy in Employment Growth between the CPS and the CES, by Thomas Nardone, Mary Bowler, and Jurgen Kropf (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Katie Kirkland (University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research), and Signe Wetrogan (Bureau of the Census), October 3, 2003 (PDF • 133 KB)
- Data Sharing, Carol Comisarow and Lucia Foster (Bureau of the Census), Dennis Fixler (BEA), and James Spletzer (Bureau of Labor Statistics) (PDF • 38 KB)
March 21, 2003
Agenda (PDF • 6 KB)
December 14, 2001
Agenda (PDF • 6 KB)
June 7-8, 2001
Agenda (PDF • 7 KB)
December 14-15, 2000
Agenda (PDF • 7 KB)
June 15, 2000
Agenda (PDF • 7 KB)
