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This page provides links to papers and presentations prepared by BEA staff. Abstracts are presented in HTML format; complete papers are in PDF format. In order to view the PDF files on this page, the free Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed.

BEA working papers are also available.

2006

  • An Overview of BEA's Source Data and Estimating Methods for Quarterly GDP
    Prepared by Arnold J. Katz
    Presented at the 10th OCED-NBS Workshop on National Accounts | Paris, France | November 6-10, 2006
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (329 kb)

  • Statistical Issues Related to Global Economic Imbalances: Perspectives on “Dark Matter” (Abstract)
    Prepared by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the Nineteenth Meeting of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, Frankfurt | October 2006
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (52 kb)

  • Distributive Services in the U.S. Economic Accounts
    By Robert E. Yuskavage
    Presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Summer Institute | July 2006
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (167 kb)

  • U.S. Multinational Companies, Dividends, and Taxes (Abstract)
    Prepared by Ralph Kozlow and Patricia Abaroa
    Presented at International Association for Official Statistics | Ottawa | September 6-8, 2006
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (81 kb)

  • Outsourcing and Imported Services in BEA’s Industry Accounts
    by Robert E. Yuskavage, Erich H. Strassner, and Gabriel W. Medeiros
    Presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Conference on International Service Flows
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (198 kb)

  • Comparing Price Measures—The CPI and PCE Price Index
    by Brian C. Moyer
    Presented at the National Association for Business Economics, 2006 Washington Economic Policy Conference, March 13-14, 2006
     p d f icon Presentation: PDF (137 kb)

  • Globalization, Offshoring, and Multinational Companies: What Are the Questions, and How Well Are We Doing in Answering Them? (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the Allied Social Science Associations annual meetings, January 6, 2006
    p d f icon Presentation: PDF (127 kb) | p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (94 kb)

2005

  • Accounting for Nonmarket Production: A Prototype Satellite Account Using the American Time Use Survey
    by J. Steven Landefeld, Barbara M. Fraumeni, and Cindy M. Vojtech
    Presented at the ATUS Early Results Conference, December 8-9, 2005
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (103 kb)

  • Importance of Data Sharing to BEA
    by J. Steven Landefeld and Dennis Fixler
    Presented at the Committee on National Statistics workshop on The Benefits of Interagency Business Data Sharing, October 21, 2005
    p d f icon Presentation: PDF (149 kb)

  • U.S. Industry Classification Procedures for Direct Investment
    by Ralph Kozlow and Obie G. Whichard
    Presented at the March meeting of IMF/OECD Direct Investment Technical Expert Group, March 7-11, 2005
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (113 kb)

  • Indirect Investment: FCS, USM, or 50% Ownership
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the March meeting of IMF/OECD Direct Investment Technical Expert Group, March 7-11, 2005
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (1,857 kb)

2004

  • Revisions to GDP Estimates in the U.S.
    by Dennis Fixler
    Presented at the OECD Workshop on Revisions, October 7, 2004
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (187 kb)

  • Recent U.S. Progress in Collecting Data on Derivatives (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the Seventeenth Meeting of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, October 26-29, 2004, Pretoria, South Africa
    p d f icon Full Paper: PDF (172 kb)

  • Corporate Profits in the GDP Accounts
    by Rosemary Marcuss
    Presented at the National Association for Business Economics Conference on Economic Statistics, Kissimmee, Florida, May 2-4, 2004
    p d f icon Presentation: PDF (817 kb)

  • The National Income and Product Accounts
    by Brooks B. Robinson and Shelly Smith
    Presented at the National Association for Business Economics Conference on Economic Statistics, Kissimmee, Florida, May 2-4, 2004
    p d f icon Presentation: PDF (459 kb)-- includes speakers' notes

  • Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts for the United States: Draft SNA-USA (Abstract)
    by Albert M. Teplin, CSE Analysis
    Rochelle Antoniewicz, Investment Company Institute
    Susan Hume McIntosh and Michael G. Palumbo, Federal Reserve Board
    Genevieve Solomon, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
    Charles Ian Mead, Karin Moses, and Brent R. Moulton, Bureau of Economic Analysis
    Presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Architecture of National Accounts, Washington, D.C., April 16-17, 2004.
    Note: This paper was first posted on May 17, 2004. An updated version of this paper was posted on this Web site on July 6, 2005.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (192 kb)
    XLS icon Tables in this paper: XLS (406 kb) -- includes data from 1985-2002.

  • An Overview of U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Statistics on Multinational Companies (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the OECD Workshop on International Investment Statistics, Paris, France, March 22-24, 2004
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (213 kb)
    p d f icon Data Appendix: PDF (120 kb)

  • Patterns of Production and Employment by U.S. Multinational Companies
    by Obie G. Whichard, based on a NOTE by Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr.
    Presented at the National Association for Business Economics 2004 Washington Economic Policy Conference, Washington, DC, March 26, 2004
    p d f icon Presentation: PDF (144 kb)

  • NIPA Corporate Profits and Reported Earnings: A Comparison and Measurement Issues (Abstract)
    by Charles Ian Mead, Brent R. Moulton, and Kenneth Petrick
    Presented at the ASSA/AEA meetings, San Diego, CA, January 3-5, 2004
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (84 kb)

2003

  • Trade in Goods Within Multinational Companies: Survey-Based Data and Findings for the United States of America (Abstract)
    by William J. Zeile
    Presented at the meeting of the OECD Committee on Industry and Business Environment, Working Party on Statistics, Session on Globalisation, Paris, France, November 3-4, 2003
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (144 kb)

  • Survey Data Collection Over the Internet at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Abstract)
    by Patricia C. Walker
    Prepared for the work session on Statistical Data Editing organized by the Statistical Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, Madrid, Spain, October 20-22, 2003
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (348 kb)

  • Measuring Globalization: The Experience of the United States of America (Abstract)
    by Obie G. Whichard
    Presented at the 22nd seminar of the European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2-3, 2003
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (57 kb)

  • Working with Chain-type Aggregates: A Few Tricks
    by Brent R. Moulton
    Presented at the Forecasters Club of New York, June 16, 2003
    p d f icon Presentation: PDF (75 kb)

  • Globalization and Multinational Companies: What Are the Questions, and How Well Are We Doing in Answering Them? (Abstract)
    by J. Steven Landefeld and Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the Conference of European Statisticians, Globalization Seminar, Geneva, Switzerland, June 12, 2003
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (36 kb)

  • Selected Issues on the Treatment of Nonperforming Loans in Macroeconomic Statistics (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Prepared for the IMF's Electronic Discussion Group on the Treatment of Nonperforming Loans in Macroeconomic Statistics, May 2003
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (27 kb)

2002

  • Valuing the Direct Investment Position in U.S. Economic Accounts (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the Fifteenth Meeting of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, October 21-25, 2002, Canberra, Australia
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (48 kb)

  • Exploring the Borderline Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: The U.S. Treatment (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the Fifteenth Meeting of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, October 21-25, 2002, Canberra, Australia
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (55 kb)

2001

  • BEA's Preliminary Strategic Plan for 2001 - 2005
    by J. Steven Landefeld
    Presented at the November 30, 2001 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee
    p d f icon Overview: PDF (111 kb)
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (373 kb)

  • The Expanding Role of Hedonic Methods in the Official Statistics of the United States (Abstract)
    by Brent R. Moulton
    Presented at the November 30, 2001 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (131 kb)

  • Alternative Treatments of Consumer Durables in the National Accounts
    by Barbara M. Fraumeni and Sumiye Okubo
    Presented at the May 11, 2001 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (85 kb)

  • Selected Price Estimation Work at Other Government Organizations
    by Bruce T. Grimm
    Presented at the May 11, 2001 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (57 kb)

  • Balancing the GDP Account
    by G. Christian Ehemann and Brent R. Moulton
    Presented at the May 11, 2001 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (10 kb)

  • Revisions to GDP
    by J. Steven Landefeld and Bruce T. Grimm
    Presented at the May 11, 2001 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (13 kb)

  • Measuring the New Economy (Abstract)
    by J. Steven Landefeld and Barbara M. Fraumeni
    Presented at the May 5, 2000 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee. (Revised, March 2001)
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (641 kb)

2000

  • International Accounts Data Needs: Plans, Progress, and Priorities (Abstract)
    by Ralph Kozlow
    Presented at the November 17, 2000 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (483 kb)

  • Priorities for Industry Accounts at BEA (Abstract)
    by Robert E. Yuskavage
    Presented at the November 17, 2000 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (1,387 kb)

  • Treatment of Employee Stock Options in the U.S. National Economic Accounts (Abstract)
    by Carol E. Moylan
    Presented at the OECD Meeting of National Accounts Experts, Paris, France, September 26-29, 2000.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (24 kb)

  • Current and Future Directions for the U.S. Industry Accounts (Abstract)
    by Ann M. Lawson
    Presented at the 13th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, Macerata, Italy, August 21-25, 2000.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (65 kb)

  • United States Statistics on Trade in Services (Abstract)
    by Obie G. Whichard
    Presented at the APEC Seminar on Statistical Reporting on Service Trade, in Tianjin, China, August 14-17, 2000.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (58 kb)

  • Principles and Practices for Making Statistics Relevant for Economic Decision Making (Abstract)
    by J. Steven Landefeld
    Presented at the Goskomstat Workshop: Developing the State Statistical System of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, May 28-29, 2000
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (27 kb)

  • Recognition of Business and Government Expenditures for Software as Investment:  Methodology and Quantitative Impacts, 1959-98 (Abstract)
    by Robert P. Parker and Bruce T. Grimm
    Presented at the May 5, 2000 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (167 kb)
    p d f icon Revised PDF versions of Tables 1 and 11, with explanatory note (33 kb) Updated Sep 3, 2002
    XLS icon Revised XLS spreadsheet version of Table 1, with explanatory note (17 kb) Updated May 19, 2003
    XLS icon Revised XLS spreadsheet version of Tables 11, with explanatory note (17 kb) Updated May 19, 2003

  • Measurement of Banking Services in the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts: Recent Changes and Outstanding Issues (Abstract)
    by Brent R. Moulton
    Presented at the May 5, 2000 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee.
    p d f icon Full paper: PDF (30 kb)

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