BEA Working Papers

This page provides links to research papers and analytical presentations prepared by BEA staff. The category includes papers that might be developed into formal papers or presentations at later dates. Abstracts are presented in HTML format; complete papers are in PDF format.

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2006

• A Balanced System of Industry Accounts for the U.S. and Structural Distribution of Statistical Discrepancy (WP2006-8)
  by Baoline Chen
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• Private Nonresidential Building and Apartment Prices (WP2006-7)
  by Leonard Loebach
  Full Paper (32,000KB)
  Section 1 (947KB) | Section 2 (1,358KB) | Section 3 (4,297KB) | Section 4 (4,342KB) | Section 5 (7,398KB) | Section 6 (7,720KB)
  
  
• Concepts and Methods of the U.S. Input-Output Accounts (WP2006-06)
  Full Manual
  
  
• The Feasibility of Producing Personal Income to Adjusted Gross Income (PI-AGI) Reconciliations by State (WP2006-05)
  by Robert L. Brown, Ann E. Dunbar, and Adrienne T. Pilot
  Abstract | Full Paper | Tables in this paper: XLS
  
  
• Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income - Methodology and Results for 2001-2002 (WP2006-04)
  by Ann E. Dunbar
  Abstract | Full Paper | Tables in this paper: XLS
  
  
• Linking Frascati-based R&D Spending to the System of National Accounts (WP2006-03)
  by Carol A. Robbins
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• R&D Expenditures for the U.S.: A Frascati to System of National Accounts Application to U.S. Data (WP2006-02)
  by Carol A. Robbins
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• The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand (WP2006-01)
  by Adam Copeland and George Hall
  Abstract | Full Paper

2005

• Report on Interarea Price Levels (WP2005-11)
  by Bettina H. Aten
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• Evaluating and Adjusting for Chain Drift in National Economic Accounts (WP2005-10)
  by Christian Ehemman
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• Chain Drift in Leading Superlative Indexes (WP2005-09)
  by Christian Ehemman
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• Moore's Law, Competition and Intel's Productivity in the Mid-1990s (WP2005-08)
  by Ana Aizcorbe
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• Why Are Semiconductor Price Indexes Falling So Fast?: Industry Estimates and Implications for Productivity Measurement (WP2005-07)
  by Ana Aizcorbe
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• Differences in Hedonic and Matched-Model Price Indexes: Do the Weights Matter? (WP2005-06)
  by Ana Aizcorbe and Yvon Pho
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• Alternative Measures of U.S. Economic Activity in Business Cycles and Business Cycle Dating (WP2005-05)
  by Bruce T. Grimm
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• Further Integrating BEA's Economic Accounts: Introducing Annual Input-Output Estimates into the Gross State Product by Industry Accounts (WP2005-04)
  by John Sporing, Jr., George K. Downey, and John R. Kort
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• International Trade and Economic Growth: A Possible Methodology for Estimating Cross-Border R&D Spillovers (WP2005-03)
  by Lawrence R. McNeil and Barbara M. Fraumeni
  Presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Productivity Meeting, Cambridge, MA, March 4, 2005.
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• Another Look At Nonresidential Building Prices (WP2005-02)
  by Leonard J. Loebach
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• The Effects of the Quality Adjustment Method on Price Indices for Digital Cameras (WP2005-01)
  By Kari Manninen
  Abstract | Full Paper

2004

• Moore's Law and the Semiconductor Industry: A Vintage Model (WP2004-10)
  by Ana Aizcorbe and Samuel Kortum
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• Using Efficiency Tests to Reduce Revisions in Panel Data: The Case of Wage and Salary Estimates for U.S. States (WP2004-09)

  by Jeremy J. Nalewaik
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• News, Noise, and Estimates of the "True" Unobserved State of the Economy (WP2004-08)

  by Dennis J. Fixler and Jeremy J. Nalewaik
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• The Effects of Low-Valued Transactions on the Quality of U.S. International Export Estimates, 1994-1998 (WP2004-07)
  by Charles Ian Mead
  Abstract | Full Paper
  
  
• Offshore Outsourcing and Multinational Companies (WP2004-06)
  by J. Steven Landefeld and Raymond J. Mataloni
  Presentation | More information on Offshore Outsourcing and Multinational Companies
  
  
• “Offshoring” and the U.S. Balance of Payments (WP2004-05)
  by Ralph H. Kozlow and Maria Borga
  Presentation | More information on Offshoring and the U.S. Balance of Payments
  
  
• Current Consumption and Future Income Growth: Synthetic Panel Evidence (WP2004-04)
  by Jeremy J. Nalewaik
  First posted February 26, 2004. Updated December 20, 2004.
  Abstract | Full Paper | Data Appendix
  
  
• Volunteer Output and the National Accounts: An Empirical Analysis (WP2004-03)
  by Yvon H. Pho
  Presented at the 2004 Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 20-22, 2004.
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• International Fragmentation of Production and the Intrafirm Trade of U.S. Multinational Companies (WP2004-02)
  by Maria Borga and William J. Zeile
  Presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research/Conference on Research in Income and Wealth meeting on Firm-level Data, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 7-8, 2003 and at the OECD Committee on Industry and Business Environment/Working Party on Statistics Session on Globalization, Paris, France, November 3-4, 2003.
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• Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates (WP2004-01)
  by Robert L. Brown, Bruce T. Grimm, and Marian B. Sacks
  Abstract | Full Paper

2003

• New Quality Adjusted Price Indexes for Nonresidential Structures (WP2003-03)
  by Bruce T. Grimm
  Presented at the IMF/BIS Conference on Real Estate Indicators and Financial Stability, Washington, DC, October 27-28, 2003.
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• A Computational Routine for Disaggregating Industry Margin Data to Estimate Product Margin Rates (WP2003-02)
  by Matthew D. Atkinson
  Presented at the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference, Fall 2003, Washington, D.C.
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• Revisions, Rationality, and Turning Points in GDP (WP2003-01)
  by Dennis J. Fixler and Bruce T. Grimm
  Presented at the session "Tracking the Turning Points in the Economy," AEA meetings January 3-5, 2003, Washington, D.C.
  Abstract | Full paper

2002

• An Analysis of the Composition of Intermediate Inputs by Industry (WP2002-05)
  by Erich H. Strassner and Brian C. Moyer
  Presented at the 14th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, October 10-15, 2002, Montreal, Canada
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• Increasing the Timeliness of U.S. Annual I-O Accounts (WP2002-04)
  by Mark A. Planting and Jiemin Guo
  Presented at the 14th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, October 10-15, 2002, Montreal, Canada, and the International Regional Science Annual Meeting, November, 2001, Charleston, SC
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• From Make-Use to Symmetric I-O Tables: An Assessment of Alternative Technology Assumptions (WP2002-03)
  by Jiemin Guo, Ann M. Lawson, and Mark A. Planting
  Presented at the 14th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, October 10-15, 2002, Montreal, Canada
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• Information Processing Equipment and Software in the National Accounts (WP2002-02)
  by Bruce T. Grimm, Brent R. Moulton, and David B.Wasshausen
  Presented at the Conference on Measuring Capital in the New Economy, sponsored by the NBER/CRIW, April 26-27, 2002, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
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• R&D in the National Income and Product Accounts: A First Look at its Effect on GDP (WP2002-01)
  by Barbara M. Fraumeni and Sumiye Okubo
  Presented at the Conference on Measuring Capital in the New Economy, sponsored by the NBER/CRIW, April 26-27, 2002, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
  Abstract | Full paper

2001

• Investigating Convergence of the U.S. Regions: A Time-Series Analysis (WP2001-02)
  by Richard E. Kane
  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, June 31-June 2, 2001, Duluth, MN
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• Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms (WP2001-01)
  by Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr., and Matthew J. Slaughter
  Presented at the Brookings Trade Forum 2001, Washington, DC, May 10-11, 2001
  Abstract | Full paper

2000

• Using Input-Output Analysis to Measure U.S. Economic Structural Change Over a 24 Year Period (WP2000-01)
  by Jiemin Guo and Mark A. Planting
  Presented at the 13th International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, Macerata, Italy, August 21-25, 2000.
  Abstract | Full paper