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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
  • Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow, Economics Study Program, The Brookings Institution
  • Susan M. Collins, Dean of Public Policy, University of Michigan
  • Janice C. Eberly, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
  • Jeffrey A. Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard University
  • 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
  • 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 1, 2009
  • November 6, 2009

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.

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BEA Advisory Committee Meetings

May 1, 2009

Agenda (PDF • 75 KB)

Background Material

Presentations

November 7, 2008

Agenda (PDF • 74 KB)

Presentations

May 2, 2008

Agenda (PDF • 73 KB)

Background Material

Presentations

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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, Department of Economics and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
  • Joseph G. Altonji, Department of Economics, Yale University
  • Ernst R. Berndt, Professor of Applied Economics, Sloan School, MIT
  • Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
  • F. Jay Breidt, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
  • Don A. Dillman, Departments of Sociology and Community and Rural Sociology, Washington State University
  • Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Department of Economics, Princeton University
  • Robert M. Groves, Director, Survey Research Center and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
  • Bronwyn H. Hall, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • John C. Haltiwanger, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
  • Valerie A. Ramey, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
  • Richard D. Rippe, Economic Consultant
  • Joseph Sedransk, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  • Kirk M. Wolter, Senior Fellow, National Opinion Research Center (NORC); Director, Center for Excellence in Survey Research; and Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

The FESAC Advisory Committee meets twice yearly. The planned meeting schedule through 2009 is as follows:

  • June 19, 2009
  • December 11, 2009

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