Contact Information
dan.sichel@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Macroeconomics
Technological Change and Growth
Monetary Economics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton, 1988
M.P.P., Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1983
B.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 1983

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1996-present
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department, 1995-1996
Research Associate, Brookings Institution, 1993-1995
Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, 1988-1993

Selected Publications

• ''Explaining a Productive Decade'' (with Stephen D. Oliner and Kevin J. Stiroh), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, vol. 1 (2007), pp. 81-137.
• ''Can Financial Innovation Help to Explain the Reduced Volatility of Economic Activity'' (with Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf), Journal of Monetary Economics (2006, forthcoming).
• ''How Fast do Personal Computers Depreciate? Concepts and New Estimates'' (with Mark E. Doms, Wendy E. Dunn, and Stephen D. Oliner), Tax Policy and the Economy, vol. 18 (2004), pp. 37-79.
• ''Measuring Capital and Technology: An Expanded Framework'' (with Carol Corrado and Charles Hulten), in Carol Corrado, John Haltiwanger, and Daniel Sichel, eds., Measuring Capital in the New Economy. Chicago, IL: NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• Measuring Capital in the New Economy (with Carol Corrado and John Haltiwanger). Chicago, IL: NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2005, forthcoming.
• ''Information Technology and Productivity: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?'' (with Stephen D. Oliner, , , and others), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review, vol. 87 (Summer 2002), pp. 15-44.
• ''The Resurgence of Growth in the late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?'' (with Stephen D. Oliner), Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 14 (Fall 2000), pp. 3-22.
• The Computer Revolution: An Economic Perspective. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1997.
• ''The Lucas Critique Revisited: Assessing the Stability of Empirical Euler Equations for Investment'' (with Stephen D. Oliner and Glenn D. Rudebusch), Journal of Econometrics, vol. 70 (January 1996), pp. 291-316.
• ''New and Old Models of Business Investment: A Comparison of Forecasting Performance'' (with Stephen D. Oliner and Glenn D. Rudebusch), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 27 (August 1995), pp. 806-32.
• ''Computers and Output Growth Revisited: How Big is the Puzzle?'' (with Stephen D. Oliner), Brookings Papers on Economics Activity, vol. 2 (1994), pp. 273-334.
• ''Inventories and the Three Phases of the Business Cycle,'' Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, vol. 12 (July 1994), pp. 269-77.
• ''Business Cycle Asymmetry: A Deeper Look,'' Economic Inquiry, vol. 31 (April 1993), pp. 224-36.
• ''Business Cycle Duration Dependence: A Parametric Approach,'' Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 73 (May 1991), pp. 254-60.