NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Architecture for the National Accounts Pre-conference

Dale Jorgenson, Steve Landefeld and William Nordhaus, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 25, 2003

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ACCOUNTS

 

 

 9:00 AM

DALE JORGENSON, Harvard University

 

STEVE LANDEFELD, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Blueprint for An Expanded and Integrated Set of Account for the United States

 

 

 

KAREN WILSON, Statistics Canada

 

An International Perspective on Expanded and Integrated Accounts

 

(UK, Canada and Australian experience)

 

 

 

INTEGRATING THE U.S. ECONOMIC ACCOUNTS

 

 

 

ANN LAWSON, BRIAN MOYER, SUMIYE OKUBO and MARK PLANTING,     

 

Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Integrating and Accelerating BEA’s Inter-Industry Accounts

 

 

 

BRIAN MOYER, MARSHALL REINSDORF and ROBERT YUSKAVAGE,

 

Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating BEA’s Accounts

 

 

 

ERIC BARTELSMAN, Free University

 

J. J. BEAULIEU, Federal Reserve Board

 

Integrating Inter-Industry Transactions and Gross Product Originating Estimates

 

 

 

MICHAEL HARPER and SUSAN POWERS, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

BARBARA FRAUMENI and ROBERT YUSKAVAGE , Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

An Integrated BEA/BLS Production Account: A First Step and Theoretical Considerations

 

 

 

PHILIP SMITH, Statistics Canada

 

International Experience With Integrated Productivity Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

MICHAEL PALUMBO, Federal Reserve System

 

BRENT MOULTON, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

AL TEPLIN, CSE Analytics

 

Integrating the Federal Reserve Board’s Flow of Funds and National Balance Sheets

 

with BEA’s NIPA’s, Wealth Accounts, and Balance of Payments Accounts

 

 

 

Lunch

 

 

 

EXPANDING THE BOUNDARY OF THE U.S. ECONOMIC ACCOUNTS

 

 

 

KATHERINE ABRAHAM, University of Maryland and NBER

 

A Framework for Non-Market Accounting

 

 

 

WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

 

Analytical Issues in the Construction of Augmented Accounts  

 

 

 

FRANK GOLLOP, Boston College

 

Extending the Accounts to Capture Air and Water Quality

 

 

 

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Issues in Accounting for Capital

 

 

 

EXPANDED MICRO-MACRO ACCOUNTS

 

 

 

RANDY BECKER, Bureau of the Census

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

RON JARMIN and SHAWN KLIMEK, Bureau of the Census

 

DANIEL WILSON, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

Micro and Macro Data Integration: The Case of Capital

 

 

 

ART RIDGEWAY, Statistics Canada

 

Canada’s Experience With Micro-Macro Integration of Financial Accounts

 

 

 5:00 PM

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

6/25/03