Comment on Robert Inklaar, Marcel Timmer, and Bart van Ark, “Market Services Productivity Across Europe and the US”
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Note: this posted version omits numerous graphs due to lack of space
Prepared for NBER Summer Institute,
Cambridge, MA, July 19, 2007

Discussion of Jorgenson-Ho-Stiroh on "A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for AEA Session,
Chicago, IL, January 6, 2007

Discussion of Crone-Nakamura-Voith on "Rents have been Rising, Not Falling, in the Postwar Period"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for Brookings Workshop on Economic Measurement,
July 18, 2006

Discussion of Poole-Placek-Verbrugge on Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC)
Washington D.C., December 9, 2005

Discussion of Stock and Watson, "Has Inflation Become.Harder to Forecast?"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

with Ian Dew-Becker
Prepared for QEPD Conference, Fed BOG
Washington D.C., September 30, 2005

Discussion of Estrella on Decoding Productivity
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for CRIW Conference
Boston MA, July 27, 2004

Discussion of Bluestone and Sharpe on "Construction of a New Architecture . . ."
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for AEA session
San Diego CA, January 3, 2004

Discussion of Oulton and Srinivasan (O-S) on Capital and Depreciation
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for ECB/CEPR/BdE Conference on Prices, Productivity, and Growth
Madrid, October 17, 2003

Discussion of Bosworth-Triplett on Transportation and Communication
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for Brookings Workshop on Productivity in Services Industries: Trends and Measurement Issues
November 21, 2003

Discussion of Kahn-Rich on Tracking the New Economy
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for Federal Reserve of San Francisco
November 7, 2003

Discussion of CNV and MP on the CPI for Shelter
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for Brookings Workshop on Economic Measurement
May 23, 2003

Thinking Through the BEA's Options for Integrating the Industry Accounts
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for BEA Advisory Committee
May 9, 2003

Discussion of Costa and Kahn, "The Rising Price of Non-Market Goods"
Presented at AEA Session
Washington DC, January 4, 2003

The Boskin Report vs. NASí At What Price: "The Wild vs. the Mild"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for CRIW
Cambridge MA, July 31, 2002

Discussion of Nordhaus on Alchemy and the New Economy
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for CRIW
Cambridge MA, July 30, 2002

Discussion of Daron Acemoglu,
Phillippe Aghion, and Giovanni L. Violante,
Deunionization, Technical Change, and Inequality"

Prepared for Carnegie-Rochester Series on Public Policy
October 21, 2001

Discussion of Martin N. Baily and Robert L. Lawrence, "Do We Have a New E-conomy?"
Presented at AEA Meetings,
New Orleans, Lousiana, January 5, 2001

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