Comments on Palumbo and Parker: "The Integrated Financial Real System . . ."
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for AEA Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2009

Discussion of Issues on Brent Moulton's "How Can GDP Accounts Be Made More Effective for Business Cycle Analysis?"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for BEA Advisory Committee,
November 7, 2008

Discussion of A.M. Ceh and I. Krznar, "Optimal Foreign Reserves: The Case of Croatia"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for Young Economists' Seminar,
Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 25, 2008

Discussion of: "Declines in the Volatility of the U. S. Economy: A Detailed Look"
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Prepared for BEA Advisory Committee,
May 2, 2008

Comments on: "The Roles of Comovement and Inventory Investment in the Reduction of Output Volatility," by Owen Irvine and Scott Schuh
~(Powerpoint Presentation)

Presented at FRB San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA, November 3, 2007

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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