AEASTAT: 2023 Annual Meeting

Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics

 

Session 1: Global Supply Chain Disruptions: Measurement, Economic Effects and Solutions —Panel Session
Chair: Aysegul Sahin, University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:
Gianluca Benigno, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Elaine Buckberg, General Motors
Jed Kolko, U.S. Department of Commerce
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan


Session 2: Real Time Economic Data: Challenges and Opportunities—Paper Session
Chair: Stephanie Aaronson, Brookings Institution

Business Closures and (Re)Openings in Real Time Using Google Places
Thibaut Duprey, Bank of Canada
Daniel E. Rigobon, Princeton University
Philip Schnattinger, University of Oxford
Artur Kotlicki, University of Oxford

Measuring Business Trends and Outlook through a New Survey
Catherine Buffington, U.S. Census Bureau

The Importance of Blended Data: Measuring Employment at a Weekly Frequency
Tomaz Cajner, Federal Reserve Board
Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board
Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board
Adrian B. Hamins-Puertolas, Federal Reserve Board
Christopher J. Kurz, Federal Reserve Board

Business Applications as Economic Indicators
Jose Asturias, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Bureau of the Census
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
Rebecca Hutchinson, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Discussants:
Kenan Fikri, Economic Innovation Group
Erica Groshen, Cornell University


Session 3: Innovations in Economic Measurement
Chair: John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland

Theoretical Inflation for Unavailable Products
Rachel Soloveichik, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Flexible Entry/Exit Adjustment for Price Indices
Conor Foley, University of California-Los Angeles

Introducing Demographic Labor Market Data into the U.S. National Accounts
Jon Samuels, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Michael Sverchkov, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jerin Varghese, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimation of Race and Ethnicity by Re-Weighting Tax Data
Robin Fisher, U.S. Department of Treasury

U.S. Treasury Distribution Tables by (Imputed) Race
Julie Anne Cronin, U.S. Department of Treasury
Portia DeFilippes, U.S. Department of Treasury

Removing Residual Seasonality from GDP
Tucker S. McElroy, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Baoline Chen, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Osbert C. Pang, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Discussant:
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland