Chief National Accounts Research Group
Jon D. Samuels
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Growing adoption rates of ICT have counterbalanced the productivity slowdown in…
Jon D. Samuels , Mun S. Ho , and Koji Nomura
The Impact of Subsidies on Measuring Productivity and the Sources of Economic Growth (PDF)
Jon D. Samuels , Corby Garner , and Justin Harper
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from t…
Jon D. Samuels , Mun S. Ho , and Koji Nomura
Introducing Demographic Labor Market Data into the U.S. National Accounts (PDF)
Jon D. Samuels
Introducing Consumer Durable Digital Services into the BEA Digital Economy Satellite Account (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Tina Highfill , and Jon D. Samuels
Resources moving from less productive to more productive sectors can increase aggregate output without any underlying change in production technology, yet the impact of these reallocations is challenging to measure because it involves measuring unobserved counterfactual production where resources have not moved. We construct measures of counterfactual production by implementing an Industry-Level Production Account with a tiers structure. Aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) and total factor productivity growth constructed bottom-up from the micro- (industry) level captures the true data-generating process for the sources of growth. The counterfactual accounts employ restrictions that impose a constraint that reallocating outputs and inputs have no impact on aggregate production, so that the difference between the two measures captures the economic impact of reallocations. We find that reallocations contributed 0.30 percent per year on average out of total GDP growth of 2.39 percent per year from 1987–2018. Almost all of this can be accounted for as reallocations of value added within manufacturing (for example, to the computer producing sector from other manufacturing sectors) and across sectors to the information and trade sectors.
Jon D. Samuels and Mun S. Ho
Integrated BEA/BLS Industry-Level Production Account and the Sources of U.S. Ec…
Mathew Russell and Jon D. Samuels
Benchmark 2011 Integrated Estimates of the Japan-U.S. Price Level Index for Industry Outputs (PDF)
Koji Nomura , Kozo Miyagawa , and Jon D. Samuels
Backcasting the BEA/BLS Integrated Industry-level Production Account and the Sources of U.S. Economic Growth between 1987 and 2016 (PDF)
Corby Garner , Justin Harper , Thomas F. Howells III , Mathew Russell , and Jon D. Samuels
Measuring the "Free" Digital Economy within the GDP and Productivity Accounts (PDF)
Leonard Nakamura , Jon D. Samuels , and Rachel Soloveichik
Valuing 'Free' Media in GDP: An Experimental Approach (PDF)
Leonard Nakamura , Jon D. Samuels , and Rachel Soloveichik
Intergrated BEA/BLS Industry-Level Production Account Update
Mark Dumas , Thomas F. Howells III , Steven Rosenthal , and Jon D. Samuels
Intergrated Industry-Level Production Account for the United States: Sources of…
Steven Rosenthal , Mathew Russell , Jon D. Samuels , Erich H. Strassner , and Lisa Usher
Integrated Industry‐Level Production Account for the United States: Intellectual Property Products and the 2007 NAICS (PDF)
Steven Rosenthal , Mathew Russell , Jon D. Samuels , Erich H. Strassner , and Lisa Usher