Journal Article
Economic statistics: new needs for the twenty-first century - opening remarks
Stewart, Jamie B. (2003-09)
The purpose of this conference was to deepen our understanding of some of the key conceptual issues current facing those charged with measuring the performance of the U.S. economy and other economies around the globe. The speakers discussed recent efforts to improve economic and financial data and explore strategies for meeting the challenges that lay ahead. The conference focused on four key areas: 1) the measurement of intangible capital, 2) the measurement of service sector output, prices and productivity, 3) the measurement of international capital positions and flows, and 4) the use of ...
Economic Policy Review , Issue Sep , Pages 3-4

Journal Article
Economic statistics: new needs for the twenty-first century
anonymous (2003-09)
Selected Papers from a Conference Cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics, July 11, 2002. Beverly Hirtle examines the market risk capital figures reported to regulators by U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) to assess the extent to which such disclosures provide meaningful information about bank risk. The study by Michael J. Fleming finds that the commonly used bid-ask spread--the difference between bid and offer prices--is a useful tool for assessing and tracking liquidity in the ...
Economic Policy Review , Issue Sep

Journal Article
China's slowdown may be worse than official data suggest
Wang, Jian; Koech, Janet (2012-08)
To get a more accurate picture of China's economy, economists examine other measures of activity that closely track growth but are less prone to political interference than output data. Industrial electricity consumption, a major production input, serves as such a proxy.
Economic Letter , Volume 7 , Issue 8

Journal Article
Productivity measurement issues in services industries: \\"Baumol's disease\\" has been cured
Bosworth, Barry P.; Triplett, Jack E. (2003-09)
This paper was presented at the conference "Economic Statistics: New Needs for the Twenty-First Century," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics, July 11, 2002. The authors document that labor productivity growth in the services industries after 1995 was a broad acceleration, not just confined to one or two industries, as has sometimes been supposed. They also examine the sources of labor productivity growth: a great expansion in services industry multifactor productivity ...
Economic Policy Review , Issue Sep , Pages 23-33

Working Paper
Disaggregation and the labor productivity index
Haltmaier, Jane; Beebe, Jack (1981)
Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory , Paper 106

Journal Article
Western manufacturing production
Walsh, Joan (1975-07)
Economic Review , Issue Sum , Pages 21-24

Journal Article
Industrial production: revised and new measures
anonymous (1971-07)
Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Jul , Pages 551-576

Working Paper
The construction of industrial production indices for manufacturing industries in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District (revised)
Butler, Larry; Walsh, Joan (1973)
Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory , Paper 15 (revision of no. 13)

Journal Article
Measurement of production
Thomas, Woodlief; Conklin, Maxwell R. (1940-09)
Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Sep , Pages 912-923

Journal Article
New measures of economic growth and productivity in upstate New York
Abel, Jaison R.; Deitz, Richard (2008-12)
Newly available measures of GDP at the metropolitan area level now afford a more comprehensive view of regional economic activity. An analysis of upstate New York's economic performance using these measures points to below-average output growth between 2001 and 2006 along with productivity levels and productivity growth below the U.S. average. The region's performance overall, however, is somewhat better than that of many manufacturing-oriented metro areas in the Great Lakes region.
Current Issues in Economics and Finance , Volume 14 , Issue Dec