November

21
2003

8:30 am EST - 4:15 pm EST

Past Event

Productivity in Services Industries: Trends and Measurement Issues

  • Friday, November 21, 2003

    8:30 am - 4:15 pm EST

Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium

1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC
20036


Agenda

Papers and comments are in PDF format.
Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett*

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast and Registration

Morning session chair: Charles Hulten, Maryland

9:00 Chapter 1: Services industry productivity growth
(PDF—287kb)

Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett

Discussants:
Susanto Basu, Michigan and Harvard

Kevin Stiroh, New York FRB and Wesleyan University

10:00 Break
10:30 Transportation and Communications

Chapter 2a (PDF—173kb)

Chapter 2b (PDF—155kb)

Barry P. Bosworth

Discussants:
Barbara Fraumeni, BEA

Robert Gordon, Northwestern

11:30 Finance and insurance

Chapter 3a (PDF—335kb)

Chapter 3b (PDF—335kb)

Chapter 3c (PDF—276kb)

Jack E. Triplett

Discussants:
Dennis Fixler, BEA

David Humphrey, Florida State

12:30

Lunch

Afternoon sessions chair: Marilyn Manser, Bureau of Labor Statistics

1:15 E-commerce and retail trade
(PDF—88kb)

Barry P. Bosworth

Discussants:
Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT

Brian Ratchford, Maryland

2:15 High-tech capital: Inputs to services industry productivity

(PDF—637kb)

Jack E. Triplett

Discussants:
Ernst Berndt, MIT

Carol Corrado, FRB

3:15 Future research and data needs
(PDF—38kb)

Presenter and discussion leader: Dale Jorgenson, Harvard

Reactors:
Steven Landefeld, BEA

Kathleen Utgoff, BLS

Frederick Knickerbocker, Census

4:15 Adjourn

* Bosworth and Triplett are producing a book on services industry productivity and measurement issues that makes use of the material in the 15 Brookings economic measurement workshops conducted between 1998 and 2003. The material distributed and discussed at this workshop consists of draft chapters from their book.