Papers
This page provides access to papers and presentations prepared by BEA staff. Abstracts are presented in HTML format; complete papers are in PDF format with selected tables in XLS format. The views expressed in these papers are solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Disease-Based Health Care Measures and the Industry Economic Accounts
Adjusting the Measurement of the Output of the Medical Sector for Quality: A Review of the Literature
The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently created new price indexes for health care in its health care satellite account and now faces the problem of how to adjust them for quality. I review the literature on this topic and divide the articles that created quality-adjusted price indexes for… Read more
Characteristics of Special Purpose Entities in Measures of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
Under international guidelines, official statistics on international trade and investment include transactions within multinational enterprises (MNEs) and positions on foreign direct investment. A complicating factor in the interpretation and understanding of the official statistics is the role… Read more
Headquarter Services in the Global Integration of Production
This study examines knowledge management within multinational enterprises (MNEs) by analyzing whether greater interdependence of production between U.S. parent firms and their foreign subsidiaries increases the provision of headquarter (HQ) services from the home country. The findings suggest… Read more
Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the World
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly… Read more
Regional Patterns in Medical Technology Utilization
The U.S. health-care system is characterized by the rapid adoption and diffusion of medical technologies and high regional variation in health-care utilization and spending. I examine the correlations in the adoption and utilization rates of sixteen outpatient health-care technologies of… Read more
Does Medicare Part D Save Lives?
We examine the impact of Medicare Part D on mortality for the population over the age of 65. We identify the effects of the reform using variation in drug coverage across counties before the reform was implemented. Studying mortality rates immediately before and after the reform, we find that… Read more
Measuring Nursing Home Price Growth between 2000-2009
The proper measurement of inflation in health care is important for policymakers to understand the drivers of price growth. For this reason, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently released an alternate presentation of inflation for the health care sector that examines prices by… Read more
A Primer on the Measurement of Net Stocks, Depreciation, Capital Services, and Their Integration
This manual is intended to be a "primer" on the rudiments of the methodologies used to estimate capital stocks and the value of their services by statistical agencies. It explains the key parts of methodologies used to estimate wealth stock estimates through the use of numeric examples and… Read more
Identifying Heterogeneity in the Production Components of Globally Engaged Business Enterprises in the United States
This paper presents experimental tables created by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis comparing industry-specific shares of the components of total output of globally engaged firms located in the United States that are part of a multinational enterprise (U.S. parents and U.S. affiliates) with… Read more