AEASTAT: 2021 Annual Meeting

Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics

Session 1: New Approaches to Measuring Comprehensive and Fully Integrated Household Financial Statements at the Micro and Macro Levels
Chair, John Sabelhaus, Non-affiliated

Sharing is Caring: Inequality, Transfers and Growth in the National Accounts - Marina Gindelsky, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

The Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States - Michael Batty, Federal Reserve Board, Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board, Joseph Briggs, Non-affiliated, Sarah Friedman, Federal Reserve Board, Danielle Nemschoff, Federal Reserve Board

Real Time Measurement of Household Electronic Financial Transactions in a Population Representative Panel - Marco Angrisani, University of Southern California, Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California, Swaroop Samek, University of Southern California

Starting from Scratch: A Multi-Mode Approach to Collecting Micro Data for Fully Integrated United States Household Financial Statements - Scott Schuh, West Virginia University, Robert Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussants: Karen Dynan, Harvard University, Eric Zwick, University of Chicago, Michaela Pagel, Columbia University, Andrew Caplin, New York University

Session 2: Innovations in Measuring the Economic Impacts of COVID 19
Chair: Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan

Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses and People: Lessons from the Census Bureau’s Experience - Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau, Catherine Buffington, U.S. Census Bureau, Jason Fields, U.S. Census Bureau

Maintaining and Enhancing Labor Statistics during the COVID-19 Pandemic - William Beach, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

An Early Read of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the U.S. Economy using Card Transaction Data - Abe Dunn, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Kyle Hood, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Alexander Driessen, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

High Frequency Data and a Weekly Economic Index During the Pandemic - Daniel Lewis, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, James H. Stock, Harvard University, Mihir Trivedi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussants: Karen Dynan, Harvard University, Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session 3: Globally Engaged Firms in the United States Economy
Chair: J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University

Multinational Firms in the United States Economy: Insights from New Integrated Microdata - Fariha Kamal, U.S. Census Bureau, Jessica McCloskey, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Global Sourcing and Assembly with Scale Economics - Pol Antràs, Harvard University, Evgenii Fadeev, Harvard University, Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College, Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago

Linking Information on Multinational Enterprises to Gain New Insights on International Services Traders - Jennifer Bruner, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Alexis Grimm, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

The United States Multinational Advantage during the Global Financial Crisis: The Role of Services Trade - Fariha Kamal, U.S. Census Bureau, Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussants: Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University, Natalia Ramondo, University of California-San Diego, Andrea Ariu, University of Milan, Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School