Dale Jorgenson

Recent Work

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Energy, The Environment, and U.S. Economic Growth, with Richard J. Goettle, Mun S. Ho and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Chapter 8 in Peter B. Dixon and Dale W. Jorgenson eds., Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 2012, pp. 477-552. (Tables, Graphs). Evaluation of Climate Policy, Powerpoint presentation to the Institute of Economics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland, April 30, 2012. "Can Technology Save the Economy?" (video), Technology Review, May/June 2009. PowerPoint presentation to the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, October 23, 2007. U.S. Labor Supply and Demand in the Long Run, with Richard J. Goettle, Mun S. Ho, Daniel T. Slesnick, and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 30, Issue 4, July/August 2008, pp. 603-618. Technology, Demography, and the Long-Run Prospects for U.S. Economic Growth, interview with Romesh Vaitilingam, August 8, 2008.

Comprehensive Tax Reform and U.S. Energy Policy. Prepared as written testimony for the Hearing on “Tax Reform: The Impact on U.S. Energy Policy,” Committee on Finance, United States Senate, June 12. 2012, (Video). Taxation, Efficiency, and Economic Growth, with Kun-Young Yun, Chapter 10 in Peter B. Dixon and Dale W. Jorgenson eds., Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 2012, pp. 659-742 (Tables & Figures). Efficient Taxation of Income, with Kun-Young Yun, in T.J. Kehoe, T.N. Srinivasan, and J. Whalley, eds., Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 173-218. Corporate Income Taxation and U.S. Economic Growth, with Kun-Young Yun, April 21, 2006. PowerPoint presentation to the Conference on the Corporate Income Tax and the Economy, Alliance for Competitive Taxation and American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, June 2, 2006. Video (session index time 05:16:46) of the ACT/AEI presentation. Efficient Taxation of Income, Harvard Magazine, Volume 105, Number 4, March-April 2003.

Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, with Mun S. Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2005. A Prototype Industry-Level Production Account for the United States, 1947-2010, presentation to the Final World Input-Output Database Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands, April 25, 2012. Information Technology and U.S. Productivity Growth, in Matilde Mas and Robert Stehrer eds., Industrial Productivity in Europe, Northampton Massachusetts, Edward Elgar 2012, pp. 34-65, with Mun S. Ho and Jon D. Samuels. Powerpoint presentation to the 2010 Sixth Biennial North American Productivity Workshop, Houston, Texas, June 3, 2010. Innovation and Productivity Growth, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol.93, Issue 2, April 2011, pp. 276-296. Powerpoint presentation for the Theodore W. Schultz Lecture, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 3, 2011. Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence, with Mun S. Ho, Jon D. Samuels, and Kevin J. Stiroh, Economic Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 229-252.

Designing a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 631, No. 1, September 2010, pp. 63-74. Designing a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts to Capture Innovation, Survey of Current Business, Vol. 90, No. 2, February 2010, pp. 17-23. A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 55, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 1-42. Richard and Nancy Ruggles Memorial Lecture, 30th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Portoroz Slovenia, August 26, 2008. Powerpoint presentation. Blueprint for Expanded and Integrated U.S. National Accounts: Review, Assessment, and Next Steps, with J. Steven Landefeld, in D.W. Jorgenson, J.S. Landefeld, and W.D. Nordhaus, eds., A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR THE U.S. NATIONAL ACCOUNTS, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006, pp 13-112. Review of A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, by Jean-Pierre Villetelle, International Productivity Monitor, Fall 2008.

An Econometric Approach to General Equilibrium Modeling, with Hui Jin, Daniel T. Slesnick, and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Chapter 17 in Peter B. Dixon and Dale W. Jorgenson eds., Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 2012, pp. 1133-1212. Powerpoint presentation to the Institute of Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, May 21, 2010. Econometric Modeling of Technical Change, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 157, No. 2, August 2010 (with Hui Jin), pp.205-219. Supplement, August 13, 2008. Consumption and Labor Supply, with Daniel T. Slesnick, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 127, No. 1, September 2008, pp. 326-335.

Economics of Productivity, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2009. Productivity in Asia, with Masahiro Kuroda and Kazuyuki Motohashi, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2007. The Industry Origins of the U.S.-Japan Productivity Gap with Koji Nomura, Economic Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 315-412. PowerPoint presentation to the Annual Conference of the NBER/Japan Project, Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 2007. The Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth with Koji Nomura, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 482-542. PowerPoint presentation to the International Conference on the Japanese Economy in the Last Quarter Century, Economic and Social Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, June 25, 2007. Information Technology and the Japanese Economy, with Kazuyuki Motohashi, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 460-481.

Understanding the Knowledge Economy, presented as the Maddison Master Class at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, April 23, 2012. Bibliography for the Maddison Master Class. Tagesanzeiger Interview with Simon Schmidt. Structural Change in Advanced Nations, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, Issue 1, March 2011, (with Marcel P. Timmer), pp. 1-29. Human Capital and the National Accounts, Survey of Current Business, Vol. 90, No. 6, June 2010, pp. 54-56. Human Capital: Theory and Practice. Presentation to the OECD-Fondazione Agnelli Workshop on the Measurement of Human Capital, November 3, 2008. Information Technology and the G7 Economies,World Economics, Vol. 4, No. 4, October-December, 2003, pp. 139-169; updated and reprinted in Revista di Politica Economica, Vol. 95, Nos. 1-2, January-February 2005, pp. 25-56; French translation "Les technologies d'information et les économies du G7,"L'Actualité Économique, Vol. 81, Nos. 1-2, Mars-Juin 2005, pp. 15-46. PowerPoint presentation to the ISAE/CEIS Conference on Monitoring Italy 2005, Rome, Italy, June 7, 2005. Interview by Rosella Bocciarelli, La lezione di Harvard: «Più concorrenza nei servizi», Il Sole 24 Ore, June 8, 2005. Webcast (see August 24, 8:30 a.m. session) of presentation to the Aspen Summit of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, Aspen, Colorado, August 24, 2004. Computing the gains, The Economist, October 23, 2003.

The Rise of Developing Asia and the New Economic Order, Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 33, Issue 5, September-October 2011, pp. 698-751, with Khuong Vu. Powerpoint presentation for the Shaw Foundation Distinguished Lecture, Singapore Management University, July 13, 2011. Powerpoint presentation (and video) for the Keynote Address to the Technology Policy Institute Aspen Forum, August 22, 2011. Latin America and the World Economy, in Mario Cimoli, Andre A. Hofman, and Nanno Mulder eds., Innovation and Economic Development, Northampton Massachusetts, Edward Elgar 2010, pp.19-43. PowerPoint presentation, Seminario Internacional, Fundacion BBVA – IVIE 2008, Buenos Aires, October 6, 2008. Growth Accounting within the International Comparison Program, with Khuong Vu. ICP Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 3-19.

A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2008 (with Mun S. Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh), pp. 3-24. PowerPoint presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 6, 2007. Lean and unseen, The Economist, July 3, 2006.

Economic Growth in Canada and the United States in the Information Age, Industry Canada monograph, Ottawa, Canada, May 2004. Industry-level Productivity and International Competitiveness Between Canada and the United States, with Frank C. Lee, Industry Canada monograph, Ottawa, Canada, March 2001. The Economic Impact of Information Technologies after the Financial Crisis, Keynote Lecture to the Annual Conference of the Association des Économistes Québécois, Gatineau, Québec, Canada, May 19, 2011. Interview with Jameson Berkow, The Financial Post, May 24, 2011.

Jorgenson receives Julius Shiskin Award for Contributions to Key Economic Measures. Powerpoint presentation for the Julius Shiskin Lecture, Washington Statistical Association, Washington, DC, December 8, 2010.

Jorgenson named Laureate of the World Congress of Economic Measurement (Program and photos).

Jorgenson named to Thomson Scientific Hall of Laureates "for quantitative techniques and theory dealing with investments in information technology and economic growth, and for modeling techniques widely applied in econometrics".

Jorgenson receives Honorary Degree from Kansai University, January 14, 2009.

Jorgenson receives Honorary Degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 6, 2007. Press Release. Citation by Professor David Parker.

Jorgenson Receives Honorary Degree from the Stockholm School of Economics, June 1, 2007. Citation by Professor Mats Lundahl (Swedish). Response on Behalf of the Doctores Honoris Causa.

Jorgenson Receives Honorary Degree from The University of Rome, May 15, 2006 (press release). "Laudatio" by Professor Laura Castellucci (Italian). Interview by Rossella Bocciarelli,"È il capitale umano la risorsa più preziosa per rilanciare il'Italia,"Il Sole 24 Ore, May 16, 2006.

Jorgenson Receives Honorary Degree from Keio University, May 30, 2003 (Keio news release, June 16, 2003).

Jorgenson Named University Professor, Harvard University Gazette, October 2, 2002.

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