Dale Jorgenson

Recent Work

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The Economic Costs of a Market-based Climate Policy, with Richard J. Goettle, Mun S. Ho, and Peter J. Wilcoxen, White Paper, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, April 2008. IGEM, an Inter-Temporal General Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Economy with Emphasis on Growth, Energy, and the Environment, with Richard J. Goettle, Mun S. Ho, Daniel T. Slesnick, and Peter J. Wilcoxen, July 5, 2007. "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.

Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, with Mun S. Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2005. 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. PowerPoint presentation to the NBER/CRIW Summer Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 16, 2007. “Whatever Happened to the New Economy?” (PowerPoint presentation). Keynote Address to the Aspen Summit of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, Aspen, Colorado (news release) Web cast of presentation to the Aspen Summit of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, Aspen, Colorado, August 20, 2007.

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. Human Capital: Theory and Practice. Presentation to the OECD-Fondazione Agnelli Workshop on the Measurement of Human Capital, November 3, 2008. Accounting for Growth in the Information Age, in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, eds., HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, Volume 1A, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 2005, pp. 743-815.

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. The American economy: Slow road ahead, The Economist, October 28, 2006. Information Technology and the U.S. Economy (updated tables through 2006), American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 1, March 2001, pp. 1-32. PowerPoint Presentation; pdf Slides. French translation: Les Technologies de l'Information de l'Economie Americaine. Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Universite Toulouse I, May 22, 2001.

Econometric Modeling of Technical Change, with Hui Jin, August 13, 2008. Supplement, August 13, 2008. PowerPoint presentation to the Center for Business and Economic Research, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 30, 2007. 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. 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.

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.

Latin America and the World Economy, October 29, 2007. PowerPoint presentation, Seminario Internacional, Fundacion BBVA – IVIE 2008, Buenos Aires, October 6, 2008 (IVIE Video: Jorgenson on Relationship Between Productivity and ITC). No tendran un boom historico pero seguiran exportando bien, Diario Perfil, October 11, 2008. Growth Accounting within the International Comparison Program, with Khuong Vu. ICP Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 3-19. Information Technology and the World Growth Resurgence (Appendix and updated tables) with Khuong Vu, German Economic Review, Vol.8, Issue 2, May 2007, pp. 125-145. Information Technology and the World Economy, with Khuong Vu, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, Issue 4, December 2005, pp. 631-650; reprinted in Manual Castells and Gustavo Cardoso, The Network Society, Washington, Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006, pp. 71-124; Portuguese translation in Castells and Cardoso, A Sociedad em Reade, Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 2006, pp. 65-114. PowerPoint presentation for the Barcelona Lecture, CEIR, Barcelona, Spain, May 11, 2006. Interview by Miguel Olivares, Europa debe enfatizar el impulso de la productividad, El País, June 4, 2006. PowerPoint presentation to the International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, July 19, 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.

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.

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. A Smarter Type of Tax, Financial Times, June 19, 2002. Testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee, May 9, 2002.

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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