BEA study uses novel data to explore export methods Over the past decade, interest in the industrial organization of international trade has exploded, as new microdata sets have led to the development of heterogeneous firm trade models that link firm characteristics and export participation. economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), has added to the literature with a recent paper that...

gies affect the quality of Much of the previous work The results indicate that the treatment and individual welfare examining innovation in the quality-adjusted price of antiis essential. Many economists health care sector relied on ag­ cholesterol drugs has fallen conwould agree that new technolo­ gregate data. However, Dunn’s siderably since 1996. The impact gies lead to higher expenditures p...

BEA Participates in Panel This paper develops a tech-engineering, and production de-on Semiconductors nique that can be used to appor­ cisions. The paper estimates the At the Allied Social Sciences As­ tion improvements in an index underlying demand and (1) sociation meeting in January, of quality-adjusted price be-quantitatively compares Intel's BEA Chief Economist Ana tween changes in nominal...

BEA economist looks at sumers essentially separate tion strategies at an airline, the airline price strategies themselves through the ticket authors developed a simple the-The role of pricing strategies, choices that they make. This oretical model of second-degree which can have a profound im­ type of self selection is referred price discrimination and applied pact on companies' profitability, ...

In analyzing work with a view to introducing new technologies, a systematic source of inappropriate or inadequate design decisions, which eventually may cause breakdowns and accidents, is posed by the social organization of work if it is not taken into account. This paper argues that analysts engaged in making decisions about the allocation of functionality between human actor and technology sh...