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Session 1: NABE Skills Session
Guided Tour of the U.S. National Economic Accounts
Sunday, 8:30-10:30 am, Ballroom C
The GDP, corporate profits, and international transactions accounts: The new GDP-accounts structure described. BEA corporate profits explained. International transactions accounts parsed. And web-access and data-download facilities demonstrated.
Session Downloads
Rosemary Marcuss, US Economic Accounts, Review of Innovations (slides)
Links of Interest
Speakers
Rosemary Marcuss
Deputy Director,
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Rosemary Marcuss is Deputy Director of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the federal government's national economic accounting agency. BEA produces the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accounts, the U.S. Balance of Payments accounts, U.S. input-output accounts, and other national, state, and international-transactions data accounts. Dr. Marcuss focuses on the Survey of Current Business, BEA's monthly journal; development of BEA's web site; and investment in BEA's data-processing and producing capabilities.
Before joining BEA in 1998, Dr. Marcuss served for fifteen years as the Assistant Director for Tax Analysis of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where she oversaw federal-budget revenue estimation and tax-policy analysis. She started in Washington as a junior member of the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and, after that, spent several years as an economist and managing consultant at Data Resources, Inc. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
