AEA members are invited to virtually attend a meeting of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) on Friday, June 12 at 9:30 AM ET. FESAC advises the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, the Directors of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau, and the Commissioner of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on statistical methodology and other technical matters related to the collection, tabulation, and analysis of federal economic statistics.
Meeting topics include: International Response to Pandemic; Private/Public Data Projects Addressing Pandemic-Related Issues
FESAC website:
https://apps.bea.gov/fesac/
June 12 meeting notice, with access instructions:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/05/28/2020-11396/federal-economic-statistics-advisory-committee-meeting
Agenda:
https://apps.bea.gov/fesac/meetings/2020-06-12/agenda.pdf
FESAC members:
Professor Joseph Altonji, Department of Economics, Yale University
Professor Patrick Bajari, Department of Economics, University of Washington, and Vice President and Chief Economist, Amazon.com
Professor Kerwin Charles, Deputy Dean, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Dr. Martin Fleming, VP, Chief Analytics Officer, and Chief Economist, IBM Corporation
Dr. Erica Groshen, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Research Fellow at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Professor Robert Groves, Provost, Georgetown University
Professor John C. Haltiwanger, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
Maurine Haver, President, Haver Analytics
Dr. Emi Nakamura, Chancellor's Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Professor Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Dr. Richard D. Rippe, Managing Director & Economist, Evercore ISI
Professor Matthew D. Shapiro (FESAC Chairperson), Department of Economics and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Dr. Mel Stephens, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Professor David Weinstein, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Dr. David Wilcox, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Professor Kirk M. Wolter, Principal Statistical Advisor and Senior Fellow, National Opinion Research Center (NORC); and Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
