Professional Experience

• • Assistant Director

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2011 - present

• • Chief, Industrial Output Section

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2008 - 2011

• • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2007 - 2008

• • Senior Economist

    Council of Economic Advisers

  • 2007 - 2008

• • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics

    Johns Hopkins University

  • 2005

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2001 - 2007

Publications

• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (Forthcoming). "Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size," Journal of International Economics.
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2010). "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-30. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2010). "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade," NBER Working Papers 15957. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2010). "Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-38. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2010). "Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size," NBER Working Papers 16046. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2005). "Does Home Market Size Matter for the Pattern of Trade?" Journal of International Economics, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 489-505.
• Morin, Norman, and John J. Stevens (2005). "Diverging Measures of Capacity Utilization: An Explanation," Business Economics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 46-54.
• Morin, Norman, and John J. Stevens (2005). "Estimating Capacity Utilization from Survey Data ," IFC Bulletin, vol. 20, pp. 42-60.
• Quintin, Erwan, and John J. Stevens (2005). "Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover," B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-30.
• Quintin, Erwan, and John J. Stevens (2005). "Raising the Bar for Models of Turnover," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-23. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2004). "Geographic Concentration and Establishment Size: Analysis in an Alternative Economic Geography Model," Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 227-250.
• Stevens, John J., and Thomas J. Holmes (2004). "Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in North America," in Henderson, Vernon, Jacques-François Thisse eds., Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Volume 4. Cities and Geography. Amsterdam; San Diego and Oxford: Elsevier Science.
• Quintin, Erwan, and John J. Stevens (2003). "Firm Specific Human Capital Vs. Job Matching: A New Test," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2003-33. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Stevens, John (2003). "Overhauling Industrial Production: The 2002 Historical and Annual Revision," in 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business & Economic Statistics Section. American Statistical Association, pp. 4072-4078.
• Stevens, John, John Geweke, and William McCausland (2003). "Using Simulation Methods for Bayesian Econometric Models," in Giles, David E. A. ed., Computer-Aided Econometrics. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
• Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2002). "Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale," Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 682-690.

Presentations

• discussion

  March 2012

  International Industrial Organization Conference

  Globalization and Vertical Structure: An Empirical Investigation

• discussion

  January 2012

  Allied Social Science Assocation Meetings

  Scarring Recessions and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Colombian Firm Dynamics

• discussion

  November 2011

  International Trade Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

  On the Fragmentation of Production in the US

• seminar

  April 2011

  Clemson University

  An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

• discussion

  January 2011

  Allied Social Science Assocation Meetings

  Who Creates Jobs and When: How Firms Respond to Business Cycles and Credit Conditions

• conference

  November 2010

  Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis Conference

  Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size

• conference

  November 2010

  Census Research Data Center Annual Research Conference

  Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size

• conference

  September 2010

  Comparative Analysis Of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference

  Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size

• seminar

  October 2010

  University of Virginia

  An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

• conference

  May 2010

  How Access to Firm-Level Data Informs Public Policy, Queen's University

  An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

• conference

  October 2009

  Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis Conference

  An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

• conference

  September 2009

  OECD-STESEG (Short-Term Economic Statistics Expert Group) meeting

  Measuring U.S. Industrial Production During a Downturn in Economic Activity

• seminar

  March 2007

  Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

  Plant Size and Plant Function

• seminar

  October 2006

  U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies

  Plant Size and Plant Function

• conference

  September 2006

  Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference

  Plant Size and Plant Function

• seminar

  September 2004

  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

  Substitutability of New and Used Goods: Highway Rollers

• seminar

  March 2004

  Washington Statistical Society

  Reconstructing Industrial Production: Conversion to NAICS

• conference

  August 2003

  Joint Statistical Meetings

  Overhauling Industrial Production: The 2002 Historical and Annual Revision

• conference

  March 2003

  Midwest Economics Association Meetings

  Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover

• conference

  November 2002

  49th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International

  Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in North America

• conference

  November 1999

  46th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International

  Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale

Other Activities