Meet the Researchers
John J. Stevens
[email protected]
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2001
- M.A., Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1996
- B.A., Economics, University of Toledo, 1994
- Developing economic indicators from "big data"
Senior Associate Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2020 - presentAssociate Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2016 - 2020Deputy Associate Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2014 - 2016Assistant Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2011 - 2014Chief, Industrial Output Section
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2008 - 2011Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2007 - 2008Senior Economist
Council of Economic Advisers
2007 - 2008Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics
Johns Hopkins University
2005Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2001 - 2007
- Do long-haul truckers undervalue future fuel savings?
Jacob Adenbaum, Adam Copeland, and John Stevens
Energy Economics (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.05.020
See also » FRB Working Paper (2015) - Measuring Early-Stage Business Formation
Kimberly Bayard, Emin Dinlersoz, Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger, Javier Miranda, and John Stevens
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2166
See also » FRB Working Paper (2018) - Early-Stage Business Formation: An Analysis of Applications for Employer Identification Numbers
Kimberly Bayard, Emin Dinlersoz, Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger, Javier Miranda, and John Stevens
NBER Working Paper Series (2018)
https://doi.org/10.3386/w24364
See also » FRB Working Paper (2018) - An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade
Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens
Journal of Political Economy (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1086/674633
See also » FRB Working Paper (2010) - Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens
Journal of International Economics (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.02.012
See also » FRB Working Paper (2010) - Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover
Erwan Quintin and John J. Stevens
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (2005)
https://doi.org/10.2202/1534-5998.1319
See also » FRB Working Paper (2005) - Diverging Measures of Capacity Utilization: An Explanation
Norman Morin and John J. Stevens
Business Economics (2005)
https://doi.org/10.2145/20050404
See also » FRB Working Paper (2004) - Raising the Bar for Models of Turnover
Erwan Quintin and John J. Stevens
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2005)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2005.23 - Estimating Capacity Utilization from Survey Data
Norman Morin and John J. Stevens
IFC Bulletins (2005)
See also » FRB Working Paper (2004) - Does Home Market Size Matter for the Pattern of Trade?
Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens
Journal of International Economics (2005)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2003.11.004 - Geographic Concentration and Establishment Size: Analysis in an Alternative Economic Geography Model
Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens
Journal of Economic Geography (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlecg/lbh018
See also » FRB Working Paper (2002) - Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in North America
John J. Stevens and Thomas J. Holmes
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1574-0080(04)80020-8 - Firm Specific Human Capital vs. Job Matching: A New Test
Erwan Quintin and John J. Stevens
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2003)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2003.33 - Overhauling Industrial Production: The 2002 Historical and Annual Revision
John Stevens
2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section (2003) - Using Simulation Methods for Bayesian Econometric Models
John Stevens, John Geweke, and William McCausland
Computer-Aided Econometrics (2003) - Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale
Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens
Review of Economics and Statistics (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1162/003465302760556495
See also » FRB Working Paper (2002)
conference
August 2020NABE Economic Measurement Seminar
The Relative Merits of Economic Data Produced by the Public and Private Sector
conference
June 2020Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) Meeting
The Potential for Alternative Data in Official Statistics
conference
October 2018NABE Tech Economics Conference (TEC2018)
The Federal Reserve Board's Expanded Measurement Agenda
conference
July 2015Society for Economic Measurement Annual Conference
A Report on the Federal Reserve Board's Efforts to Better Assess Economic Activity
discussion
March 2012International Industrial Organization Conference
Globalization and Vertical Structure: An Empirical Investigation
discussion
January 2012Allied Social Science Assocation Meetings
Scarring Recessions and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Colombian Firm Dynamics
discussion
November 2011International Trade Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
On the Fragmentation of Production in the US
seminar
April 2011Clemson University
An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade
discussion
January 2011Allied Social Science Assocation Meetings
Who Creates Jobs and When: How Firms Respond to Business Cycles and Credit Conditions
conference
November 2010Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis Conference
Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
conference
November 2010Census Research Data Center Annual Research Conference
Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
conference
September 2010Comparative Analysis Of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference
Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
seminar
October 2010University of Virginia
An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade
conference
May 2010How 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 2009Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis Conference
An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application to Trade
conference
September 2009OECD-STESEG (Short-Term Economic Statistics Expert Group) meeting
Measuring U.S. Industrial Production During a Downturn in Economic Activity
seminar
March 2007Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Plant Size and Plant Function
seminar
October 2006U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies
Plant Size and Plant Function
conference
September 2006Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference
Plant Size and Plant Function
seminar
September 2004Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Substitutability of New and Used Goods: Highway Rollers
seminar
March 2004Washington Statistical Society
Reconstructing Industrial Production: Conversion to NAICS
conference
August 2003Joint Statistical Meetings
Overhauling Industrial Production: The 2002 Historical and Annual Revision
conference
March 2003Midwest Economics Association Meetings
Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover
conference
November 200249th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in North America
conference
November 199946th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale
Awards
- 2023
Federal Chief Data Officer Council
Data Champion of the Year
- 2006
National Association for Business Economics
Adolph G. Abramson Award
- 1998
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
Walter W. Heller Outstanding Teaching Award
Conference Organization
March 20-22, 2022 | Washington, D.C.
2022 NABE Economic Policy Conference
Planning committee member
March 22-23, 2021 | Washington, D.C.
2021 NABE Economic Policy Conference
Planning committee member
October 12-14, 2011 | Washington, D.C.
Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis Research Conference
Local organizer
Editor
- Associate Editor, Harvard Data Science Review, 2018-present
Referee
- American Economic Review
- Economic Letters
- European Economic Review
- International Economic Review
- Journal of Economic Geography
- Journal of Economics and Business
- Journal of International Economics
- Papers in Regional Science
- Regional Science and Urban Economics
- Review of Economic Studies
- Review of Industrial Organization
- Review of World Economics
- The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics
- Urban Studies
Professional Affiliation
- Member, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research on Income and Wealth, 2010-present
- Member, Statistics Committee, National Association for Business Economics, 2008-present
- Co-chair of the Data Analytics/Statistics Roundtable, National Association for Business Economics, 2019-20
- Associate Member, Washington Statistical Society, 2017-present
- Special Sworn Status researcher, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2001-present