Contact Information
202-452-2206
john.j.stevens@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Industrial Organization
Urban Rural and Regional Economics
Labor Economics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2001
M.A., Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1996
B.A., Economics, University of Toledo, 1994

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2001-present
Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, 2007-2008
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2005

Selected Publications

• Raising the Bar for Models of Turnover (with Erwan Quintin), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-23. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2005.
• ''Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover'' (with Erwan Quintin), Topics in Macroeconomics, vol. 5 (September 2005), pp. 0-30.
• ''Does Home Market Size Matter for the Pattern of Trade?'' (with Thomas J. Holmes), Journal of International Economics, vol. 65 (March 2005), pp. 489-505.
• ''Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in North America'' (with Thomas J. Holmes), in Vernon Henderson and Jacques-François Thisse, eds., Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 4. New York: Elsevier Science, 2004.
• ''Geographic Concentration and Establishment Size: Analysis in an Alternative Economic Geography Model'' (with Thomas J. Holmes), Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 4 (June 2004), pp. 227-250.
• ''Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale'' (with Thomas J. Holmes), Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 84 (November 2002), pp. 682-90.
• ''Estimating Capacity Utilization from Survey Data'' (with Norman Morin), IFC Bulletin, vol. 20 (May 2005), pp. 42-60.
• ''Diverging Measures of Capacity Utilization: An Explanation'' (with Norman Morin), Business Economics, vol. 40 (October 2005), pp. 46-54.
• Firm Specific Human Capital vs. Job Matching: A New Test (with Erwan Quintin), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2003-33. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2003.
• ''Using Simulation Methods for Bayesian Econometric Models'' (with John Geweke and William McCausland), in David E. A. Giles, ed., Computer-Aided Econometrics. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2003.
• ''Overhauling Industrial Production: The 2002 Historical and Annual Revision,'' 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business & Economic Statistics Section [CD-ROM] (2004), pp. 4072-4078.