Meet the Researchers
David M. Byrne
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Virginia, 2005
- B.A., Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 1992
- M.A., Economics, American University, 1996
- Measuring Output in R&D-Intensive Industries
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2015 - presentSenior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2010 - 2015Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2002 - 2009
- The Digital Economy and Productivity
David M. Byrne
The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change (2024)
See also » FRB Working Paper (2022) - Accounting for Innovations in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters
David Byrne and Carol Corrado
National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth (2021)
See also » FRB Working Paper (2019) - The Increasing Deflationary Influence of Consumer Digital Access Services
David M. Byrne and Carol A. Corrado
Economics Letters (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109447
See also » FRB Working Paper (2020) - Getting Smart About Phones: New Price Indexes and the Allocation of Spending Between Devices and Services Plans in Personal Consumption Expenditures
Ana Aizcorbe, David M. Byrne, and Daniel E. Sichel
Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817596-5.00017-2
See also » FRB Working Paper (2019) - The Mysterious Cross-Country Dispersion in Mobile Phone Price Trends
David Byrne
FEDS Notes (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2413 - The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding Your P’s, Q’s and K’s
David Byrne, Carol Corrado, and Daniel E. Sichel
NBER Working Paper Series (2018)
https://doi.org/10.3386/w25188 - How Fast are Semiconductor Prices Falling?
David M. Byrne, Stephen D. Oliner, and Daniel E. Sichel
Review of Income and Wealth (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12308
See also » FRB Working Paper (2017) - Own-Account IT Equipment Investment
David Byrne, Carol A. Corrado, and Daniel E. Sichel
FEDS Notes (2017)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2071 - ICT Asset Prices: Marshaling Evidence into New Measures
David Byrne and Carol Corrado
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2017)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2017.016r1 - Prices of High-Tech Products, Mismeasurement, and the Pace of Innovation
David Byrne, Stephen D. Oliner, and Daniel E. Sichel
Business Economics (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-017-0034-4 - ICT Services and Their Prices: What Do They Tell Us about Productivity and Technology?
David Byrne and Carol Corrado
International Productivity Monitor (2017)
See also » FRB Working Paper (2017) - Quality-Adjusted Price Measurement: A New Approach with Evidence from Semiconductors
David M. Byrne, Brian K. Kovak, and Ryan Michaels
Review of Economics and Statistics (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00640 - Prices and Depreciation in the Market for Tablet Computers
David Byrne, Wendy Dunn, and Eugenio Pinto
FEDS Notes (2016)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1885 - Does the United States Have a Productivity Slowdown or a Measurement Problem?
David M. Byrne, John G. Fernald, and Marshall B. Reinsdorf
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2016.0014
See also » FRB Working Paper (2016) - Recent Trends in Communications Equipment Prices
David M. Byrne and Carol Corrado
FEDS Notes (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.0067 - Prices for Communications Equipment: Rewriting the Record
David M. Byrne and Carol A. Corrado
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.069 - Prices for Data Storage Equipment and the State of IT Innovation
David M. Byrne
FEDS Notes (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.0056 - Domestic Electronics Manufacturing: Medical, Military, and Aerospace Equipment and What We Don't Know about High-Tech Productivity
David M. Byrne
FEDS Notes (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1548 - The Scope of U.S. 'Factoryless Manufacturing'
Kimberly Bayard, David Byrne, and Dominic Smith
Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17848/9780880994903 - The Recent Slowdown in High-Tech Equipment Price Declines and Some Implications for Business Investment and Labor Productivity
David M. Byrne and Eugénio P. Pinto
FEDS Notes (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1512 - Is the Information Technology Revolution Over?
David Byrne, Stephen D. Oliner, and Daniel E. Sichel
International Productivity Monitor (2013)
See also » FRB Working Paper (2013) - Formal Home Health Care, Informal Care, and Family Decision Making
David Byrne, Michelle S. Goeree, Bridget Hiedemann, and Steven Stern
International Economic Review (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2009.00566.x - Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
David Byrne and Eric Strobl
Journal of Development Economics (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2002.12.005
seminar
May, 2025AI and the Future of Work
Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope?
seminar
April, 2025R&S Lunchtime Workshop, Federal Reserve Board
Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope?
conference
April, 2025Society of Government Economists
Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope?
conference
December, 2024NBER Resilience in Supply Chains
The Geography of the Electronics Supply Chain from Soup to Nuts
conference
January, 2024ASSA 2024 Annual Meeting
Transistors all the way Down: Viability of Direct Volume Measurement in the Semiconductor Industry
conference
September, 20235th Statistics Conference of the Central Bank of Chile
The Digital Economy and Productivity
conference
July, 2023Conference on Research on Income and Wealth
Transistors all the way Down: Viability of Direct Volume Measurement in the Semiconductor Industry
conference
March, 2022CRIW Conference on Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
Historical Geography of the Semiconductor Industry
conference
October, 2020BLS/CNSTAT Panel on Improving Cost-of-Living Indexes and Consumer Inflation Statistics in the Digital Age
Prices for Digital Access Services
conference
September, 2020UN Economic Commission for Europe, Group of Experts on National Accounts
Leveraging Systemic Consistency to Improve Price Measures in National Accounts
seminar
September, 2020Federal Reserve Board
COVID-19, Netflix, and PCE
conference
May, 2019Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence
Getting Smart about Phones
conference
April, 2019Society of Government Economists
Getting Smart about Phones
conference
June, 2018Fifth World KLEMS Conference
Accounting for Innovation in Consumer Digital Services: Implications for economic growth and consumer welfare
conference
November, 20175th IMF Statistical Forum: Measuring the Digital Economy
The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding Your P's and Q's (and K's)
conference
May, 2017Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee
The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding Your P's and Q's (and K's)
conference
January, 2017American Economic Association Annual Meeting
A New Look at Prices of Personal Computers: Desktops, Laptops, and Tablets
seminar
November, 2016American Enterprise Institute
Possible Sources for the (Measured) Productivity Slowdown
seminar
April, 2016Bureau of Economic Analysis
The State of IT Price Measurement
conference
August, 2014Society for Economic Measurement
How fast are Semiconductor Prices Falling
conference
July, 2014Conference on Research on Income and Wealth
How fast are Semiconductor Prices Falling?
conference
June, 2014Washington International Trade Association
The Scope of U.S. Factoryless Manufacturing
seminar
August, 2013Congressional Budget Office
Is the Information Technology Revolution Over?
seminar
June, 2013Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of Census
The Scope of U.S. Factoryless Manufacturing
conference
February, 2013Conference on Measuring the Effects of Globalization
The Scope of U.S. Factoryless Manufacturing
seminar
April, 2011College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, State University of New York
Where's Qualcomm? How Statistics Obscure the Leading Edge of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
conference
July, 2009Conference on Research on Income and Wealth
Why Are PCs Still Manufactured in the United States?
conference
July, 2007Conference on Research on Income and Wealth
Prices for Communications Equipment: Updating and Revisiting the Record
Conference Organization
July, 2023 | Cambridge, MA
NBER Summer Institute session for Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Program Committee
July, 2022 | Cambridge, MA
NBER Summer Institute session for Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Program Committee
July, 2024 | Cambridge, MA
NBER Summer Institute session for Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Program Committee
July, 2025 | Cambridge, MA
NBER Summer Institute session for Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Program Committee
Referee
- American Economic Review: Insights
- Applied Economics Letters
- Australian Economic Review
- Business Economics
- Eastern Economic Journal
- Economic Inquiry
- Economic Journal
- Economics Letters
- Economie et Statistique / E.conomics and Statistics
- European Economic Review
- International Journal of Central Banking
- International Productivity Monitor
- Journal of Comparative Economics
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Journal of Human Resources
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Review of Income and Wealth
- Science Advances
- Southern Economic Journal
- World Development
Professional Affiliation
- Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
- International Association for Research in Income and Wealth