Meet the Economists
David M. Byrne
david.m.byrne@frb.gov
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
- Byrne, David M., and Carol A. Corrado (2020). "The Increasing Deflationary Impact of Consumer Digital Access Services," FEDS Notes 2020-07-15. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David, and Carol Corrado (forthcoming). "Accounting for Innovations in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters," in Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the Twenty-First Century.The University of Chicago Press.
- Aizcorbe, Ana, David M. Byrne, and Daniel E. Sichel (2020). "Getting Smart About Phones: New Price Indexes and the Allocation of Spending Between Devices and Services Plans in Personal Consumption Expenditures," in Fraumeni, Barbara M. ed.,Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, pp. 387-411.
- Byrne, David (2019). "The Mysterious Cross-Country Dispersion in Mobile Phone Price Trends," FEDS Notes 2019-08-05. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David M., Stephen D. Oliner, and Daniel E. Sichel (2018). "How Fast are Semiconductor Prices Falling?" The Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 679-702.
- Byrne, David, and Carol Corrado (2017). "ICT Services and Their Prices: What Do They Tell Us about Productivity and Technology?," International Productivity Monitor, vol. 33, pp. 150-181.
- Byrne, David, Carol A. Corrado, and Daniel E. Sichel (2017). "Own-Account IT Equipment Investment," FEDS Notes 2017-10-04. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David, Stephen D. Oliner, and Daniel E. Sichel (2017). "Prices of High-Tech Products, Mismeasurement, and the Pace of Innovation," Business Economics, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 103-113.
- Byrne, David M., Brian K. Kovak, and Ryan Michaels (2017). "Quality-Adjusted Price Measurement: A New Approach with Evidence from Semiconductors," The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 330–342.
- Byrne, David, and Carol Corrado (2017). "ICT Asset Prices: Marshaling Evidence into New Measures," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-016. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David, Wendy Dunn, and Eugenio Pinto (2016). "Prices and Depreciation in the Market for Tablet Computers," FEDS Notes 2016-12-05. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David M., John G. Fernald, and Marshall B. Reinsdorf (2016). "Does the United States Have a Productivity Slowdown or a Measurement Problem?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring, pp. 109-157.
- Bayard, Kimberly, David Byrne, and Dominic Smith (2015). "The Scope of U.S. 'Factoryless Manufacturing'" in Houseman, Susan N., and Michael J. Mandel eds., Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy, vol. 2, pp. 81-120. Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
- Byrne, David M., and Carol Corrado (2015). "Recent Trends in Communications Equipment Prices," FEDS Notes 2015-09-29. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David M., and Carol A. Corrado (2015). "Prices for Communications Equipment: Rewriting the Record," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-069. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David M. (2015). "Prices for Data Storage Equipment and the State of IT Innovation," FEDS Notes 2015-07-01. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David M. (2015). "Domestic Electronics Manufacturing: Medical, Military, and Aerospace Equipment and What We Don't Know about High-Tech Productivity," FEDS Notes 2015-06-02. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David M., and Eugénio P. Pinto (2015). "The Recent Slowdown in High-Tech Equipment Price Declines and Some Implications for Business Investment and Labor Productivity," FEDS Notes 2015-03-26. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Byrne, David, Stephen D. Oliner, and Daniel E. Sichel (2013). "Is the Information Technology Revolution Over?" International Productivity Monitor, no. 25, pp. 20-36.
- Byrne, David, Michelle S. Goeree, Bridget Hiedemann, and Steven Stern (2009). "Formal Home Health Care, Informal Care, and Family Decision Making," International Economic Review, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1205-1242.
- Byrne, David, and Eric Strobl (2004). "Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago," Journal of Development Economics, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 465-476.
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
Referee
- American Economic Review: Insights
- Eastern Economic Journal
- Economic Inquiry
- Economic Journal
- Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics
- European Economic Review
- International Productivity Monitor
- Journal of Comparative Economics
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Journal of Human Resources
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Review of Income and Wealth
- Science Advances
- Southern Economic Journal
Professional Affiliation
- Conference on Research on Income and Wealth
- International Association for Research in Income and Wealth