Meet the Economists
John J. Stevens
john.j.stevens@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2001
- M.A., Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1996
- B.A., Economics, University of Toledo, 1994
Associate Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2016 - presentDeputy 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
- Adenbaum, Jacob, Adam Copeland, and John J. Stevens (2015). "Do Long-Haul Truckers Undervalue Future Fuel Savings?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-118. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2014). "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 122, no. 2, pp. 369-421.
- Holmes, Thomas J., and John J. Stevens (2012). "Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size," Journal of International Economics, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 1-214.
- 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-Francois 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.
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
- 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
October 12-14, 2011 | Washington, D.C.
Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis Research Conference
Local organizer
Referee
- American Economic Review
- 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
- Special Sworn Status researcher, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2001-present