John Stevens, Economist
Federal Reserve Board
20th and C St. NW, stop 82
Washington DC, 20551
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john.j.stevens 'at' frb 'dot' gov

Updated: June 25, 2008

Curriculum vitae

Current research interests

• Interaction between geographic concentration, establishment size, and market size
• Plant size and plant function
• Industry dynamics in models with new and used goods
• Flexible manufacturing, outsourcing, and capacity utilization

Work-in-progress

• "Plant Size and Plant Function," (with Thomas J. Holmes) September 2006.
• "The Implications of Flexible Manufacturing Systems for the Measurement of Industrial Capacity," (with Daniel Vine).
• "Substitutability of New and Used Goods: Highway Rollers," (with Adam Copeland).

Economic Geography and Trade

• "Does Home Market Size Matter for the Pattern of Trade?" (with Thomas J. Holmes) Journal of International Economics 65 (2005). Separate Appendix
  
• "Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in North America," (with Thomas J. Holmes) in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 4, edited by Vernon Henderson and Jacques-Francois Thisse (2004).
• "Geographic Concentration and Establishment Size: Analysis in an Alternative EconomicGeography Model," (with Thomas J. Holmes) Journal of Economic Geography 4:3 (June 2004).
• "Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale," (with Thomas J. Holmes) Review of Economics and Statistics 84:4 (November 2002).

Labor Economics

• "Raising the Bar for Models of Turnover," (with Erwan Quintin) under review (January 2006).
• "Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover," (with Erwan Quintin) Topics in Macroeconomics 5:1 (September 2005).
• "Firm Specific Human Capital vs. Job Matching: A New Test," (with Erwan Quintin), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Finance and Economics Discussion Paper Series #2003-33.

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization

• "Estimating Capacity Utilization from Survey Data," (with Norman Morin), Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics: IFC Bulletin, No. 20 (April 2005).
• "Diverging Measures of Capacity Utilization: An Explanation," (with Norman Morin), Business Economics 40:3 (October 2005).
• "Overhauling Industrial Production: The 2002 Historical and Annual Revision," 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business & Economic Statistics Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association (2004).

Econometrics

• "Using Simulation Methods for Bayesian Econometric Models" (with John Geweke and William McCausland), Computer-Aided Econometrics, Chapter 8, edited by David E. A. Giles (2003).
• Bayesian Analysis, Computation and Communication (BACC), Bayesian econometrics software.

Co-authors' Pages

Adam Copeland
John Geweke
Tom Holmes
Bill McCausland
Erwan Quintin