BEA Regional Data and the Dallas FED Franklin D. Berger Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The views expressed are those of the speaker and should not be attributed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas or the Federal Reserve System
Understanding the regional economy is important to monetary policy
BEA Regional Products Gross State Product State and Local Personal Income Regional Facts Sheets (Bearfacts) Regional Input-Output Modeling System (Rims II) Regional Economic Information System (REIS)
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Issues Timeliness
Issues Timeliness Frequency
Issues Timeliness Frequency Geography
“A New Quarterly Output Measure for Texas” Franklin D. Berger and Keith R. Phillips Economic Review Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Third Quarter 1995 Available at
Annual gross state product Quarterly real earnings Quarterly gross state product Hocus Pocus Chow-Lin Procedure
Issues Lack of fit in some industries
Issues Lack of fit in some industries –Mining real GSP uncorrelated with anything: real earnings, national corporate profits, oil prices, natural gas prices, crude oil production, natural gas production, rig count
Issues Lack of fit in some industries –Mining real GSP fits nothing –Nondurable manufacturing neither: real earnings
Explanations?
Capital Intensity
Explanations? Capital Intensity Energy-related
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Who Am I? Franklin D. Berger Manager of Research Support Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (214)