Biographical Information
Carol Corrado, Federal Reserve Board
Carol Corrado is chief of the Industrial Output Section at the Federal Reserve Board, where she researches and manages work on output, price, and productivity measurement. Her current work focuses on knowledge capital and economic growth and on measuring quality change in high technology and other durable goods. She organized (with John Haltiwanger and Dan Sichel) a conference, Measuring Capital in the New Economy, held at the Federal Reserve Board in 2002 and whose proceedings will be published by the University of Chicago Press this summer. Selected other publications are at http://www.federalreserve.gov/research/staff/corradocarola.htm .
Carol is a member of the executive committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)'s Conference on Research on Income and Wealth and a co-organizer of a regular workshop at the NBER Summer Institute in Cambridge , Mass, that focuses on economic measurement. She received the Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003 in recognition of her leadership in measuring industrial production and capacity, productivity and information-technology output and prices. She was also a recipient of a Special Achievement Award from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1998. Carol received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a B.S. in Management Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1969.