Carol Corrado

Former Distinguished Principal Research Fellow, Economics
The Conference Board

The following is a biography of former employee/consultant.

Carol Corrado is Distinguished Principal Research Fellow in Economics at The Conference Board, conducting research that focuses on intangible capital, digital innovation, and economic growth from a business perspective. Corrado frequently speaks on these subjects at professional conferences and workshops and has authored widely cited papers on intangibles and their role in the growth of modern economies. Corrado’s work also addresses the measurement of consumer digital services prices, data as an asset, and IT investment goods. An essay on re-imagining GDP that she co-authored won the Indigo Prize in 2017, and she received the ASA’s prestigious Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003. In addition to her position at The Conference Board, Corrado is Senior Policy Scholar at the Center for Business and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University and Fellow at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research in the UK. Previously a member of the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC, Corrado holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in management science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Publications by Carol Corrado

Reports

Rethinking the Innovation Potential of Occupations: Introducing a Cross-functional Dashboard 15 August, 2018
Rethinking Innovation Spending: What the Data on Intangible Investment Reveals 18 December, 2017
ICT Asset Prices: Marshaling Evidence into New Measures 11 July, 2016
ICT Prices and ICT Services: What do they tell us about productivity and technology? 11 July, 2016
Navigating the New Digital Economy: Driving Digital Growth and Productivity from Installation to Deployment 14 May, 2016
Navigating the Digital Economy: Capturing the Benefits from Increased Flexibility and Cost Reductions – CFO Implications 14 May, 2016
Navigating the Digital Economy: Managing Demand and Supply for Digital Jobs and Developing a Tech-Savvy Workforce – CHRO Implications 14 May, 2016
Navigating the Digital Economy: Driving Digital Growth and Productivity from Installation to Deployment – CEO and CSO Implications 14 May, 2016
Public Intangibles: The Public Sector and Economic Growth in the SNA 15 July, 2015
Communication Networks, ICT and Productivity Growth in Europe 01 December, 2014
The Growing Value of Brands and Their Contribution to Worldwide Economic Growth 23 July, 2014
Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth 13 June, 2014
Investments in Intellectual Property: New Footprints in Macroeconomic Data 06 December, 2013
Brands as Productive Assets: Concepts, Measurement, and Global Trends 15 November, 2013
Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies: Measurement Methods and Comparative Results 13 December, 2012
Innovation Accounting 13 December, 2012
Constructing a Price Deflator for R&D: Calculating the Price of Knowledge Investments as a Residual 28 October, 2011

External Publications

"How do you Measure a ‘Technological Revolution’?" with Charles R. Hulten. American Economic Review 100:5 (May 2010), 99-104.
"Measuring intangible capital and its contribution to economic growth in Europe" with Bart van Ark, Janet X. Hao, Carol Corrado & Charles Hulten. European Investment Bank Papers 14:1 (December 2009), 62-93.
"Intangible Capital and U.S. Economic Growth"with Charles Hulten and Dan Sichel. Review of Income and Wealth 55: 3 (September 2009), 661-685.
"Macroeconomic Implications of Intangible Assets" In Intangible Assets: Measuring and Enhancing their Contribution to Corporate Value and Economic Growth, A workshop summary, Christopher Mackie, rapporteur, 21-25. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press (2009).
"The Contribution of Multinational Corporations to U.S. Productivity Growth, 1977-2000" with Paul Lengermann and Larry Slifman. In International Trade in Services, M. Reinsdorf and M. Slaughter, eds., 331-360. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (2009).