Carol Corrado

Carol Corrado is Senior Advisor and Research Director in Economics at the Conference Board where her primary focus is measuring intangible capital and studying innovation and economic growth. She also works with the Conference Board’s China Center for Research on Economics and Business on measuring and analyzing industrial capacity utilization in China. Carol is a member of the executive committee of the NBER’s Conference on research on Income and Wealth and an organizer of a workshop on economic measurement at the NBER’s annual Summer Institute.

Corrado authored key papers on the macroeconomic analysis of intangible investment and capital, including the winner of International Association of Research on Income and Wealth’s 2010 Kendrick Prize (“Intangible Capital and U.S. Economic Growth”) and a paper in a volume she co-edited,  measuring Capital in the New Economy, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. Carol’s research on intangibles and innovation has been cited in the popular press including Business Week, the Economist, and New York Times.

Since joining the Conference Board in 2008, Corrado has been the recipient of two grants for innovation research from the National Science Foundation. Prior to that, she was Chief of the Industrial Output Section at the Federal Reserve Board, where she managed a research program that studied the drivers of productivity and technical change and worked to improve the measurement of information and communications technology prices, and of industrial production and capacity utilization. She received the American Statistical Association’s prestigious Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003 in recognition of her leadership in these areas and was a recipient of a Special Achievement Award from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1998. Carol holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Management Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Vita

Contributions:

• Corrado appointed to committee at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, June 12, 2012
• Corrado gives keynote at ICTNET workshop, April 23, 2012
• Measuring Intangible Capital: How Do You Measure a “Technological Revolution”?, by Carol Corrado and Charles R. Hulten, originally published by American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 100: 99-104 (May 2010)
• Measuring Intangible Capital and Its Contribution to Economic Growth in Europe, by Carol Corrado, Bart van Ark, Janet X. Hao and Charles Hulten, originally published by European Investment Bank Papers, volume 14, No. 1 (December 2009)
• Intangible Capital and U.S. Economic Growth, by Carol Corrado, with Charles Hulten and Daniel Sichel, originally published by the Review of Income and Wealth, Series 55, Number 3 (September 2009)