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Carol Corrado

Senior Advisor and Research Director, Economics Program

Carol Corrado

Carol Corrado is senior advisor and research director in economics at The Conference Board. Her primary focus is measuring intangible capital and studying innovation and economic growth.

She also works with The Conference Board China Center for Economics and Business on measuring and analyzing industrial capacity utilization in China. In addition, Corrado is a senior fellow of the Georgetown University Center for Business and Public Policy, a member of the executive committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s (NBER) Conference on Research on Income and Wealth, and an organizer of a workshop on economic measurement at the NBER’s annual Summer Institute.

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

Since joining The Conference Board in 2008, Corrado has received two grants from the National Science Foundation. Previously, she was chief of the industrial output section at the Federal Reserve Board. In that position, she managed a research program that studied the drivers of productivity and technical change as well as worked to improve the measurement of information and communications technology prices, industrial production, and capacity utilization.

Corrado received the American Statistical Association’s prestigious Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003 in recognition of her leadership in these areas and received a Special Achievement Award from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1998. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in management science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Publications by Carol Corrado

Economics Program Working Paper Series External Publications