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At the request of the Senate Committee on the Budget, the Congressional Budget Office presented a briefing titled "The New Economy" on June 6. The agenda for that briefing follows. Links are provided to materials on this site that speakers used to support their presentations or to other sites that contain materials that speakers summarized at the briefing. All of the supporting materials are in PDF format. They have not been subject to CBO's formal review and editing processes, and the analyses and conclusions expressed are those of the authors, not CBO.

New-Economy Basics

Was the Economy of the 1990s a New One?

• Was the Economy of the 1990s a New One?--Robert Gordon (Northwestern University)
  
  
• The Resurgence of Growth in the Late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?--Daniel Sichel (Federal Reserve Board)
  
  
• The Stock Market and Capital Accumulation--Robert Hall (Stanford University)

Sectoral Stories

Firms, Industries, and Markets in the New Economy

• Blown to Bits: The Impact of the 'New Economy' on the Structure of Business--Philip Evans (Boston Consulting Group)

The Automobile Sector

• ...Transforming Ford Motor Company into a Leading-Edge Online Consumer Company Worldwide--James Gouin (Ford Motor Company)
  
  
• auto-xchange.com...moving to Covisient--Susan DeSandre (Ford Motor Company)
  
  

The Banking Sector

• Emerging Role of Banks in E-Commerce--John Wenninger (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

The Health Care Sector

• E-Health: Potential Productivity Effects--Patricia Danzon (Wharton School)

The New Economy: Implications for Fiscal and Budgetary Policy

A New Fiscal and Budgetary Policy for a New Economy?

• Policy Rules in the New Economy--William Nordhaus (Yale University)
  
  
• Recent research--John Taylor (Stanford University)