Charles R. Hulten Professor of Economics 1106C Morrill Hall Department of Economics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301-405-3549 Email: hulten@econ.bsos.umd.edu

Charles R. Hulten is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, where he has taught since 1985.  He received his undergraduate (1965) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and had taught at Johns Hopkins University in 1971-1978 and was a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in 1978-1985. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Chairman of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.  He also serves as a member of the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee, as well as the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, and is an American Economic Association representative to the Council of Professional Associations of Federal Statistics.  He has been a member of the Canberra Group advisory committee, established by the Inter-Secretarial Working Group on National Accounts as part of the United Nations Statistical Commission to support the revision of the U.N. System of National Accounts.

Hulten's research interests include the areas of productivity analysis, economic growth and capital formation, tax policy, and the measurement of economic depreciation.  Recent papers on these topics include:

Papers on Productivity:
                    Intangible Capital and Economic Growth
                    Total Factor Productivity:  A Short Biography
                    Indian Manufacturing Industry: Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle

Papers on Economic Measurement:
                    Price Hedonics:  A Critical Review
                    Measuring Capital and Technology:  An Expanded Framework
                    Theory and Measurement:  An  Essay in Honor of Zvi Griliches
                    The "Architecture" of Capital Accounting:  Basic Design Principles

Papers on Infrastructure:
                    Does Infrastructure Investment Increase the Productivity of Manufacturing Industry in the U.S.?
                    Infrastructure, Externalities, and Economic Development:  A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industry

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:
                    Econ 306
                    Econ 454

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth:
                    CRIW Profile from NBER Reporter