Carol Corrado
Distinguished Principal Research Fellow in Economics, The Conference Board
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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.