Economic Measurement 2019 Slides and Recordings

Conference Programme:

Video recordings of sessions in the Auditorium (with start times):

Start of recording : Welcome: John Pullinger (UK National Statistician)
At 14:48 : Plenary Session I: Chair: Martin Weale (King’s College London and ESCoE). Speaker: Vasco Carvalho, (University of Cambridge) Production Networks in the Macroeconomy

Start of recording: Contributed Session B: Productivity – Chair: Marianthi Dunn (Office for National Statistics)
- At 12:12: Christopher O’Donnell (University of Queensland) Measuring and explaining productivity change in U.S. manufacturing
- At 42:43: Marianthi Dunn (Office for National Statistics) Improving estimates of labour productivity and international comparisons
At 1:17:42: Panel Session 1: Trust in Statistics Chair: Ed Humpherson
- Discussants: Dame Kate Barker, Mairi Spowage (University of Strathclyde), Rebecca Riley (ESCoE and National Institute of Economic and
  Social Research) and Tony Curzon Price (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
At 2:42:06: Contributed Session F: The digital economy – Chair: John Mitchell (OECD)
- At 2:43:40: Wendy Li (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis), Makoto Nire (University of Tokyo and RIETI) and Kazufumi Yamana (Kanagawa University) Value of data: There’s no such thing as a free lunch in the digital economy
- At 3:15:26: Jeremy Rowe and Philip Stubbings (Office for National Statistics) Extracting economic and social insights from internet traffic data
- At 3:48:24: John Mitchell (OECD) A framework for digital supply – use tables

Start of recording: Chair: Michael Hardie (Office for National Statistics)
At 7:17: Alberto Cavallo (Harvard University) Alternative price data: Some challenges and opportunities

Start of recording: Special Session B: Labour force skills in the digital age Chair: Mary O’Mahony (King’s College London)
- At 5:28: Elodie Andrieu, Stephanie Jamet, Mariagrazia Squicciarini and Luca Marcolin (OECD) Occupational transitions: the cost of moving to a “safe haven”
- At 24: 35: Oliver Falk (University of Munich, ifo Institute and CESifo), Alexandra Heimisch (ifo Institute) and Simon Widerhold (KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, ifo) Returns to ICT skills
- At 48:21: Matthias Parey (University of Surrey, Institute for Fiscal Studies) Tasks and technology: The labor market effects of innovation

Start of recording: Contributed Session M: Inequality and distribution Chair: Tahnee Ooms (University of Oxford)
- At 7:11: Sofie Waltl (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Vienna University of Economics and Business) Multidimensional wealth inequality: A hybrid approach toward distributional national accounts in Europe
- At 35:18: Dennis Fixler (US Bureau of Economic Analysis) Improving the measure of the distribution of personal income
- At 1:08:04: Peter Matejic (Department for Work and Pensions), Martin Shine, Richard Tonkin and Dominic Webber (Office for National Statistics) Measuring household disposable income: Developing adjustments using tax data which improve the measurement of income for the top earners
- At 1:36:18: Tahnee Ooms (University of Oxford) What is the effect of capital incomes on overall inequality in the UK?
At 2:28:00: Panel Session II: Priorities for the new SNA
- Chair: Peter van de Ven (OECD), Discussants: Joe Grice (Office for National Statistics), Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College and Bank of England), Kevin Fox ( UNSW Sydney) and Dennis Fixler (Bureau of Economic Analysis US)

Start of recording: Special Session C: Using micro and text data to measure economic activity better Chair: Paul Robinson (Bank of England)
- At 4:16: Andreas Joseph (Bank of England), Christiane Kneer (Bank of England), Neeltje van Horen (Bank of England) and Jumana Saleheen (CRU Group) All you need is cash: Corporate cash holdings and investment after the financial crisis
- At 30:50: Christopher Kurz (Federal Reserve Board) Improving the accuracy of economic measurement with multiple data sources: the case of payroll employment data
- At 1:00:16: Eleni Kalamara (King’s College London), Arthur Turrell (Bank of England) Making text count: what can newspaper text tell us about macroeconomic sentiment and uncertainty?

At 6:10: Chair: Richard J. Smith (University of Cambridge and ESCoE)
At 7:04: John Fernald (INSEAD) World productivity 1996–2014
At 1:25:01: Closing remarks: Rebecca Riley (ESCoE and National Institute of Economics and Social Research)