CONTRIBUTED SESSION A: PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT USING ALTERNATE DATA SOURCES
Lea Samek (OECD, Paris) ‘Identifying and characterising AI adopters: A novel approach based on big data’
Lily Davies (CPB, The Hague) ‘Predicting Firm Exits with Machine Learning: Implications for Selection into COVID-19 Support and Productivity Growth’
[No slides available]
Josh Martin (Bank of England) ‘Productivity of tax collection in the UK, 1850 to 2019’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION B: HOUSEHOLDS, INEQUALITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Koji Takahashi ( Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland) ‘Nowcasting Private Consumption Using Alternative Data during the Pandemic’
[No slides available]
Andrew Fieldhouse (Mays Business School, Texas A&M University) ‘A New Claims-Based Unemployment Dataset: Application to Postwar Recoveries Across U.S. States’
Gary Koop ( University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) ‘Timely Estimates of Household Income Growth and Income Inequality’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION C: BEYOND GDP
Harry Davies (Office for National Statistics) ‘Quantifying health benefits from recreation in natural capital accounts’
Sami Mubarak (Office for National Statistics) ‘From National Accounts to Inclusive Wealth: A Framework to Bridge Between Market and Accounting Priced Capitals’
Jonathan Gershuny (University College London) ‘National accounts from time budgets: input, output and outcome measures of human wellbeing’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION D: TRADE AND NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Lukas Linsi (University of Groningen, Netherlands) ‘The Problem with Trade Measurement in International Relations’
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Andreas Freitag (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland) ‘Intrafirm Trade and Exchange Rate Pass-Through’
[No slides available]
Oscar Lemmers (Statistics Netherlands) ‘Linking micro-data to national input-output tables: By whom and from whom are which products imported and to what end?’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION E: LABOUR MARKETS AND SKILLS
Michela Vecchi (Kingston University) ‘Working in an Immaterial World: Intangible Assets and the Supply and Demand for Skilled Labour’
Jesse Matheson (University of Sheffield) ‘Willingness and ability to work from home: Inequality and the rise of remote working’
Gueorguie Vassilev (Office for National Statistics) ‘Measuring skills shortages to inform the public and policymakers’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION F: JOB QUALITY AND WAGES
Mark Williams (Queen Mary University of London) ‘Constructing and Presenting National Job Quality Statistics: Findings from a recent UKRI project’
Reamonn Lydon (Central Bank of Ireland) ‘What do wages posted in job ads tell us about wage growth?’
Cath Sleeman (Nesta) ‘Extracting drivers of job quality from online employee reviews’
[No slides available]
CONTRIBUTED SESSION G: INVESTMENT IN DATA AND FREE GOODS
Julia Schmidt (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)) ‘Estimating investment in data in the United Kingdom and selected trade partners using online job advertisements’
John Lourenze Poquiz (King’s College London) ‘How much is your video call worth? Measuring the value of free digital goods’
Rachel Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis) ‘Private Funding of Free Data: A Theoretical Framework’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION H: ESTIMATING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY WITH NEW METHODS AND DATA
Christopher Kurz (Federal Reserve Board, Washington) ‘Manufacturing Sentiment: Forecasting Industrial Production with Text Analysis’
[No slides available]
Charlotte Meng (Queen Mary University of London) ‘Investigating Businesses’ Responses to COVID via Web Crawling and Text Mining’
Marcus Buckmann (Bank of England) ‘An interpretable machine learning workflow with an application to economic forecasting’
[No slides available]
CONTRIBUTED SESSION I: OUTPUTS, INPUTS AND PRODUCTIVITY
Nicholas Oulton (Centre for Macroeconomics, LSE & NIESR) ‘The Divisia approach to measuring output and productivity: an application to the BEA-BLS industry-level production account, 1987-2020’
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio (The Conference Board & Centre for Business and Public Policy, Georgetown University) ‘Data, Intangible Capital, and Productivity’
Kevin Fox (UNSW, Sydney) ‘Alternative Output, Input and Income Concepts for the Production Account’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION J: LABOUR MARKETS AND INEQUALITY
David Turner (OECD Economics Department, Paris) ‘A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking education policies to productivity’
Sugat Chaturvedi (University of Sussex) ‘Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behaviour’
[No slides available]
Melanie Jones (Cardiff University) ‘The Ongoing Impact of Gender Pay Gap Transparency Legislation’
[No slides available]
CONTRIBUTED SESSION K: PRODUCTION NETWORKS
Julen Grube Doiz (Office for National Statistics) ‘Exploring the analytical power of input-output tables in the UK context’
Andras Borsos (Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Department of Financial Systems Analysis, Central Bank of Hungary) ‘Firm-level production networks: what do we (really) know?’
Giovanni Covi (Bank of England) ‘Measuring Capital at Risk in the UK Banking Sector’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION L: PRODUCTIVITY AND FIRM DYNAMICS
Kyle Jones (Office for National Statistics) ‘Site-Level Business Dynamism in the UK’
Mark Vancauteren (Statistics Netherlands & Hasselt University) ‘The Impact of Innovation on Firm Performance: The Role of Micro-firms in the Netherlands’
Michael Polder (Statistics Netherlands) ‘More than the sum of parts: industry productivity growth, business dynamics and the role of exporters in the Dutch manufacturing and trade sectors’
John Morrow (King’s College London) ‘Firms in Product Space: Growth, Adaptation, and Competition’
[No slides available]
CONTRIBUTED SESSION M: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Genghao Zhang (University of Bristol) ‘Does Digital Transition Contribute to Green Transition or Over-consumption? An Empirical Study in the UK’
Josh Martin (Bank of England & ESCoE) ‘Do current national accounting guidelines include any environmental investments?’
Leonard Nakamura (FRB Philadelphia, Philadelphia) ‘Climate Shocks in the Anthropocene Era: Should Net Domestic Product be Affected by Climate Disasters?’
Sandra Batten (Bank of England) ‘Energy substitution in consumption and production’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION N: SUBNATIONAL MEASUREMENT
Benjamin Bridgman (Bureau of Economic Analysis) ‘Consumption Zones’
Ping Wu (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) ‘Regional Output Growth in the UK: Improving Estimates by Incorporating New Data Sources’
Jim Hawkins (Office for National Statistics) ‘Attributing specific business activities to regions and other subnational geographies: A research and development example’
Martin Weale (King’s College, London) ‘Consumption and Health-based Indicators of Well-being for Lower Tier Local Authorities in England’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION O: NEW APPLICATIONS OF FIRM-LEVEL DATA
Sophie Piton (Bank of England) ‘Business creation during COVID-19’
[No slides available]
Carlo Menon (OECD, Trento, Italy) ‘Which SMEs are greening? Cross-country evidence from companies’ websites’
Yannis Galanakis (King’s College London) ‘Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap: Firm Productivity and Board Gender Composition’
Caterina Liberati ( University of Milano–Bicocca, Milano, Italy) ‘Unconventional data and Innovation Policy: are innovative SMEs’ web-pages different?’
[No slides available]
CONTRIBUTED SESSION P: FORECASTING AND NOWCASTING
Jack Fosten (King’s College London) ‘Predictive Ability Tests with Possibly Overlapping Models’
[No slides available]
Lingyi Yang (University of Oxford, Alan Turing Institute & Office for National Statistics) ‘Nowcasting key economic variables with signature methods’
James Mitchell ( Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) ‘Monthly GDP Growth Estimates for the U.S. States’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION Q: PRICE INDEXES AND RENTS
Kevin Fox (UNSW, Sydney) ‘Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Access Charges in Price Index Construction’
Robert Hill (University of Graz) ‘Comparing Rents in Cities Around the World: Can Airbnb Help?’
[No slides available]
Peter Levell (Institute for Fiscal Studies) ‘Multilateral index number methods for Consumer Price Statistics’
CONTRIBUTED SESSION R: ISSUES IN NATIONAL ACCOUNTING
Martin Fleming (The Productivity Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom. Varicent, Toronto, Canada) ‘Enterprise Information and Communications Technology Software Pricing and Developer Productivity Measurement’
Rory Macqueen (ESCoE) ‘Nowcasting UK consumption and investment with monthly output components and real-time indicators’
Michael Mahony (University of Nottingham) ‘Price-Setting with Asynchronous Adjustments to Firm Prices and Output: Evidence using Direct Survey Measures’