Tuesday 19 May
Contributed session A: Net zero and environment
- UK water ecosystem accounting for improved water management. Alice Bartolini (University College London, ESCoE), Vittoria Reas (University of Siena, ESCoE), Michael Hutchins (UKCEH), Silvia Ferrini (University of East Anglia, University College London, University of Siena, ESCoE), Paul Ekins (University College London, ESCoE), Joe Grice (King’s College London, University College London, ESCoE).
- Environmental bads. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW Sydney, ESCoE), Kevin Fox (UNSW Sydney, ESCoE)
Contributed session B: National accounts and prices
- Precision in the Time Product Dummy Price Index: What happens when goods are sold in only a few periods? Ana Aizcorbe (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, retired).
- Challenges in consumer price index construction. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW Sydney), Chihiro Shimizu (Hitotsubashi University).
- A behavioural cost-of-living index. Hubert Wu (University of Oxford).
Contributed session C: Globalisation
- Monitoring global trade by products using big data. Graham Pilgrim (Birch Analytics), Yann Dorville, Annabelle Mourougane (OECD).
- Inflation forecasting in small open economies: Incorporating short predictors to compare global and domestic drivers. Zhoulihua Zhang, Sharada Davidson, Ping Wu (University of Strathclyde).
- Globalisation in the national accounts – pharmaceuticals. Mark Stephens, Kieran Lind, Jonathan Foley (Office for National Statistics).
Contributed session D: Productivity and innovation
- Tracking management practices over time: Longitudinal evidence from the UK Management and Expectations Survey. Oliver Schnabel, Fintan Mullane, Rabiya Nasir, Tom Wickersham (Office for National Statistics).
- Comparing the Decision Maker Panel and the Business Insights and Conditions Survey. Craig Menzies, Paul Mizen (King’s College London), Alastair Cameron (Office for National Statistics), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Philip Bunn, Ivan Yotzov (Bank of England), Gregory Thwaites (University of Nottingham).
- The innovation race: Experimental evidence on advanced technologies. Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School), Ester Faia (Goethe University), Elisa Guglielminetti (Banca d’Italia), Ricardo Perez-Truglia (University of California), Concetta Rondinelli (Banca d’Italia).
Contributed session E: Labour markets and households
- Reach me if you can: How to boost participation of rich households in wealth surveys? Andrej Cupak (National Bank of Slovakia; Bratislava University of Economics and Business), Judita Jurašeková Kucserová (National Bank of Slovakia), Zuzana Brokešová (Bratislava University of Economics and Business), Boris Frankovič (Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic), Sofie R Waltl (University of Cambridge).
- US employment: Breakevens, benchmarking and blindspots. Jeremy Chiu, Daniel Wales (Fulcrum Asset Management).
Contributed session F: Methodology and new data sources
- A regionally disaggregated UK industry-to-industry payments dataset. Ross Nelson, Joseph Colliass, Keith Lai (Office for National Statistics).
- From reviews to real output: Using sentiment analysis to measure service quality. John Lourenze Poquiz (University of Cambridge, ESCoE).
- Bridging human rubrics and machine judgment: A framework for LLM-based evaluation systems. Ana Pastor-Merino, Xavier Martínez-Barbero, Pau Carles-Vega, Pablo de Pedraza, Josep Domenech (Universitat Politècnica de València).
Contributed session G: Productivity and innovation
- Skills and AI innovative ecosystems: Evidence from Brazilian microregions. Rafael de la Vega (UNU-MERIT), Florencia Jaccoud (UNU-MERIT), María de las Mercedes Menéndez (UNU-MERIT, WIPO), Cecilia Seri (UNU-MERIT), Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT, SPRU).
- Radical innovation and firm productivity growth. Francesco Venturini (University of Urbino).
- Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity: Early evidence from a small open economy. Iulia Siedschlag, Juan Duran Vanegas (Economic and Social Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin).
Contributed session H: Net zero, environment and welfare
- Expanded National Accounts for the environment. Laurence Bloch (CREST-ENSAE), Dominique Bureau (CAE (Economic Analysis Council)).
- Measuring welfare gains from digital variety: Evidence from app-level time use in China. Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University), Xijie Gao (Nanyang Technological University), David Nguyen (Stanford University, ESCoE).
- Progress and challenges in measuring the environmental economy and valuing nature’s economic contribution. Sophie Barrand, Sonia Carrera, Neil Wilson (Office for National Statistics).