ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2025 – Contributed sessions

Public Sector Management Practices Survey (2023) pilot: Comparing public and private sector management practices: Ellis Daniel, Ryan O'Rourke, Thomas Wickersham, Sumit Dey-Chowdhury (Office for National Statistics).

Thinking outside the box: Unpuzzling the UK’s productivity performance by looking outside the national accounts: Cliodhna Taylor, Richard Heys (Office for National Statistics).

AI-generated production networks: Measurement and applications to global trade: Prashant Garg (Imperial College London), Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick), Peter Lambert (LSE), Bennett Feld (LSE).

Is the rise in sickness on the UK Labour Force Survey due to proxy responses or survey mode? : Ben Geiger (King's College London), Josh Martin (King's College London, Bank of England, ESCoE).

Coal phaseout and local jobs : Michel Serafinelli (King's College London, ESCoE), Daniela Sonedda (University of Insubria).

House Price Indexes: A comparison of repeat sales and other multilateral methods : Jan de Haan (ESCoE, Delft University of Technology), Rob van de Laar (Statistics Netherlands).

Price similarity, spatial chaining and international comparisons of prices and real incomes :Reza Hajargasht (Griffith University), Robert Hill (University of Graz), Prasada Rao (University of Queensland), Sriram Shankar (Monash University).

To adjust or not to adjust: The seasonal adjustment of UK CPI and CPIH : Huw Dixon (Cardiff University), Monica Michail (NIESR).

Comparing the consumer surplus from a representative basket of digital and traditional goods :Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University), Avi Collis (Carnegie Mellon University), Sophia Kazinnik (Stanford University), David Nguyen (Stanford University).

Measuring sustainable economic progress in the UK: Insights from Inclusive Wealth and its components since 2005-2022 : Himanshi Bhardwaj, Cliodhna Taylor (Office for National Statistics).

Intangibles and productivity mismeasurement: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions : Aaron Putseys (KU Leuven), Gert Bijnens (National Bank of Belgium), Jozef Konings (KU Leuven, Nazarbayev University GSB, CEPR).

Innovation investment by global economies: New results from the Global INTANInvest Database : C. Corrado (Georgetown University), F. Bontadini (LUISS), C. Fink (WIPO), A. Grewal (WIPO), J. Haskel (Imperials College London), M. Iommi (LUISS), F. Jaccoud (LUISS), C. Jona-Lasinio (LUISS), S. Wunsch-Vincent (WIPO).

Which products are traded in your supply chain and how do they score on risk indicators? : Oscar Lemmers, Khee Fung Wong, Tom Notten, Leen Prenen, Dennis Dahlmans (Statistics Netherlands).

In hot water: Clarifying the price effects of Brexit: Joris Hoste, Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge).

Transforming the UK’s Input-Output Analysis Tables- from a complex Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to a user-friendly and non-technical online tool: Marianthi Dunn, (Office for National Statistics).

A systemic review of ONS’s economic statistics: Ed Humpherson, Rob Kent-Smith, Jonathan Price, (Office for Statistics Regulation).

The Decision Maker Panel: A user's guide: Philip Bunn (Bank of England), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Alice Crundwell (Bank of England), Sami Khan (Bank of England), Craig Menzies, (Bank of England, King's College London), Paul Mizen (King's College London), Molly Sculthorpe (University of Leeds), Krishan Shah (Bank of England), Gregory Thwaites (University of Nottingham), Ivan Yotzov (Bank of England).

Mixed Frequency Functional VARs for nowcasting the income distribution in the UK: Andrea De Polis (University of Strathclyde, ESCoE), Stuart McIntyre (University of Strathclyde, ESCoE), Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde, ESCoE), James Michtell (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleaveland, ESCoE).

Productive screentime: Kevin Fox (UNSW Sydney, ESCoE), Carmit Schwartz (UNSW Sydney, ESCoE), John Lourenze Poquiz (King's College London, ESCoE), Avinash Collis (Carnegie Mellon University).

Green investment and productivity dynamics: Cecilia Jona Lasinio (LUISS Business School), Ettore Gallo (University of Parma), Benedetta Samoncini (Ministry of Economy and Finance).

Digitalization and Productivity Growth Slowdown in Production Networks: Ali Sen (University of Cambridge).

Developing UK supply chain data From interbank payment systems transactions: Joseph Colliass Dragos Cozma, Keith Lai (Office for National Statistics).

Monitoring structural changes over time in skills supply and shortages: Soumili Basu, Ben Hayes, Gueorguie Vassilev (Office for National Statistics).

The convergence of occupations: Evidence from online job posts: Alexis Antoniades (Georgetown University), Emmanouil Chatzikonstantinou (Georgetown University), Mohammed Shahmeer Ahmad (Qatar Computational Research Institute).

Estimating geographical retail markets from card spending data:Samir Doshi (Competition and Markets Authority), Jakob Schneebacher (Competition and Markets Authority, King's College London, ESCoE), Vicky Hoolohan (Office for National Statistics), Tabitha Lewis (Swansea University).

Labour demand obtained through online job adverts data collection: Ben Hayes, Gueorguie Vassilev (Office for National Statistics).

A nonparametric approach to the measurement of aggregate markups and productivity: Erwin Diewert (UBC, UNSW Sydney, ESCoE, NBER), Kevin Fox (UNSW Sydney, ESCoE).

Water accounting in the UK: Methods and initial results: Joe Grice (King's College London, ESCoE), Paul Ekins (University College London, ESCoE), Alice Bartolini (University College London, ESCoE), Vittoria Reas (University of Siena, ESCoE).

Developing ONS's environmental business surveys to measure a changing economy: improving the understanding of direct and indirect activity in the green economy: Chris Jones, Neil Wilson (Office for National Statistics).

Unslicing the pie: AI innovation and the labor share in European regions: Francesco Venturini (University of Urbino).

New measures of demand for digital technical skills: An analysis across UK regions: Mary O'Mahony , Patrick Serberis (King's College London).

Polarization of opportunity: Pedro Salas-Rojo (LSE), Vanesa Jordá (University of Cantabria), Paolo Brunori (LSE, Università di Firenze).

Issues in measuring defence output: A review: Ron Smith (Birkbeck, University of London).

Accounting for latent quality of output in stochastic frontier analysis: Theory and application to hospital efficiency analysis: Bao Hoang Nguyen (The University of Queensland), Robin Sickles (Rice University),Valentin Zelenyuk (The University of Queensland).

New medical treatments, quality improvements and public health measures in the National Accounts: The effects of the Diabetes Prevention Programme: Martin Weale (King's College London and ESCoE).

The disability pay gap: Exploring the role of the firm using linked data: John Forth (Bayes Business School, IZA, ESCoE), Melanie Jones (Cardiff Business School, IZA).

Ethnic gaps in female labour force participation in the UK: Cigdem Gedikli (Swansea University), Gurleen Popli (The University of Sheffield), Okan Yilmaz (Swansea University).

Remote work and compensation inequality: Gianni De Fraja (University of Nottingham, CEPR), Jesse Matheson (University of Sheffield), James Rockey (University of Birmingham), Shivani Taneja (University of Kent), Gregory Thwaites (University of Nottingham).

The capital gains conundrum: Robert Cairns (McGill University).

Uncovering hidden innovators: Combine administrative and big data to develop comprehensive measures of firms’ innovation: Enrico Vanino (University of Sheffield, ONS), Laura Haddock (ONS).

Management practices and the adoption of technology and artificial intelligence in UK firms : Rabiya Nasir, Kenadid Valent, Oliver Schnabel, Tom Wickersham (ONS).