A series of seminars by ESCoE researchers and visiting academics on a wide ranging number of topics covering current research and future areas of study.
Forthcoming
Summer series 2018/19: usually on Tuesdays 16.30-17.30. These seminars will be held at the conference facilities at the ONS, Drummond Gate.
- 21 May: Joachim Winter (University of Munich) “Do the rich still save more if we use better data?” To book and for further details visit here.
- 04 June: Bart Los (University of Groningen and ESCoE)
- 18 June: Jeremy Rowe (Data Science Campus, Office for National Statistics)
Previous Research Seminars
- 12 March
by Leonard Nakamura (Emeritus Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) “Accounting for Growth in the Age of the Internet: The Importance of Output-Saving Technical Change” co-authored with Charles Hulten (University of Maryland and NBER) (slides, podcast)
- 26 February 2019
by Nicholas Oulton (ESCoE and LSE) “GDP is a Measure of Output, Not Welfare. Or, HOS meets the SNA” (slides)
- 12 February 2019
by Richard Heys (Office for National Statistics) “Bridging the gap between GDP and Welfare” (slides, podcast)
- 29 January 2019
by Martin Weale (King’s College London, ESCoE and Centre for Macroeconomics) and Andrew Aitken (NIESR and ESCoE) “A Democratic Measure of National Income Growth for the United Kingdom, 2006-2015. Methods and Estimates” (slides, podcast)
- 15 January 2019
by Thomas F. Crossley (University of Essex, ESCoE and the Institute of Fiscal Studies) “Regression with Imputed Dependent Variables” co-authored with Peter Levell (Institute for Fiscal Studies, ESCoE and University College London) and Stavros Poupakis (University College London) (slides, podcast)
- 11 December 2018
by Christopher Bollinger (University of Kentucky) “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Measurement Error, Nonresponse and Administrative Mismatch in the CPS“, co-authored with Barry T. Hirsch, Charles M. Hokayem, James P. Ziliak (slides)
- 27 November 2018
by Jagjit Chadha (NIESR) “Understanding and Confronting Uncertainty: Revisions to UK Government Expenditure Plans” (slides, paper, podcast)
- 13 November 2018
by Rachel Soloveichik (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) “Accounting for improved Brick and Mortar Shopping” (slides, podcast)
- 30 October
by Huw Dixon, Cardiff Business School “The Flexibility of German Manufacturing Prices 1980-2015: Micro and Macro Determinants“, co-authored with Christian Grimme, University of Munich (slides)
- 24 October 2018
by Jennifer Humphrys, Australian Bureau of Statistics “Development of a Labour Account to Improve Productivity Estimation” (slides, podcast)
- 16 October 2018
by Diane Coyle (Cambridge, ESCoE) and David Nguyen (NIESR, ESCoE) “Cloud Computing and National Accounting“(slides, podcast)
- 27 June 2018
by Paul Mizen, ESCoE and University of Nottingham; “The impact of Brexit on UK businesses: evidence from the Decision Maker Panel“, co-authored with Nick Bloom (Stanford and ESCoE) and Phil Bunn, Scarlet Chan, Pawel Smietanka, Greg Thwaites (Bank of England) (slides)
- 12 June 2018
by James Mitchell, ESCoE and University of Warwick; “Estimating High Frequency Regional Output Growth Using Mixed Frequency Methods” co-authored with Gary Koop, Stuart McIntyre and Aubrey Poon (slides, podcast)
- 29 May 2018
by Ivan Petrella, ESCoE and University of Warwick; “Inflation Dynamics and Price Flexibility in the UK” co-authored with Emiliano Santoro and Lasse de la Porte Simonsen (slides, podcast)
- 1 May 2018
by Martin Weale, ESCoE, Centre for Macroeconomics and King’s College, London; “A Democratic Measure of Income Growth“, co-authored with Andrew Aitken (slides, podcast)
- 13 March 2018
by Alexis Antoniades, Georgetown University-Qatar;”Distribution as Expenditure” co-authored with Robert Feenstra (Slides)
- 27 February 2018
presented by Nick Oulton, ESCoE and LSE; “Double Deflation: Theory and Practice” co-authored with A. Rincon-Aznar, L. Samek and S. Srinivasan (Slides, podcast)
- 13 February 2018
by Ana Galvao, ESCoE and University of Warwick; “Data Uncertainty and Business Cycles: An Evaluation of the Bank of England Backcasts” co-authored with James Mitchell (Slides , podcast)
- 30 January 2018
by Patrick Schneider, Bank of England; “Decomposing Differences in Productivity Distributions” (Slides)
- 16 January 2018
by Richard Heys, UK Office for National Statistics; “A Comparison of Approaches to Deflating Telecoms Services Output“, co-authored with Diane Coyle, Mo Abdirahman and Will Stewart (Slides)
- 30 June 2017
by Rachel Soloveichik, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; “Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement and Other Home-Produced Goods: Changes for Measured GDP and Housing Values”
