The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Centre for Applied Economic Research and the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) held a joint conference on 8-9 December 2025 at UNSW Sydney, Australia.
This event was supported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the UNSW Business School and School of Economics.
The programme contained papers on many aspects of the measurement and use of economic statistics, including:
- Digital economy
- Productivity
- Land and natural resources
- Difficult to measure sectors, such as finance, insurance and telecommunications
- Price indices
- Public sector productivity
- System of National Accounts 2025
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Vipin Arora (Director, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)
- Catherine de Fontenay (Commissioner, Productivity Commission; President of the Economic Society of Australia)
- Quentin Grafton (Professor of Economics, Australian National University)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
- Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia UNSW and ESCoE)
- Kevin Fox (UNSW and ESCoE)
- Rebecca Riley (King’s College London and ESCoE)
- Michael Smedes (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
The programme is available here.
Catch up online
- All keynote talks and the plenary panel session were recorded.
- Interviews with keynote speakers are available.
- Slides are available where permission was given.
- You can also read more about the conference in this blog post.