UNSW-ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2024 – Slides

Bang for the buck: Aggregate impact of firm level R&D incentives. Marek Ignaszak (Goethe University of Frankfurt).

Aggregate productivity decompositions using structural business survey data: Evidence from the UK. Russell Black (King’s College London and ESCoE), Rebecca Riley (King’s College London, ESCoE and TPI) and Garry Young (ESCoE).

Productivity and quality of multiproduct firms. Shengyu Li (UNSW Sydney).

Extension methods for multilateral price indices and the return of chain drift. Bert M. Balk (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

Understanding the quality change implied by multilateral price indexes. Frances Krsinich (Statistics New Zealand).

Constructing price indexes from webscraped data: Clustering versus hedonic regression. Jan de Haan (ESCoE and Delft University of Technology).

• Geographic wage premia. Nick Garvin and Aaron Wong (e61).
• Teacher location and sorting. Silvia Griselda and Jack Buckley (e61).
• Same-sex teacher effects in education. Alexandra de Gendre and Nicolás Salamanca (University of Melbourne).

• Beyond the CPI: Analytical measures of inflation. Leigh Merrington (Australian Bureau of Statistics).
• Measuring inflation at high frequency using scanner data. Robert Hill (University of Graz and ESCoE), Daniel Melser (Monash University) and Alicia Rambaldi (University of Queensland).
• Product churn and the GEKS-Törnqvist Price Index: The “Feenstra Adjustment”. Jan de Haan (ESCoE and Delft University of Technology) and Frances Krsinich (Statistics New Zealand).

Real-time business dynamism. Yannis Galanakis (King’s College London, ESCoE and TPI) and Anthony Savagar (University of Kent and ESCoE).

Tracking weekly activity using new data sources. Andrea De Polis (University of Strathclyde and ESCoE), Ana Galvão (Bloomberg Economics, CEPR, Warwick and ESCoE) and Ivan Petrella (University of Warwick, CEPR and ESCoE).

Developing large-scale financial transactions data for economic measurement: The case of the UK. Keith Lai, Vicky Hoolohan and Joseph Colliass (ONS, UK).

Towards an Australian monthly CPI. Leigh Merrington and Jason Atkinson (Australian Bureau of Statistics).

E-commerce price index prediction with time series mining and automated machine learning. Carmelita Esclanda-Lo, Gabriel Masangkay and Chelsea Anne Ong (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas).

A tale from submarkets: Investigating macroeconomic drivers in Greater Sydney through region-specific indices. Owen Wei Jin (UNSW Sydney).

Firms' price-setting behaviour: Insights from earnings calls. Callan Windsor and Max Zang (Reserve Bank of Australia)

On markups and financial constraints. Antonio Andres Bellofatto and Begona Dominguez (University of Queensland), Patrick Elkington (Reserve Bank of Australia) and Alicia N. Rambaldi (University of Queensland).

A nonparametric approach to the measurement of aggregate markups and productivity. Kevin J. Fox (UNSW Sydney and ESCoE) and Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW Sydney and ESCoE).

Advancing the measurement of UK public services output and productivity: Methodological progress and future directions. Grant Fitzner, Deb Prestwood, Richard Heys, Katherine Kent, James Lewis and Sara Zella (Office for National Statistics, UK).

Improving digital services measurement in Australia’s National and International Accounts. Tom Lay (Australian Bureau of Statistics).

Regional variation in capital depreciation rates in the UK. Josh Martin (King’s College London and ESCoE).

Minding Ps and Qs of Natural Capital Accounting: Sorting out prices and sustainability concepts. Carl Obst (IDEEA).

Environmental accounting and the treatment of property insurance. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW Sydney and ESCoE).

Discussant: Paul Schreyer (former OECD Chief Statistician and ESCoE).

An experimental “Linked Account” consisting of Australia’s digital economy and health activity. Ting Li (Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts) and Mary Farrugia (Department of Health and Aged Care).

Productivity of tax collection in the UK, 1850 to 2019. Josh Martin (King’s College London and ESCoE).

Systematic insights into the economics of AI research. John Lourenze Poquiz (King’s College London and ESCoE) and Lucy Hampton (University of Cambridge).

Theory-consistent international comparisons: Nonparametric indices and welfare bounds. Hubert Wu (University of Oxford).

Inclusive income accounts: Practical measures to go beyond GDP. Richard Heys and Cliodhna Taylor (Office for National Statistics, UK).

Household consumption in the SNA: Accounting for different prices and choice sets across regions. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW Sydney and ESCoE), Naohito Abe, Akiyuki Tonogi and Chihiro Shimizu (Hitotsubashi University).