Day 1
Contributed session A: Ecosystems and energy
- Measuring and valuing Australia’s ecosystems. Jonathan Khoo, Koenraad Van Landeghem (Australian Bureau of Statistics).
- Improving energy hardship metrics for prepayment electricity customers – further exploration of the ‘Right to power: Keeping people connected in remote communities’ project. Thomas Longden (Western Sydney University).
Contributed session B: Macroeconomics I
- Macroeconomic impact of the remote work revolution. Petr Sedlacek (UNSW Sydney).
Contributed session C: Housing
- Improving housing price inflation statistics: Developing methods and using new data sources. Aimee North (UK Office for National Statistics).
- Nowcasting transaction-based house price indices using web-scraped listings and MIDAS regression. Luke Hartigan (The University of Sydney), Radoslaw Trojanek (Poznań University of Economics and Business), Norbert Pfeifer, Miriam Steurer (University of Graz).
Contributed session D: Firms
- Evidence on productivity growth from Value Added Tax data for UK companies, 2006-2024. Russell Black (ESCoE, King’s College London and Department for Business and Trade, UK).
Contributed session E: Macroeconomics II
- The aggregate consequences of default risk: Evidence from firm-level data. Peter John Lambert, Tim Besley (London School of Economics), Isabelle Roland (Bank of England), John Van Reenen (London School of Economics).
- The macroeconomic effects of AI uncertainty. Juan Reyes (ESCoE and King’s College London).
Contributed session F: Labour
- Measuring effective searchers with quantity indexes. Martin McCarthy (Reserve Bank of Australia).
- The construction of an experimental gender-based account for Australia. Ting Li (Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sports and the Arts), Mary Farrugia (Department of Health, Disability and Ageing).
- The changing nature of work: What can we learn from Time Use Diaries? Rebecca Riley (ESCoE and King’s College London), Francesca Foliano (Stockholm School of Economics and ESCoE), Lynsey Brown (UK Office for National Statistics).
Day 2
Contributed session G: Productivity
- Trade and productivity in British firms: 2005 to 2022. Kyle Jones (UK Office for National Statistics), Christina Palmou (Office for National Statistics and ESCoE).
- Financial development and rural transformation: Evidence from county-level data in China. Yu Sheng (Australian National University).
Contributed session H: Prices I
- Constructing price indexes from web-scraped data: Clustering versus hedonic regression. Kevin Fan (Australian Bureau of Statistics), Jan de Haan (ESCoE).
- Model-based multilateral methods for estimating quality-adjusted price indexes. Jan de Haan (ESCoE).
Contributed session I: Digital
- Measuring the consumer benefits of digital technologies and AI. Avinash Collis (Carnegie Mellon University).
Contributed session K: Prices II
- Why is Japan’s Engel Coefficient the highest in the world? An international comparison of food prices using price-to-income data. Yasuyuki Komaki (Osaka University of Economics).
Contributed session L: Topics in measurement
- The large-scale estimation of flexible preferences: Examining the gains from product variety. Daniel Melser (Monash University).