Presentations

Invited Discussant: NBER/CRIW Conference on Technology, Productivity, and Economic

Growth; 17-18 March 2022.

Invited Speaker: Australian Bureau of Statistics and Reserve Bank of Australia joint Conference on Economic Implications of the Digital Economy; 9-10 March 2022.

Invited Speaker: UK Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence; 10 February 2022.

Plenary Speaker: Productivity Inequality, North American Productivity Workshop, 7-11 June

2021.

Keynote Speaker: :Price Index Measurement during Pandemics: What have we learnt from Covid19?" UK ESWG and Cemmap Conference on Prices; 28 – 29 May 2021

Measuring Real Consumption and CPI Bias under Lockdown Conditions, United Nations, webinar, 21 October 2020.

Synthesis of Methods and Preferred Approaches, Improving Cost-of-Living Indexes and Consumer Inflation Statistics in the Digital Age, US National Academy of Sciences, webinar, 7 October 2020.

Measuring Real Consumption and CPI Bias under Lockdown Conditions, UK Economic Statistics, Centre of Excellence, London, webinar, 28 May 2020

Measuring Real Consumption and CPI Bias under Lockdown Conditions, Reserve Bank of

Australia, webinar, 14 May 2020.

Environmental valuation

Primary industry productivity measurement

Ministry of Primary Industries, Wellington, 7 February 2020.

Productivity measurement in a world with economic goals of productivity, sustainability and inclusiveness - Round table discussion

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Wellington, 5 February 2020

Prices (new data and methods in price index measurement);

National accounts/Productivity (measurement challenges in the wake of the digital economy)

Statistics New Zealand, Wellington, 5 February 2020.

The Digital Economy, Welfare and Productivity Growth - Guest Lecture

New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, 4 February 2020.

Lessons from BLADE

Incorporating the environment into total factor productivity accounting - Round table discussion

Firm-level data research - Round table discussion

Productivity decomposition and frontier firms - Round table discussion

New Zealand Productivity Commission, Wellington, 3-4 February 2020

“The Digital Economy, Welfare and Productivity Growth”

Statistics Netherlands, The Hague, 16 May 2019.

“The Digital Economy, Welfare and Productivity Growth”

“The Productivity Slowdown”.

“Scanner Data in CPI Measurement”

Statistics Norway, Oslo, 13-14 May 2019.

“Experimental Economics and the New Commodities Problem”

Joint with W. Erwin Diewert and Paul Schreyer.

ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement

Kings' College, London, 8-10 May 2019.

“The Digital Economy, Welfare and Productivity Growth”

UK Office for National Statistics, Newport, Wales, 2 May 2019.

2019 Reserve Bank of Australia Conference, “Low Wage Growth”,

Sydney, 4- 5 April 2019.

“The Digital Economy, GDP and Consumer Welfare: Theory and Evidence"

The Sixth IMF Statistical Forum

Washington DC, IMF HQ2, 19-20 November, 2018.

"What do we know about the productivity slowdown?"

OECD Global Forum on Productivity

Ottawa, 28-29 June 2018.

"Industry Level Value Added and Productivity Decompositions"

North American Productivity Workshop

University of Miami, 12-15 June 2018.

"The Digital Economy, New Products and Consumer Welfare"

ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement

London, Bank of England, 16-17 May 2018.

“The Digital Economy, GDP and Consumer Welfare”

NBER Summer Institute, CRIW Workshop, Cambridge MA, 17-18 July 2017.

“The Contribution of Research & Innovation to Productivity”

UCL Institute of Education, London, 22 June 2017.

“Decomposing Value Added into Explanatory Factors”

EWEPA 2017, London 12-15 June.

“Money and the Measurement of Total Factor Productivity”

Financial Services Indices, Liquidity and Economic Activity Conference, Financial Resilience Research Centre and Bank of England, London, 23-24 May 2017.

“Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services in Productivity Measurement”

Department of Economics

McGill University, 12 May 2017.

“Substitution Bias in Multilateral Methods for CPI Construction using Scanner Data”

Department of Economics, Penn State University, 8 May 2017.

“Competition, Innovation and Productivity”

Australian Law and Economics Association National Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 4 November 2016.

“Global productivity trends: good news or bad?”

Shaping the Next Decade: Economic trends in the Global Economy,

Australian Treasury and Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis

Australian National University, August 22-23, 2016.

“The User Cost of Non-renewable Resources and Green Accounting”