| First Day, Monday, May 23: |
| 8:45 a.m. |
Registration, BBVA Foundation, Madrid, Spain. |
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| 9:30 a.m. |
ICT |
Chair: Bart van Ark |
| Carol Corrado |
ICT Prices and ICT Services: What Do They Tell Us about Productivity and Technology? (with David Byrne) |
Slides |
Kyoji Fukao |
The Structural Causes of Japan's Lost Decades |
Slides |
Chi-Yuan Liang |
Total Factor Productivity Changes in the ICT Industry: An International Comparison among the U.S., Japan, Korea and Taiwan during 1981 to 2010 (with Ruei-He Jheng) |
Slides |
Matilde Mas |
Looking for a Virtuous Pattern of Growth: Some Insights for the Discussion (with Eva Benages) |
Slides |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Coffee break |
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| 11:30 a.m. |
Simultaneous Sessions |
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| Session One: |
Europe |
Chair: Javier Quesada |
| Dariusz Kotlewski |
KLEMS productivity accounts for the Polish economy (with Mirosław Błażej) |
Slides |
| Isabelle Remond-Tiedrez |
Development of a Quality-Adjusted Labor Productivity Index in the European Union (with Jose M. Rueda-Cantuche, Antonio Amores Hernandez, Marian Mraz, Pedro Martins-Ferreira, and Juan M. Valderas Jaramillo) |
Slides |
| Antonio Amores Hernandez |
Methodology for the Estimation of Capital Productivity Indicators in the European Union (with Jose M. Rueda-Cantuche, Isabelle Remond-Tiedrez, and Letizia Montinari) |
Slides |
| Ilya Voskoboynikov |
Russia since 1995: Natural Gas, Catching Up, and Informality |
Slides |
| Belen Zinni |
Productivity Developments in Europe and the OECD |
Slides |
| Session Two: |
Asia KLEMS |
Chair: K. L. Krishna |
| Hyunbae Chun and Tsutomu Miyagawa |
Declining Rate of Return on Capital and the Role of Intangibles in Japan and Korea. (with Hak Kil Pyo, Miho Takizawa, and Konomi Tonogi) |
Slides |
| Kyoji Fukao |
Measurement of Deflators and Real Value Added in the Service Sector. (with Taesuke Kameda, Koto Nakamura, Ryuich Namba, Masahiro Sato, and Shigeru Sugihara) |
Slides |
| B. N. Goldar and Suresh Agarwal |
Productivity Growth and Levels: A comparison of Formal and Informal Manufacturing in India (with Deb Kusum Das, Abdul Azeez Erumban, and Pilu Chandra Das) |
Slides |
| Katherine Keenan |
Experimental Estimates of Industry Level KLEMS Multifactor Productivity, 2015 |
Slides |
| Deb Kusum Das and Harry Wu |
How do Asian Giants China and India Compare towards Industry-Level Productivity? (with K. L. Krishna, and Abdul Azeez Erumban) |
Slides |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| 2.00 p.m. |
Simultaneous Sessions |
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| Session Three: |
LA KLEMS |
Chair: Matilde Mas |
| Eduardo Fernandez-Arias |
The Productivity Gap in Latin America: Lessons from Fifty Years of Development |
Slides |
| Francisco Guillen |
Determinants of Productivity Growth for the Mexican Economy (with Pilar Garcia, Jesus Togno, Oscar Venzor, Alfredo Henestrosa, and Christian Avila) |
Slides |
| Andre Hofman |
Potential Growth in Latin America. (with Claudio Aravena) |
Slides |
| Ariel Coremberg |
This Was Not Argentina's Growth and Productivity Decade (with Marisa Wierny) |
Slides |
| Session Four: |
Human Capital |
Chair: Andrew Sharpe |
| Michael S. Christian |
Net Investment and Stocks of Human Capital in the United States, 1975-2013 |
Slides |
| Barbara M. Fraumeni |
Progress in Measuring Human Capital Around the World |
Slides |
| Gang Liu |
A Stylized Satellite Account for Human Capital |
Slides |
| Lea Samek |
The Impact of Health on Human Capital Stocks (with Mary O'Mahony) |
Slides |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
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| 4.00 p.m. |
Simultaneous Sessions |
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| Session Five: |
US KLEMS |
Chair: Brian Moyer |
| Erich H. Strassner |
Extended Supply-Use Tables in Basic Prices with Firm Heterogeneity: A Proof of Concept for the United States (with James J. Fetzer, Thomas F. Howells III, Lin Z. Jones, and Zhi Wang) |
Slides |
| Jon D. Samuels |
Associates Degrees, the Quality of the U.S. Workforce, and the Sources of U.S. Economic Growth (with Ross Gittell and Edinaldo Tebaldi) |
Slides |
| David B. Wasshausen |
Integrating GDP by Industry with Interindustry Accounts for the United States (with Thomas F. Howells III, Amanda S. Lyndaker, and Erich H. Strassner) |
Slides |
| Mun S. Ho |
Education, Participation, and the Revival of U.S. Economic Growth (with Dale W. Jorgenson and Jon D. Samuels) |
Slides |
| Session Six: |
Intangible Capital |
Chair: Susanto Basu |
| Wen Chen |
Cross-Country Income Differences Revisited: Accounting for the Role of Intangible Capital |
Slides |
| Cecilia Jona-Lasinio |
Sources of Country-Sector Productivity Growth: Total Factor Productivity and Intangible Capital in the EU15 and the U.S. |
Slides |
| Mary O’Mahony |
Measuring Educational Services and Social Infrastructure (Carol Corrado and Lea Samek) |
Slides |
| Juan Fernandez de Guevara |
Intangible Assets and Spanish Economic Growth (with Matilde Mas) |
Slides |
| 5:30 p.m. |
End of day one |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Meet for Walking Tour of Madrid |
| 8:30 p.m. |
Conference Dinner |
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| Second Day: Tuesday, May 24:
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| 9:30 a.m. |
Simultaneous Sessions |
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| Session Seven: |
Global Value Chains |
Chair: Ivo Havingha |
| Gaaitzen de Vries |
Skills and Activity Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Trends and Drivers for Asia (with Quanrun Chen, Rana Hasan, and Zhigang Li) |
Slides |
| Abdul A. Erumban |
Global Growth Accounting: The Role of Shifting Investment Patterns (with Robert Inklaar and Klaas de Vries) |
Slides |
| Marta Solaz |
Value Added and Participation in Global Value Chains: The Case of Spain |
Slides |
| Marcel P. Timmer |
Peak Trade? An Anatomy of the recent Global Trade Slowdown (with Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, and Gaaitzen de Vries) |
Slides |
| Session Eight: |
Measurement |
Chair: Robin Sickles |
| Alicia M. Rambaldi |
Vanishing Procyclicality of Productivity? Industry Evidence (with Antonio Peyrache) |
Slides |
| Bert M. Balk |
On Measuring Regional or Global Growth and Inflation (with D.W. Prasada Rao and Alicia M. Rambaldi) |
Slides |
| Hak K. Pyo |
Labor Productivity and a Test of Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law Using the World KLEMS Dataset |
Slides |
| Christina Wang |
Total Factor Productivity Has Become Much Less Correlated with Output as well as Inputs since the 1980s |
Slides |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Plenary Session |
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Final Plenary Session: Future Challenges |
Chair: Dale Jorgenson |
| Francisco Perez |
Measuring Progress in the Spanish Economy: A World KLEMS-IVIE Approach |
Slides |
| Bart van Ark |
The Future Development of EU KLEMS |
Slides |
| Paul Schreyer |
An OECD Agenda on Issues in Productivity Measurement |
Slides |
| Marcel P. Timmer |
Global Value Chain Research Going Forward |
Slides |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
| Program |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Presentation |
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Opening Remarks |
Francisco Perez (chair) |
| 5:15 p.m. |
Keynote Speech |
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The World Economy: Performance and Outlook" |
Dale Jorgenson |
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Keynote Speech |
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Spanish Economy: How to Improve Productivity in the Current Environment |
Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo |
| 6:15 p.m. |
Round Table: The Future of Europe from an International Perspective |
| Panel List |
Speakers |
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| Matilde Mas |
The EU Productivity Gap |
| Angel Melguizo |
Latin American Economic Outlook: Overcoming the Middle Income Trap |
| Bart van Ark |
Are Emerging Economies Still Emerging? |
| Kyoji Fukao |
China's Slowdown and the Expected Impact on Japan's Economy: An Analysis Based on the World Input‐Output Database (WIOD) |
| Marcel P. Timmer |
European Competitiveness in Value Chains |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Discussion |
Chair: Javier Quesada |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Closing |