The World KLEMS initiative has been set up to promote and facilitate the analysis of growth and productivity patterns around the world, based on a growth accounting framework. By sharing information and knowledge through conferences and workshops, the World KLEMS consortium is committed to bring this work forward and help it to establish a firm grounding in the (inter)national statistical systems. To date, seven World KLEMS conferences have been held at locations around the world. In addition regional KLEMS conferences are held around the world at irregular intervals.
The Asia KLEMS committee is pleased to make an announcement for the 6th Asia KLEMS Conference, which is being organised in partnership with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The conference will be held on 12-13 June 2023 at the scenic hill station of Lonavala, approximately 100 km (2 hours’ drive) southeast of Mumbai, India.
The main theme of the Conference is Productivity, Growth, and Resilience in the Asian economies, and the paper submissions are invited on the following topics including, but not limited to:
Keynote address:
Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India.
Speakers for the Plenary sessions:
Barbara M, Fraumeni, National Bureau of Economic Research, United States
Prof. Bart Van Ark, Managing Director, The Productivity Institute, The University of Manchester
Prof. Hak K. Pyo, Professor Emeritus, The Faculty of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Prof. Kyoji Fukao, Hitotsubashi University, and RIETI, Tokyo, Japan
Panel discussion on issues relevant to productivity in Asian economies: experts from market, policymakers, economists, and RBI officials.
Deadline for paper submission extended to December 23, 2022
The seventh conference of World KLEMS was held on 12-13 October 2022 at the University of Manchester, hosted by The Productivity Institute at the Alliance Manchester Business School. The conference hosted about 100 participants, 4 plenary sessions and 12-18 parallel sessions, an opening keynote and a dinner speech, accommodating between 60 and 80 papers.
This conference was an in-person event, starting with an evening reception on October 11th.
Tuesday 11 October 2022Location: Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), Joining Information |
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| 14:45-15:00 |
Coffee and tea |
'The Mill', in the AMBS |
| 15:00-18:00 |
Tribute session for Professor Dale JorgensonZoom link, passcode: 589199 |
Room: Penthouse |
| Short presentations on Dale’s contributions to KLEMS Productivity and Growth Accounting | ||
| Personal memories from KLEMS community | ||
| 18:00-20:00 | Reception and informal dinner | 'The Mill', in the AMBS |
Day 1, Wednesday 12 October 2022Location: Core Technology Facility, 46 Grafton St, Joining Information |
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Opening Session Zoom link, passcode: 366806 |
Dalton Room |
| Opening Remarks | Bart van Ark | |
| Keynote: Investment and Productivity | Jonathan Haskel, presentation | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Break | 'The Street', outside Dalton Room |
| 10:15-12:15 | Plenary session 1: Digital and Intangibles | Chair: Barbara Fraumeni, Dalton Room |
| Are digital-using UK firms more productive? | Diane Coyle, Kieran Lind, David Nguyyen and Maneul Tong, presentation | |
| Are Intangibles Running out of Steam? | Bart van Ark, Klaas de Vries and Abdul Erumban, presentation | |
| Discussion | Cecilia Jona-Lasinio | |
| Declining Capital Formation in Japan and the Role of Intangibles: Empirical Studies Using Industry-level Data | Tsutomu Miyagawa, and Takayuki Ishikawa, presentation | |
| Organizational capital, ICT and productivity in the digital age | Filippo Bontadini, C. Jona-Lasinio, Giuseppe Nicoletti, presentation | |
| Discussion | Marcel Timmer | |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch | 'The Street', outside Dalton Room |
| Meeting World KLEMS Programme Committee | Bart van Ark | |
| 13:15-15:15 | 3 Parallel Sessions (4 papers each) | |
| EU KLEMS | Chair: Filippo Bontadini, Innovation room | |
| Why is productivity slowing down? | Ian Goldin, Pantelis Koutroumpis , François Lafond, and Julian Winkler, presentation | |
| Productivity and structural change: Cross-country evidence | Ana Rincon Aznar, and Julian Winkler, presentation | |
| Discussion | Nick Oulton, presentation | |
| Working in an immaterial world: intangible assets and the Supply and Demand for skilled labour | Mary O'Mahony, Kate Robinson and Michaela Vecchi, presentation | |
| Productivity Growth and Spillovers across European Industries: A Global Value Chain Perspective Based on EURO KLEMS | Weilin Liu, Qian Cheng, and Robin Sickles, presentation | |
| Discussion | Martin Fleming | |
| Japan/China/Russia KLEMS | Chair: Abdul Erumban, Dalton room | |
| Alternative Measures for Chinese and Japanese Productivity Growth | Erwin Diewert, Koji Nomura and Chihiro Shimizu, presentation | |
| Secular Stagnation of Labor Productivity and Real Wage in Japan: An Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database 2021 and Firm/Establishment-Level Data | Kyoji Fukao,Kenta Ikeuchi, Tomohiko Inui, YoungGak Kim, HyeogUg Kwon, Tatsuji Makino, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Shinji Tahara, and Joji Tokui | |
| Intermediate goods and Russian growth in 2003-2018 | Eduard Baranov, Dmitri Piontkovski, Aleksandr Roskin, Anton Tolokonnikov, and Ilya Voskoboynikov | |
| Discussion | Abdul Erumban | |
| Effects of Innovation and ICT on Structural Change and Productivity Growth: Insights from the latest KLEMS Dataset | Khuong Vu | |
| Discussion | Andre Hofman, presentation | |
| Physical Capital | Chair: Jon Samuels, Rutherford room | |
| Analysis of capital related productivity indicators disseminated by Eurostat | Veronique Deneuville, Nadia Di Veroli, and Christine Gerstberger, presentation | |
| Spanish capital stock at the regional level. Methodology and (some) results | Matilde Mas, and Christine Gerstberger, presentation | |
| Discussion | Wulong Gu, presentation | |
| A Sensitivity Analysis of Capital and MFP Measurement to Asset Depreciation Patterns and Initial Capital Stock Estimates | Pierre-Alain Pionnier , María Belén Zinni, and Kéa Baret, presentation | |
| North Korea’s Economic Growth Revisited with New Capital Estimates | Hak Kil Pyo, Taehyoung Cho, and Minjung Kim, presentation | |
| Discussion | Mun Ho | |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break | 'The Street', outside Dalton Room |
| 15:30-17:30 | 2 Parallel Sessions (4 papers each) | |
| COVID | Chair: Bart van Ark Dalton room | |
| Updated US BEA-BLS Integrated Industry-level Production Account: analyzing sources of growth between the COVID recession and the Great Recession | Corby Garner, Justin Harper, Mathew Russell, and Jon Samuels, presentation | |
| COVID Scarring and Sustainable Recovery Challenges: A Production Function Approach | S. Ghosh, P. Gopalakrishnan and Debojyoti Mazumder, presentation | |
| Discussion | Tsutomo Miyagawa | |
| Taxes, Subsidies, and Productivity Measurement in the Covid Era | Corby Garner, Randy Kinoshita, Susan Powers, and Jill Janocha Redmond, presentation | |
| Covid-19 Pandemic and Total Factor Productivity in the Quarterly Model of Korea (2012-2021) | Hak Pyo, Keunhee Rhee, Yoojin Bin, Yongcheol Shin, presentation | |
| Discussion | Matthew Russell, presentation | |
| LA KLEMS | Innovation room | |
| PPPs and Relative Productivity Levels in Latin America: Evidence from the LA KLEMS Productivity Level Database | Tomás Gálvez, Wulong Gu, and André Hofman, presentation | |
| Knowledge-Based Capital and Economic Development in Latin America, 1990 - 2016 | Andre Hofman, presentation | |
| Discussion | Ana Rincon-Aznar, comments Gu, comments Hofman | |
| The KLEMS experience in Mexico and its impact at the national level | Francisco Guillén, presentation | |
| Technological differences in Costa Rica | Pablo Slon Montero and Alberto Vindas Quesada, presentation | |
| Discussion | Andre Hofman, presentation | |
| 18:00-21:00 | Reception and Dinner | Location: The Whitworth Art Gallery |
| Dinner talk: Economic Statistics for Excellence: What has ESCoE taught us? | Rebecca Riley | |
Day 2, Thursday 13 October 2022, Core Technology FacilityLocation: Core Technology Facility, 46 Grafton St, Joining Information |
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| 9:00-10:30 | Plenary session 2: Measurement (3 papers) | Chair: Mary O'Mahony, Dalton Room |
| Comparing productivity growth across databases | Reitze Gouma, and Robert Inklaar, presentation | |
| The Divisia approach to measuring output and productivity: with an application to the BEA-BLS integrated industry-level production account, 1987-2020 | Nicholas Oulton, presentation | |
| Latest developments in OECD work on Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) tables | Colin Webb, presentation | |
| Discussion | Jon Samuels | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | 'The Street', outside Dalton Room |
| 10:45-12:15 | 2 Parallel sessions (3 papers each) | |
| India KLEMS | Chair: Kyoji Fukao, Dalton room | |
| Determinants of Total Factor Productivity Growth: Sectoral Evidence from India KLEMS | Bishwanath Goldar, Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay, Siddhartha Nath, Sreerupa Sengupta and Pilu Chandra Das, presentation | |
| The role of market services in India's post-reform economic growth | Pilu Chandra Das, Samiran Dutta, and Bishwanath Goldar | |
| Labour productivity in India: An analysis of regional and sectoral sources | Abdul A. Erumban, S. K. Chattopadhyay, H. Behera, S. Sengupta, S.Joshi, and S. Aggarwal, presentation | |
| Discussion | Khuong Vu | |
| Global productivity | Chair: Mun Ho, Innovation room | |
| The sources of productivity convergence: sectors and structural change | Robert Inklaar and Ryan Marapin, presentation | |
| Sectoral Decomposition of Convergence in Labor Productivity: A Re-examination from a New Dataset | Alistair Dieppe, and Hideaki Matsuoka, presentation | |
| Intersectoral Implications for Construction Productivity | Saumik Paul and Kunal Sen | |
| Discussion | Barbara Fraumeni, presentation | |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch | 'The Street', outside Dalton Room |
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Tribute session Deb Kusum Das Zoom link, passcode: 610820 |
Abdul Erumban (organiser), presentation | |
| 13:15-14:45 | 2 Parallel Sessions (3 papers each) | |
| Measurement applications | Chair: Abdul Erumban, Dalton room | |
| Technology, Long-Term Growth, and Economic Measurement | Martin Fleming, presentation | |
| Measuring the value of free digital goods | John Lourenze Poquiz, presentation | |
| Hours of Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Labor Productivity Measures | Sabrina Pabilonia, Drake Palmer, and Jay Stewart, presentation | |
| Discussion | Corby Garner, presentation | |
| Human Capital | Innovation room | |
| Health Human Capital and Its Contribution to Economic Growth | Wulong Gu, presentation | |
| Country Human Capital and Total Wealth | Kenan Karakulah and Stefanie Onder, presentation | |
| Human Capital Growth - with region and gender in perspective | Gang Liu, Barbara Fraumeni, and Shunsuke Managi, presentation | |
| Discussion | Mary O'Mahony, and Shunsuke Managi, presentation | |
| 14:45-15:00 | Break | 'The Street', outside Dalton Room |
| 15:00-17:00 | 2 Parallel Sessions (4 papers each) | |
| Micro applications | Chair: Tsutomo Miyagawa, Innovation room | |
| Using ONS firm-level survey data sources for the UK to compute firm-level markups | Russell Black, presentation | |
| The impact of migration on regional productivity in Australia | Jasper Hesse, and Cem Özgüzel, presentation | |
| Discussion | Rebecca Riley | |
| European business dynamism, firm responsiveness, and the role of market power and technology | Filippo Biondi, Sergio Inferrera, Matthias Mertens, and Javier Miranda, presentation | |
| Evaluation of R&D subsidies in the case of industry-specific technology stocks with spill-overs | Dirk Verwerft, presentation | |
| Discussion | Francesco Venturini, comments Miranda, , comments Verwerft | |
| Regional | Chair: Andre Hofman, Dalton room | |
| A comprehensive approach to understanding urban productivity effects of local governments | Dylan Jong, Alexandra Tsvetkova, Alexander C. Lembcke, and Rudiger Ahrend, presentation | |
| Regional Labor Input Price Gaps Across the U.S. | Jon Samuels and Mun Ho, presentation | |
| Discussion | Tony Venables | |
| Transition probabilities, wages and regional human capital stocks | Augustin DeCoulon, Larrisa Marioni and Mary O'Mahony, presentation | |
| Do mass lay-offs affect regional economies? | Wessel Vermeulen, and Nils Braakmann, presentation | |
| Discussion | Raquel Ortéga-Argiles | |
| 17:00 | Close of Conference | |
| Posted Papers (not on agenda) | ||
| Micro-Growth Accounting (MGA) | Victor Elias | |
| Why Do We Observe a Regional Balassa-Samuelson Effect? | Joji Tokui | |
Questions regarding the conference can be sent to:
The Asia KLEMS committee invites papers for the Sixth Asia KLEMS Conference, “Productivity, Growth, and Resilience in the Asian economies”, to be held at the scenic hill station of Lonavala, southeast of Mumbai, India, on June 12-13, 2023. Authors are invited to submit Extended Paper Abstracts by November 30, 2022. More information.
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