Day 1: March 9, 2021

New York:   8-11 a.m.
Santiago: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
London: 1-4 p.m.
Brussels: 2-5 p.m.
India: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Beijing: 9 p.m.-12 a.m.
Japan: 10 p.m.-1  a.m.
Sydney: 12 a.m.-3 a.m.
SESSION 1 (1:20 hours)
PLENARY SESSION #1: Impact of COVID 19 on Productivity -- Chair: Bart van Ark
Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites
The impact of Covid-19 on productivity
Matt Russell and Jay Stewart
U.S. Productivity and the COVID-19 Pandemic
John Fernald & Huiyu Li
COVID and potential output
Bart van Ark, Klaas de Vries and Abdul Erumban
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on productivity dynamics by industry: A Comparison between France, UK and USA
SESSION 2 (1:20 HOURS)
EU KLEMS #1 -- Chair: Nicholas Oulton
Latin America KLEMS #1 -- Chair: Eduardo Fernández-Arias
Nicholas Oulton
Measuring Productivity: theory and British practice
Alberto Vindas and Carlos Chaverri
Technological Differences in Costa Rica
Robert Stehrer
Capital productivity measures: Definitions, availability, and relation to labour productivity dynamics
Nicolas Grosman, Kevin Russell and Jaana Remes
Latin American missing middle
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Valentina Meliciani, and  Silvia Sopranzetti
Organizational capital and global value chain participation: strengthening productivity growth in the digital age
Wulong Gu and André Hofman
Sectoral PPP in Latin American countries
Elodie Andrieu and Mariagrazia Squicciarini
Job resilience, skill demand and the covid-19 crisis: evidence from online job postings
Eva Benages and Matilde Mas
Knowledge Based Capital in Latin America