DAY 1: | May 23, 2016. |
8:45 a.m. | Registration, BBVA Foundation, Madrid, Spain. |
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | First Plenary Session: ICT. Bart van Ark, Chair |
| Carol Corrado. ICT Prices and ICT Services: What Do They Tell Us about Productivity and Technology? (with David Byrne). [Related Paper] |
| Kyoji Fukao. Why Was Japan Left Behind in the ICT Revolution? (with Kenta Ikeuchi, Young-Gak Kim, and Hyeog Ug Kwon) |
| 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). |
| Matilde Mas. Looking for a Virtuous Pattern of Growth: Some Insights for the Discussion (with Eva Benages) |
11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break. |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Simultaneous Sessions. |
| Europe. Javier Quesada, Chair |
| Dariusz Kotlewski. KLEMS productivity accounts for the Polish economy (with Mirosław Błażej) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Ilya Voskoboynikov. Russia since 1995: Natural Gas, Catching Up, and Informality |
| Belen Zinni. Productivity Developments in Europe and the OECD |
| Asia KLEMS. K. L. Krishna, Chair |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) [Related Paper] |
| Katherine Keenan. Experimental Estimates of Industry Level KLEMS Multifactor Productivity, 2015. |
| 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) |
1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break. |
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Simultaneous Sessions. |
| LA KLEMS. Matilde Mas, Chair |
| Eduardo Fernandez-Arias. The Productivity Gap in Latin America: Lessons from Fifty Years of Development. |
| Francisco Guillen. Determinants of Productivity Growth for the Mexican Economy (with Pilar Garcia, Jesus Togno, Oscar Venzor, Alfredo Henestrosa, and Christian Avila) |
| Andre Hofman. Potential Growth in Latin America. (with Claudio Aravena) |
| Ariel Coremberg. This Was Not Argentina's Growth and Productivity Decade (with Marisa Wierny) |
| Human Capital. Andrew Sharpe, Chair |
| Michael S. Christian. Net Investment and Stocks of Human Capital in the United States, 1975-2013 |
| Barbara M. Fraumeni. Progress in Measuring Human Capital Around the World |
| Gang Liu. A Stylized Satellite Account for Human Capital. [Related Paper] |
| Lea Samek. The Impact of Health on Human Capital Stocks (with Mary O'Mahony) |
3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break. |
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Simultaneous Sessions. |
| US KLEMS. Brian Moyer, Chair |
| 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) [Related Paper] |
| 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) [Related Paper] |
| 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) |
| Mun S. Ho. Education, Participation, and the Revival of U.S. Economic Growth (with Dale W. Jorgenson and Jon D. Samuels) [Related Paper] |
| Intangible Capital. Susanto Basu, Chair |
| Wen Chen. Cross-Country Income Differences Revisited: Accounting for the Role of Intangible Capital |
| Cecilia Jona-Lasinio. Sources of Country-Sector Productivity Growth: Total Factor Productivity and Intangible Capital in the EU15 and the U.S. (with Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, and Massimiliano Iommi) |
| Mary O’Mahony. Measuring Educational Services and Social Infrastructure (Carol Corrado and Lea Samek) |
| Juan Fernandez de Guevara. Intangible Assets and Spanish Economic Growth (with Matilde Mas) |
7:00 p.m. | Meet for Walking Tour of Madrid. |
8:30 p.m. | Conference Dinner. |
DAY 2: | May 24, 2016 |
9:00 a.m. | Day 2 registration for all participants. |
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Simultaneous Sessions. |
| Global Value Chains. Ivo Havingha, Chair |
| Gaaitzen de Vries. Skills and Activity Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Trends and Drivers for Asia (with Quanrun Chen, Rana Hasan, and Zhigang Li) |
| Abdul A. Erumban. Global Growth Accounting: The Role of Shifting Investment Patterns (with Robert Inklaar and Klaas de Vries) |
| Marta Solaz. Value Added and Participation in Global Value Chains: The Case of Spain |
| Marcel P. Timmer. Peak Trade? An Anatomy of the recent Global Trade Slowdown (with Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, and Gaaitzen de Vries) |
| Measurement. Robin Sickles, Chair |
| Alicia M. Rambaldi. Vanishing Procyclicality of Productivity? Industry Evidence (with Antonio Peyrache) |
| Bert M. Balk. On Measuring Regional or Global Growth and Inflation (with D.W. Prasada Rao and Alicia M. Rambaldi) |
| Hak K. Pyo. Labor Productivity and a Test of Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law Using the World KLEMS Dataset |
| Christina Wang. Total Factor Productivity Has Become Much Less Correlated with Output as well as Inputs since the 1980s |
11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break. |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Final Plenary Session: Future Challenges. Dale Jorgenson, Chair |
| Francisco Perez. Measuring Progress in the Spanish Economy: A World KLEMS-IVIE Approach |
| Bart van Ark. The Future Development of EU KLEMS |
| Paul Schreyer. An OECD Agenda on Issues in Productivity Measurement |
| Marcel P. Timmer. Global Value Chain Research Going Forward |
1:00 p.m. | Lunch. |
| All participants in the World KLEMS Conference are invited to the following: |
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Open Session: Europe's Performance and Trends of the World Economy. |
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. | Presentation. Francisco Perez, Chair. |
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. | Keynote Speakers. |
| Dale W. Jorgenson. The World Economy: Performance and Outlook |
| Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo. Spanish Economy: How to Improve Productivity in the Current Environment |
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Round Table: The Future of Europe from an International Perspective |
| 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. - 8:00 p.m. | Discussion: Javier Quesada, Chair |
8:00 p.m. | Closing |