OECD Workshop on Productivity, 5-6 November 2012, Paris

Monday 5 November

Welcome and opening remarks, OECD
Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer

Session 1: Productivity and the crisis: challenges for policy makers
Chair: Giuseppe Nicoletti, Economics Department, OECD

• Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College Business School), "Intangibles and the current recession"
• Gilbert Cette (Banque de France), "Labour market adjustements during the crisis: The role of working time arrangements"
• Jumana Saleheen (Bank of England), "UK labour productivity since the onset of the crisis - an international and historical perspective"
• Miguel Cardoso Lecourtois (BBVA Research), "The recovery of productivity in Spain during the crisis: is it sustainable?"

Session 2: The determinants of productivity and the role of policy
Chair: Dirk Pilat, OECD

Keynote address: Chad Syverson (University of Chicago Booth School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research), "What determines productivity?"

Session 3: Innovation, knowledge-based capital and productivity growth: new
developments and the role of policy
Chair: Mariagrazia Squicciarini, OECD

• Christos Genakos (Athens University of Economics and Business), "Does management matter for productivity?"
• Kyoji Fukao (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University), "Intangible investment and productivity growth in Japan"
• Mark de Haan (CBS, Statistics Netherlands), "The incorporation of intangibles in the Dutch growth accounts"

Session 4: Productivity and competitiveness in a globalised world: measurement and
policy challenges
Chair: Nadim Ahmad, OECD

• Matteo Bugamelli (Bank of Italy), "The effects of exports and imports: the case of Italy"
• Gaaitzen de Vries (University of Groningen), "Job dynamics and Global supply chains"
• Robert Inklaar (University of Groningen), "Offshoring bias in manufacturing growth across advanced and emerging countries"
• Giuseppe Nicoletti (OECD), "Do lower tariffs on foreign intermediate inputs raise productivity?"  

Tuesday 6 November

Session 5: Challenges for productivity measurement
Chair: Alessandra Colecchia, OECD

• Eric Bartelsman (Free University Amsterdam), "Productivity: measurement and cross-country comparisons"
• Matilde Mas (Universitat de València), "Measuring productivity in the public sector"
• Mark Vancauteren (Hasselt University and Statistics Netherlands), "Measuring productivity growth under alternatives of the standard neoclassical set of assumptions"
• Anita Wölfl (OECD), "Productivity measurement - key challenges"

Session 6: The role of natural assets and the environment for productivity
Chair: Robert Dellink, OECD

• Vera Zipperer (OECD), "Integrating natural resources and undesirable outputs into MFP measurement"
• Taehyoung Cho (Bank of Korea), "The impact of introducing land into Korea's capital services measures"
• Eldon Ball (Economic Research Service, USDA), "Productivity and growth: U.S. agriculture, 1948-2009"

Concluding Remarks