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The Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER) holds several events each year. In this section you can find out more about upcoming events or download papers and programs from past events.

Past events

  • 25 November 2022 (Hybrid event)

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its泭twenty-second annual international workshop.

    The aim of the workshop is to create a genuine engagement between academics, statistical agency泭researchers, government policy makers and industry representatives from all around the world, leading to an improved understanding of economic measurement and the potential impact on policy.
  • Prospects for a Post-pandemic Productivity Boom

    11 November 2022 (Online event)

    Featuring a presentation by Chad Syverson (University of Chicago), this Workshop examines the potential for a post-pandemic productivity recovery, reversing the productivity slowdown experienced across industrialised countries since the mid-2000s.

  • November 26, 2021- Online Event

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research is hosting its泭twenty-first annual international workshop.

    The aim of the workshop is to create a genuine engagement between academics, statistical agency泭researchers, government policy makers and industry representatives from all around the world, leading to an improved understanding of economic measurement and the potential impact on policy.

  • October 29, 2021 - Online Event

    The Covid-19 pandemic and associated public health restrictions have泭significantly changed aspects of the economy.泭

    This泭Workshop泭presents papers which use innovative data sources and methods to gain a better understanding of the impact of the pandemic on the cost of living, the diet of different socioeconomic groups, and productivity.

  • September 24, 2021- Online Event

    The Covid-19 pandemic and associated public health restrictions have significantly changed aspects of the economy. These changes have challenged existing measures of economic activity.

  • November 27, 2020, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research is hosting its twentieth泭annual international workshop, supported by the UNSW Business School, the School of Economics and the Australian Research Council

  • February 13, 2020, Sydney Australia

    The泭Business Longitudinal Analysis Data Environment (BLADE)泭is an ABS microdata product that combines tax data from businesses with information from ABS surveys and other government sources to provide a comprehensive research base on Australian businesses and the economy.

  • December 5-6, 2019, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research is hosting its nineteenth annual international workshop, supported by the UNSW Business School, the School of Economics and the Australian Research Council.

  • November 29-30, 2018, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research is hosting its eighteenth annual international workshop, supported by the UNSW Business School, the School of Economics and the Australian Research Council.

  • December 1, 2017, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research is hosting its seventeenth annual international workshop, supported by the UNSW Business School, the School of Economics and the Australian Research Council.

  • December 2, 2016, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its sixteenth annual international workshop on December 2, 2016 at Theatre LG05, Tyree Energy Technologies Building (TETB), UNSW main campus. The event was supported by the UNSW Business School, the School of Economics and the Australian Research Council.

    Program

    EMG Workshop 2016 program

    Papers & presentations

    Paul Schreyer, OECD
    Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy

    Kevin Fox, UNSW
    The Digital Economy, GDP and Consumer Welfare

    Marcel van Kints, Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Enhancing Australias CPI

    Prasada Rao, University of Queensland
    Spatial Chaining and Weighted GEKS methods for International Comparisons of Prices and Real Expenditures

    Ken Clements, University of Western Australia
    Engels Law, Diet Diversity and the Quality of Food Consumption

    Yu (Eric) Sheng, ABARES
    Cross-regional Comparison of Agricultural TFP in Australian Broadacre Industry: Climate Change and Its Impact

    Derek Burnell, Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Productivity Growth Cycles at Industry Level

    Erwin Diewert, UBC & UNSW
    Decomposing Value Added Growth Over Sectors into Explanatory Factors

  • September 6, 2016, Sydney Australia

    The Real Estate Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its second annual Real Estate Symposium on September 6, 2016 at the Tyree Room, Scientia Conference and Events Centre, John Niland Scientia building, UNSW main campus. The event was supported by the UNSW Business School, RF Capital and the Australian Research Council.

    Program

    Real estate Symposium 2016 Program

    Papers & presentations

    Fred Hilmer, Professor and former Vice Chancellor, UNSW
    Competition Policy and Real Estate

    Tim Lawless, Research Director, Asia Pacific, CoreLogic
    The Outlook for Sydney Dwelling Values: Affordability, Supply Levels and Rental Markets

    Peter Jolly, Global Head of Research - Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Product & Markets, National Australia Bank
    How Overpriced are Australian Dwellings? An application of Tobins q

    Glenn Otto, UNSW Business School
    How Connected are Australias Major Housing Markets?

    Alicia Rambaldi, University of Queensland
    The Value of Urban Land: Tax Revenue and Beyond

    Nigel Stapledon, UNSW Business School
    Options for Value Capture

  • December 4, 2015, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its 15th annual international workshop on泭December 4, 2015泭at the Pioneer International Theatre, UNSW Conference and Residential Centre, AGSM Building, UNSW main campus. The event was supported by the UNSW Business School, the School of Economics and the Australian Research Council.

    Program

    EMG Workshop 2015 program

    Papers & presentations

    Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and UNSW
    "Output Growth and Inflation across Space and Time"

    Carl Obst, University of Melbourne
    Completing the Picture: Bringing Ecosystem Services into MFP

    Ulrich Kohli, University of Geneva
    "Explaining Total Factor Productivity"

    Cameron Dark, UNSW
    Optimal Inflation Measures for Targeting under Sectoral Heterogeneity

    Amani Elnasri, UNSW
    Assessing Adequacy of Knowledge Capital Investment

    Owen Gabbitas, Productivity Commission
    Reconciling Projected Capital Deepening with Historical Estimates

  • January 30, 2015, Sydney Australia

    The Health Economic Group of the Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER) held its 12th annual Summer Workshop on泭January 30, 2015泭at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

  • September 8, 2015, Sydney Australia

    The Real Estate Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its inaugural annual Real Estate Symposium on September 8, 2015 at the Boral Lecture Theatre, UNSW Conference and Residential Centre, AGSM Building, UNSW main campus. The event was supported by the UNSW Business School, RF Capital and the Australian Research Council.

    Program

    Papers & presentations

    Luci Ellis, Head of Financial Stability, Reserve Bank of Australia
    Property Markets and Financial Stability: What We Know So Far

    David Rees, Regional Director & Head of Research Australasia, JLL
    Three Unresolved Problems in Commercial Real Estate

    Stephen McNabb, Head of Research, CBRE - Australia Research
    Capital Attraction the Rise of Australia as an Investment Destination

    Nigel Stapledon, CAER - UNSW Business School
    Rent-Price Ratios in Sydney and Melbourne LGAs 1986-2014

    Harley Dale, Chief Economist, Housing Industry Association
    Gauging Demand and Supply Balance in the Australian Housing Market

    Maggie Hu, UNSW Business School
    Cultural Distance and House Prices: the Australian Market

    Glenn Otto, UNSW Business School
    Explosive Behaviour in Australian Housing Markets: Rational bubbles or not?

    Warwick Jones, Director, Bureau of Infrastructure Transport and Regional Economics
    Globalisation and the Effects on Australian Housing Markets

  • December 5, 2014, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its fourteenth annual international workshop on泭December 5, 2014泭at the Pioneer International Theatre, UNSW Conference and Residential Centre, AGSM Building, UNSW main campus.

    Program

    EMG Workshop 2014 program

    Papers &泭presentations

    Paul Schreyer, Deputy Director of Statistics, OECD
    The OECD Inclusive Growth Framework: First Results and Plans for the Future

    Ulrich Kohli, University of Geneva
    Who Gains Most from Trade?

    Yu (Eric) Sheng, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
    Cross-country Consistent Estimation of Agricultural Productivity: The Superlative vs. the Quantity-based Index Approach

    Kevin Fox, UNSW 硃紳餃泭Erwin Diewert, UBC & UNSW
    Money and the Measurement of Total Factor Productivity

    Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands & Delft University of Technology
    Accounting for Spatial Variation of Land Prices in Hedonic Imputation House Price Indexes

    Glenn Otto, UNSW
    "The Elasticity of Housing Supply in NSW"

    Nigel Stapledon, UNSW
    Capital City Price-to-Rent Ratios in Australia - An In-depth Look at Melbourne

  • August 6, 2014, Sydney Australia

    Professor Richard Holden, co-director of the CAER Law & Economics Initiative, has won the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Panel B award for Early Career Research. In celebration of this great achievement the Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER) at UNSW in conjunction with the ASSA organized a public lecture event on August 6th 2014. At this event Professor Holden brilliantly presented an interesting lecture on New Perspectives on the Law and Economics of Elections.
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  • January 31, 2014, Sydney Australia

    The CAER Health Economics Group held its 11th Summer Workshop in the Economics of Health and Ageing on泭31 January 2014泭at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach, Sydney.

  • November 28-29, 2013, Sydney Australia

    The Economic Measurement Initiative of the Centre for Applied Economic Research hosted its thirteenth annual international workshop on November 28-29, 2013 at The Sebel Peir One, Dawes Point, Sydney. The event was supported by the UNSW Business School, Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Productivity Commission and the Australian Research Council.

    Program

    EMG Workshop 2013 Program

    Papers & presentations

    Marshall Reinsdorf,泭U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
    A Test of Hedonic Price Indexes for Imports

    Iqbal Syed, UNSW
    Hedonic Price Indexes for High Tech Products

    Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College Business School
    Constructing a Price Deflator for R&D: Calculating the Price of Knowledge Investments as a Residual

    Dan Sichel, Wellesley College
    Is the Information Technology Revolution Over?

    • Presentation

    Wojciech Szewczyk, European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies and Russel Cooper, UNSW, Canberra
    The Ubiquitous Internet, ICT Productivity and Household Economic Welfare

    Cristian Rotaru泭硃紳餃泭Franklin Soriano, Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Flexible Working Arrangements, Collaboration, ICT, and Innovation: A Panel Data Analysis

    • Background paper泭
    • Presentation

    Jason Potts, RMIT University 硃紳餃泭Stuart Cunningham, QUT
    Digital Media and Content Industries: A study of the impact on household production

    Emili Tortosa-Ausina, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
    Banking Integration Indicators: Is Full Integration Desirable?

    • Presentation

    Prasada Rao, University of Queensland
    Purchasing Power Parities, Price Levels and Measures of Regional and Global Inflation

    • Background paper泭
    • Presentation

    Derek Burnell泭硃紳餃泭Ken Ren, Australian Bureau of Statistics

    Measuring Natural Resources for Australias Mining Indust

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    Kenneth Clements, University of Western Australia
    Understanding New Resource Projects

    Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands and Delft University of Technology
    Online Data, Fixed Effects and the Construction of High-Frequency Price Indexes

    Chihiro Shimizu, Reitaku University
    Separating the Age Effect from a Repeat Sales Index: Land and structure decomposition

    • 泭Background paper
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    Robert Hill泭硃紳餃泭Michael Scholz, University of Graz
    Incorporating Geospatial Data into House Price Indexes: A Hedonic Imputation Approach with Splines

  • January 31, 2013, Sydney Australia

    The Health Economic Group of the Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER) held its tenth annual Summer Workshop on January 31 and February 1, 2013 at the Coogee Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sydney.