Wednesday, July 6th
8:00 AM
Coffee
8:50 AM
Makedonia WelcomePericles A. MitkasAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Konstantinos KarfakisUniversity of Macedonia
9:00 AM
MakedoniaKeynote Address 1
Chair: 
Stephen Spear, Carnegie Mellon UniversityMeasuring GDP in the Digitalised EconomyPaul Schreyer, OECD
10:00 AM
 Coffee Break
10:30 AM
Session A
Byzantio I
How Best to Measure Hedonic Property Price Indexes
Chair: 
Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
 
 
Quantile Regressions and the Decomposition of House Price DistributionsYongheng DengNational University of Singapore
Chihiro Shimizu, National University of Singapore
Xiangyu GuoNational University of Singapore
Daniel McMillenNational Univesity of Singapore
How Best to Measure Hedonic Property Price IndexesMick Silver, retiredDeveloping Land and Structure Price Indexes for Ottawa Condominium ApartmentsKate Burnett-IsaacsStatistics Canada
Ning HuangStatistics Canada
Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
Hedonic Regression Models for Tokyo Condominium Sales
Chihiro Shimizu, National University of Singapore
Erwin Diewert, 
University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
 
Session B
Byzantio II
New Developments in the Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity
Chair: 
Apostolos Serletis, University of Calgary
 
 
Estimation of Technical Change and Price Elasticities: A Categorical Time-varying Coefficient ApproachGuohua FengUniversity of North Texas
Xiaohui ZhangMurdoch University
Flexible Productivity Analysis with Nonparametric Panel Data Models using Penalized SplinesGholamreza HajargashtUniversity of Melbourne
Prasada RaoUniversity of Queensland
Another Explanation of Labour Productivity ChangeChristopher O’DonnellUniversity of Queensland
Measuring Total Factor Productivity in International Production ChainsMarcel TimmerUniversity of Groningen
 
Session C
Makedonia
Monetary Policy and Wholesale Finance
Chair: 
Gaetano Antinolfi, Washington University at St. Louis
 
 
Securities Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance IndustryBorghan NarajabadThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Nathan Foley-FisherThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Stephane VeraniThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Bond Market Liquidity and the Role of RepoYesol HuhThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Sebastian BilbaoThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Network of Large-Value Loans in the U.S.: Concentration and SegregationAndon BadevThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Francesca CarapellaThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Garth BaughmanThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Competitive Search in Money Markets and Implementation of Monetary PolicyFrancesca CarapellaThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Garth BaughmanThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
 
Session D
Olyumpiada
Measurement Issues in Health Economics
Chair: 
Ernst Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
 
Prices and Spending of Medical Treatment after Physician Consolidation with Health Systems: Outpatient Prescription Drug-based Cancer CareRena M. ContiUniversity of Chicago
Mary Beth LandrumHarvard Medical School
Mireille JacobsonUniversity of California at Irvine
Government Free Riding in Medical ResearchMargaret KyleMINES Paris Tech
David RidleyDuke University
Su ZhangDuke University
Trends in the Costs of Outsourced R&D: Evidence from Clinical Trials
SlidesErnst R. BerndtMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Iain M. CockburnBoston University and NBER
Digitization and Innovation in Medical TechnologyAriel Dora Stern, Harvard Business School
12:30
 Conference Lunch
2:00
 
Session A
Makedonia
Financial Services Indices, Economic Activity and Liquidity
Chair: 
Jane Binner, University of Birmingham
 
 
Multi-stage Learning of US Price Levels Using Forecasts from Sluggish State-based Neural NetworksJane BinnerUniversity of Birmingham
Jonathan TepperThe Nottingham Trent University
Divisia Money and the Stock Market: Evidence from Structural VAR ModelsWenjuan ChenFree University of Berlin
Dieter NautzFree University of Berlin
Superlative Index Numbers and Revealed Preference Rankings
PaperJames SwoffordUniversity of South Alabama
Gerald WhitneyUniversity of New Orleans
Per HjertstrandResearch Institute of Industrial Economics
What Can We Learn From Country Level Liquidity in the EMUMakram El ShagiHenan Univeristy
Logan KellyUniversity of Wisconsin at River Falls
 
Session B
Byzantio II
Productivity Change – Measurement, Decomposition and Analysis
Chair:
 Bert M. Balk, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Dissecting Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Change: Additivity and MisallocationBert M. BalkRotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Decomposing Value-added Growth Over Sectors Into Explanatory FactorsKevin J. FoxUniversity of New South Wales
Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
Wage-productivity Growth Gap: An Analysis of Industry DataAbdul ErumbanThe Conference Board
Klaas de VriesThe Conference Board
The Multiprod Project: Building a Cross-country Analysis of Productivity Using Official Firm-level DataGiuseppe BerlingieriOECD and ESSEC Business School
Patrick BlanchenayOECD and University of Toronto
Chiara CriscuoloOECD
4:00
 Coffee Break
 

Thursday, July 7th
8:00 AM
Coffee
9:00
MakedoniaKeynote Address 2
Chair: 
Warren Young, Bar Ilan UniversityTheory in the Age of Big Data
SlidesPaperStephen E. SpearCarnegie Mellon University
10:00
 Coffee Break
10:30
Session A
Makedonia
Nowcasting and Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables: Theory and Practice
Chair: 
Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
 
 
Weighted-Covariance Factor Decomposition of VARMA Models for Forecasting Macroeconomic DataPeter A. ZadroznyU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Baoline ChenBureau of Economic Analysis
Predicting Belgium’s GDP Using Targeted Bridge ModelsChristophe PietteNational Bank of Belgium
Norges Banks System for Short-term Forecasting of Macroeconomic VariablesAnne Sofie JoreNorges Bank
Knut Are AastveitNorges Bank
Francesco RavazzoloFree University of Bozen
Claudia ForoniNorges Bank
Adaptive Learning and Survey Expectations of InflationSergey SlobodyanNRU HSE St Petersburg and CERGE-EI, Prague
Raf Wouters, National Bank of Belgium
 
Session B
Byzantio I
How Rich are our Measurements of Household Wealth?
Chair: 
Arthur Kennickell, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
 
 
From the Household to the Data Point: Measuring Private Wealth Within the HFCSPirmin FesslerAustrian Nationalbank
Verena Halsmayer
Our Research is Frittered Away at the Tails: The Extremes of the Distribution of Wealth in Cross-country ComparisonsSebastien Perez DuarteEuropean Central Bank
Robin Chakraborty
The Concentration of Wealth: Evidence from Five Data SourcesFacundo AlvaredoParis School of Economics
Sensitivity of Wealth and Income MeasurementsJesse BrickerThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
 
Session C
Byzantio II
Topics in Applied Economics and Growth
Chair
: Constantinos Katrakilidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 
 
An Asymmetric Cointegration Analysis of Crude Oil Prices – Carbon Emissions RelationshipEleni ZafeiriouDemocritus Unniversity of Thrace
Nikolaos SariannidisTechnological Education Institute of West Macedonia
Constantinos KatrakilidisAristotle University of Thessaloniki
What Do Convergence-measures Really Indicate?Grigoris ZarotiadisAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Global and Local Price Co-movement in EU Pork Markets:An Empirical Analysis with Kernel-based Multivariate CopulasPanos FousekisAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Vasilis GrigoriadisAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Price Transmission in the Swedish Pork Chain: New Evidence from Asymmetric ARDL modelingKostas KarantininisSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Constantinos Katrakilidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Konstantinos Karfakis
University of Macedonia
Morten PerssonLund University
 
Session D
Olyumpiada
Search and Bargaining in Markets
Chair: 
Dakshina de Silva, Lancaster University
 
 
Gasoline Price Wars: Spatial Dependence AwakensMichael PolemisUniversity of Piraeus
Konstantinos EleftheriouUniversity of Piraeus
Project Modifications and Bidding in Highway Procurement AuctionsDakshina de SilvaLancaster University
Timothy DunneFederal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Georgia KosmopoulouUniversity of Oklahoma
Carlos LamarcheUniversity of Kentucky
Free Riding on the Search of Others: Search Spillovers in the Mortgage MarketGeorge DeltasUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zening LiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An Experimental Test of the Lucas Asset Pricing ModelSean CrockettBaruch College, City University of New York
John DuffyUniversity of California at Irvine
12:30
 Executive Committee LunchElectra Palace Excelsior Room
 
Conference Lunch
2:00
Session A
Makedonia
International Comparisons
Chair:
 Prasada Rao, University of Queensland
 
 
Space-Time (In)Consistency in the National Accounts: Causes and CureNicholas OultonLondon School of Economics
Rebasing Maddison: New Relative Prices and the Shape of Long-run Global DevelopmentRobert InklaarUniversity of Groningen
Jutta BoltUniversity of Groningen
Herman de JongUniversity of Groningen
Jan Luiten van Zanden
University of Groningen
Spatial Variation in Prices: Cross Country Price, Welfare and Poverty ComparisonsAmita Majumder,Indian Statistical Institute
Ranjan RayMonash University
Sattwik SantraCentre for Studies in Social Sciences
Standard Errors and Reliability Measures for International Price and Real Income ComparisonsD.S. Prasada RaoUniversity of Queensland
Gholamreza HajargashtUniversity of Melbourne
 
Session B
Byzantio I
Intangible Capital
Chair: 
Leonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 
 
Valuing ‘Free’ Media in GDP: An Experimental Approach
Paper
SlidesLeonard NakamuraFederal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Jon SamuelsBureau of Economic Analysis
 Modeling Intangible Investment in a Macro-econometric FrameworkFabio BacchiniISTAT
Cecilia Jona-LasinioIstituto Nazionale di Statistica
An Experimental Human Capital Satellite Account for CanadaWulong GuStatistics Canada
Ryan MacdonaldStatistics Canada
Incorporating Health into Measures of Human Capital StocksMary O’MahonyKing’s College
Lea SamekKing’s College
 
Session C
Byzantio II
Efficiency/Productivity Analysis at the Aggregate Level
Chair: 
Giannis Karagiannis, University of Macedonia
 
 On Aggregating Efficiency and Productivity Indicators
PaperGiannis KaragiannisUniversity of Macedonia
Rolf FareOregon State University
Shawna GrosskopfOregon State University
Productivity Growth in Network Models: An Application to Banking During the Financial Crisis
PaperNikolaos TzeremesAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Stavros KourtzidisAristotle University of Thessaloniki
A Decomposition of US Business Sector TFP Growth into Technical Progress and Inefficiency Components
PaperKevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
Industry Inefficiency Measures: A Unifying Approximation PropositionPaperAntonio PeyracheUniversity of Queensland
Hien Thu PhamUniversity of Queensland
 
Session D
Olyumpiada
Money and the Economy
Chair: 
Apostolos Serletis, University of Calgary
 
 
Monetary Policy and Leverage ShocksApostolos SerletisUniversity of Calgary
Khandokar IstiakUniversity of South Alabama
The Zero Lower Bound and Market Spillovers: Evidence from the G7

Evangelos Kyritsis
,Norwegian School of Economics
Apostolos Serletis
University of Calgary
Separable Monetary Aggregates: An Investigation of Weak and Additive Separability for the Euro Zone
Per HjertstrandInstitutet for Naringslivsforskning
Barry JonesBinghampton University
Livio StraccaEuropean Central Bank
A New Interpretation of Money Growth Targeting and the Monetarist ExperimentJohn KeatingUniversity of Kansas
Andrew Lee SmithFederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

6:00
 Conference DinnerMeet buses at hotel6:00 PM – 12:30 AM

Friday, July 8th
9:00 AM
Coffee
10:00
MakedoniaKeynote Address 3
Chair: 
Paul Schreyer, OECDClimate Change Around the WorldAnthony A. SmithYale University
11:00
 Coffee Break
11:30
Session A
Makedonia
Advances in Economic Measurement at the Center for Financial Stability
Chair: 
William A. Barnett, University of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability
 
 
Chinese Divisia Monetary Index and GDP NowcastingBiyan TangUniversity of Kansas
William A. BarnettUniversity of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability
Construction of Divisia Monetary Aggregates for Mexico: Methods and SourcesRyan MattsonWest Texas A&M University and the Center for Financial Stability
Tino FraustoWest Texas A&M University
Nowcasting Nominal GDP with the Credit-Card Augmented Divisia Monetary AggregatesWilliam A. BarnettUniversity of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability
Marcelle ChauvetUniversity of California at Riverside
Danilo Leiva-LeonCentral Bank of Chile
Liting SuUniversity of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability
Why CFS Divisia Matters
SlidesLawrence GoodmanPresident, Center for Financial Stability
 
Session B
Byzantio I
Intangibles In The Public Sector: The SPINTAN project
Chair: 
Matilde Mas, University of Valencia and IVIE
 
 
Estimating Public Intangibles in Real TimeFabio Bacchini IstatISTAT
Roberto IannacconeISTAT
Spillovers to Public IntangiblesCecilia Jona-LasinioIstituto Nazionale di Statistica
Carol CorradoThe Conference Board
Jonathan HaskelImperial College Business School
A Methodology for Disentangling Public Funded R&D (GBAORD) by IndustriesJuan FernandezUniversity of Valencia and IVIE
Matilde MasUniversity of Valencia and IVIE
Eva BenagesUniversity of Valencia and IVIE
Education as Social InfrastructureMary O’MahonyKing’s College
Carol CorradoThe Conference Board
Lea SamekKing’s College
 
Session C
Byzantio II
Contemporary Studies in Economic Measurement
Chair: 
Nuray Terzi, Marmara University
 
 
Oil Prices and Trade Balance: A Wavelet Based Analysis for TurkeyNuray TerziMarmara University
Sadullah CelikMarmara University
Measuring Price Differentiation in Provinces of TurkeyEmel BaydanMarmara University
Survival Maximizing Leverage of an Economy: The Case of GreeceHaluk YenerKadir Has University
Thanasis StengosGuelph University
Ege YazganKadir Has University
The Link Between Capital Flows and Some Financial Variables for an Emerging Market of TurkeyEmel OdabasiMarmara University
1:30
 Conference Lunch1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
2:30
MakedoniaKeynote Address 4
Chair: 
William A. Barnett, University of Kansas and Center for Financial StabilityHow Milton Friedman Became a MonetaristGeorge Tavlas, Bank of Greece
3:30
 Coffee Break
4:00
Session A
Olyumpiada
New Economic Measurement Issues
Chair: 
Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada
 
 
Technical Change and Rising Living Standards: Innovation Affects More than GDPCharles HultenUniversity of MarylandLeonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
New Technology Indicator for Technological ProgressWendy LiBureau of Economic Analysis
Sources of Country-sector Productivity Growth: Total Factor Productivity and Intangible Capital in the EU15 and the US.Jonathan HaskelImperial College London
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica
Massimiliano IommiISTAT and LUISS Lab
Calculating Domestic Price Indexes: The Role of Producer Price Indexes, Import Price Indexes, and Export Price Indexes
SlidesRachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Jon SamuelsBureau of Economic Analysis
 
Session B
Byzantio II
Transcending Traditional Measurement
Chair: 
Arthur Kennickell, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
 
 
Digital, Global, Fast, Complex: Finance has Changed Radically. What Does that Mean for Measurement?Francis GrossEuropean Central Bank
Standards and Business DataKarla McKennaInternational Organization for Standardization
Francois LaurentEuropean Central Bank
Measuring New Business Formation Using Administrative DataKimberly N. BayardThe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Building a U.S. National Mortgage Database: Linking Administrative, Commercial and Survey DataRobert AveryFederal Housing Finance Administration
 
Session C
Byzantio I
The Measurement of Productivity: Problems and Solutions
Chair: 
Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
 
 
Has the Labour Share Declined?Paul SchreyerOECD
Taehyoung Cho,
Soobin Hwang
The Productivity of Financial Service ProvidersDennis FixlerBureau of Economic Analysis
Kimberly ZieschangUniversity of Queensland
Natural Resources and Cross-Country Income DifferencesRobert InklaarUniversity of Groningen
Daan FreemanUniversity of Groningen
Alternative User Costs, Rates of Return and TFP Growth Rates for the US Nonfinancial Corporate and Noncorporate Business Sectors: 1960-2014Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and University of New South Wales
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
Session D
Makedonia
Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance
Chair: 
Fredj Jawadi, University of Evry Val d’Essonne
 
 
Oil Volatility and Exchange Rate Jumps: An Intrady AnalysisFredj JawadiUniversity of Evry Val d’Essonne
Hachmi Ben AmeurINSEEC Business School
Wael LouhichiESSCA School of Management
Karim Idi CheffouEDC Paris Business School
Debt Deflation, Financial Market and Regime Change – Evidence from Europe using MRVAR
PaperSlidesAlexander HaiderNew School for Social Research
Willi SemmlerNew School for Social Research
Ekkehard ErnstInternational Labor Organization
Capital Control, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Monetary Policy: Indeterminacy and BifurcationJingxian HuUniversity of Kansas
William A. BarnettUniversity of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability
Taylor Rules, Instability, and the Liquidity TrapAntoine Parent, Sciences Po, Lyon
Francesco MagrisUniversite de Tours
Antoine Le RicheAix-Marseille School of Economics
 
 Coffee Break