The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Centre for Applied Economic Research and the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) will hold a joint conference on 7-8 December 2026 at UNSW Sydney, Australia.  

This event is supported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the UK Office for National Statistics, the UNSW Business School and School of Economics, David Gruen, and Erwin and Virginia Diewert.  

Keynote speakers  

• Professor Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW Sydney and ESCoE)  
• Professor Rebecca Riley (King’s College London and ESCoE) 
• Dennis Fixler (George Washington University and US Bureau of Economic Analysis) 

Areas of particular interest include:   

• Digital economy
• Productivity
• Land and natural resources
• Difficult to measure sectors, such as finance, insurance and telecommunications
• Price indices
• Public sector productivity
• System of National Accounts 2025  

Scientific Committee Chairs:  

• Kevin Fox (UNSW and ESCoE)
• Avinash Collis (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Paul Schreyer (ESCoE)
• Jacqui Vitas (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 

Registration information: 

• Participants from ESCoE, ONS, UNSW or ABS should register using their work email address.
• Students should send evidence of student affiliation to info@escoe.ac.uk