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 8-9 December 2025 at UNSW Sydney, Australia. 

This event is supported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the UNSW Business School and School of Economics.  

Keynote speakers 

• Catherine de Fontenay (Commissioner, Productivity Commission; President of the Economic Society of Australia) 
• TBC 

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: 

• Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia, UNSW and ESCoE) 
• Kevin Fox (UNSW and ESCoE) 
• Rebecca Riley (King’s College London and ESCoE) 
• Michael Smedes (Australian Bureau of Statistics)