Opening remarks

Mario Marcel, Governor, Central Bank of Chile.

Keynote address

Mary Bohman, Acting and Deputy Director, US Bureau of Economic Analysis, BEA.

The need for timely official statistics: the pandemic as a driver for innovation.

Bert Kroese, Deputy Director-General, Statistics Netherlands.

Measuring Real Activity Using a Weekly Economic Index.

Daniel Lewis, Senior Economist, Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

High frequency tax information for tracking retail: challenges and applications.

Joaquín Pérez, Economist, Macroeconomic Statistics, Central Bank of Chile.

Tracking Daily Retail Trade of Large Companies. (CDMGE)

Alfredo Cristóbal, Director General, D. G. of Statistical Products National Institute of Statistics, Spain.

Q&A. Session I

Session II Panel discussion. The future of high frequency statistics and experimental statistics

Chair: Pablo García, Board member, Central Bank of Chile.  

Elías Albagli, Monetary Policy Division Director, Central Bank of Chile.
Álvaro Ortiz, Head of Big Data Research, BBVA Research.
Greg Peterson, Assistant Chief Statistician - Economic Statistics of Canada, Statistics Canada.
Bruno Tissot, Head of Statistics and Research Support, BIS and Head of the Secretariat of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC).

Measuring Spending Using Card Transaction Data before, during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Kyle Hood, Chief of the Research Branch in BEA’s Regional Product Division, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis – BEA.

Big Data Information and Nowcasting: Consumption and Investment from Bank Transactions in Turkey

Álvaro Ortiz, Head of Big Data Research, BBVA Research.

Tracking the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic: the contribution of highfrequency indicators

Jérôme Coffinet, Head of Statistical Methods Division, General Directorate Statistics, Bank of France.

The impact of Covid-19 on consumer spending in Ireland.

Stephen Byrne, Senior Economist, Economic Analysis Division, Central Bank of Ireland

Q&A. Session III

Panel discussion. Post pandemic lessons and challenges for official statistics.

Chair: Joaquín Vial, Vice-Governor, Central Bank of Chile.

Mary Bohman, Acting and Deputy Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, BEA.
Louis Marc Ducharme, Chief Statistician & Data Offices, Director of Statistics Department, IMF.
Sandra Quijada, National Director, National Institute of Statistics of Chile, INE.
Paul Schreyer, Director and Chief Statistician OCDE.

Closing remarks

Gloria Peña – Statistics Division Director, Central Bank of Chile.