Opening remarks

Mario Marcel – Governor, Central Bank of Chile

Measuring the economy in the digital age

Keynote address by
Mariana Kotzeva – Director General, EUROSTAT

“Digital economy: New wine into old wineskins?”

Carlos da Silva Costa – Governor, Bank of Portugal

Digitalisation in the system of national accounts: What do we need to do?

Nadim Ahmad – Head of the Trade and Competitiveness Statistics Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Measuring the digital economy 

Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz – Assistant Director and Chief of the Balance of Payments Division Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Questions from the audience

Data, statistics and central bank (in the digital age)

Celestino Girón – Principal Economist, European Central Bank

Toward a digital satelite account for the United States 

Dylan Rassier – Head of Research for National Accounts, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Electronic Invoicing: a data revolution for applied macroeconomic research 

Elías Albagli – Director of Monetary Policy Division, Central Bank of Chile

Questions from the audience

Extended supply-use tables and value added for manufacturing exports for Mexico

Francisco Guillén – Deputy Director General of National Accounts, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)

“Accounting for firm heterogeneity within U.S. industries: Extended supply-use tables and trade in value added using enterprise and establishment level data

Dylan Rassier – Head of Research for National Accounts, BEA

Latin America in global value chains

Penny Bamber – Senior Researcher, Duke University Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness

Penny Bamber – Investigadora Senior, Duke University Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness

Questions from the audience

Keep calm and keep web-scraping: Lessons learned from the use of Big Data to inform public policies

Martin Hilbert – Professor Dept. of Communication and GG Computer Science, University of California, Davis

Financial big (macro) data and policy work

Bruno Tissot – Head of Statistics and Research Support, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

The production and dissemination of microdata at Bundesbank

Stefan Bender – Head of Research Data and Service Center, Deutsche Bundesbank

Making microdata available to researchers: The experience of Banco de Portugal

Paulo Guimarães – Deputy Head, Economics and Research Department, Banco de Portugal

Questions from the audience

Panel Discussion. The future of official statistics, what to expect and steps to take

Panel:
Carlos da Silva Costa – Governor, Bank of Portugal
Mariana Kotzeva – Director General, EUROSTAT
Nadim Ahmad – Head of the Trade and Competitiveness Statistics Division, OECD
Bruno Tissot – Head of Statistics and Research Support, BIS