Value Added Tax data is fast, comprehensive & already collected from UK firms with turnover of £90,000+. But how reliable is it for measuring economic growth?
Find out in our next webinar with Russell Black (DBT, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social & ESCoE): tinyurl.com/5863wjvb
Read about last year's #NationalProductivityWeek TPI/ESCoE event @kingsbschool.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/2ery7k7k
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There's still time to sign up for Thursday's webinar on how the ONS is streamlining its approach to measuring national well-being. ⬇️
What would the world look like without statistics?
Catch up on this keynote interview with Vipin Arora (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) after his talk at the UNSW-ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2025: youtu.be/rUsGiJAsIWw
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GDP is meant to measure economic progress, yet even war can make it rise. So what exactly is it measuring?
ESCoE Leadership Executive member @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social on ABC. ⬇️
Research by @amamdagosling.bsky.social, @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social, @francescafolia1.bsky.social, Damian Whittard, Van Phan, @felixritchie.bsky.social and Peter Bradley
Photo shows ESCoE Director Rebecca Riley speaking at an event
Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay2026, we’ve curated a selection of ESCoE research and past events that engage with gender through economic measurement:
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There's still time to sign up to attend online or join the waiting list to attend in person @cam.ac.uk ⬇️
ESCoE Research Associate Melanie Jones features in this podcast episode on Welsh productivity. ⬇️
Image shows a screenshot of the cover slide of the presentation: Uncovering hidden innovators: Linking survey, administrative, and big data to develop comprehensive measures of firms' innovation Enrico Vanino School of Economics, University of Sheffield ESCoE webinar - 26/02/2026
What if some of the UK’s most innovative firms are invisible in the data?
Catch up on the recent ESCoE webinar with Enrico Vanino (@sheffielduni.bsky.social): youtu.be/R4EH6fMSGxU
The @nber.org currently has a number of call for papers open, including opportunities relevant to economic measurement.
Find out more on their website: www.nber.org/conferences?...
How can we measure healthcare productivity?
Catch up on this keynote interview with Catherine de Fontenay (@pc.gov.au) after her talk at the UNSW-ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2025: youtu.be/UyI47si9rKs
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Read more about the work in this ESCoE blog: tinyurl.com/5t353dm9
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Read recent ESCoE work by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Cliodhna Taylor on labour productivity estimates for 184 industries - more than doubling the detail available from official statistics: tinyurl.com/45k5w72w
How is the UK strengthening its national well-being statistics?
Register for our next webinar on 12 March on the refreshed UK Measures of National Well-being framework with Vasiliki Sogia (ONS): tinyurl.com/3ed6ucm2
New @productivity.bsky.social paper by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, Ioannis Bournakis & Jen-Chung Mei.
For more on intangible assets, read this recent ESCoE blog by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/9rnyshmw
What if some of the UK’s most innovative firms are invisible in the data?
Last chance to register for today's webinar. ⬇️
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ESCoE work by @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social and @amamdagosling.bsky.social on the gender pay gap and the role of board gender composition has been published in the Journal of Population Economics: tinyurl.com/mv34jz2w
Interesting take on AI's implications for the business landscape more broadly from ESCoE Leadership Executive member/ @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk's @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social ⬇️
By linking workers to their employers over time, Linked Employer–Employee Datasets provide a far richer understanding of labour market and economic dynamics than studying households or businesses alone.
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Image shows the cover of the paper: Incorporating micro data into macro models using pseudo VARs Gary Koop, Stuart McIntyre, James Mitchell and Ping Wu
Bridging the micro–macro divide:
A new paper by Gary Koop, @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social, James Mitchell and Ping Wu sets out a method for embedding detailed microdata directly within macroeconomic time-series models: tinyurl.com/5t353dm9
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How much is wind really worth? 🌬️
Julia Wdowin (@bennettschool.cam.ac.uk) explores how shadow prices reveal wind’s wider social value beyond National Accounts and why it matters for policy.
Read more: tinyurl.com/b8bw56hz
Read about ESCoE work on net zero, climate change and the environment: tinyurl.com/mv5h9d6w
This includes research on measuring the green economy, measuring natural capital and measuring environmental footprints and the circular economy.
This event run by ESCoE partner @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk will look at AI and digital policy. ⬇️
This links with ESCoE work on how productivity & economic considerations can help develop & deploy AI from an ethical & legal standpoint, thanks to a Responsible AI grant.
How do we put a number on pollution’s impact on the economy?
A new ESCoE Discussion Paper by Erwin Diewert & @kevinfoxecon.bsky.social explores a new approach: measuring environmental damage by focusing on how firms produce pollution through economic activity: tinyurl.com/bdhj5jk6
Screenshot shows the cover slide for the presentation: Water Accounting for Environmental Policy ESCoE Webinar 26.02.12 Alice Bartolini, Paul Ekins, Silvia Ferrini, Joe Grice, Vittoria Reas
Catch up on last week's ESCoE webinar on natural capital accounts - part of our research programme on net zero, climate change and the environment: tinyurl.com/bdceased
This work is in collaboration with @ucl.ac.uk @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
February is @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social's Climate & Sustainability Month.
This features a range of exciting events run by King’s students and staff, as well as opportunities to get involved in sustainable action: tinyurl.com/yrnubnn3
Read about ESCoE work on making sense of skills in collaboration with @nestauk.bsky.social and the UK Office for National Statistics: escoe.ac.uk/projects/mak...
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The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were completely different from those of today.
Read ESCoE Research Director Paul Schreyer's review of @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's latest book: tinyurl.com/4mwf49tv
