Opening Remarks, Chihiro Shimizu.

Chair: Erwin Diewert.

Chihiro Shimizu, Hitotsubashi University.
“Product Newness as a Price Determining Characteristic.” with Erwin Diewert

Erwin Diewert, The University of British Columbia.
“Alternative Interregional Purchasing Power Parities for Japan at the First Level of Aggregation” with Naohito Abe, Akiyuki Tonogi and Chihiro Shimizu

Lunch

Chair: Alicia Rambaldi.

Naohito Abe, Hitotsubashi University.
“Measuring Real Actual Consumption and Economic Inequalities Across Age Groups: A New Approach Using Japanese Household Data” with Noriko Inakura

Alicia Rambaldi, The University of Queensland.
“Reconciling Indices of Different Frequencies” with Robert Hill, Daniel Melser, and Michael Scholz

Coffee break

Finn McEvoy, The London School of Economics.
“How AI Can Improve Price Data” with Richard Davies

Closing Remarks, Naohito Abe.