Chad Syverson — Productivity in a changing world — Treasury seminar

Online, free of charge, and open to all. Next Wednesday 31 May @10:30 am

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The Treasury is pleased to present an online seminar on Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 10:30am with Chad Syverson of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. This seminar is part of the Treasury’s seminar series on the topic of “Productivity in a Changing World”. The seminar is open to all and free of charge.

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Professor Syverson will discuss the primary economic challenge of our time, the worldwide productivity slowdown. He will explore the factors that economic research suggests might help turn this tide. Additionally, our guest speaker will investigate patterns coming out of the COVID pandemic and assess what they could portend for future productivity growth.

About Chad Syverson

Chad Syverson is the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been on the University of Chicago faculty since 2001.

His research is particularly focused on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. Syverson has authored or coauthored dozens of scholarly articles, and is the coauthor (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) of intermediate-level textbook, Microeconomics. Syverson is a former editor of the Journal of Political Economy, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, has served on multiple National Academies committees, and currently sits on the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. He teaches classes in competitive strategy and industrial organization.

Material and video recording

Presenters' slides and a video recording of the presentation will be made available on the Treasury website within a few days of the presentation.

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Productivity in a Changing World seminar series

The theme “Productivity in a changing world” recognises that lifting our productivity performance continues to be central to improving New Zealanders’ wellbeing and that we are facing this challenge in the context of significant economic, social and environmental shifts. These shifts will require considerable changes in our economy if we are to sustain and improve our economic and productivity performance.

By Tim Ng