Davud Rostam-Afschar — Insights from product and labour markets — Treasury seminar/webinar🍋
Wednesday, 27 March @ 10:30am - noon NZDT — free of charge & open to all
Professor Davud Rostam-Afschar (University of Mannheim) will present the next seminar in the Treasury’s Productivity in a Changing World series: Insights from product and labour markets.
The secular decline in economic growth around the world is a key challenge of our time. In this seminar, Davud Rostam-Afschar will discuss the role of factors in product and labour markets that contribute to this challenge, and explore opportunities identified by economic research that may help get economies back on the track to prosperity.
Davud will also consider ways of organising product and labour markets in light of technological progress. Digital technologies and artificial intelligence change the way we work and do business. They may threaten jobs, but they could also help boost productivity. How can these technologies be leveraged for the benefit of businesses, workers, and consumers?
Attend in person or online
This will be a hybrid event. It will take place on Wednesday, 27 March 2024 from 10:30am to 12:00pm NZDT, online and in person.
Please note that registrations are compulsory.
Register here to attend in person at Momentum Consulting, level 8, Simpl House, 40 Mercer Street, Wellington; or
If registering to attend in person, you must provide your name and email address on the registration form. We reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone who did not pre-register.
About Davud Rostam-Afschar
Davud Rostam-Afschar is Associate Professor at the University of Mannheim and Academic Director of the German Business Panel. Before joining the faculty of the University of Mannheim, he was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and Queen May University of London, and worked at the University of Hohenheim, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Potsdam.
His research has a particular focus on the interaction of product and labour markets, the regulation of entry, taxation, investments, and productivity. Rostam-Afschar has led several projects funded by third parties such as the German Research Foundation, and has authored or coauthored dozens of scholarly articles. Rostam-Afschar is a research affiliate of IZA and GLO, an advisor to the European Commission and the OECD, and on the editorial review board of Small Business Economics. He teaches courses on economic policy, econometrics, and machine learning.
Productivity in a changing world
New ideas, cutting-edge thinking, research and evidence are all critical for stimulating and informing work at the Treasury. Its guest lecture series offers insights from the work of experts in New Zealand and internationally. These seminars are open to everyone, to facilitate learning and debate on the important issues facing New Zealand.
The current guest lecture series theme — Productivity in a changing world — recognises that lifting productivity performance continues to be central to improving New Zealanders’ wellbeing; and that we face this challenge in the context of significant economic, social and environmental shifts. These shifts will require major changes in our economy if we are to sustain and improve our economic and productivity performance.
By Tim Ng, Strategic Economic Advisor, NZ Treasury
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