Don Brash

New Zealand's productivity performance is the subject of a lunchtime panel discussion chaired by AUT Adjunct Professor in Banking and Chair of the Government's 2025 Taskforce Dr Don Brash.

The Policy Session panel discussion is being held at the AUT Faculty of Business and Law, AUT City Campus on Friday, February 26, 12-1.30pm.

It will focus on New Zealand's productivity performance with participation from the academic, business and policy making community. Panelists include:

* New Zealand Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr

* UNSW Head of the School of Economics Professor Kevin Fox * University of Auckland Professor Tim Hazledine

The session is part of a two-day 20th New Zealand Econometrics Meeting hosted by AUT's Department of Finance, being held February 15-26.

The event includes an Efficiency and Productivity Workshop. Econometrics Meeting host Professor of Finance Dimitri Margaritis says the workshop is a major academic event of significant policy relevance in the current economic environment.

"It brings to our country some of the most renowned international scholars in the area of efficiency and productivity analysis," he says.

The list includes Professor Erwin Diewert from the University of British Columbia, Professor Bob Russell from the University of California and Rice University Reginald Henry Hargrove Chair in Economics Professor Robin Sickles, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis.

A special issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis will be devoted to papers presented at this meeting, edited by AUT Professor of Finance Dimitri Margaritis and Oregon State University Professors of Economics Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf. The 20th New Zealand Econometrics Meeting has been organised by Yale University Sterling Professor of Economics & Professor of Statistics Peter Phillips, AUT Professor of Finance Dimitri Margaritis and AUT Associate Professor of Finance Bart Frijns.

The Efficiency and Productivity Workshop has been organised by Oregon State University Professors of Economics Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf and AUT Professor of Finance Dimitri Margaritis.