Workshop on Distributional National Accounts
When? Friday, June 7, 2019 | 11:30-19:00
Where? Vienna University of Economics and Business, AD.0.122
Distributional National Accounts (DINA) link distributional information on income, consumption and wealth to the macroeconomic System of National Accounts (SNA).
DINA provide harmonized information on the distribution of key macro-economic aggregates within the household sector. This improves macro-economic monitoring and provides the data basis to bring more heterogeneity into macro-economic models.
Already in 1955, one of the SNA’s founding fathers, Simon Kuznets, called for such distributional information. In 2019, there are still no routinely compiled DINA in most countries – but there is progress. This workshop thus brings together macro- and micro-specialists in Austria working on conceptual and empirical topics related to DINA, and aims to stimulate an exchange of ideas.
Topics covered are
Measurement issues on the micro- and macro side and data quality
Specific challenges for income, consumption and wealth
Micro-matching of survey data
Conceptual issues in the macro-micro linking process
Program
| Welcome | Welcomenote | Sofie Waltl | WU & LISER |
| Keynote | Economic policy making in a heterogeneous world – The case for DINA | Aurel Schubert | WU & Former Director General at the ECB |
| Presentation | The work of the OECD-Eurostat Expert group on Disparities in a National Accounts framework (EG DNA) | Tanja Jurasszovich | Statistik Austria |
| Presentation | Measuring Household Wealth – interlinkage of micro and macro aspects (lessons learned in Austria as part of EG-LMM) | Michael Andreasch | OeNB |
| 13:20 - 14:40 | Lunch | ||
| Presentation & Discussion | Measurement Error in Survey Income Data | Franziska Disslbacher | AK & WU |
| Presentation & Discussion | The distributional consequences of closing the micro-macro gap for capital income in the Eurozone | Michael Ertl | AK |
| Presentation & Discussion | Distributional National Accounts and Household Survey Data - Methodological Issues and Results for EU Countries | Predrag Cetkovic & Emanuel List | WU |
| Presentation & Discussion | Distributional Austrian National Accounts (diAna), 2004-2016 | Stefan Jestl | WU |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Presentation & Discussion | On top of the top: Adjusting wealth distributions with international versus national rich lists | Patrick Mokre | The New School |
| Presentation & Discussion | Multidimensional Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Distributional National Accounts in Europe | Sofie Waltl | WU & LISER |
| Presentation & Discussion | The joint distribution of income, consumption and wealth. Statistical matching of micro-data and the relation to macro-economic aggregates | Tanja Jurasszovich, Gregor de Cillia & Richard Heuberger | Statistik Austria |
| from 19:30 | Dinner |
Participation is free of charge but registration by May 27, 2019 is compulsory. Students are welcome to join!
For content-related questions, please contact the workshop organizer Sofie Waltl (sofie.waltl@wu.ac.at). For any other issue, please contact Sarah Beran (sarah.beran@wu.ac.at).
We are grateful to the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour (AK) for sponsoring this event.