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SUMMARY:Fifteenth Meeting of the Ottawa Group 2017
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DESCRIPTION:The Deutsche Bundesbank highly welcomes the opportunity to or
 ganise the 15th Meeting of the Ottawa Group on Price Indices – the gathe
 ring of the world’s leading price statistical experts.\n\nThe meeting wi
 ll take place from 10 to 12 May 2017 at the Conference Centre of the Deu
 tsche Bundesbank in the city of Eltville am Rhein. The Conference Centre
  is about 50 km from Frankfurt am Main and scenically located at the Rhi
 ne River.\n\nThe invitation and call for papers as well as the topics fo
 r discussion can be found below.\n\nDay 1 – 10 May 2017\n\n\n  Opening s
 peech\n09:30 – 10:00\n  [EMBEDDED]  \n\nProf Dr Claudia M Buch\,\nVice-P
 resident of the Deutsche Bundesbank\n\n\n\nOpening Speech\n\n\n  Session
  1: Index theory and practice\; Chairperson: Marcel van Kints\n10:30 – 1
 2:30\n  \n\n\nChristian Blaudow\, Florian Burg:\n\nDynamic pricing as a 
 challenge for consumer price statistics\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presenta
 tion\n\n\n\nRobert Dippelsmann\, Erwin Diewert:\n\nProgress on revising 
 the Consumer Price Index Manual\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation I  
 |  Presentation II\n\n\nGregory Kurtzon:\n\nBreaking down the difference
 s between the CPI-U and C-CPI-U: weights vs. formula\nAbstract  |  Paper
   |  Presentation\n\n\n\nLudwig von Auer\, Jochen Wengenroth:\n\nConsist
 ent aggregation of superlative price indices\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Pre
 sentation\n\n\n  Session 2: House price indices (HPIs)\; Chairperson: Ma
 rtin Eiglsperger\n13:45 – 15:15\n  \nGregg Patrick:\nIreland’s new resid
 ential property price index\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\n\nTimm
  Behrmann\, Bernhard Goldhammer:\nNew developments in the field of house
  and rental price indices in German price statistics in the light of the
  hedonic method\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nErwin Diewert\, Ni
 ng Huang\, Kate Burnett-Issacs:\nAlternative approaches for resale housi
 ng price indexes\nAbstract |  Paper  |  Presentation\n\n\n  Session 3: H
 edonic methods for HPIs\; Chairperson: Christopher Jenkins\n15:30 – 17:0
 0\n  \nMick Silver:\nHow to better measure hedonic residential property 
 price indexes\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nRobert Hill\, Michae
 l Scholz\, Chihiro Shimizu\, Miriam Steurer:\nAn evaluation of the hedon
 ic methods used by European National Statistical Institutes to compute t
 heir official House Price Indices\nAbstract  |  Paper |  Presentation\nR
 obert Hill\, Alicia Rambaldi\, Michael Scholz:\nWeekly hedonic house pri
 ce indices: an imputation approach from a spatio-temporal model\nAbstrac
 t  |  Paper  |  Presentation\n\nDay 2 – 11 May 2017\n  Commemoration Pet
 er von der Lippe\; Chairperson: Jens Mehrhoff\n09:00 – 09:30 \n  \nBert 
 Balk:\nMixed-form indices: a study of their properties\nAbstract  |  Pap
 er  |  Presentation\n\n\n  Session 4: Property price statistics\; Chairp
 erson: David Fenwick\n09:30 – 10:30 \n  \nRobert Szemere:\nBIS consumer 
 and property price statistics: cross-country comparability and historica
 l perspective\nAbstract  |  Presentation\nAndrew Kanutin:\nReal estate s
 tatistics – building from the micro level\nAbstract  |  Presentation\n\n
 \n  Session 5: Commercial property prices\; Chairperson: Joachim Reckten
 wald\n11:00 – 12:30 \n  \nErwin Diewert\, Chihiro Shimizu:\nCommercial p
 roperty price indexes for Tokyo revisited\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presen
 tation\nInês Gonçalves Raposo\, Rui Evangelista:\nA transactions-based c
 ommercial property price index for Portugal\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Pres
 entation\nBarra Casey:\nDeveloping a new commercial property statistical
  system (CPSS) for Ireland\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\n\n\n  S
 ession 6: Challenges of "big data"\, Chairperson: Carsten Boldsen\n14:00
  – 16:00 \n  \nMarcel van Kints:\nEnhancing the Australian CPI: making g
 reater use of transactions data to compile the Australian CPI\nAbstract 
  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nAlan Bentley\, Frances Krsinich:\nTowards a 
 big data CPI for New Zealand\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nJosef
  Auer\, Ingolf Boettcher:\nFrom price collection to price data analytics
  – How new large data sources require price statisticians to re-think th
 eir index compilation procedures. Experiences from web-scraped and scann
 er data.\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nJens Mehrhoff:\nA "big da
 ta" gaze at why electronic transactions and web-scraped data are no pana
 cea\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\n\n\n  Session 7: Multilateral 
 index methods\; Chairperson: Bert Balk\n16:30 – 18:30 \n  \nAntonio Ches
 sa\, Johan Verburg\, Leon Willenborg:\nA comparison of price index metho
 ds for scanner data\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nErwin Diewert\
 , Kevin Fox:\nSubstitution bias in multilateral methods for CPI construc
 tion using scanner data\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nClaude Lam
 boray:\nThe Geary Khamis index and the Lehr index: how much do they diff
 er?\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nJan de Haan\, Rens Hendriks\, 
 Michael Scholz:\nA comparison of weighted time-product dummy and time du
 mmy hedonic indexes\nAbstract  |  Paper |  Presentation\n\nDay 3 – 12 Ma
 y 2017\n  Session 8: Issues with new data sources\; Chairperson: Erwin D
 iewert\n09:00 – 10:30 \n  \nJörgen Dalén:\nUnit values in scanner data –
  some operational issues\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nElizabeth
  Metcalfe\, Tanya Flower\, Thomas Lewis\, Matthew Mayhew\, Edward Rowlan
 d:\nResearch indices using web scraped data: clustering large datasets i
 nto prices indices (CLIP)\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nKota Wat
 anabe\, Tsutomu Watanabe:\nPrice rigidity at near-zero inflation rates: 
 evidence from Japan\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentation\n\n\n  Poster s
 ession\n10:30 – 12:00 \n  \n\n\nOverview\nPapers (ZIP)\nRoom documents (
 ZIP)\nPosters (ZIP)\n\n\n  Session 9: Implementing scanner data\; Chairp
 erson: Claude Lamboray\n13:15 – 14:45 \n  \nLi-Chun Zhang\, Ingvild Joha
 nsen\, Ragnhild Nygaard:\nTesting unit value data price indices\nAbstrac
 t  |  Paper  |  Presentation\nGuillaume Rateau:\nImplementation of the t
 reatment of the scanner data in France\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Presentat
 ion\nKristiina Nieminen:\nNew data sources to compile price indices: sma
 ll scale "big data" for the index compilation\nAbstract  |  Paper  |  Pr
 esentation\n\n\n\n  Report 2017 meeting\n14:45 – 15:15 \n\n\n  2018 Grou
 p of Experts\n15:15 – 15:25 \n\n\n  Outlook 2019 meeting\n15:25 – 15:40 
 \n\n\n  Closing remarks\n15:40 – 15:45
LOCATION:Deutsche Bundesbank\, Conference Centre\, Erbacher Straße 18\, 6
 5343 Eltville am Rhein\, Germany
CONTACT:Conferences section\, ottawagroup@bundesbank.de
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