Farewell Symposium in Honor of Bert Balk
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Abstract
| Symposium on Productivity on the occasion of the formal retirement of Bert M. Balk as Professor of Economic Measurement and Economic-Statistical Research |
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| Friday, June 10, 2011 Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam J-Building (JB-50) at 12:30 – 5:30 P.M |
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| The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) and the Department of Management of Technology and Innovation of the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) invite you to participate in a symposium on productivity. |
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| Prof. Dr. Bert M. Balk held a chair in Business Administration, in particular the measurement of price, quantity, and productivity changes, and economic-statistical research, at RSM from 2001 to 2011. This chair was supported by Statistics Netherlands. At Statistics Netherlands, Bert was a.o. deputy head of the former Department for Price Statistics, director of the former Center for Research of Enterprise Microdata (Cerem), and senior researcher. Bert’s research interests include measurement in economics, in particular index number theory and productivity measurement. He has published a large number of articles in academic journals and has written two books, of which Price and Quantity Index Numbers: Models for Measuring Aggregate Change and Difference (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) is the most recent. Bert serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Productivity Analysis and Statistica Neerlandica. |
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| On the occasion of Bert’s formal retirement as Professor at RSM, a number of his colleagues will discuss aspects of productivity measurement and research. Together they will provide an assessment of the state of the art in this field. This symposium is of interest to anyone who is involved in issues of measurement of productivity, such as researchers (and PhD students) in academic institutions as well as professionals in Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek), governmental institutions, and trade organizations. |
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| The symposium (1– 5 pm) will be preceded by a lunch buffet (from 12.30 pm) and followed by drinks (until 5.30 pm). |
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