17 June 2015
Presenters
Australia’s productivity performance and prospects in an international context by Mr Peter Harris, Chair of the Productivity Commission
The role of competition policy in lifting productivity growth rates by Mr Rod Sims, Chair of the ACCC
Discussants
Effects of different productivity growth rates on real incomes by Dr Janine Dixon, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
Innovation and productivity growth by Professor Beth Webster, Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Disruptive technologies in electricity supply by Professor Ross Garnaut, Professorial Research Fellow in Economics, University of Melbourne
Market design and disruptive technologies by Dr Nicholas Gruen, Lateral Economics
The big issues in competition policy by Professor Allan Fels AO, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourn