Lifting Productivity Growth

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