The contribution of research and innovation to productivity

Kevin Fox is Professor of Economics, and Director of the Centre for Applied Economic Research, at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. He works primarily in the field of economic measurement, with a focus on productivity and prices. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and an elected member of the NBER-affiliated US Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. He was appointed as an adviser to the Australian Treasury in 2016, he is a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Methodology Advisory Committee, and chaired the 16th Series CPI Review Advisory Group in 2009-10.