Friday, May 8
2026 Workshop on Using GDP-B to Measure the Economy
- In-person
- Workshop
The rapid diffusion of digital and AI technologies is creating forms of value that traditional economic statistics struggle to capture.
This workshop explores how GDP-B can be applied to measure the welfare contribution of a variety of goods across different geographies, with a focus on digital goods and AI-enabled services that fall outside conventional GDP. Participants will engage with a range of emerging measurement approaches, including consumer-surplus–based metrics, experimental and revealed-preference methods, and new data sources enabled by digital platforms.
The goal is to synthesize these approaches and advance a forward-looking research agenda for economic indicators that better reflect technological change and human well-being.
Agenda
9:00 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM Welcome and Framing: GDP-B and the Future of Economic Measurement (Erik Brynjolfsson)
10:00 AM Measuring Digital Welfare (Xijie Gao)
10:20 AM What is Generative AI Worth (David Nguyen)
10:40 AM GDP-B in China (Ricky Tan & Jiayin Zhang)
11:00 AM Break
11:20 AM Measuring AI Adoption by Households and Firms (Gregor Schubert)
11:40 AM New Measures Of Non-Market Household Production (Xiupeng Wang)
12:00 PM Co-Creating the GDP-B Research Agenda: Applications Across Sectors and Countries
12:20 PM Closing Remarks
12:25 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Adjourn
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Organizers
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor
Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the world’s leading experts on the economics of technology and artificial intelligence. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
One of the most-cited authors on the economics of information, Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.
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David Nguyen
Research Scientist
David is an expert on economic measurement, statistics, and indicators related to the digital economy. His work aims to provide a better evidence base for policy and business. David is also a Research Associate at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) which has been created to address the challenges of measuring modern economies. He published several papers and reports in the fields of economic measurement and digital economics and previously worked as an Economist at the OECD in Paris and NIESR in London. David received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2018.
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