Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference (APPC 2010)

The Asia-pacific Productivity Conference 2010 will be held on July 21-23, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. This is the seventh international conference on efficiency and productivity growth in the Asia-Pacific region.  The conference is organized and sponsored jointly by the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica (IEAS), the Institute of Advanced studies in Humanities and Social Science, National Taiwan University (IHS/NTU) and several well-known universities in Taiwan.

In addition to the regular conference, a pre-conference workshop will be held on 7/20. The pre-conference workshop will consist of four advanced lectures in Efficiency and Productivity. The conference also offers a free post conference city tour for foreign participants on 7/24.

  APPC2010 Honorable Invited Scholars

Keynote Speakers:

Subal Kumbhakar, State University of New York

Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and

Technology

Paul W. Wilson, Clemson University

Pre-conference Speakers:

Finn Førsund, University of Oslo

Harold O. Fried, Union College

Cliff Huang, Vanderbilt University

Christopher O’Donnell, University of Queensland

Other invited Speakers:

Mika Goto, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Chiang Kao, National Cheng Kung University

Kristiaan Kerstens, Université Catholique de Lille

Wirat Krasachat, Kasetsart University

Jeong-Dong Lee, Seoul National University

C. A. Knox Lovell, University of Queensland

Jiro Nemoto, Nagoya University

Peter Schmidt, Michigan State University

Michael Shaw, University of Illinois

Robin Sickles, Rice University

 ** The final conference program is available now.