16th Conference of the Association de Comptabilité Nationale "Virtues, limits and prospects of the National Accounts"
The 16th Conference of the Association de Comptabilité Nationale was held in Paris on 7, 8 and 9 of June 2017, at the "Centre de conférence Pierre Mendès-France" du Ministère de l’économie et des finances, 139 rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris.
All texts and documents are available in French.
Opening of the conference on Wednesday, June 7, 2017
- From 9h to 9h30: reception of the participants
- From 9:30 am to 10:00 am: introductory speeches by Jean-Luc Tavernier (Director General of INSEE) and Georges Haddad (President of the University Paris-1)
Session 1 - Wednesday, June 7, from 10 am to 1 pm - Virtues, Limits and Prospects of the NA: An Overview
- Chair: Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France)
1. Virtues, Limits and Prospects of NA: An Introduction - André Vanoli (ACN)
2. Challenges and criticisms of National Accounts - Claire Plateau (INSEE)
3. Building synthetic measures of inclusive growth and sustainability - Didier Blanchet (INSEE)
Comments by two discussants: Jacques Le Cacheux (OFCE) and Christian De Perthuis (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Session 2 - Wednesday, June 7, from 2:30 pm to 6 pm - Virtues, limits and prospects of the NA: empirico-critical responses
- Chair: Pierre Muller (ACN)
1. Are there substantive changes to make to the existing NA Conventions? - Dominique Durant (Banque de France), Nicolas Canry (University of Paris-1), Didier Blanchet (INSEE)
Coffee break
2. National accounts in a broad perspective of the information systems - Jacques Magniez (ACN)
3. Continue to adapt the CEN to the transformations of economies - Ronan Mahieu (INSEE)
From 6pm to 7pm - Cocktail
Session 3 - Thursday, June 8, from 9.30 am to 1 pm - Virtues, limits and prospects of the NA: empirico-critical responses (continued)
- Chair: Marco Mira d'Ercole (OECD)
1. An Appreciation of Living Standards, Well-Being and Quality of Life - Jérome Accardo (INSEE)
2. Taking into account relationships with Nature - André Vanoli (ACN)
Summary (pdf, 23 Ko )
3. The question of sustainable development - Claire Plateau (INSEE)
Coffee break
Comments by two discussants: Fabrice Lenglart (France Strategy) and Arturo de la Fuente (Eurostat)
Session 4 - Thursday, June 8, from 2:30 pm to 6 pm - The challenges facing the CEN and how to address them
The representation of the productive system and the economic circuit in a changing world; The relationship between NA and other accounting information systems
- Chair: Françoise Maurel (INSEE)
1. NA and corporate accounting - Philippe Danjou (former member of the IASB board), Pierre Muller (ACN)
Presentation (pdf, 752 Ko )
Coffee break
2. The evolution of the economic concept of enterprise: from groups to profiled companies - Élisabeth Kremp (INSEE), Ronan Mahieu (INSEE)
3. Challenges posed by changes in the modes of operation of economic units: numerical economy and apparent gratuity, economy of "sharing"... - Ronan Mahieu (INSEE)
From 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm - General Assembly of the ACN
Session 5 - Friday, June 9, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm - The challenges facing the NA and how to address them (continued)
The representation of the productive system and the economic circuit in a changing world; The relationship between NA and other accounting information systems
- Chair: François Ecalle (FIPECO)
1. The Challenges Facing Globalization - Michael Connolly (Central Statistics Office, Ireland)
Text (pdf, 397 Ko )
Presentation (pdf, 437 Ko )
2. About the Irish case - François Lequiller (ACN)
Coffee break
3. NA and public finance - François Lequiller (ACN), Jean-Paul Milot (ACN)
Session 6 - Friday, June 9, from 2 pm to 5 pm
How to estimate National Accounts (from 2 pm to 3 pm)
- Chair: Pierre Muller (ACN)
1. Sources and methods for the preparation of national accounts in France - Ronan Mahieu (INSEE)
2. Examples of national accounts from other countries: Tunisia (Mohamed Frigui, Directeur de l'INS de Tunisie), Francophones and Anglophones African countries (Paul-Henri Nguema Meye, Directeur Général Adjoint d’AFRISTAT)
What is the state of knowledge of NA in secondary and higher education? (from 3 pm to 5 pm)
Round table chaired by Pascal Combemale (professor in economics and director of the collection "Repères" at the Editions La Découverte) and prepared with Nicolas Canry (Université Paris-1)
Erwan Le Nader (président de l'APSES, Association des Professeurs de Sciences Economiques et Sociales), Arnaud Parienty (Lycée de Neuilly et Université Paris-Dauphine), Aline Mignan (Université d’Evry), Isabelle Hirtzlin (Université Paris-1)