Lagging productivity in German manufacturing in the early 20th century
| Date: | 20 September 2016 |
Marcel Timmer, Joost Veenstra and Pieter Woltjer have published in the Journal of Economic History. Their paper, titled "The Yankees of Europe? A New View on Technology and Productivity in German Manufacturing in the Early Twentieth Century" studies why...
How to measure domestic value added in exports
| Date: | 20 September 2016 |
Bart Los, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries have published in the American Economic Review . Their article is title "Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports: Comment" and they propose a method that provides a clear definition of...
Did technology shock drive the Great Depression?
| Date: | 20 September 2016 |
Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Reitze Gouma have published a note in the Journal of Economic History. In this paper, titled "A Note on Technology Shocks and the Great Depression", they argue that their own earlier work and a more recent contribution by...
Peak trade?
| Date: | 16 September 2016 |
Marcel Timmer gave a keynote lecture on this topic at a conference organised by the Bank of Lithuania, which also included speakers such as Richard Baldwin, Fabio Ghironi, and Laura Alfaro. The presented research, jointly by Timmer, Bart Los, Gaaitzen de...
NY Times: 70 million Chinese jobs from trade
| Date: | 13 September 2016 |
The New York Times Magazine picked up research by Bart Los, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries: "Last year, economists at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, said that by their very rough estimates total foreign demand for Chinese goods may...
Income and Wealth activities
| Date: | 13 September 2016 |
GGDC researchers played several important roles at the recent General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), in Dresden. This biennial conference brings together academic researchers and official...
PWT 9.0 data corrections
| Date: | 19 August 2016 |
Thanks to helpful user queries, we have found two computation errors in the PWT 9.0 data that were released on June 9 2016:
Vietnam as the next China?
| Date: | 10 August 2016 |
The Economist uses data from the Penn World Table to illustrate how Vietnam's growth in GDP per capita over de past quarter century matches China's growth experience following its liberalizing reforms in the late 1970s.
Top economist Daron Acemoglu to give next Maddison lecture
| Date: | 10 August 2016 |
On Saturday November 5, from 11:00–13:00, Daron Acemoglu of MIT will give the next Maddison lecture. Details to follow.
Globalisation & inequality Summer School
| Date: | 10 August 2016 |
The GGDC Summer School 2016 took place between July 11 and 15 and featured several lectures by Branko Milanović, on inequality and the role of globalisation, as well as lectures by other renowned scholars. Around 25 students from all over the world...