Interview with Robert Inklaar on achieving impact with open data
| Date: | 20 October 2023 |
Last month GGDC director Robert Inklaar, gave an interview for the Open Science blog of the University of Groningen Library. Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. But how to do...
Next GGDC Conference in May 2024
| Date: | 21 July 2023 |
We are delighted to announce the upcoming GGDC conference on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, and Wednesday, May 29, 2024. The conference will take place at a convenient location in the city centre of Groningen. In the coming months, we will be sharing further...
TPI blog on the Penn World Table
| Date: | 18 July 2023 |
The Productivity Institute recently published a new blog introducing the Penn World Table (PWT). Authored by Ryan Marapin, Robert Inklaar and Reitze Gouma, this blog showcases two example analyses that illustrate the potential of the PWT data set, along...
Maddison data in Biden-Harris Administration 2023 Economic Report
| Date: | 30 March 2023 |
The Council of Economic Advisers, a component of the Executive Office of the President in the Biden-Harris Administration, has released the 2023 Economic Report of the President. This report starts with a reflection by President Biden about the...
EU KLEMS Updates
| Date: | 21 March 2023 |
Last November 2022 the original EU KLEMS project website was taken offline. Since 2007 this website hosted the initial EU KLEMS project pages and all releases constructed between 2007 and 2018. The website has been archived in its entirety using the intern...
Grant for investigating Structural Change in sub-Saharan Africa
| Date: | 09 February 2023 |
Hagen Kruse and Gaaitzen de Vries, together with Kei-Mu Yi and Yabo Vidogbena (both at the University of Houston), have obtained a research grant from STEG/CEPR. They will take a quantitative modelling approach to investigate the driving forces of...
PWT 10.01 has been released
| Date: | 09 February 2023 |
We have released a minor update of the Penn World Table, version 10.01. This update changes part of the calculation of investment prices and most notably impact capital growth. Details of this change have been documented in an updated 'what is new'...
Paper Published in the IMF Economic Review
| Date: | 13 September 2022 |
The paper “A manufacturing renaissance? Industrialization trends in the developing world” written by Hagen Kruse, Emmanuel Mensah, Kunal Sen, and Gaaitzen de Vries has been published in the IMF Economic Review.
Robert Inklaar, Daan Freeman and Erwin Diewert win the 2021 Kendrick prize
| Date: | 01 September 2022 |
Robert Inklaar, Daan Freeman and Erwin Diewert have won the 2021 Kendrick prize during the 37th IARIW General Conference held in August in Luxembourg. Their paper titled ‘Natural Resources and Missing Inputs in International Productivity Comparisons’ was...
In Memoriam: Dale Jorgenson and the GGDC
| Date: | 24 June 2022 |