Results for tag: WIOD
The impact of Brexit on the Northern Netherlands
| Date: | 29 November 2018 |
The Socio-Economic Council of the Northern Netherlands, SER-NN, organized a meeting on November 26 about the possible impact of Brexit on three Northern provinces of The Netherlands. Bart Los gave a talk and participated in a panel with representatives...
Prize for Brexit article
| Date: | 29 November 2018 |
On November 15, Bart Los received the award for the best paper in the 2017 volume of the journal Regional Studies. He had co-authored the winning paper, The Mismatch between Local Voting and the Local Economic Consequences of Brexit, with Philip McCann...
Distance drives services trade too
| Date: | 24 September 2018 |
Today, the Financial Times reports on new research by Jonathan Eaton (U. of Pennsylvania) and Samuel Kortum (Yale) using data from the World Input Output Database. Eaton and Kortum find that trade volumes in services is heavily affected by distance. So if,...
The unpredictable consequences of Trump's trade policy
| Date: | 24 September 2018 |
In an article in the (Dutch) Volkskrant, Marcel Timmer is interviewed on the consequences of the trade negotiations between the NAFTA countries, the United States, Mexico and Canada. He argues that the inter-connected nature of trade and production means...
Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
In research published in the Journal of Development Economics, Laurie Reijnders and Gaaitzen de Vries analyse the worldwide increase in the share of non-routine jobs. They find that, in particular, technology has led to a global increase in this share,...
Brexit research at ERSA
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
At the latest conference of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Bart Los, together with Phillip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argilés and Frank van Oort, organised a session on Brexit. The presentations focused on (e.g.) the regional disparities of...
Income and Wealth conference activity
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
At the latest General Conference of the International Association of Research in Income and Wealth, GGDC researchers contributed substantially to the program:
Timmer on Trump's Trade War
| Date: | 10 July 2018 |
Marcel Timmer is interviewed by the Dutch newspaper NRC on the effects of import tariffs on cars. These have been threatened by Trump and would aim to shift car production to the United States. Such tariffs would hurt Americans by making cars more...
Productivity and value chains at World KLEMS conference
| Date: | 14 June 2018 |
Marcel Timmer, Robert Inklaar and Jop Woltjer were amongst the presenters at the Fifth World KLEMS conference, organised by Dale Jorgenson and others at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on June 4–5. Presentations included discussion of the...
Piketty gives Maddison lecture
| Date: | 01 June 2018 |
On May 23, Thomas Piketty gave the Maddison lecture, on the topic of globalization and inequality. See here for some highlights and how Piketty's work relates to research of GGDC.