IMF WEO relies on GGDC data
| Date: | 18 April 2018 |
In the IMF's latest World Economic Outlook, its chapter 3 on manufacturing jobs relies heavily on data provided by the GGDC, including the World Input-Output Database and the GGDC Productivity Level Database, as well as relying on the data from the World...
NBER-CRIW presentation on exports of value added
| Date: | 09 March 2018 |
Today, Bart Los will present new research jointly with Marcel Timmer on Measuring Bilateral Exports of Value Added at a conference organised by the NBER and CRIW on the Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts, which brings...
Beyond Growth? Robert Inklaar's inaugural lecture
| Date: | 08 March 2018 |
On March 6, Robert Inklaar gave his inaugural lecture to officially accept his position of Professor in the Economics of Productivity and Welfare. In this lecture, he established how productivity growth in the 21st century has been low by historical...
Competitiveness and Global Value Chains
| Date: | 02 March 2018 |
On March 2, Bart Los gave a seminar at the European Commission, Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) on the usefulness of the World Input-Output Database for tracking European competitiveness in a world characterised by global...
Release of new WIOD Socio-Economic Accounts
| Date: | 02 February 2018 |
Today the GGDC released the Socio-Economic Accounts (SEA), part of the WIOD 2016 release.
VoxEU column on Rebasing 'Maddison'
| Date: | 25 January 2018 |
A new column on VoxEU is online, discussing the new version of the Maddison Project Database, which was released two weeks ago. The key innovation is to distinguish two series for real GDP per capita, one best suited for comparing income levels across...
Value chains and the Scottish economy
| Date: | 17 January 2018 |
A recent report on the importance of trading links with Europe for the Scottish economy emphasises the importance of taking a global value chain perspective to analysing this topic. The report relies on the WIOD database to make these arguments.
Maddison Project Database 2018
| Date: | 11 January 2018 |
A new version of the Maddison Project Database has been released today. This new version introduces a new measure of real GDP per capita that is based on both modern and historical comparisons of income levels, leading to a 'multiple benchmark' measure...
Strong GGDC showing in top-40
| Date: | 21 December 2017 |
The annual top-40 of economists and business researchers in the Netherlands features both Marcel Timmer (24) and Robert Inklaar (32). This ranking, produced by the journal Economische and Statistische Berichten, is based on each researcher's 15 best...
Press coverage: the regional impact of Brexit
| Date: | 21 December 2017 |
The recent research by Wen Chen, Bart Los and others about how different regions in the UK and in Europe could be affected by Brexit has attracted substantial media attention, from The Guardian, the New Statesman, the Evening Standard, Metro, The...