Results for tag: PWT
Online prices for real consumption comparisons
| Date: | 11 July 2018 |
Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer published a paper in the AEA Papers and Proceedings on using online prices for comparisons of real consumption levels across countries (open access version here), jointly with Alberto Cavallo (HBS), Erwin Diewert (UBC) and ...
PWT 9.1: Release information
| Date: | 11 July 2018 |
Work on a new version of the Penn World Table (PWT) is progressing and has advanced to the point where we can provide more information on the timing and content of this new release:
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.
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...
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...
Sessions at SEM conference
| Date: | 28 July 2017 |
Marcel Timmer and Robert Inklaar each organised a session at the 4th annual conference of the Society for Economic Measurement, at MIT, from July 26 to 28. The session by Marcel Timmer was on trade and global value chains and included presentations by Robe...
Robert Inklaar appointed full professor
| Date: | 15 July 2017 |
On July 1, Robert Inklaar was appointed Professor in the Economics of Productivity and Welfare at the University of Groningen. The main research objective of this new chair is to better understand how automation will affect not just economic activity, but...
Robots & the future of jobs? It's complicated
| Date: | 31 May 2017 |
On the (Dutch) Kennislink website, Robert Inklaar discusses how the spread of robots is a challenge for those with jobs involving routine tasks, yet embracing robots may be preferable to jobs disappearing overseas.
'Big data' grant: online prices & living standards
| Date: | 29 March 2017 |
The Transatlantic Platform has awarded a Digging into Data grant of €375,000 to an international team of researchers, with the team for the Netherlands led by Robert Inklaar and also including Marcel Timmer. The grant is awarded for a project to use online...
Alan Heston's ICP memoirs
| Date: | 01 February 2017 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Alan Heston, one of the original forces behind the International Comparison Program (ICP) and the Penn World Table has drafted a memoir of these major undertakings, which have transformed international economic statistics over the past half century. We...