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Veni grant for Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich

Date:17 October 2024
Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich has received a Veni grant of 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The newly appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business’ Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance was awarded the grant for his research on the distribution of colonial profits in the Netherlands.
Average world income, year 1–2022

Nobel Prize 2024 Awarded for Groundbreaking Work on Institutions and Prosperity

Date:14 October 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson for their pioneering studies on how institutions are formed and how they affect prosperity. Important in motivating their research and quantifying income differences and growth over the (very) long run is the work by Angus Maddison. His work lives on at the GGDC as part of the Maddison Project Database.
Professors Abe de Jong (left) and Herman de Jong (right)

Grant for ICT Innovation Project

Date:06 February 2024

Professors Abe de Jong and Herman de Jong received a grant of 160,000 euro for a UG ICT Innovation Fund Proposal titled Digitization of printed registries to structured data. The project’s idea is to deliver a machine learning-powered online platform to...

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FEB-HIS Summer School: Financial, Economic and Business History

Date:18 January 2024

The Financial, Economic and Business History (FEB-HIS) Summer School for PhD students and Postdocs will take place in Groningen from Monday 24th June to Friday 28th June 2024. It is organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University...

Jutta Bolt

Grant for investigating long-term disease patterns in Africa between 1850 and 1960

Date:03 February 2022

Jutta Bolt has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant for five years to investigate historical disease patterns in Africa. The current pandemic is a forceful reminder of the global importance of good health for all. But at the same...

Long-run WIOD

Long-run WIOD published

Date:15 December 2021

As part of Marcel Timmer's VICI-project, a long-run time series of World Input-Output Tables for the period 1965-2000 has been constructed.

World Input-Output Database

WIOD migration and DataverseNL

Date:14 December 2021

The original website of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), previously hosted at www.wiod.org, has been migrated to the GGDC website. An archived version of the original website is still available, but will no longer be updated. All information and...

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European Historical Economics Society Conference, Groningen 17th and 18th June, 2022

Date:14 December 2021

The fourteenth conference of the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) will be held at the University of Groningen, Friday - Saturday, 17-18 June 2022.

Maddison project, re: "Don't believe the Haiti/DR graph"

Date:24 September 2021
A recent post argues the data from Maddison and the Maddison project are wrong on the relative income levels of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and overstate Haiti's income level. Jan Luiten van Zanden and Jutta Bolt show that the problem is a lack of good historical income comparisons for these countries, not the specific choices made in the Maddison Project.

Grant for historical investigation into function of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange

Date:06 May 2021

Herman de Jong received a large NWO-OC grant funding a project to investigate the function of the Amsterdam stock exchange during the period 1870-1940. The aim of this project is to probe the stock exchange’s contribution to corporate finance and economic...