Alan Heston (1934-2024)
Date: | 26 October 2024 |
Veni grant for Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich
Date: | 17 October 2024 |
Nobel Prize 2024 Awarded for Groundbreaking Work on Institutions and Prosperity
Date: | 14 October 2024 |
Call for papers: 8th World KLEMS Conference in Tokyo
Date: | 08 July 2024 |
The 8th World KLEMS Conference will be held on March 27-28, 2025 in Tokyo. This is the second World KLEMS Conference in Tokyo, with the first one held in 2014. This conference is organized by Gakushuin University, Hitotsubashi University, and Research...
2024 Maddison Lecture by Douglas Gollin
Date: | 16 May 2024 |
On May 30, Douglas Gollin of Tufts and Oxford University will give the 2024 Maddison Lecture. Gollin will speak on the topic of Structural Transformation and Growth. Economists have long recognised that for a country to develop, its economy should...
The Maddison Project: New 2023 Update Illuminates Origins of Modern Economic Growth
Date: | 29 April 2024 |
The latest iteration of the Maddison Project Database, recently published in the Journal of Economic Surveys not only incorporates new time series data on GDP per capita for many countries but refined the original Maddison methodology. This makes it the...
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...
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...
Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: New Data and New Insights
Date: | 09 January 2024 |
The new Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies [ETD-TE] allows for analysis of the inter-industry structural change performance of the countries of the former Soviet Union for the first time. In the period 1990-2019 - the three decades...
GGDC Releases Productivity Level Database 2023 Edition
Date: | 23 October 2023 |
Comparing productivity at the sectoral level requires estimates of relatives prices at the sectoral level. The 2023 edition of the Productivity Level Database provides the most comprehensive GGDC dataset to date, covering 84 countries and 12 sectors across...