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Alan Heston (1934-2024)

Date:26 October 2024
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Alan Heston, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the original architects of the Penn World Table (PWT). His pioneering work in international price comparisons and economic measurement has profoundly shaped our understanding of global economic development and living standards.

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.
8th World KLEMS Conference

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...

Douglas Gollin

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...

Maddison Project

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...

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...

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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...

Value added prices across sectors

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...