Results for tag: WIOD
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
US jobs and economic ties with the Netherlands
| Date: | 19 December 2017 |
How important is the trade relationship between the Netherlands and United States for American jobs? In a recent tweet, the Dutch Embassy in Washington DC claims that 740 000 American jobs depend on economies ties with the Netherlands: due to exports from...
The regional impact of Brexit
| Date: | 19 December 2017 |
In a new paper in Papers in Regional Science and a column on VoxEU, Bart Los and Wen Chen – together with Phil McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mark Thissen and Frank van Oort – show how the impact of Brexit on labour income varies across the different...
Sectoral impact assessment of Brexit
| Date: | 12 December 2017 |
Where the UK government was not able to come up with a clear estimate of the impact of Brexit across sectors, Bart Los and Wen Chen, collaborating with Philip McCann (Sheffield) and Raquel Ortega-Argilés (Birmingham) have done so in a new policy briefing....