Results for tag: WIOD
New Research Sheds Light on How Skill Mismatches Shape Productivity Gaps
| Date: | 05 September 2025 |
A new study, “How important is human capital misallocation across sectors for aggregate productivity differences? Evidence beyond Cobb-Douglas,” by Jan Trenczek (Prognos AG) and Konstantin M. Wacker (University of Groningen), reconsiders how much...
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.
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 An archived version of the original website is still available, but will no longer be updated.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...
Global Value Chain report published
| Date: | 16 November 2021 |
The Asian Development bank (ADB), Research institute for Global Value Chains at the university of international business and economics (RI GVC), the World trade organization (WTO), the institute of Developing economies – Japan external trade organization...
Supply Chains and the Global Trade Elasticity
| Date: | 13 April 2021 |
Last week, the IMF Economic Review published a new paper by GGDC researchers Marcel Timmer, Bart Los and Gaaitzen de Vries, co-authored with wiiw's Robert Stehrer. The paper proposes a new way to account for changes in the global trade elasticity, the...
The importance of Spain and Italy for the Dutch economy
| Date: | 10 August 2020 |
Bart Los and Xianjia Ye published an article in ESB, the major Dutch magazine on economic policy. They provide indicators for the economic importance of Italy and Spain for the Dutch and German economies. Using methods for bilateral dependencies in...
Seminar on regional value chains at ESCoE
| Date: | 06 June 2019 |
On June 4, Bart Los gave a seminar at the London office of the Office for National Statistics. It was a seminar in the series organized by the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, an initiative to which Marcel Timmer and Bart contributed. Bart's talk...
Patterns of vertical specialisation
| Date: | 05 June 2019 |
In a recently published paper in the Review of World Economics, Stefan Pahl and Marcel Timmer document a new set of stylized facts on vertical specialisation since 1970. They construct new data to estimate the domestic value-added content in exports (VAX-D...
NY Times covers GGDC Brexit research
| Date: | 12 February 2019 |
On February 7, the New York Times published an article on regional implications of Brexit. It featured a map on regional economic Brexit risks in Europe, taken from the Papers in Regional Science article from 2018, co-authored by GGDC-members Wen Chen and...
Post-Brexit trade policy
| Date: | 19 December 2018 |
Peter IJtsma, Bart Los and Marcel Timmer, joint with Peter Levell (IFS), published a paper in Fiscal Studies on the degree to which the UK participates in global value chains and what this implies for a post-Brexit trade policy. They argue that the UK will...