Man and machine
Date: | 11 December 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Herman de Jong and Marcel Timmer contributed to the KVS Preadviezen “De match tussen mens en machine” [The match between man and machine], edited by Bas ter Weel. They presented their contributions at the Behandeling van de KVS Preadviezen in The Hague.
Round table on the future of economic growth research
Date: | 10 December 2015 |
Marcel Timmer participated in a round table discussion on 'Future Trends in the Economics of Growth', where he talked about the need for more work on growth of welfare, rather than GDP; see his presentation. The round table was hosted by Mark Sanders of...
Expert meeting on Global Value Chains
Date: | 30 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries participated in an expert meeting on the Dutch economy in Global Value Chains organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the recent report by De Vries and Timmer on the mutual dependence of manufacturing and services for...
Trade in value added research covered on RTL-Z
Date: | 25 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gauging the strength of the Netherlands of a trading nation and analysing where it specialises should use data on trade in value added, rather than the traditional gross trade statistics. Well-known to experts, but Marcel Timmer's research in the...
PWT 9.0: planned features and approximate release
Date: | 25 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The next version of the Penn World Table, version 9.0, is currently under development with numerous changes. There is no firm release date at this point, other than 'as soon as possible'. Our best estimate at this point will be a release in the first...
Premature deindustrialization: GGDC data in the Wall Street Journal
Date: | 25 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
While advanced economies grew rich from specialising in manufacturing and employing a large share of the labor force in this sector, the research of Dani Rodrik suggests that path is no longer available to lower-income economies today. How does he know...
Productivity and convergence paper accepted in JoE
Date: | 21 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
A paper by Robert Inklaar and Erwin Diewert on "Measuring industry productivity and cross-country convergence" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics, in a special issue on economic measurement. The paper finds that cross-country...
Manufacturing and services need each other
Date: | 17 November 2015 |
Gaaitzen de Vries and Marcel Timmer finished a report for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairsand VNO/NCW titled: “Dutch Manufacturing Competing in Global Value Chains”. The report stresses the mutual dependence of manufacturing and services for the...
Peer-review of new FAO Agricultural Database
Date: | 12 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Reitze Gouma gave a presentation on the occasion of the launch of the FAO's new agricultural productivity database, indicating how incorporating measurement lessons from EU KLEMS would be beneficial.
Paper accepted on African inequality trends
Date: | 08 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The paper ‘Long term trends in economic inequality: Lessons from colonial Botswana 1921–1974’ written by Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom (Lund University) has been accepted for publication in the Economic History Review. The show a rise and subsequent decline...