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...
Grant for digitising Dutch financial market information since 1796
| Date: | 08 June 2020 |
Herman de Jong received a large grant for building a new Dutch database holding Dutch corporate and stock exchange data for the period 1796-1980. The grant is awarded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Science) in cooperation with digital infrastructures...
Living standards in the UK at the start of the industrial revolution
| Date: | 27 May 2020 |
Herman de Jong and Daniel Gallardo published a paper in the European Review on Economic History on the evolution of English living standards during the early phase of industrialization (1760-1850). The paper takes a multi-dimensional perspective and...
Economy of the Northern Netherlands
| Date: | 19 May 2020 |
Together with UG-colleagues Thijs Broekhuizen, Sierdjan Koster and Arjen Edzes and several experts from non-academic circles, Bart Los wrote the first edition of De Staat van de Noord-Nederlandse Economie (The State of the Economy of the Northern...
GGDC Conference moved to 16-18 June 2021
| Date: | 10 April 2020 |
Groningen co-leads major international project on Structural Change and Economic Growth
| Date: | 04 March 2020 |
For low-income countries to develop, their economies need to transform from rural and agricultural to urban and industrialised. In many sub-Saharan countries, urbanization to date has outpaced industrialization and structural change has largely been from...
Obituary Adam (Eddy) Szirmai
| Date: | 15 January 2020 |
It is with great sadness that we received news on the passing away of our good friend and colleague Eddy (Adam) Szirmai. Eddy was one the co-founders of the GGDC in 1994. He has been crucial in bringing together a group of dedicated scholars on the topic...
Call for Papers – GGDC Conference 2020
| Date: | 21 November 2019 |
The GGDC organizes a conference on June 15–17 2020 in Groningen, on the themes central to GGDC, namely long-run economic development, trade and technology. The conference will feature keynote speeches by Carol Graham (Brookings, Maryland), Branko Milanovic...
Branko Milanovic new Maddison Chair
| Date: | 14 November 2019 |
Branko Milanovic has been appointed as the third holder of the Maddison Chair. In this role, he will be affiliated with the University of Groningen and regularly visit for research and teaching activities.
UNU WIDER grant and research cooperation
| Date: | 09 November 2019 |
A team of researchers at FEB’s Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) received US$223k from UNU WIDER for a multi-year research project on structural change in developing countries. The United Nations University World Institute for Development...