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...
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...
Marcel Timmer to be appointed to the board of the CPB
Date: | 15 April 2019 |
Marcel Timmer, director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre will be appointed as one of the three board members of the Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, CPB, starting September 1, 2019. In this position, he will jointly lead the...
PWT 9.1 has been released
Date: | 11 April 2019 |
Bart Los on Brexit and the Northern Netherlands
Date: | 07 April 2019 |
Over the past few months, GGDC-researcher Bart Los has contributed a bi-weekly column about Brexit to the website of Groningen's regional public broadcaster RTV Noord. The columns focus on various potential impacts of Brexit on the Northern provinces of...
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...