Results for tag:Productivity
Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: New Data and New Insights
| Date: | 09 January 2024 |
The new Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies [ETD-TE] allows for analysis of the inter-industry structural change performance of the countries of the former Soviet Union for the first time. In the period 1990-2019 - the three decades...
GGDC Releases Productivity Level Database 2023 Edition
| Date: | 23 October 2023 |
Comparing productivity at the sectoral level requires estimates of relatives prices at the sectoral level. The 2023 edition of the Productivity Level Database provides the most comprehensive GGDC dataset to date, covering 84 countries and 12 sectors across...
TPI blog on the Penn World Table
| Date: | 18 July 2023 |
The Productivity Institute recently published a new blog introducing the Penn World Table (PWT). Authored by Ryan Marapin, Robert Inklaar and Reitze Gouma, this blog showcases two example analyses that illustrate the potential of the PWT data set, along...
EU KLEMS Updates
| Date: | 21 March 2023 |
Last November 2022 the original EU KLEMS project website was taken offline. Since 2007 this website hosted the initial EU KLEMS project pages and all releases constructed between 2007 and 2018. The website has been archived in its entirety using the intern...
PWT 10.01 has been released
| Date: | 09 February 2023 |
We have released a minor update of the Penn World Table, version 10.01. This update changes part of the calculation of investment prices and most notably impact capital growth. Details of this change have been documented in an updated 'what is new'...
Robert Inklaar, Daan Freeman and Erwin Diewert win the 2021 Kendrick prize
| Date: | 01 September 2022 |
Robert Inklaar, Daan Freeman and Erwin Diewert have won the 2021 Kendrick prize during the 37th IARIW General Conference held in August in Luxembourg. Their paper titled ‘Natural Resources and Missing Inputs in International Productivity Comparisons’ was...
The Economist: Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse
| Date: | 14 June 2022 |
On June 9th, The Economist featured research by John Fernald of INSEAD Business School and GGDC director Robert Inklaar. In their article 'The UK Productivity “Puzzle” in an International Comparative Perspective', they argue that most of Britain’s slowdown...
The Economist: China is trying to protect its economy from Western pressure
| Date: | 30 May 2022 |
On May 26 The Economist featured an article on China's attempts to mitigate its exposure to Western influence, using data from the Penn World Table version 10.0.
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...
Bart van Ark appointed honorary professor
| Date: | 14 December 2020 |
Following the appointment of Bart van Ark as director of the new Productivity Institute, he has been appointed as honorary professor at FEB to emphasise his continued engagement with the University of Groningen, see here for more details.