Initial WIOD Project

A first version of the World Input-Output Database was constructed within the official WIOD Project, funded by the European Commision as part of the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 8: Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities. This project ran from May 2009 and ended in April 2012. The database was offically launched on April 16, 2012 in Brussels, during a High-level conference on "Competitiveness, trade, environment and jobs in Europe: Insights from the new World Input Output Database (WIOD)", attended by EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht. This page presents the original project documentation.

Archived Project Website

The contents of the original WIOD website have been copied to these pages. The original project website has been archived and is no longer maintained.

Participants

Name	Acronym	Country
University of Groningen	UG	Netherlands
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies	IPTS	Spain
Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche	WIIW	Austria
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung	ZEW	Germany
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung	WIFO	Austria
Hochschule Konstanz	HTWG	Germany
The Conference Board Europe	TCBE	Belgium
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	OECD	France
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis	CPB	Netherlands
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems	ICCS	Greece
Central Recherche SA	CRSA	France

World Input-Output Database: Construction and Applications

Policy makers and societies at large are facing increasingly pressing trade-offs between socio-economic and environmental objectives. Increasing global integration through international trade and technological development is linked to an increasing inequality between countries as well as between various classes within society. Increases in production induce growth in the use of non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels and generate higher levels of waste and emissions of environmental pollutants. These developments have a global character and any analysis of their causes and effects needs to recognize the dynamic interrelatedness of countries and industries. The World Input Output Database (WIOD) project (which ran from May 1, 2009 to May 1, 2012) has developed new databases, accounting frameworks and models to increase our understanding of the above-mentioned phenomena. The core of the database is a set of harmonized supply and use tables, alongside with data on international trade in goods and services. These two sets of data have been integrated into sets of intercountry (world) input-output tables. Taken together with extensive satellite accounts with environmental and socio-economic indicators, these industry-level data provide the necessary input to several types of models that can be used to evaluate policies aimed at striking a balance between the various policy objectives.

WIOD Media Coverage

Speech by WTO Director-General Lamy	January 2013
VoxEU	May 2012
World Trade Organization	April 2012
Wall Street Journal	April 2012
EUROPOLITICS	April 2012
Speech by Euro Commissioner De Gucht	April 2012

WIOD policy briefs and presentations

Title	Reference
Slicing Up Global Value Chains	GGDC Research Memorandum 135
Made in Europe? Trends in International Production Fragmentation	GGDC Research Memorandum 131
Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs. An analysis of European Competitiveness	GGDC Research Memorandum 130
WIOD policy briefs
New measures of European Competitiveness: A Global Value Chain Perspective	WIOD Working Paper 9
International integration of production: factor trade and employment effects	WIOD Working Paper 7
How does international trade contribute to a sustainable growth of employment?	Slides

Conferences

1st WIOD Consortium Meeting	Vienna, May 2010
2nd WIOD Consortium Meeting	Seville, May 2011
Official WIOD Launch	Brussels, April 2012
Final WIOD Conference	Groningen, April 2012

WIOD Working Papers

	Title	Authors	Date
1	The Choice of Model in the Construction of Industry Coefficients Matrices	Jose M. Rueda-Cantuche and Thijs ten Raa	June 2009
2	Projection of Supply and Use tables: methods and their empirical assessment	Umed Temurshoev, Norihiko Yamano, and Colin Webb	January 2010
3	Joint Estimation of Supply and Use Tables	Umed Temurshoev and Marcel P. Timmer	February 2010
4	Preferential Trade Agreements and the Structure of International Trade	Neil Foster and Robert Stehrer	February 2010
5	Fragmentation in an Inter-country Input-Output Framework	Erik Dietzenbacher	April 2012
6	Offshoring and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand	Neil Foster, Robert Stehrer, Marcel Timmer, and Gaaitzen de Vries	April 2012
7	Value Added and Factors in Trade: A Comprehensive Approach	Robert Stehrer, Neil Foster, and Gaaitzen de Vries	April 2012
8	Trade in Value Added and the Value Added in Trade	Robert Stehrer	April 2012
9	Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs. An analysis of European competitiveness	Marcel P. Timmer, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, and Gaaitzen de Vries	November 2012
10	The World Input-Output Database (WIOD): Contents, Sources and Methods	Marcel P. Timmer et al.	May 2012
11	Trade Performance in Internationally Fragmented Production Networks: Concepts and Measures	Bart Los, Erik Dietzenbacher, Robert Stehrer, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries	May 2012
12	Slicing Up Global Value Chains	Marcel P. Timmer, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, Gaaitzen de vries	September 2012
13	Whither Panama? Constructing a consistent and balanced world SUT system including international trade and transport margins	Gerhard Streicher and Robert Stehrer	October 2012
14	Accounting relations in bilateral value added trade	Robert Stehrer	November 2013