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Faculty of Economics and Business
GGDC Global Value Chains WIOD

Initial WIOD Project

FP7
Grant Agreement no: 225 281

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 The original project website has been archived and is no longer maintained.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
UG
Netherlands
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
IPTS
Spain
WIIW
Austria
ZEW
Germany
WIFO
Austria
Hochschule Konstanz
HTWG
Germany
TCBE
Belgium
OECD
France
CPB
Netherlands
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

WIOD policy briefs and presentations

Title
Reference
Slicing Up Global Value Chains
Made in Europe? Trends in International Production Fragmentation
Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs. An analysis of European Competitiveness
New measures of European Competitiveness: A Global Value Chain Perspective
International integration of production: factor trade and employment effects
How does international trade contribute to a sustainable growth of employment?

Conferences

Vienna, May 2010
Seville, May 2011
Brussels, April 2012
Groningen, April 2012

WIOD Working Papers

Title
Authors
Date
1
Jose M. Rueda-Cantuche and Thijs ten Raa
June 2009
2
Umed Temurshoev, Norihiko Yamano, and Colin Webb
January 2010
3
Umed Temurshoev and Marcel P. Timmer
February 2010
4
Neil Foster and Robert Stehrer
February 2010
5
Erik Dietzenbacher
April 2012
6
Neil Foster, Robert Stehrer, Marcel Timmer, and Gaaitzen de Vries
April 2012
7
Robert Stehrer, Neil Foster, and Gaaitzen de Vries
April 2012
8
Robert Stehrer
April 2012
9
Marcel P. Timmer, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, and Gaaitzen de Vries
November 2012
10
Marcel P. Timmer et al.
May 2012
11
Bart Los, Erik Dietzenbacher, Robert Stehrer, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries
May 2012
12
Marcel P. Timmer, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, Gaaitzen de vries
September 2012
13
Gerhard Streicher and Robert Stehrer
October 2012
14
Robert Stehrer
November 2013
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