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 The original project website has been archived and is no longer maintained.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 |
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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 |
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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
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