Results for tag: Staff
Research Professor appointment for Gaaitzen de Vries
| Date: | 07 July 2017 |
Gaaitzen de Vries has been appointed special term Research Professor of Global Value Chains at the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing. The centre in which he participates is dedicated to research activities on the development of...
ESRC grants on Brexit consequences
| Date: | 18 April 2017 |
Marcel Timmer and Bart Los are contributors to two of the 25 winning consortia that will conduct research on the consequences of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union for the British ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). Timmer will...
'Big data' grant: online prices & living standards
| Date: | 29 March 2017 |
The Transatlantic Platform has awarded a Digging into Data grant of €375,000 to an international team of researchers, with the team for the Netherlands led by Robert Inklaar and also including Marcel Timmer. The grant is awarded for a project to use online...
Inequality lecture at EIB
| Date: | 20 December 2016 |
Robert Inklaar lectures today at the European Investment Bank about Inequality and GDP. He will argue that our understanding of income differences across countries depends crucially on accurate and frequent comparisons of prices across countries as...
Jutta Bolt named Wallenberg Academy Fellow
| Date: | 02 December 2016 |
Jutta Bolt has been named as one of the 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows for 2016. This prestigious Swedish research grant by the Wallenberg Foundation of approximately €1mln will allow Jutta Bolt to devote more time to her research, in part at Lund...
Intangible capital and growth
| Date: | 09 July 2016 |
On June 30, Wen Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis titled Intangible capital and economic growth. He continues his research career in Groningen as a postdoc on Marcel Timmer's Vici project.
Robert Inklaar wins WF Duisenberg Fellowship Prize
| Date: | 27 May 2016 |
Robert Inklaar has won the WF Duisenberg Fellowship Prize, awarded every two years to the best young applied macroeconomist in the Netherlands. The jury praised his publication record and contribution to policy debates. On receiving the prize, he discussed...
Start of the post-WIOD VICI project of Marcel Timmer
| Date: | 01 September 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The VICI project "Modelling Global Value Chains, a new framework to study trade, jobs and income inequality in an interdependent world" has started. This 5-year project involving a team of PhD students and post docs is led by Marcel Timmer and funded by...
New GGDC hires
| Date: | 01 September 2015 |
Four new hires will strengthen the GGDC: PhD students Stefan Pahl and Aobo Jiang, and post docs Laurie Reijnders and Wen Chen.