Results for tag: Staff
Grant for ICT Innovation Project
| Date: | 06 February 2024 |
Professors Abe de Jong and Herman de Jong received a grant of 160,000 euro for a UG ICT Innovation Fund Proposal titled Digitization of printed registries to structured data. The project’s idea is to deliver a machine learning-powered online platform to...
Interview with Robert Inklaar on achieving impact with open data
| Date: | 20 October 2023 |
Last month GGDC director Robert Inklaar, gave an interview for the Open Science blog of the University of Groningen Library. Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. But how to do...
Grant for investigating Structural Change in sub-Saharan Africa
| Date: | 09 February 2023 |
Hagen Kruse and Gaaitzen de Vries, together with Kei-Mu Yi and Yabo Vidogbena (both at the University of Houston), have obtained a research grant from STEG/CEPR. They will take a quantitative modelling approach to investigate the driving forces of...
Paper Published in the IMF Economic Review
| Date: | 13 September 2022 |
The paper “A manufacturing renaissance? Industrialization trends in the developing world” written by Hagen Kruse, Emmanuel Mensah, Kunal Sen, and Gaaitzen de Vries has been published in the IMF Economic Review.
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...
Paper accepted in The World Bank Economic Review
| Date: | 18 February 2022 |
The paper "Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle-Income Countries", written by Stefan Pahl, Marcel Timmer, Reitze Gouma, and Pieter Woltjer, has been accepted for publication in the The World Bank...
Grant for investigating long-term disease patterns in Africa between 1850 and 1960
| Date: | 03 February 2022 |
Jutta Bolt has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant for five years to investigate historical disease patterns in Africa. The current pandemic is a forceful reminder of the global importance of good health for all. But at the same...
Grant for historical investigation into function of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
| Date: | 06 May 2021 |
Herman de Jong received a large NWO-OC grant funding a project to investigate the function of the Amsterdam stock exchange during the period 1870-1940. The aim of this project is to probe the stock exchange’s contribution to corporate finance and economic...
Two GGDC economists in ESB Top-40
| Date: | 17 December 2020 |
Marcel Timmer and Robert Inklaar are both in the Dutch Economists Top 40, compiled annually by the journal ESB, on places 35 and 39. On the separate list of highest scoring economists in 2019, Robert Inklaar comes in at third place. The main ranking is...
Jutta Bolt appointed to Aletta Jacobs chair
| Date: | 16 December 2020 |
Jutta Bolt has just been appointed to one of the University of Groningen's Aletta Jacobs chairs. These chairs were created to give female associate professors a leg up, to achieve a less male-dominated professoriat. As GGDC, we heartily congratulate Jutta...