Bart van Ark appointed honorary professor
| Date: | 14 December 2020 |
Following the appointment of Bart van Ark as director of the new Productivity Institute, he has been appointed as honorary professor at FEB to emphasise his continued engagement with the University of Groningen, see here for more details.
How Africans Shaped British Colonial Institutions: Evidence from Local Taxation
| Date: | 04 November 2020 |
Jutta Bolt and Leigh Gardner published a paper in the Journal of Economic History on the role played by Africans in shaping British colonial institutions in Africa. The paper presents new data on local governments, or “Native Authorities,” to present the...
Maddison Project Database 2020
| Date: | 04 November 2020 |
A new version of the Maddison Project Database has been released this week. This new version includes all available recent work by economic historians on long term economic growth and extends the income series for all countries until 2018. The 2020 update...
Workshop on measurement for structural transformation
| Date: | 07 September 2020 |
Robert Inklaar new GGDC director
| Date: | 01 September 2020 |
On September 1, Robert Inklaar has taken over as director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) from Marcel Timmer.
New Productivity Institute with GGDC ties
| Date: | 21 August 2020 |
The UK ESRC is funding a new Productivity Institute, which will be based at the Alliance Manchester Business School and led by Bart van Ark, who was director of the GGDC for a long time and who remains affiliated with the GGDC and the University of...
The importance of Spain and Italy for the Dutch economy
| Date: | 10 August 2020 |
Bart Los and Xianjia Ye published an article in ESB, the major Dutch magazine on economic policy. They provide indicators for the economic importance of Italy and Spain for the Dutch and German economies. Using methods for bilateral dependencies in...
Grant for digitising Dutch financial market information since 1796
| Date: | 08 June 2020 |
Herman de Jong received a large grant for building a new Dutch database holding Dutch corporate and stock exchange data for the period 1796-1980. The grant is awarded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Science) in cooperation with digital infrastructures...
Living standards in the UK at the start of the industrial revolution
| Date: | 27 May 2020 |
Herman de Jong and Daniel Gallardo published a paper in the European Review on Economic History on the evolution of English living standards during the early phase of industrialization (1760-1850). The paper takes a multi-dimensional perspective and...
Economy of the Northern Netherlands
| Date: | 19 May 2020 |
Together with UG-colleagues Thijs Broekhuizen, Sierdjan Koster and Arjen Edzes and several experts from non-academic circles, Bart Los wrote the first edition of De Staat van de Noord-Nederlandse Economie (The State of the Economy of the Northern...