Value added in exports paper accepted in AER

The paper "Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports: Comment" (login required), written by Bart Los, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries will appear in the American Economic Review. They provide a much simpler and more intuitive method for determining the amount of domestic value added in exports than the original paper by Koopman, Wang and Wei.

New GGDC hires

Four new hires will strengthen the GGDC: PhD students Stefan Pahl and Aobo Jiang, and post docs Laurie Reijnders and Wen Chen.

Start of the post-WIOD VICI project of Marcel Timmer

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 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).