Value chain specialisation in Sweden

Gaaitzen de Vries completed a consultancy report on ‘Global Value Chain Specialization Patterns of Sweden and Its Key Competitors’ for Tillväxtanalys (Stockholm, Sweden). The analysis shows that Austria and the Netherlands are emerging as key competitors in terms of being active in the same markets and activities.

Alternative poverty measurement

Robert Inklaar presented research-in-progress with Jutta Bolt at a World Bank meeting. The main question is whether the World Bank's approach to measuring global poverty does adequate justice to cross-country differences and whether a new method for determining the cost of subsistence using data from ICP is more appropriate.

El Pais on value chains

El Pais reports on the changing structure of world trade using data from the World Input-Output Database (in Spanish).

Emissions growth has domestic roots

Gaaitzen de Vries published new research with Benno Ferrarini of the Asian Development Bank where they account for the growth of carbon dioxide emissions due to changes in consumption, technology and global supply chain trade, see here. While emerging economies have increased their emissions in part to satisfy consumption demand in advanced economies, most emission increases are due to increased domestic consumption.

PWT paper appears in AER

A paper co-authored by Robert Feenstra from UC Davis, Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer has appeared in the October issue of the American Economic Review. The paper details the new version of the widely-used Penn World Table, how this database can best be used and reports on novel applications.

China-EU seminar on structural change

Gaaitzen de Vries participated in an expert seminar organised by the European Commission's DG EMPL and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on structural change.