GGDC Research Memorandum

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GD-132: Analytical and Empirical Comparison of Policy-Relevant Key Sector Measures

Umed Temurshoev and Jan Oosterhaven

GD-131: Made in Europe? Trends in International Production Fragmentation

Bart Los, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries

GD-130: Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs. An analysis of European competitiveness

Marcel Timmer, Robert Stehrer, Bart Los and Gaaitzen de Vries

GD-129: Reconstruction of an Input-Output Table for Germany in 1936: Conceptual and Empirical-Statistical Problems

Reiner Staeglin and Rainer Fremdling

GD-128: China and the World Economy:A Global Value Chain Perspective on Exports, Incomes and Jobs

Marcel Timmer, Bart Los and Gaaitzen de Vries

GD-127: The Europe-U.S. Retail Trade Productivity Gap in a Rear-view Mirror

Tarek Harchaoui

GD-126: Reassessing the Evolution of World Trade, 1870-1949

Petros Milionis and Mariko Klasing

GD-125: A Quarter of a Century Progress Report on the Services Sector Productivity Statistics. A Europe-United States Perspective

Tarek Harchaoui

GD-124: The relative price of services

Marcel Timmer and Robert Inklaar

GD-123: New measures of output, labour and capital in industries of the Russian economy

Ilya Voskoboynikov

GD-122: Entropy-based benchmarking methods

Umed Temurshoev

GD-121: Deconstructing the BRICs: Structural Transformation and Aggregate Productivity Growth

Ilya Voskoboynikov, Marcel Timmer, Gaaitzen de Vries, Abdul Azeez Erumban and Harry Wu

GD-120: Does Access to Finance Lower Firms’ Cost of Capital? Empirical Evidence from International Manufacturing Data

Addisu Lashitew

GD-119: Real Output of Bank Services: What Counts Is What Banks Do, Not What They Own

J. Christina Wang and Robert Inklaar

GD-118: Sectoral Productivity Trends:Convergence Islands in Oceans of Divergence

Gaaitzen de Vries, Bart Los and Fulvio Castellacci

GD-117: Banking sector output measurement in the euro area – a modified approach

Robert Inklaar and A. Colangelo

GD-116: Joint Estimation of Supply and Use Tables

Umed Temurshoev

GD-115: Structural Change in Advanced Nations: A New Set of Stylised Facts

Dale Jorgenson and Marcel Timmer

GD-114: Education and household inequality change: a decomposition analysis for India

Janneke Pieters

GD-113: Comparing Productivity in the Netherlands, France, UK and US, ca. 1910:A new PPP benchmark and its implications for changing economic leadership

Pieter Woltjer, Jan-Pieter Smits and Ewout Frankema

GD-112: Productivity in a Distorted Market: The Case of Brazil's Retail Sector

Gaaitzen de Vries

GD-111: Measurement error in cross-country productivity comparisons: Is more detailed data better?

Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer

GD-109: Productivity Convergence Across Industries and Countries: The Importance of Theory-based Measurement

Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer

GD-108: A Comparison of Real Output and Productivity for British and American Manufacturing in 1935

H. de Jong and Pieter Woltjer

GD-107: A Dataset on Comparative Historical National Accounts, ca.1870-1950: A Time-Series Perspective

J.-P. Smits, Pieter Woltjer and D. Ma

GD-106: An Input-Output Table for Germany and a New Benchmark for German Gross National Product in 1936

Rainer Fremdling and R. Staglin

GD-105: Did Liberalization Start A Retail Revolution In Brazil?

Gaaitzen de Vries

GD-104: GGDC Productivity Level Database: International Comparisons of Output, Inputs and Productivity at the Industry Level

Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer

GD-103: The Sensitivity of Capital Services Measurement: Measure all assets and the cost of capital

Robert Inklaar

GD-102: The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks

Susanto Basu, Robert Inklaar and J. Christina Wang

GD-101: European Industry, 1700 - 1870

Stephen Broadberry, Rainer Fremdling and Peter M. Solar

GD-100: Financial dependence and industry growth in Europe: Better banks and higher productivity

Robert Inklaar and Michael Koetter

GD-99: Regional Capital Inputs in Chinese Industry and Manufacturing, 1978-2003

Lili Wang and Adam Szirmai

GD-98: A Cross-country Database For Sectoral Employment And Productivity in Asia and Latin America, 1950-2005

Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries

GD-97: Solidarity as an Engine for Economic Change: The impact of Swedish and US political ideology on wage differentials and structural change

Melike Wulfgramm

GD-95: Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables

Robert Feenstra, Alan Heston, Marcel Timmer and Haiyan Deng

GD-94b: (Re)Construction Site of German Historical National Accounts: German Industrial Employment 1925, 1933, 1936 and 1939: A New Benchmark for 1936 and a Note on Hoffmann's Tales

Rainer Fremdling

GD-94a: (Re)Construction Site of German Historical National Accounts: Machine Building: A New Benchmark before World War I

Rainer Fremdling

GD-93: Was It Really “Growth with Equity†under Soeharto? A Theil Analysis of Indonesian Income Inequality, 1961-2002

Ewout Frankema and Daan Marks

GD-91: Do ‘Liberal Market Economies’ Really Innovate More Radically than ‘Coordinated Market Economies’? Hall & Soskice Reconsidered

Dirk Akkermans, Carolina Castaldi and Bart Los

GD-90: Censuses compared. A New Benchmark for British and German Manufacturing 1935/1936

Rainer Fremdling, Herman de Jong and Marcel Timmer

GD-89: Mind the gap! International Comparisons of Productivity in Services and Goods Production

Robert Inklaar, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark

GD-88: The Properties of Sectoral Growth: Evidence from Four Large European Economies

Carolina Castaldi and Sandro Sapio

GD-87: Lifetimes of Machinery and Equipment. Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing

Abdul Azeez Erumban

GD-86: Measuring and Analysing Educational Inequality: The Distribution of Grade Enrolment Rates in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Ewout Frankema and Jutta Bolt

GD-85: Productivity Levels in Transport, Storage and Communication: A New ICOP 1997 Data Set

Gerard Ypma

GD-83: Productivity Levels in Distributive Trades: A New ICOP Dataset for OECD Countries

Marcel Timmer and Gerard Ypma

GD-82: PPPs for Industry Output: A New Dataset for International Comparisons

Marcel Timmer, Gerard Ypma and Bart van Ark

GD-81: The Colonial Origins of Inequality: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Land Distribution

Ewout Frankema

GD-79: Catching up or getting stuck? Europe's troubles to exploit ICT's productivity potential

Bart van Ark and Robert Inklaar

GD-63: Manufacturing Performance in Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan before and after the Crisis. An international Perspective, 1980-2000

Edwin Stuivenwold and Marcel Timmer