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Working Papers

GD-105 De Vries, Gaaitzen J., Did Liberalization Start A Retail Revolution In Brazil? (October 2008) brief contents
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GD-104 Inklaar, Robert and Marcel P. Timmer, GGDC Productivity Level Database: International Comparisons of Output, Inputs and Productivity at the Industry Level (September 2008)

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GD-103 Inklaar, Robert, The Sensitivity of Capital Services Measurement: Measure all assets and the cost of capital (May 2008) brief contents
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GD-102 Basu, Susanto, Robert Inklaar and J. Christina Wang, The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks (May 2008) brief contents
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GD-101 Broadberry, Stephen, Rainer Fremdling and Peter M. Solar, European Industry, 1700 - 1870 (April 2008) brief contents
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GD-100 Inklaar, Robert and Michael Koetter, Financial dependence and industry growth in Europe: Better banks and higher productivity (January 2008) brief contents
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GD-99 Wang, Lili and Adam Szirmai, Regional Capital Inputs in Chinese Industry and Manufacturing, 1978-2003 (April 2008) brief contents
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GD-98 Timmer, Marcel P. and Gaaitzen J. de Vries, A Cross-country Database For Sectoral Employment And Productivity in Asia and Latin America, 1950-2005 (August 2007)
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GD-97 Wulfgramm, Melike, Solidarity as an Engine for Economic Change: The impact of Swedish and US political ideology on wage differentials and structural change (June 2007) brief contents
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GD-96 Erumban, Abdul A., Productivity and Unit Labor Cost in Indian Manufacturing: A Comparative Perspective (October 2007)
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GD-95 Feenstra, Robert C., Alan Heston, Marcel P. Timmer and Haiyan Deng, Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables (July 2007)
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GD-94c Fremdling, Rainer, (Re)Construction Site of German Historical National Accounts: German Agricultural Employment, Production and Labour Productivity: A New Benchmark for 1936 and a Note on Hoffmann's Tales (January 2008) brief contents
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GD-94b Fremdling, Rainer, (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 (July 2007) brief contents
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GD-94a Fremdling, Rainer, (Re)Construction Site of German Historical National Accounts: Machine Building: A New Benchmark before World War I (July 2007) brief contents
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GD-93 Frankema, Ewout and Daan Marks, Was It Really “Growth with Equity” under Soeharto? A Theil Analysis of Indonesian Income Inequality, 1961-2002 (July 2007) brief contents
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GD-91 Akkermans, Dirk, Carolina Castaldi and Bart Los,  Do 'Liberal Market Economies' Really Innovate More Radically than 'Coordinated Market Economies'? Hall & Soskice Reconsidered (March 2007) brief contents
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GD-90 Fremdling, Rainer, Herman de Jong and Marcel Timmer, Censuses compared. A New Benchmark for British and German Manufacturing 1935/1936 (April 2007) brief contents
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GD-89 Inklaar, Robert, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark, Mind the gap! International Comparisons of Productivity in Services and Goods Production (October 2006) brief contents
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GD-88 Castaldi, Carolina and Sandro Sapio, The Properties of Sectoral Growth: Evidence from Four Large European Economies (October 2006) brief contents
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GD-87 Azeez Erumban, Abdul, Lifetimes of Machinery and Equipment. Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing (July 2006) brief contents
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GD-86 Frankema, Ewout and Jutta Bolt, Measuring and Analysing Educational Inequality: The Distribution of Grade Enrolment Rates in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa (April 2006) brief contents
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GD-85 Ypma, Gerard, Productivity Levels in Transport, Storage and Communication: A New ICOP 1997 Data Set (July 2007) brief contents
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GD-83 Timmer, Marcel and Gerard Ypma, Productivity Levels in Distributive Trades: A New ICOP Dataset for OECD Countries (April 2006) brief contents
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GD-82 Timmer, Marcel, Gerard Ypma and Bart van Ark, PPPs for Industry Output: A New Dataset for International Comparisons (March 2007) brief contents
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GD-81 Frankema, Ewout, The Colonial Origins of Inequality: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Land Distribution (July 2006) brief contents
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GD-80 van Ark, Bart, Edwin Stuivenwold and Gerard Ypma, Unit Labour Costs, Productivity and International Competitiveness (August 2005) brief contents
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GD-79 van Ark, Bart and Robert Inklaar, Catching Up or Getting Stuck? Europe's Troubles to Exploit ICT's Productivity Potential (September 2005) brief contents
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GD-78 McGuckin, Robert and Bart van Ark, Productivity and Participation: An International Comparison (August 2005) brief contents
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GD-77 Fremdling, Rainer, The German Industrial Census of 1936, Statistics as Preparation for the War (August 2005) brief contents
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GD-76 Timmer, Marcel and Robert Inklaar, Productivity Differentials in the U.S. and EU Distributive Trade Sector: Statistical Myth Or Reality? (April 2005) brief contents
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GD-75 van Ark, Bart, Does the European Union Need to Revive Productivity Growth? (April 2005) brief contents
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GD-74 Inklaar, Robert, Cyclical Productivity in Europe and the United States, Evaluating the Evidence on Returns to Scale and Input Utilization (April 2005) brief contents
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GD-73 Hill, Robert and Marcel Timmer, Standard Errors as Weights in Multilateral Price Indices (November 2004) brief contents
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GD-72 Edquist, Harald, The Swedish ICT Miracle: Myth or Reality? (May 2004) brief contents
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GD-71 van Ark, Bart, Ewout Frankema and Hedwig Duteweerd, Productivity and Employment Growth An Empirical Review of Long and Medium Run Evidence (May 2004) brief contents
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GD-70 Dietzenbacher, Erik, Alex Hoen, Bart Los and Jan Meist, International Convergence and Divergence of Material Input Structures: An Industry-Level Perspective (April 2004) brief contents
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GD-69 van Ark, Bart and Marcin Piatkowski, Productivity, Innovation and ICT in Old and New Europe (March 2004) brief contents
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GD-68 Inklaar, Robert, Mary O'Mahony and Marcel Timmer, ICT and Europe's Productivity Performance, Industry-level Growth Account Comparisons with the United States (December 2003) brief contents
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GD-67 Timmer, Marcel, Gerard Ypma and Bart van Ark, IT in the European Union: Driving Productivity Divergence? (October 2003) brief contents
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GD-66 van Ark, Bart, The Productivity Problem of the Dutch Economy: Implications for Economic and Social Policies and Business Strategy (September 2003) brief contents
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GD-65 van Mulligen, Peter Hein, Alternative Price Indices for Computers in the Netherlands using Scanner Data (July 2003) brief contents
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GD-64 Inklaar, Robert, Harry Wu and Bart van Ark, "Losing Ground" Japanese Labour Productivity and Unit Labour Cost in Manufacturing in Comparison to the U.S. (July 2003) brief contents
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GD-63 Stuivenwold, Edwin and Marcel P. Timmer, Manufacturing Performance in Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan before and after the Crisis. An international Perspective, 1980-2000 (July 2003) brief contents
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GD-62 Hill, Robert, Constructing Price Indexes Across Space and Time: The Case of the European Union (May 2003) brief contents
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GD-61 Los, Bart and Marcel P. Timmer, The 'Appropriate Technology' Explanation of Productivity Growth Differentials: An Empirical Approach (April 2003) brief contents
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GD-60 van Ark, Bart, Robert Inklaar and Robert McGuckin, "Changing Gear" Productivity, ICT and Services: Europe and the United States (December 2002) brief contents
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GD-59 Szirmai, A., M. Prins and W. Schulte, Tanzanian Manufacturing in Comparative Perspective (November 2002) brief contents
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GD-58 van Dijk, Michiel, South African Manufacturing Performance in International Perspective, 1970-1999 (November 2002) brief contents
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GD-57 Sleifer, Jaap, A Benchmark Comparison of East and West German Industrial Labour Productivity in 1954 (October 2002) brief contents
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GD-56 van Ark, Bart, Johanna Melka, Nanno Mulder, Marcel Timmer and Gerard Ypma, ICT Investments and Growth Accounts for the European Union 1980-2000 (September 2002 (Revised March 2003)) brief contents
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GD-55 Fremdling, Rainer, Foreign Trade-Transfer-Adaptation: the British Iron Making Technology on the Continent (Belgium and France) (August 2002) brief contents
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GD-54 Fremdling, Rainer, European Railways 1825-2001, an Overview (August 2002) brief contents
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GD-53 Szirmai, Adam, Francis Yamfwa and Chibwe Lwamba, Zambian Manufacturing in Comparative Perspective (January 2002) brief contents
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GD-52 Mulder, Nanno, Sylvie Montout and Luis Peres Lopes, Brazil and Mexico's Manufacturing Performance in International Perspective, 1970-1998 (January 2002) brief contents
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GD-51 van Ark, Bart, Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer, The Canada-US Manufacturing Gap Revisited: New ICOP Results (January 2002) brief contents
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GD-50 Monnikhof, Erik and Bart van Ark, New Estimates of Labour Productivity in the Manufacturing sectors of Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, 1996 (January 2002) brief contents
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GD-49 Wu, Harry X., Comparative labour productivity performance in Chinese manufacturing, 1952-1997: An ICOP PPP Approach (July 2001) brief contents
GD-48 Vikström, Peter, Long term Patterns in Swedish Growth and Structural Change, 1870-1990 (July 2001) brief contents
GD-47 Rao, D.S. Prasada and Marcel Timmer, Multilateralisation of Manufacturing Sector Comparisons: Issues, Methods and Empirical Results (July 2000) brief contents
GD-46 Sleifer, Jaap, Seperated Unity: The East and West German Industrial Sector in 1936 (November 1999) brief contents
GD-45 Broersma, Lourens and Robert McGuckin, The Impact of Computers on Productivity in the Trade Sector: Explorations with Dutch Microdata (October 1999; Revised version: June 2000) brief contents
GD-44 van Ark, Bart, Lourens Broersma and Gjalt de Jong, Innovation in Services. Overview of Data Sources and Analytical Structures (October 1999) brief contents
GD-43 Fremdling, Rainer, Historical Precedents of Global Markets (October 1999) brief contents
GD-42 Smits, Jan Pieter, Herman J. de Jong and Bart van Ark, Three Phases of Dutch Economic Growth and Technological Change, 1815-1997 (October 1999) brief contents
GD-41 van Ark, Bart, Economic Growth and Labour Productivity in Europe: Half a Century of East-West Comparisons (October 1999) brief contents
GD-40 Timmer, Marcel P., Catch Up Patterns in Newly Industrializing Economies. An International Comparison of Manufacturing Productivity in Taiwan, 1961- 1993. (July 1998) brief contents
GD-39 van der Eng, Pierre, Economics Benefits from Colonial Assets: The Case of the Netherlands and Indonesia, 1870-1958 (June 1998) brief contents
GD-38 van Ark, Bart and Jakob de Haan, The Delta Model Revisited: Recent Trends in the Structural Performance of the Dutch Economy (December 1997) brief contents
GD-37 Timmer, Marcel P. and Adam Szirmai, Growth and Divergence in Manufacturing Performance in South and East Asia (June 1997) brief contents
GD-36 de Jong, Herman J. and Antoon Soete, Comparative Levels of Labour Productivity and Labour Costs in Manufacturing in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1921-1990 (July 1997) brief contents
GD-35 Brinkman, Henk-Jan, J.W. Drukker and Brigitte Slot, GDP per Capita and the Biological Standard of Living in Contemporary Developing Countries (June 1997) brief contents
GD-34 Albers, Ronald, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Operationalising Growth Theory, with Special Reference to the Netherlands in the 19th Century" (June 1997) brief contents
GD-33 Lindlar, Ludger, "1968" and the German Economy (Jan 1997) brief contents
GD-32 de Jong, Gjalt, Canada's Post-war Manufacturing Performance: A Comparison with the United States, (Dec 1996) brief contents
GD-31 Timmer, Marcel P., On the Reliability of Unit Value Ratios in International Comparisons, (December 1996) brief contents
GD-30 Fremdling, Rainer, Industrial Revolution and Scientific ant Technological Progress, (Dec 1996) brief contents
GD-29 Kouwenhoven, Remco, A Comparison of Soviet and US Industrial Performance, 1928-90 (May 1996) brief contents
GD-28 van Ark, Bart, Issues in Measurement and International Comparison of Productivity - An Overview (May 1996) brief contents
GD-27 Maddison, Angus and D.S. Prasada Rao, A Generalized Approach to International Comparisons of Agricultural Output and Productivity (May 1996) brief contents
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GD-26 Ark, Bart van and Herman J. de Jong, Accounting for Economic Growth in the Netherlands since 1913 (May 1996) brief contents
GD-25 Groote, Peter, Ronald Albers and Herman de Jong, A Standardised Time Series of the Stock of Fixed Capital in the Netherlands, 1900-1995 (May 1996) brief contents
GD-24 Groote, Peter, Jan Jacobs and Jan Egbert Sturm, Output Responses to Infrastructure in the Netherlands, 1850-1913 (December 1995) brief contents
GD-23 van Ark, Bart, Sectoral Growth Accounting and Structural Change in Postwar Europe (December 1995) brief contents
GD-22 Tassenaar, Vincent, Regional Differences in Standard of Living in the Netherlands, 1800-1875. A Study Based on Anthropometric Data (December 1995) brief contents
GD-21 Fremdling, Rainer, Anglo-German Rivalry on Coal Markets in France, the Netherlands and Germany, 1850-1913 (December 1995) brief contents
581 (GD-20) Szirmai, Adam and Ren Ruoen, China's Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-1992 (1995) brief contents
580 (GD-19) Mulder, Nanno, Transport and Communications Output and Productivity in Brazil and the USA, 1950-1990 (1995) brief contents
579 (GD-18) Mulder, Nanno, Transport and Communication in Mexico and the United States: Value Added, Purchasing Power Parities and Productivity (1994) brief contents
578 (GD-17) Mulder, Nanno, Output and Productivity in Brazilian Distribution: A Comparative View (1994) brief contents
577 (GD-16) Gales, Ben, In Foreign Parts: Free-Standing Companies in the Netherlands around the First World War (1994) brief contents
576 (GD-15) Maddison, Angus, Economic Growth and Standards of Living in the Twentieth Century (1994) brief contents
575 (GD-14) Mulder, Nanno, New Perspectives on Service Output and Productivity: A Comparison of French and US Productivity in Transport, Communications Wholesale and Retail Trade (1994) brief contents
574 (GD-13) de Jong, Herman J. and Ronald Albers, Industrial Output and Labour Productivity in the Netherlands, 1913-1929: Some Neglected Issues (1994) brief contents
573 (GD-12) Albers, Ronald, Adrian Clemens and Peter Groote, Can Growth Theory Contribute to Our Understanding of Nineteenth Century Economic Dynamics (1994) brief contents
572 (GD-11) Gersbach, Hans and Bart van Ark, Micro Foundations for International Productivity Comparisons (1994) brief contents
571 (GD-10) van Ark, Bart and Remco D.J. Kouwenhoven, Productivity in French Manufacturing: An International Comparative Perspective (1994) brief contents
570 (GD-9) Maddison, Angus, Standardised Estimates of Fixed Capital Stock: A Six Country Comparison (1994) brief contents
569 (GD-8) van Ark, Bart and Angus Maddison, An International Comparison of Real Output, Purchasing Power and Labour Productivity in Manufacturing Industries: Brazil, Mexico and the USA in 1975 (1994) (second edition) brief contents
568 (GD-7) de Jong, Gjalt, An International Comparison of Real Output and Labour Productivity in Manufacturing in Ecuador and the United States, 1980 brief contents
567 (GD-6) Maddison, Angus and Bart van Ark, The International Comparison of Real Product and Productivity (1994) brief contents
550 (GD-5) Beintema, Nienke and Bart van Ark, Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing before Reunification (1993) brief contents
549 (GD-4) de Jong, Herman J., Prices, Real Value Added and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing, 1921-1960 (1993) brief contents
538 (GD-3) Szirmai, Adam, Comparative Performance in Indonesian Manufacturing, 1975-90 (1993) brief contents
537 (GD-2) Mulder, Nanno and Angus Maddison, The International Comparison of Performance in Distribution: Value Added, Labour Productivity and PPPs in Mexican and US Wholesale and Retail Trade 1975/7 (1993) brief contents
536 (GD-1) Maddison, Angus and Harry van Ooststroom, The International Comparison of Value Added, Productivity and Purchasing Power Parities in Agriculture (1993) brief contents

Research Monographs

No. 1 Bart van Ark, International Comparisons of Output and Productivity: Manufacturing Productivity Performance of Ten Countries from 1950 to 1990 (1993)  
No. 2 Dirk Pilat, The Economics of Catch-Up: The Experience of Japan and Korea (1993)  
No. 3 André Hofman, Latin American Economic Development. A Causal Analysis in Historical Perspective (1998) brief contents
No. 4 Nanno Mulder, The Economic Performance of the Service Sector in Brazil, Mexico and the USA, A Comparative Historical Perspective (1999) brief contents
No. 5 Jan-Pieter Smits, Edwin Horlings and Jan Luiten van Zanden, Dutch GNP and Its Components, 1800-1913 (2000)  
No. 6 Jaap Sleifer, Falling Behind, the East German Economy in Comparison with West Germany from 1936 to 2002 (2003)  


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