1 / 10

The Future of ICOP and Penn World Tables: Reviving the industry-of-origin approach Marcel Timmer

The Future of ICOP and Penn World Tables: Reviving the industry-of-origin approach Marcel Timmer Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) University of Groningen Presentation at Angus Maddison Memorial Conference, 6-7 November 2010, IISG, Amsterdam.

dixie
Download Presentation

The Future of ICOP and Penn World Tables: Reviving the industry-of-origin approach Marcel Timmer

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Future of ICOP and Penn World Tables: Reviving the industry-of-origin approach Marcel Timmer Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) University of Groningen Presentation at AngusMaddison Memorial Conference, 6-7 November 2010, IISG, Amsterdam

  2. International comparisons of output and productivity (ICOP) project Since 1983 substantial research effort at University of Groningen and collaborators, in tradition of Rostas (1948) and Paige and Bombach (1959) • Making level comparisons of output and productivity from the production side (industry-of-origin approach) • PPPs based on output prices • Industry-level comparisons WHY? To study issues of • Structural change • Catch-up and convergence • Technological change (productivity) • Tradeble versus non-tradeble sectors • Competitiviness

  3. Difficulties in industry-of-origin approach • No international survey of production prices • Prices of outputs and inputs (labour, capital, intermediate inputs) • Matching output,value added, employment and capital data at industry level Solutions in ICOP project • Rely on price rather than quantity approaches • Heavy use of unit values (e.g. FAO data for agriculture) • Adjusting expenditure PPPs (peeling off margins and taxes) • Use of input-output tables to derive PPPs for intermediate inputs • Comparisons of labour and capital by type • Harmonisation of national production census data and National Accounts data

  4. Available studies and databases at GGDC • PAST: more than 60 ICOP studies (mainly binary) have appeared: for more than 100 countries in agriculture, over 30 countries in manufacturing and a dozen in services (Maddison and van Ark, 2002). • PRESENT: GGDC Productivity level database (Inklaar and Timmer 2009): • 1997 comparisons for 30 OECD countries • Output and intermediate inputs (Energy,Material,Services) • Labour (3 types) and Capital (2 types) • 31 industries covering total economy • Can be extrapolated with data for 1970-2007 from EU KLEMS database (O’Mahony and Timmer, 2009) • FUTURE:Modern Times project (de Jong and collaborators) for new benchmarks in 1900s-1960s

  5. Real GDP fromexpenditure and productionside • Raisedneglected issue: the differencebetween real GDP from expenditure and from production side • While real GDP from expenditure measures consumption possibilities, real GDP from production side measures production capacity • Differencebetween the twodependson the terms-of-trade (import over export prices) and share of trade in GDP • Currently, the Pennworld Tables (PWT) use a mix of the twoconcepts • (see Robert C. Feenstra , Alan W. Heston , Marcel P. Timmer and Haiyan Deng (2009))

  6. Real GDP from expenditure and production side

  7. Real GDP from the expenditureside: Valueexpenditurecategories (q) against international expenditureprices (pi) RealGDP fromproductionside: value output (y) and intermediateinputs (z) against international output and input prices

  8. Augmented GK-system: simultaneous equations

  9. Difference between real GDP_O and GDP_E

  10. Penn World Tables: the next generation • Inclusion of terms-of-trade and two measures of real GDP at international prices. This will be based on quality-adjusted trade unit values (export and import). • Introduction of production-side estimates • 6 sectors, back to 1970, up to 80 countries • Nominal value added, employment • PPPs based on 2005 ICP round (peeled expenditure PPPs), complemented by FAO, UN, Eurostat and OECD statistics on agricultural, mining and manufacturing unit values

More Related