This paper aims to complement work done within the WIOD project (the "World Input Output Database" project financed by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme), which compiled supply and use tables for 40 countries, covering about 85 percent of the world economy. The paper describes the derivation...

We investigate the causes of de-industrialization and potential for re-industrialization using trade-linked Input-Output data from WIOD. Introducing new measures of induced value added chains, we relate a sector's share in domestic final demand to that in production and separate the direct...

Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland ist mit hoher Dynamik in das Jahr 2011 gestartet. Vieles spricht derzeit dafür, dass das Jahr 2011 mit einer Zunahme des BIP von 2,7 % ein Jahr des Aufschwungs sein wird. Dabei wird sowohl die Binnen- als auch die Auslandsnachfrage die Konjunktur...

The German economy entered the year 2011 buoyantly. The upswing is expected to continue throughout 2011 with GDP increasing at an average rate of 2.7%. Both internal and external demand will drive the economy. In the course of the forecast horizon, however, economic activity will become less...