DATA
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I. Firm Behavior
World Management Survey: Cross-country survey of management behavior. By Bloom, Sadun and Van Reenen.
Firm-Level Lobbying Activity in the U.S.: The best firm-level lobbying dataset available in the world. By In Song Kim.
Enterprise Survey: Cross-country surveys of firm behavior. By the World Bank.
Antidumping: Firm-specific data and documentation on U.S. antidumping. By Blonigen.
Amadeus: European firm-level characteristics. By Bureau van Dijk.
Orbis: Global firm-level characteristics. By Bureau van Dijk.
II. Macro
Industry-level Production Dataset for the U.S.: By the NBER.
Cross-Country Productivity: Link to Penn World Tables, 10-Sector Database, EU Klems, among others. By the GGDC.
Historical Development: Cross-country long time series on economic growth. Includes Maddison’s data. By the GGDC.
World Development Indicators: Compilation of cross-country comparable data on development. By the World Bank.
Cross-Country Historical Inequality: By a team of international researchers.
World Input-Output Database: By researchers from Groningen.
III. Institutions
Doing Business Survey: Cross-country survey of business regulations. By the World Bank.
Worldwide Governance Indicators: Cross-country governance survey to citizens, firms and experts. By Kaufmann and Kray.
IV. International Trade
Exporter Dynamics Dataset: Cross-country characteristics of firm-level exporter dynamics. By the World Bank.
Harmonized International Trade at Product and Country-level: By CEPII.
Trade Elasticities: By Broda and Weinstein.
V. Politics
Campaign finance in the U.S.: By the Federal Electoral Commission of the U.S.
Nominates Scores: Historical dataset of congress member vote behavior in the U.S. By Poole and Rosenthal.
VI. Diverse Purposes
World Bank Datasets: Development cross-country datasets.
Global Barometer: Cross-country surveys of political, economical and social behavior.
NBER Datasets: Macro, finance, trade, labor health, demographics. You name it.
CEPII Datasets: Macro, trade, geography, productivity.
GGDC Datasets: Macro, productivity, global value chains, historical development. The best source for global macro datasets.
ICPSR Datasets: Massive and collective compilation of all purpose datasets.