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

• Disaggregated Economic Accounts of Chile: National accounts disaggregated geographically using administrative microdata.
• 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.
• Inter-Country Input-Output Database: By OECD.

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.
• Non-Tariff Barriers: By Trefler.

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.
• Lobbying: Comprehensive data on interest group politics in the US assembled by In Song Kim.

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.