The Committee’s mission is to establish the chronology of the euro area business cycle, by identifying the recessions and expansions of the 11 original euro area member countries from 1970 to 1998, and of the euro area as a whole since 1999. You can read its findings here.

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Industrial Organization

• Sectoral data on the airline, banking, semiconductor and telecommunications sectors.
   

International Macroeconomics

• A data set containing an assessment of 15 elements of monetary policy transparency for nine major central banks as of June 2001

• Cross-sectional data from five different episodes of currency instability

• Bilateral trade observations, from 186 countries, over five years

• Trading volumes for the forex futures market, 1973 - 1989

• External Wealth of Nations: Foreign Assets and Liabilities for Industrial and Developing Countries

• €COIN, a new real time indicator for the euro area business cycle 

International Trade

• International comparisons of real income

• Statistics on Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations

• Bilateral trade observations, from 186 countries, over five years.
   

Labour Economics

• The German Socio-Economic Panel contains general Information (from 1984-98) of some 12,700 individuals and roughly 6,600 households from both East and West Germany

 
Public Policy

• Data on electricity prices and regulators in the United States

• Sectoral and other data available from the Sectoral and Competitiveness and Industrial Change research unit of the WZB (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin). Data are available on the airline, banking, semiconductor, and telecommunications sectors, as well as on state aids and on international R&D joint ventures.

The url is: http://www.wz-berlin.de/mp/wiw/

• A comprehensive index of central bank transparency that takes into account the political, economic, procedural, policy and operational aspects of central banking. The index is compiled for nine major central banks and is is based on an analysis of information disclosure practices.

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This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 3188

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• The dataset uses cross-sectional data from five different episodes of currency instability: the breakdown of Bretton Woods in Spring 1971; the collapse of the Smithsonian Agreement in Winter 1973; the EMS Crisis in 1992 93; the Mexican Crisis in 1994 95; and the Asian Crisis of 1997 98. The data include information on the majority of major macro indicators (Trade, M1, M2, Current Account, Inflation, Investment, Budget Deficit/Surplus, GDP, etc) for 161 countries
  
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  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 1947

• This dataset includes 33,903 bilateral trade observations, from all 186 countries, spanning 5 different years (1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990). There are 320 observations where two countries trade with each other and use the same currency. The trade data are taken from the World Trade Database. The dataset also contains other variables that may affect international trade e.g. distance between countries, GDP, GDP per capita, language, membership of free trade areas, colonial relationships, etc.
  
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  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2329

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• The dataset uses data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on trading volumes for the forex futures market. Spanning the years 1973 1989, the data includes information on the following currencies with relation to the US dollar: UK pound; Canadian dollar; German DM; Italian lira; Japanese yen; Mexican peso; Swiss franc; Dutch guilder; French franc; Australian dollar. The dataset also includes annual exchange rate volatilities for these currencies.
  
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  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2142

• The External Wealth of Nations Dataset contains data on gross foreign asset and liability positions over 1970-97 for a large number of industrial and developing countries.
  
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  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2231

• A utility-consistent benchmark for international comparisons of real income, using the GAIA ('Geary-Allen International accounts') system. The GAIA system yields a set of index numbers which equal the real incomes of a group of countries, taking account of differences in purchasing power parities (i.e., allowing for differences in price levels between countries) and at the same time maintaining consistency with economic theory.
  
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  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2590

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• "Statistics on Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations: A Survey", produced as part of the Research Network on Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation: New Theories and Evidence.
  
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• This dataset includes 33,903 bilateral trade observations, from all 186 countries, spanning 5 different years (1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990). There are 320 observations where two countries trade with each other and use the same currency. The trade data are taken from the World Trade Database. The dataset also contains other variables that may affect international trade e.g. distance between countries, GDP, GDP per capita, language, membership of free trade areas, colonial relationships, etc.
  
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  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2329

• The SOEP is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households. It provides information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the Old and New German States, Foreigners, and recent Immigrants to Germany. The Panel was started in 1984. In 2003, there were more than 12,000 households, and nearly 24,000 persons sampled. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators. The data are available to researchers in Germany and abroad in SPSS, SAS, Stata, and ASCII format for immediate use. Extensive documentation in English and German is available online. More information on the GSOEP. 
  
  To obtain the public-use file of the data set, please contact Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) or Gert G. Wagner 
  
  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2445

• This dataset contains information on the price and quality of electricity for all 50 states of the US, along with data on the methods of selection for each state’s electricity regulator for the period 1960–97. Specifically, the dataset includes data on electricity prices for residential, commercial and industrial sectors; sources of energy for electricity generation; fossil fuel prices; power supply reliability; and the method of selection for state commissioners (i.e. elected or appointed).
  
  For information about this dataset contact Tim Besley.
  
  This data is used in CEPR Discussion Paper 2381