CEPR Data

Many of our Discussion Papers are empirically based. We are keen to encourage empirical analysis, particular that which involves cross-country comparisons based on European data. We encourage the authors of all CEPR Discussion Papers to make their data available to other researchers, and in particular to inform us whether the data they have used are available on-line. In many cases they are, and we record the url where the data are located in our Discussion Paper database. This information is displayed on our website whenever you search our Discussion Papers: see, for example, No. 1947.

For individual Discussion Papers it is thus easy to see whether the data has been made available on-line. For the convenience of students and other researchers, we have collected all these references to on-line data in the Data section of our website. The data sets listed here are mainly those used in the Centre’s Discussion Paper Series. Each are available on line and can be used with the appropriate acknowledgement. Data sets are zipped and are generally saved in ASCII, Excel or STATA format. The Data section of the website also includes selected references to other data sets, often constructed by CEPR Fellows and Affiliates. These data sets have been selected on the basis of their likely interest to the research community and their relevance to the Centre's own research programmes.