12 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in Economics / Statistics
Question: The library used to have this book series called National Accounts Statistics. It had some great indicators in it like Value added per industry. Is it still available?
Answer: Yes it is. But like most publications that were books before, this source is available on the internet.
11 Tuesday Jun 2013
Posted in Datastream
04 Tuesday Jun 2013
Posted in Economics / Statistics
The Federal Reserve Bank has put online a very useful and free Excel add in that you can install on your laptop or computer. The FRED add in provides free access to over 70,000 data series from various sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, and OECD)
16 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Other
Question: Is the University of Amsterdam subscribed to the International Country Risk Guide?
Answer: No. But here you can find some Excel sheets that are publicly available:
SUMMARY OF ECONOMIC RISK COMPONENTS – JUNE 2012
POLITICAL RISK POINTS BY COMPONENT – JUNE 2012
POLITICAL RISK RATINGS OVER THE PERIOD JULY 2011 THROUGH JUNE 2012
FINANCIAL RISK POINTS BY COMPONENT – JUNE 2012
FINANCIAL RISK RATINGS OVER THE PERIOD JULY 2011 THROUGH JUNE 2012
ECONOMIC RISK RATINGS OVER THE PERIOD JULY 2011 THROUGH JUNE 2012
CURRENT RISK RATINGS AND COMPOSITE RISK FORECASTS
ECONOMIC RISK POINTS BY COMPONENT – JUNE 2012
SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL RISK COMPONENTS – JUNE 2012
COMPOSITE RISK RATINGS OVER THE PERIOD JULY 2011 THROUGH JUNE 2012
14 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in Other
DataGov provides an interface for accessing most of the publicly available indicators related to governance. The interactive tool permits users to produce cross-national comparative and time series graphs and tables. It contains approximately 800 governance indicators for a global sample of countries whose coverage depends on the source. A key feature of the web tool is the information provided in respect to each indicator about the methodology used to build it and the implications this has for the indicator’s reliability, validity and suitability for making comparisons across countries and over time.
07 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in EBooks
02 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Wharton WRDS
Question: Which countries does Audit Analytics cover?
Answer: This is a worldwide database, but coverage outside the US is limited. No surprise. All countries are covered but each to a certain extent. China is the second most represented country, after that Israel and the UK. Have a look at this 1987-2012 file to get an overview.
26 Friday Apr 2013
Posted in Datastream
Question: Is there a way to get my results from Datastream in a format that Stata can work with? The transpose option doesn’t do what I would like it to do. I would like Company name, Year and variables in columns.
Answer: Yes there is a way. You have to use a request table for this. You find this request table in the Datastream menu in the add in in Excel. For a manual on how to use a request table look elsewhere on this blog. I have added a example of a request table for Stata for the FTSE100 companies. You will have to enter each company code separately to first get all the years for company one and then all the years for company two etc. NOTE ! There is no way to get the company name in your results so you have to add them manually later in your results.
Have a close look at this example request table and try to program it for your personal purposes.
05 Friday Apr 2013
Posted in Datastream
Question: I am trying to find a worldwide list of companies in Datastream that is not huge. The lists that I find either exclude a country, are divided into industries or are too large (5000+ companies). Is there a comprehensive global list?
Answer: You can use the DJ Stoxx 1800. This index consists of 1800 worldwide companies. You can either choose the one in dollars $ or the one in Euros E.
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04 Thursday Apr 2013
Posted in Economics / Statistics
Just for the heck of it. A great collection of links to data:
