The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers: (1) employment for the majority of county-industry cells is suppressed to protect confidentiality,...

Mit dieser Studie wird die Liste forschungsintensiver Industrien - die sogenannte "Hochtechnologie-Liste" - auf Basis der aktuellen Klassifikation der Wirtschaftszweige (WZ 2008) in aktualisierter Form vorgelegt. Die neue "ISI/ZEW/SV-Liste" deckt, in tief gegliederter Ebene, sowohl den...

Organizations need to both differentiate themselves while conforming to their audiences’ expectations. To meet this demand, organizations may span different categories. However, valuing spanners is challenging for audiences. We contend that spanners’ valuation depends on category nesting, as...

External users of financial reporting often rely on industry classification providers to reduce information processing costs. I study the economic consequences of capital market participants relying on the Global Industrial Classification Standard (GICS). I find that firms with higher quality...

The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers in practice: (1) employment for the majority of county-industry cells is suppressed to protect...

This paper documents the industry classification variables in the anonymized tax microdata available for research at the National Treasury Secure Data Facility in Pretoria. It discusses how the variables in the data are related to the raw records captured in various tax forms and outlines the...