timeseriesdb is an R package which suggests a PostgreSQL database structure to store time series alongside extensive multi-lingual meta information and provides an R database interface including a web based GUI. The timeseriesdb package was designed to handle time series in establishment...

This paper presents a tabular survey of 146 empirical studies for 39 countries, plus 8 studies for multiple countries, that use transaction level data on exports or imports of firms. I hope this survey is useful for readers who want to get an impression of the huge number of different topics...

timeseriesdb is an R package which suggests a PostgreSQL database structure to store time series alongside extensive multi-lingual meta information and provides an R database interface including a web based GUI. The timeseriesdb package was designed to handle time series in establishment...

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Chapter 1: Mad Men to Math Men: The Power of the Data Driven Culture Chapter 2: Four Problems With Data Today: Breadlines, Obscurity, Fragmentation, and Brawls Chapter 3: Business Intelligence: How We Got Here Chapter 4: Achieving Data Enlightenment:...

Business potential of big data. The big data business mandate -- Big data business model maturity index -- The big data strategy document -- The importance of the user experience -- Data science. Differences between business intelligence and data science -- Data science 101 -- The data lake --...

ADB’s Regional Economic Outlook Task Force led in the preparation of the revised outlook for this ADO Supplement. The Task Force is chaired by the Economics and Research Department and includes representatives from the Central and West Asia Department, East Asia Department, Pacific Department,...

The Quarterly Economic Update (QEU) provides a comprehensive and updated analysis of the recent economic performance of Sri Lanka. The QEU for July 2012 highlights the expected economic slowdown in 2012. With inflation trending up, monetary tightening is expected to continue for a longer period....

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

Penn World Table (PWT) 7.0 is the newest PWT data set, based in part on benchmarked prices collected in 2005. In theory the data in PWT 7.0 should be more accurate than the data in PWT 6.3 since 1996 and similar in earlier years. I show that PWT 7.0 GDP/capita and price data for 1970 to 1996...

The Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators 2012 (FIGI 2012) is the follow-up edition to FIGI 2011, which proposed a set of 35 indicators as measures of income and non-income outcomes of inclusive growth; the processes and inputs that are important to improve access to opportunities, social...

This report presents the research initiative to explore an alternative methodology for extrapolating purchasing power parities (PPPs) for 21 participating economies in the Asia and Pacific region. The 2009 PPP Update provides an intermediate benchmark and more firmly based real expenditures and...

Since the migration to DSpace, an internationally widely used digital repository software, at the beginning of 2009, the “German National Library for Economics” (ZBW) presents its repository with a new website and a new name: EconStor. In addition to the considerable number of working and...

There is an ostensible relationship between whether or not a nation is developed and the interpretation and collection of data in this nation. For instance, if a country is developing, it is difficult to collect figures, though much simpler to interpret them. The opposite is the case in a...

We present new, tractable methods to impute missing values based on conditional probability density functions that we estimate via copula and mixture models. Our methods exploit known analytical results concerning conditional distributions for the Arellano-Valle and Bolfarine's generalised...

PWT 7.0 data deviate substantially from PWT 6.3 data because the benchmarked prices for 1970 to 1996 used in PWT 6.3 were entirely discarded. PWT 7.0 data are unreliable and appear to be much less accurate than PWT 6.3 data.