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Grain Prices in Pre-industrial Germany, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
We present the largest homogenous dataset of grain prices for four major types of grain for pre-industrial Germany covering 70 cities with a total of 259 time series. This... -
Harmonization of product classifications: A consistent time series of economi...
Firm-product data provide information for various research questions in international trade or innovation economics. However, working with these data require harmonizing product... -
German Firms in International Trade: Evidence from Recent Microdata
In this paper, we zoom in on the firm level of German merchandise foreign trade, using a novel data base with information on the export and import value by firm, country,... -
Does early educational tracking contribute to gender gaps in test achievement...
The files contain all the information needed to download data an make use of the code. More information can be found in the read.me.file Abstract: On average, boys score higher... -
When can we ignore measurement error in the running variable? (replication data)
In many applications of regression discontinuity designs, the running variable used to assign treatment is only observed with error. We show that, provided the observed running... -
Subspace shrinkage in conjugate Bayesian vector autoregressions (replication ...
For the empirical exercise we use quarterly macroeconomic data for the US, obtained from the FRED-QD database (https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/mccracken/fred-databases/)....