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Description: The Global Macro Database is an open, harmonized panel of annual macroeconomic statistics.
The current release covers 46 variables, 239 countries, and 160 underlying sources from 1086--2025.
Variables span national accounts, prices and inflation, population and unemployment, government revenues, spending, deficits, debt and taxes,
monetary aggregates, interest rates, exchange rates, trade and external balances, and asset prices such as house prices.
Coverage: 46 variables • 239 countries • 1086--2025
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International trade from 1850--1914
Description: nominal values for standardized country borders in millions of pounds sterling
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@article{xu2022reshaping,
title={Reshaping global trade: the immediate and long-run effects of bank failures},
author={Xu, Chenzi},
journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics},
volume={137},
number={4},
pages={},
year={2022},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
Exposure to British bank failures after 1866 Overend & Gurney crisis
Description: world-wide city-level lending and shift-share exposure to bank failures.
Full description and documentation in "Reshaping Global Trade" replication package
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@article{xu2022reshaping,
title={Reshaping global trade: the immediate and long-run effects of bank failures},
author={Xu, Chenzi},
journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics},
volume={137},
number={4},
pages={},
year={2022},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
US county-level monetary market access in 1870s and 1880s
Description: geo-coded county-level measures based on physical transportation network and national bank network.
Full description and documentation in "Real Effects of Supplying Safe Private Money" replication package
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@article{xu2024real,
title={Real effects of supplying safe private money},
author={Xu, Chenzi and Yang, He},
journal={Journal of Financial Economics}
,
year={2024},
volume={157},
pages={103868},
}
In progress: Global Banking from 1850--1990
Description: banking offices around the world linked to headquarters (bilateral panel of cross-border banking connections) and annual headquarter bank balance sheets
"Historical Data Sources in International Macro Finance"
NBER IFM Data Sources and Stanford Big Data Initiative in International Macro Finance