Bitcoin
What is bitcoin? Find out using this handy Harvard Business school working paper . Bitcoin.org -unofficial website managed by Bitcoin core developers Coinmetrics allows you to view detailed statistics Quandl also has free data Repec has economic papers
Income and Equality
The Work Foundation Launch Low Pay Project The site offers online recent papers and low pay data. Also on this topic, The Office for National Statistics has long-term wage data. The Low Pay Commission features reports on the National Minimum wage. Living Wage Commission reported recently on the problems of those surviving on low pay. Joseph Rowntree […]
EU data
EU Open Data Portal The EU Open Data Portal Expansion site provides free access to datasets from more EU institutions. These include Eurofund survey on European working conditions in Europe. Don’t forget other EU data can be found on Eurostat.
The China and Latin America Finance Database
https://www.thedialogue.org/china_latin_america_finance_database A joint project between the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University and the Inter-American Dialogue. The Dialogue’s publication, The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America by Kevin Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski, is the main source of featured data and conclusions. Use it to access up to date […]
Political Risk
Aon Political Risk Map 2014 Just released, a new map which covers 163 nations. Free registration required. It measures political risk using a range of factors including: political violence and financial risk. This is however, only one of a number of similar risk services. All are slightly different so it is advisable to consult […]
Cities
What Do the Best Entrepreneurs Want In A City? The latest report from Endeavor Insight, contains interviews with 150 top USA executives in the qualities they want in locating a business in a specific area. Download the full report from the website. For more on this topic read: A recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research […]
Company Data: 2 sites
Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) database has been upgraded. BACH is managed by the European Committee of Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices. It is a database of aggregated and relatively harmonized accounting data of non-financial incorporated enterprises of 9 European countries. The countries covered are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, […]
World Bank’s Open Budgets portal
World Bank’s Open Budgets portal aims to provide a one-stop shop to locate national and sub-national regional budget economic data from about 40 nations involved in the BOOST project. It also aims to increase transparency and highlight good practice. See this launch presentation. Most are developing nations they include: Armenia Minas Gerais (Brazil) Peru Seychelles […]
Eurobarometer
The Special Eurobarometer on social climate …monitors perceptions of the economic situation of households, of the national economy and social protection in EU nations . It covers 15 areas, including personal financial situation, affordability of housing, health care provision, the way national governments address inequalities and poverty and the perceived changes to the cost of […]
Bloomberg: currency
Implied volatility in some major currency pairs has fallen below realized volatility. The dollar-yen 6-month realized versus implied spread was the widest in four years on Sept. 26. Bloomberg tools can help estimate fair value for USDJPY implied volatility using the correlation between EURUSD and EURJPY. You may find the case study document under the […]
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