Category: Useful Data
A new Global Database of Inflation
A new database which compiles inflation data from multiple sources, including various international institutions as well as a large number of country-specific sources.
How do different reopening strategies balance health and employment?
A heterogeneous-agents network-based model used to simulate how different COVID related policy choices affect the trade-off between unemployment and deaths.
COVID-19 Financial Response Tracker
The COVID-19 Financial Response Tracker (CFRT) follows economic interventions by central banks, fiscal authorities, and international organizations aimed at combating the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic and restoring financial stability.
Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries
Simulations of a SIR model with behavioral change which analyze future scenarios for multiple countries after re-opening.
The Reader’s Guide to Optimal Monetary Policy
This is website created by M. Diercks and Cole Langlois at the Federal Reserve Board. It consists of an easily searchable database of 250 papers on optimal inflation.
DB – Nomics
DBnomics is a new database of free international macroeconomic data by Banque de France, CEPREMAP and France Stratégie
The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015
This paper introduces a large new dataset on the total rates of return for all major asset classes, including housing — the largest, but oft ignored component of household wealth. The data covers most advanced economies—sixteen in all—starting in the year 1870.
Price Statistics Compilation in 196 Economies: The Relevance for Policy Analysis
This paper focuses on current practices with regard to the (1) frequency of updating the weights; (2) coverage of the CPI and PPI; (3) timeliness of CPI and PPI; and (4) classification systems used in CPI and PPI compilation.