International Macroquantitative Data

A word or two about the datasets made available at Corvinus University

Corvinus Data 1

for the data documentation all the texts and materials avaiable from

http://www.hichemkaroui.com/?p=2017

http://www.hichemkaroui.com/?p=2383#more-2383

Corvinus Data 2

Corvinus Data 3 - dataset in SPSS-format

Corvinus Data 4 - economic growth and debt situation from IMF data

Additionally, the following freely available articles, written by Professor Arno Tausch, make use of macroquantitative data for cross-national and time series research:

• (2007), ‘Global Terrorism and World Political Cycles’ in History and mathematics (special issue):Analyzing and Modeling Global Development (Volgograd, Russia) Grinin L., Munck V. C. de, Korotayev A. (Moscow) (Ed.). ‘Anthropology of the East’ Center, Russian State University for the Humanities, 6 Miusskaya Ploshchad', Moscow 125267, Russia, pp. 99 - 126 [available from international book trade at: http://urss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?cp=&page=Book&id=53184&lang=en&Languages=2&blang=en&list=130 ]
• (2007), ‘War Cycles’ Social Evolution and History (Volgograd, Russia), Vol. 6, No. 2, September 2007, pp. 39 – 74 (also available at: http://www.socionauki.ru/authors/tausch_arn/?sphrase_id=14791 )
• (2009, with Almas HESHMATI and Chemen S.J. BAJALAN), ‘Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries’ The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 5, n.2, pp. 227-286, ISSN 1722-4667 (available at http://eaces.liuc.it/info.asp?tipo=articles&identifier=ejce:18242979/2008/02/03 )
• (2010), ‘Life expectancy, infant mortality and inequality - once again. Rapid Responses to: EDITORIALS: Kate E Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson Greater equality and better health, BMJ 2009; 339: b4320’ British Medical Journal, (2 March 2010) http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/life-expectancy-infant-mortality-and-inequality-once-again
• (2010), ‘Towards an Index of global tolerance: a quantitative analysis, based on the ‘World Values Survey’ data’. Islamic Perspective, (4)2010 (Center for Sociological Studies, IPCSS, London Academy of Iranian Studies, SOAS London): 263-279, available at: http://iranianstudies.org/journals/islamic-perspective-journal-number-4-2010/
• (2010), ‘Towards yet another age of creative destruction?’ Journal of Globalization Studies (Moscow), 1, 1, 2010: 104 – 130 (also available at: http://www.socionauki.ru/authors/tausch_arn/?sphrase_id=14791 )
• (2010, with Almas Heshmati, Chemen S. J. Bajalan), ‘On the Multivariate Analysis of the ‘Lisbon Process’’ History and Mathematics (Volgograd, Russia), 1, 2010: 92 – 137 (History & Mathematics: Processes and Models of Global Dynamics ("История и математика: Процессы и модели глобальной динамики". Альманах на английском языке) [available from international book trade at: http://urss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?cp=&page=Book&id=53184&lang=en&Languages=2&blang=en&list=130 ]
• 2010, with Almas Heshmati), ‘Learning from dependency and world system theory: explaining Europe’s failure in the ‘Lisbon Process’ Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol.9, No.4, Winter 2010: 3-90, available at: http://www.alternativesjournal.net/new/index.php and http://www.alternativesjournal.net/new/index.php?p=details_of_article&id=7
• (2010), ‘Paul Boccara's analysis of global capitalism. the return of the Bourbons, and the breakdown of the Brussels / Paris neo-liberal consensus’. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 12, Fall 2010. 105-147. Available from Internet: http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/en.art.php?a=12a06
• (2011) ‘Globalización y desempleo. Reflexiones empíricas desde la perspectiva de la teoría del ‘sistema mundial’’ Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José de Costa Rica, 128-129: 71-86 / 2010 (II-III), ISSN: 0482-5276: http://www.revistacienciassociales.ucr.ac.cr/globalizacion-y-desempleo-reflexiones-empiricas-desde-la-perspectiva-de-la-teoria-del-%E2%80%9Csistema-mundial%E2%80%9D/

Examples of use of macroquantitative data in international research:

http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/data

http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/data/ad2010

http://rbarro.com/data-sets/

Additional info:

Links to macroquantitative data analyses at Corvinus University (Prof. Arno Tausch)

Additional data series:

• Economic growth: IMF economic growth data (real GDP per annum) and growth predictions, http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php.
• Globalization: ETH Zurich globalization time series data,  http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/static/rawdata/globalization_2010_short.xls
  
• Inequality: Theil Index of Inequality, based on payment in 21 industrial sectors; calculated from UNIDO sources in University of Texas Inequality Project, http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/data.html.
• Unemployment: unemployment as  per cent of the civilian labour force: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx.

Last modified: 2012.01.18.