Data Sets

"Classical" (useful for teaching)

• Railway data used by Porter (1983) in ASCII or Stata format;
• Tire data used by Bresnahan and Reiss in ASCII format;

Scanner Data

• The Marketing Group at University of Chicago GSB has made available online the ERIM database, which has household level data, and the DFF dataset, which includes 9 years of data from all stores of a single retailer. The data and details can be found here.

  The so called Stanford Basket, which contains household and aggregate data for 24 categories over 104 weeks, can be obtained from David Bell at Wharton;

  Ron Cotterill at the Food Marketing Policy Center has scanner data at the quarter-brand-MSA level for several categories. Details are available here.

• Prices, sales and inventories for many goods sold by a Spanish Supermarket chain are available from Victor Aguirregabiria's web page;

Auctions

• USFS Timber Sale Data (from Phil Haile's web page);

• FCC Spectrum Auction Data (from the CAPCP web page)

Telecom Data

• Eugenio Miravete's website has data from the South Central Bell's Kentucky Telephone Tariff Experiment;

Electricity Market Data

• The University of California Energy Institute has California Electricity Market Data, as well as links to other electricity data sources;

Patent Data

• Brownyn Hall's web page has several links to patent data resources;

ISPs

• Adoption of 56K Modems by ISPs data
• Local ISP Entry

Indian Economy Database

• The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy is an independent economic think-tank headquartered in Mumbai, India. CMIE has built the largest database on the Indian economy and companies. The Prowess database contains economic data of large and medium Indian firms and covers over 1,500 data items and ratios per company with data that is available generally for ten years. In addition to quantitative information on production, sales and energy, there is company and personnel contact information, share holding patterns, daily time series of share prices, computed returns that include dividends and other gains, and a host of other economic ratios and values. The data files are updated monthly and the Prowess database is available for use on all of the public use computers in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the library on the Evanston campus. The database is on the desktop and accessible without a password.

Computer Code

• Matlab code for estimating mixed Logit models using aggregate data;

• Gauss code for estimating mixed Logit using individual data;

• Gauss code for estimation of single agent dynamic models using the Nested Fixed Point Maximum Likelihood Algorithm;

• Gauss code for estimation of single agent dynamic models using the Nested Pseudo Likelihood Algorithm;

• Gauss code for estimation of Empirical Discrete Games;

• Gauss code for computing dynamic equilibrium using the Pakes-McGuire Algorithm;

• GAMBIT software for finding equilibria of games;