This paper describes how we constructed a real-time database for the euro area covering more than 200 series regularly … before their first meeting of the month. We describe the database in details and study the properties of the euro area real …

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database …

lenders, which may make lending altogether unprofitable. Second, banks can have an incentive to offer a debt contract and … additional equity contracts to intermediate debtors, which is in turn dominated by a simple debt contract, only attractive for … seek to avoid the contract with the highest chance of delivery: that contract attracts all bad entrepreneurs. …