This study examines the online access statistics of the Central Bank of Turkey's Electronic Data Delivery System within an event study framework. The comparisons of pre-event and post-event statistics suggest that announcements of both the policy interest rates and the consumer price data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new viewpoint series, Monitoring the Media: Spotlight on Social Media Research, by providing an overview of the key challenges in social media research and some current initiatives in addressing them. Design/methodology/approach – The...

The financial industry, like many others, is powered by information and data. While the subjects of the data (balance sheet items or counterparty information, for example) may vary dramatically, they all describe a particular financial institution or legal entity. Yet a standard way to uniquely...

As databases grow more prevalent and comprehensive, database administrators seek to limit disclosure of confidential information while still providing access to data. Practical databases accommodate users with heterogeneous needs for access. Each class of data user is accorded access to only...

Over the last years, political and scientific debates have stressed the growing importance of adult education. Currently important research questions call not only for data sources that collect detailed information on adult education with repeated measurements and in different cohorts, but they...

International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...

Paneldaten haben gegenüber Querschnittsdaten zahlreiche Vorteile. Amtliche Daten sind zudem eine wichtige Quelle für die Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Viele amtliche Datenerhebungen sind als Panel konzipiert und durchgeführt oder können zu Panels zusammengefügt werden. Diese Arbeit...

We study the case of a Chinese industrial policy, implemented in Shanghai, that makes it mandatory for car manufacturers to share electro-mechanical performance and real time navigation data from their entire fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles with local and central government authorities....