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How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the Orbis Global Database: New Facts and Aggregate Implications / Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, Vadym Volosovych, Sevcan Yesiltas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21558.
- NBER working paper series no. w21558
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the Orbis Global Database
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- We construct nationally representative firm-level longitudinal data for European countries using financial statements from the Orbis database. We validate our data by comparing its coverage and firm size distribution to official statistics. We showcase two applications to show the importance of firm representativeness in understanding macroeconomic outcomes. First, we show that small-and-medium-sized firms (SMEs) account for a large share of aggregate economic activity. Second, we document that firm representativeness is important for calculating industry concentration trends over time as the share of economic activity accounted by top firms in an industry changes with the firm samples used.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2015.
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