Using microdata to analyse alternative structures for money and banking

The financial crisis of 2008/2009 has prompted economists to reevaluate the role of money and financial intermediaries in macroeconomic thinking and models. It has also spurred efforts to search for potential alternatives to the current monetary and financial architecture. Another result of the financial crisis was to expose the need to improve the availability and comparability of micro data; see for example the G20 Data Gap Initiative. This session will present and discuss a range of micro data sets that can be used for analysing (alternative) structures for money and banking.

Chair: Stefan Bender (Vice Chair of the German Data Forum)

Presentations

• Introduction
  Stefan Bender (Vice Chair of the German Data Forum)
• The Bundesbank’s Treasures of Microdata on the German Financial System
  Martin Eisele (Deutsche Bundesbank Research Data and Service Centre)
• The Firm-level Datasets of the EBDC
  Shuyao Yang and Sebastian Wichert (ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich)
• Official Firm Data for Germany
  Kristin Nowak and Diane Zabel (Research Data Center of the State Statistical Offices)
• Panel data analysis in the ZEW Research Data Centre (ZEW-FDZ)
  Dr. Martin Hud (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))