Research Data Centre of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (RDC-IWH)

The IWH Research Data Center offers external scientists access to various data collected by the IWH. In its function as a service facility, the FDZ-IWH offers further services, such as advising (potential) users on data supply and access, assisting them in familiarizing themselves with complex data sets, clarifying data protection issues, and setting up on-site work workplaces for visiting scholars.

Data are available upon request, depending on the data set either as Scientific Use Files, for download, or as part of a guest visit.

Enterprise data: Panel IWH Industry Survey (postal survey/online survey, standardized questionnaire, new federal states, 1993 – 2017); Panel IWH Construction Survey (postal survey/online survey, standardized questionnaire, new federal states, 1993 – 2017); IWH FDI Micro Database (CATI, standardized questionnaire, new federal states + Central and Eastern European Countries, 2007 – 2013); Managements-Buy-Outs (postal survey, standardized questionnaire, new federal states, 1995); CompNet: Productivity and Competitiveness Indicators for European Countries by sector and firm size class (1999 – latest margin); IWH Treuhand Privatisation Micro Database: Data on the privatization of East German companies by the Treuhandanstalt (THA), (1990 – 1994)

Others: Transformation Tables: Transformation tables for administrative borders in Germany (1991 – 2015); IWH Subsidy Database: Microdata of direct firm subsidies in Germany; International Banking Library: web-based platform for the exchange of research on cross-border banking.