Research databases
This page provides access to databases that have been made available to ECGI members.
To add a database to this repository, please send it to admin@ecgi.org
Databases available to ECGI members:
Incorporations of Foreign Firms in the UK, 1997-2006
For details on the construction of the database, see Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry by Marco Becht, ECARES and ECGI, Colin Mayer, Said Business School, University of Oxford, CEPR and ECGI, and Hannes Wagner, London Business School and University of Munich which is published in ECGI's Law Working Paper series - No 070/2006. This paper was published in the Journal of Corporate Finance (Volume 14, No. 3, 241-256, 2008).
The database can be downloaded in either of two formats:
- Click here for an Excel spreadsheet
- Click here for Stata format
Marco Becht
Common Ownership
The data package needed to replicate the sensitivity analysis conducted by BlackRock commissioned Analysis Group, challenging the empirical evidence underpinning the proposals in the literature is available here
This relates to Azar, José and Schmalz, Martin C. and Tecu, Isabel "Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership” (Journal of Finance, Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages: 1513-1565, First Published: 25 May 2018). The publication includes a long internet appendix and a replication package. The package should make it possible for anyone with access to Thomson Reuters ownership data and a Stata licence to replicate the results of the paper.