EFIGE
The database, for the first time in Europe, combines measures of firms international activities (e.g. exports, outsourcing, FDI, import) with quantitative and qualitative information on around 150 items including R&D and innovation, labour organisation, financing and organisational activities and pricing behaviour. The data consists of a representative sample (at the country level for the manufacturing industry) of almost 15,000 surveyed firms (above 10 employees) in seven European economies (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Austria, and Hungary). The data was collected in 2010, thus covering the years from 2007 to 2009. Special questions relating to the behaviour of firms during the crisis have also been included in the survey.
The EU-EFIGE/Bruegel-Unicredit dataset (the first EFIGE policy report)
The triggers of competitiveness: The EFIGE cross-country report
The global operations of European firms The second EFIGE policy report
Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis The third EFIGE policy report
Breaking down the barriers to firm growth in Europe The fourth EFIGE policy report
Please read the instructions below and the user manual to have a clear picture of the content and the usage of the data, as well as the ways in which it can be accessed.
If you use our data, please cite the paper as follows: Carlo Altomonte & Tommaso Aquilante, 2012. The EU-EFIGE/Bruegel-Unicredit dataset, Working Papers, Bruegel 753, Bruegel.
DATASET
The EFIGE database is made of four different datasets:
CONTENT
This set only contains EFIGE survey data, firm level (log) TFP in 2008 and 2014 and average TFP growth for the years 2001-2007, 2008-2009 and 2010-2014. No balance sheet figures are included. Information are truncated/aggregated to make firms identities undetectable. Regional and industry fixed effects are present for each firmbut also anonymised.
DOWNLOAD & USER MANUAL
- which explains the construction and update of the dataset
CONTENT
This set contains Balance sheet figures merged with the Truncated 1 set of data.
ACCESS
Only people/institutions who possess (themselves or through the institution they belong to) a valid BvD-AMADEUS license can have access to this version.
Contact our Research Assitant team for more information.
CONTENT
This is the dataset used in Bruegels Blueprint , complemented with balance sheet figures up to 2014. These data are not truncated. Interested people can get them with or without firms balance sheet depending on their access to the AMADEUS database. Information on individual industries and regions is available, but firm ID is always hidden.
ACCESS
Access to this data is granted only to people/institutions who commit (by signing the confidentiality agreement) not to take away, in any form, not even partially or temporarily, any kind of information from the set that is made available.
Importantly, the only way to work with this set is to come to Bruegel and work on the data at Bruegels premises and only using Bruegel facilities.
To get the version of the quasi-full set that also contains balance sheet figures, interested people have to show they possess (themselves or through the institution they belong to) a valid BvD-AMADEUS license.
CONTENT
Information on individual industries and regions is available; firm ID is not hidden.
ACCESS
Access to this data is granted only to people/institutions who commit (by signing the confidentiality agreement) not to take away, in any form, not even partially or temporarily, any kind of information from the set that is made available.
Importantly, the only way to work with this set is to come to Bruegel and work on the data at Bruegels premises and only using Bruegel facilities.
To get the version of the full set that also contains balance sheet figures and firms ID, interested people have to show they possess (themselves or through the institution they belong to) a valid BvD-AMADEUS license.
Contacts
Questions related to the content or the usage of data should be addressed to [email protected].
Data Policy: This page provides a number of Bruegel datasets for public use. Users can freely use our data in its unchanged form or after any transformation for any purpose and can freely distribute it, provided that proper attribution is made to the source, but not in any way that suggests that Bruegel endorses the user or their use of the data.
Queries concerning BvD-AMADEUS license or the confidentiality agreement should be addressed to [email protected] and have [email protected] in cc.