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Diego A. Comin New York University National Bureau of Economic Research |
Bart Hobijin Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
The authors have made this dataset available for anyone to use and users should cite the following article: Comin, D. and Hohijn B., "Cross-Country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts". Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2004, pp. 39-83.
HCCTA Data
| Excel Macro (self-extracting, original) | ASCII comma-separated variables | |
| hcctad.xls (2.4 Mb) | hcctad.txt (1.6 Mb) |
The data is provided in two forms: The first is an excel spreadsheet which is setup with an inbuild macro that facilitates extraction of selected variables, years, and countries. The second is a flat ascii file which is comma delimited. The 3-dimensional data of variables, year, and country is represented in 2-dimentions. Variables and years are in rows while countries in columns. The first line of this ascii file gives the labels of the layout.
Documentation
The documentation is in a pdf format and can be downloaded hcctadhelp.pdf (249 Kb)
QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION
If you have any questions about the HCCTA dataset please contact: Diego A. Comin New York University 269 Mercer Street New York, NY 10003 email: diego.comin@nyu.edu Bart Hobijin Domestic Research Function Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10045 email: bart.hobijn@ny.frb.org
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