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 |
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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