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In emlaet/wwmetrics: Data for International Business, Economics and Management

wwmetrics

Data on countries and country pairs for IB&M

The aim of this package is to gather publicly available (but not always easily accessible or well-known) data in a convenient and tidy way to facilitate empirical studies in the fields of international business, international economics and international management. It contains data (time-variant or not, bilateral or not) on a diverse set of indicators: - longitudinal administrative distances calculated using the Worldwide Governance Indicators by the World Bank, - country-level data on the big five personality traits to characterize national cultures (both aggregated personality traits and self-stereotypes), - Coface's scores on business climate and country risk, - cultural distances calculated using the Kogut & Singh (1988) index on Hofstede's (1980) cultural dimensions scores, - longitudinal economic distances, - economic integration agreements (EIA), - bilateral foreign direct investments (FDI), - data on civil liberties from Freedom House, - data on political rights from Freedom House, - yearly gross domestic product (GDP), - geographic distances, - Hofstede's (1980) country scores on his six cultural dimensions, - major languages per country (Dow et al., 2016), - country-level psychic distance scores (Hakanson & Ambos, 2010), - psychic distance stimuli (Dow & Karunaratna, 2006), - Schwartz's country scores on culture value orientations, - the Good Country index, - bilateral trade, - Worldwide Governance Indicators by the World Bank, - World Happiness Report.

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