The DISEASE OUTBREAKS DATA project arose from the need for open, reliable information on pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks, offering broad coverage of diseases, time periods, and geography, and ensuring statistical soundness for research purposes.
The dataset is the result of a collaborative effort by a team of researchers from the University of Göttingen, the University of Groningen, and the University of Bordeaux. The project was made possible through financial support from the ENLIGHT network, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany.
In the first version of the dataset, a total of 2227 outbreaks of 70 different infectious diseases were found, occurring in a total of 233 countries and territories from January 1996 until March 2022. These findings are published in Springer Nature’s Scientific Data. Read the paper by clicking here! Additionally, the data, metadata, and the code to replicate the first version of this dataset are publicly available on Figshare. You can download them by clicking here!.
INPACT-S
Bilateral patent applications and patent citations for a global sample of countries at sectoral level from 1980 to 2018.
If you wish to access the data, please fill this questionnaire.
When using the data, please cite the following paper: LaBelle, J., Martinez-Zarzoso, I., Santacreu, A. M. & Yotov, Y. 2023. "Cross-border Patenting, Globalization, and Development," Working Papers 2023-031, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://ideas.repec.org/p/fip/fedlwp/97470.html
Litigations-ghg
Environmental Litigations and Greenhouse Gases.
Database designed to replicate the Working Paper titled “The Impact of Litigations on GHG Emissions.”
Content: Includes the "litigation" variable from the Grantham Research Institute, which is assigned a value of 1 when the first case related to environmental laws is resolved in a given year, regardless of the court's ruling. It also integrates the "rule of law" indicator from the World Bank.
Sample: Includes all countries that have had at least one resolved case (23 countries, primarily high- and middle-income). Excludes the U.S.
Access: Available on the GitHub repository (includes the emissions and litigation data required for greenhouse gas analysis).
RTA-Bil
Description: An updated Stata do-file based on the original code by Jose de Sousa (until 2015). This script generates a binary indicator (rta
ijt=1) for country pairs belonging to the same Free Trade Agreement in a given year.
Access: Available upon request. Soon available on GitHub.
Sample: Time period: 1958-2025, 199 countries.
Citation: When using this code, please cite:
De Sousa, J. (2012). Economics Letters 117, no. 3 (2012): 917-920. The currency union effect on trade is decreasing over time.
Martínez‐Zarzoso & Santacreu (2025). Review of International Economics, 2025: Cross-Border Patenting and the Margins of International Trade.