Lmu-ifo economics & business data center (ebdc)

With its business surveys the ifo Institute collects data that are directly relevant to empirical economic research both in Germany and internationally.
The ifo Institute makes this data available to external researchers under specific security precautions.
This data pool is also available to guest researchers at the ifo Institute.

The Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC) of the ifo Institute and LMU makes a crucial contribution to this.” The EBDC provides innovative datasets of German companies which contain both survey data of the ifo Institute as well as balance-sheet data from the company databases Amadeus and Hoppenstedt.

By appointment and under the supervision of an employee of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing selected microdata of official statistics can be accessed for scientific purposes at two guest workstations in the EBDC.

With its business surveys the ifo Institute collects data that are directly relevant to empirical economic research both in Germany and internationally

The ifo Institute makes this data available to external researchers under specific security precautions

This data pool is also available to guest researchers at the ifo Institute

The Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC) of the ifo Institute and LMU makes a crucial contribution to this

” The EBDC provides innovative datasets of German companies which contain both survey data of the ifo Institute as well as balance-sheet data from the company databases Amadeus and Hoppenstedt