Here you can find and download some of the datasets that I have used in my work. I have organized them by topic.

Banking

Banking crisis database: a comprehensive database of banking crisis episodes. Please cite the following book when using this data:  Honohan, Patrick and Luc Laeven, 2005, Systemic Financial Distress: Containment and Resolution, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Deposit Insurance Database: a comprehensive database of design of deposit insurance systems. Please cite the following paper when using this data:  Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Edward J. Kane, and Luc Laeven, 2007, “Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design”, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming.

Bank ownership database: database (in Stata format) on ownership structures of major international banks, including information on control rights and cash flow rights of largest shareholder and type of largest shareholder. Please cite the following paper when using this data:  Caprio, Gerard, Luc Laeven, and Ross Levine, 2007, “Governance and Bank Valuation”, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming.

Product diversification of banks: database on product diversification of major international banks, including information on classifying banks as investment banks or commercial banks. Complete dataset in Stata format available here. Please cite the following paper when using this data:  Laeven, Luc and Ross Levine, 2007, “Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?”, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.

Taxes

Corporate income tax rates: Statutory corporate income tax rates for European countries for the period 1994-2003. Please cite the following paper when using this data:  Huizinga, Harry, Luc Laeven, and Gaetan Nicodeme, 2007, “Capital Structure and International Debt Shifting in Europe”, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.