LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center

The Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC) is a combined platform for empirical research in business administration and economics of the Ludwig–Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the Ifo Institute and aims at opening new fields for empirical research in business administration and economics. In this regard, the EBDC provides innovative datasets of German companies, containing both survey data of the Ifo Institute as well as external balance sheet data. Therefore, the tasks of the EBDC also include the procurement and administration of data sources for research and teaching, the central provision, updating and documentation of external databases, as well as the acquisition of corresponding support tools. Beyond that, the EBDC serves as a contact and central coordinator on licensing economic firm-level datasets for LMU’s Munich School of Management and LMU’s Department of Economics and supports researchers and guests of the LMU and the Ifo Institute on site. In the future, it will also conduct academic conferences on research with company data.

慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学（LMU）与伊弗经济研究所（Ifo Institute）联合构建的经济与商业数据中心（EBDC）是一个集实证研究于一体的综合性平台，旨在开拓商业管理与经济学领域的实证研究新领域。在此背景下，EBDC提供创新的德国公司数据集，该数据集包含伊弗经济研究所的调研数据以及外部资产负债表数据。因此，EBDC的任务还包括为研究和教学采购与管理数据源，集中提供、更新和编制外部数据库，以及获取相应的支持工具。此外，EBDC还作为许可LMU慕尼黑管理学院和LMU经济学院的商业企业级经济数据集的联络和中央协调机构，并在现场为LMU和伊弗经济研究所的研究人员和嘉宾提供服务。未来，它还将举办基于公司数据的学术研讨会。