Resources by Lisa

IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (BOP/IIP) Statistics

Creators: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Publication Date: 2025-11-19
Creators: International Monetary Fund (IMF)

The IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (BOP/IIP) Statistics provide comprehensive cross-country data on international financial flows, including current account balances, foreign direct investment, portfolio investment, and reserve assets. The dataset covers a broad range of countries and enables analysis of cross-border capital market activity and financial integration.

Spanish National Statistics Institute – Economic and Demographic Data

Creators: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain
Publication Date: 2026
Creators: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain

The Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) is Spain’s national statistics agency, providing comprehensive data on economic, social, and demographic indicators including business activity, employment, population, income, and digital economy statistics.

Index of Economic Freedom

Creators: The Heritage Foundation
Publication Date: February 2026
Creators: The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom provides annual country-level scores measuring economic freedom across 12 quantitative and qualitative factors grouped into four pillars: rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency, and open markets. The index covers over 180 countries and is widely used in international business and institutional economics research to measure country-level institutional quality.

SBDS – Steem Blockchain Data Service

Creators: Steemit Inc.
Publication Date: 2018
Creators: Steemit Inc.

The Steem Blockchain Data Service (SBDS) is an open-source tool hosted on GitHub that provides structured access to data from the Steem blockchain, including user posts, votes, rewards, and transaction records. It enables researchers to extract and analyse large-scale user contribution and incentive data from the Steem decentralised social media platform.

Creators: Steven Loria

TextBlob is an open-source Python library for processing textual data, providing simple APIs for common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, translation, and classification.

China Statistical Yearbook – National Bureau of Statistics of China

Creators: National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS)
Publication Date: 2024
Creators: National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS)

The China Statistical Yearbook, published annually by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), provides comprehensive national and regional statistical data covering economic, social, and demographic indicators including GDP, industrial output, employment, investment, and financial market data.

metaSEM – R Package for Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modelling

Creators: Mike W.-L. Cheung
Publication Date: 2024-09-26
Creators: Mike W.-L. Cheung

The metaSEM package for R provides functions for conducting meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation modelling (MASEM), enabling researchers to synthesise findings across multiple studies. It supports both univariate and multivariate meta-analyses and is widely used in management and psychology research.

Hofstede Insights – Country Cultural Dimensions Data

Creators: Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov
Publication Date: 2023-10-16
Creators: Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov

Hofstede Insights provides country-level scores on Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions (Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long-Term Orientation, and Indulgence) for over 100 countries. These scores are widely used in international business, management, and information systems research to measure cultural distance between countries.

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