Datasets

• The World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Snapshots (November 2010).
  This replaces the 2008 World Bank Entreprenership database.
  
  
• A New Database on Financial Development and Structure (updated November 2010).
  
  
• Bank Regulation and Supervision Database (updated Julne 2008)
  This database includes the first comprehensive, cross-country survey of how banks are regulated and supervised, including requirements and regulatory powers regarding bank entry, ownership, capital, powers and activities, auditing, organization, liquidity, provisioning, accounting and disclosure, incentives for supervisors, deposit insurance, and disciplining powers including bank exit.  Data are available for selected years.
  
  
• Data on Access to Financial Services (2007)
  
  
• Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries (2007)
  This database contains new indicators of access to and use of banking services across 99 countries, constructed from aggregate data provided by bank regulators.
  
  
• Deposit Insurance Around the World (updated 2005).
  
  
  
• Episodes of Systemic and Borderline Financial Crises
  
  
• Bank Concentration and Crisis
  
  
• Small and Medium Enterprises: Overcoming Growth Constraints
  This database presents indicators of the size of the SME sector across 76 countries.
  
  
• Public Credit Registries Survey Dataset
  
  
• Panel VAR (vector autoregression)
  Produced by Inessa Love