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About the Data

Our website provides a user-friendly interface where researchers, data scientists, and business analysts can easily access and download a global business network.
You will find the corresponding working paper “Global Business Networks” here: Download Paper

By downloading the dataset, you gain access to a global time-varying business network for more than 63,000 global firms. There are currently three variants available for download: A network based on the open-source T5-XXL sentence transformer model, and two embedding models from OpenAI (text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large). We also provide networks based on business descriptions where company identifying information was masked (see “Masked networks” section) and the AI-generated historical business descriptions from annual reports.

Original networks

Masked networks

We also provide networks based on business descriptions where company identifying information was masked:

We also offer access to the AI-generated business descriptions:

AI business descriptions
We use a custom identifier within our dataset. The identifier may be mapped to CRSP and Refinitiv/LSEG with the following mapping file:

Mapping File