CANA
A new panel dataset for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development (CANA)Participants Jose Miguel Natera
Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This project presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value. We make use of a new method of multiple imputation and construct a large dataset containing a great number of indicators measuring six key country-specific dimensions: innovation and technological capabilities, education system and human capital, infrastructures, economic competitiveness, political-institutional factors, and social capital. The CANA panel dataset provides a rich and complete set of 41 indicators for 134 countries in the period 1980-2008 (for a total of 3886 country-year observations). The empirical analysis shows the reliability of the dataset and its usefulness for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. The new dataset is publicly available.
The Working Paper presenting and describing the CANA database can be downloaded here.
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Publications
- Castellacci, Fulvio , Jose Miguel Natera (2012). Innovation, Absorptive Capacity and Complexity along Development Stages. NUPI Working Paper: 799. 63 pages. The paper presents an empirical analysis of the time series properties of Schumpeterian multiple equilibria models.
- Castellacci, Fulvio , Jose Miguel Natera (2011). The Dynamics of National Innovation Systems: A Panel Cointegration Analysis of the Coevolution between Innovative Capability and Absorptive Capacity. NUPI Working Paper: 791. 43 pages. This paper puts forward the idea that the dynamics of national innovation systems is driven by the coevolution of two main dimensions: innovative capability and absorptive capacity.
- Castellacci, Fulvio , Jose Miguel Natera (2011). A new panel dataset for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development (CANA). NUPI Working Paper: 783. 52 pages. Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This paper presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value.
