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These data sources contain a wealth of extremely interesting information that I am sure can lead to great research collaborations.

For example:

1: The wages dataset includes detailed monthly records at the individual level for all formal workers in Mexico. We have access to their personal ID, gender, employer ID, firm ID, geographic location, and sector of economic activity, so we can track workers' movements between firms.

2: The CATAR dataset contains information from the universe of transactions made at Point of Sales (PoS) terminals with credit and debit cards in Mexico. This dataset reports clusters of transactions at a highly disaggregated level. That is, transactions are grouped by postal code, type of card (debit or credit), card issuer, PoS issuer, the business activity of the retailer, type of fee charged to retailers (rate or fee), as well as the PoS payment processor company. For every possible combination of values of the above variables, the dataset reports the number of transactions, and the number of PoS, as well as the median, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, and the total value of transactions in the cluster.

3: The commercial loans database includes the universe of commercial loans granted in Mexico by banking financial institutions (commercial banks) to various subjects such as companies, individuals with business activity, financial entities, decentralized organizations, states, and municipalities since 2004. The regulatory commission compiles the information through forms that banks are required to fill out and file on a monthly basis, with the information updated to the close of the last business day of the reporting period. This database allows for following a loan from the moment it is granted until it is extinguished, keeping track of all the changes and movements that occur throughout its history.

Please register with Laura Starck (lstarck@diw.de). Please note: Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.