Financial Reporting Transparency Measures from BvD Orbis Firm-level Financial Statement Data
The code to generate variants of the measure used in Kim/Olbert (2022) is available here: Link to code.
A readme file is available here.
Please contact the authors via email to enquire the financial reporting transparency measures aggregated by industry, country, and year.
Users of the data or code are expected to acknowledge that the authors (Jinhwan Kim and Marcel Olbert) provided the respective resources and to cite the paper that first used these measures: Kim & Olbert (2022). How Does Private Firm Disclosure Affect Demand for Public Firm Equity? Evidence from the Global Equity Market.
ESG Disclosures in the Private Equity Industry
Abraham/Olbert/Vasvari (2022) generate a panel of ESG disclosures from PE firms’ historical websites spanning the period 2000-2021. The data are available for a global sample of PE firms covered in the Preqin database. Details on the data construction process are provided in Section 2 and the Online Appendix of the paper. Further, a readme file is available here.
Please contact the authors to request the dataset. When contacting the authors, please confirm that you have a valid license for the Preqin database.
Facilities covered in Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) matched to PE transactions from Preqin
Abraham/Olbert/Vasvari (2022) match facilities reporting to the TRI to PE firms based on PE firms’ investments in portfolio companies owning the facilities. The data are available for a global sample of PE firms covered in the Preqin database. A readme file is available here.
Please contact the authors to request the full dataset, including facility IDs (from PRI), year of PE acquisition, and PE firm names and IDs (from Preqin). When contacting the authors, please confirm that you have a valid license for the Preqin database.
An abbreviated dataset without PE firm names and IDs for researchers without a license to the Preqin database is available here.
Marcel Olbert 