How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the Orbis Global Database: New Facts and Aggregate Implications

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Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe (2017, methodology): “See also Kalemli-Özcan et al. (2015) for a description of how to use ORBIS to construct representative firm-level data sets for various countries.”
How European Markets Became Free: A Study of Institutional Drift (2018, positive): “The concentration series follow the above segmentation, and are based on the merged vintage dataset of Kalemli-Ozcan et al. (2015).40 They cover the ten major European economies included in the December 2016 KLEMS release (AUT, BEL, DEU, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, ITA, NLD and SWE) from 1999 to 2012.”
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms* (2017, background): “BVD Orbis is the best publicly available database for comparing firm panels across countries (Kalemli-Ozcan et al., 2015).”
Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies (2019, background): “…verbal information from the ORBIS database into percentages, we replace ’wholly owned’ with 100%, and majority-owned by 50.01% (as suggested by Kalemli-Ozcan et al. (2015)) If a firm’s shares are listed as exceeding a percentage of a given size, we code it as that percentage plus 0.01…”