Microeconomic Research Data Hub (MiRDH)
The Microeconomic Research Data Hub (MiRDH) of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) was established in 2023 to serve as a point of access to microeconomic datasets for research purposes.
By means of this initiative the NBB wishes to provide high-quality, secure access to microeconomic datasets to academic researchers, in compliance with confidentiality rules. The datasets currently relate to non-financial corporations. In the future, additional firm-level datasets will be added, along with data on households and financial institutions
2025 programme
The Bank is launching a third wave of the programme and is calling for applications based on a set of MiRDH firm-level microeconomic data. This data can be complemented by external datasets that will be pseudonymised and merged with MiRDH datasets by the Bank.
All research projects will be reviewed, and a research and confidentiality agreement will be concluded for accepted projects.
Remote access to pseudonymised data will be provided through the National Bank of Belgium’s IT infrastructure.
Research projects involving confidential datasets which cannot be made available can be submitted outside the context of the pilot phase. These will require NBB co-authorship; acceptance will depend on NBB interest and resource availability.
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Microeconomic Research Data Hub (MiRDH)
