COBRA Data & Tools
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Data for Evidence-Based Policy
COBRA develops and maintains research data infrastructure that links economic policy, corporate behavior, and financial markets, helping researchers, policymakers, journalists, and analysts generate evidence for better-informed debate.
Coming soon: This infrastructure is under active development. Upcoming releases will include interactive dashboards, researcher access points, and documentation for working with policy, firm-level, disclosure, and tax transparency data.
Economic Policy Tracker (EPT)
The Economic Policy Tracker (EPT) is COBRA’s Flagship Database for Policy Insights and Impactful Research
The Economic Policy Tracker is intended to become a high-frequency, news-based database that measures economic policy and regulation alongside public perception and corporate responses. Drawing on the Financial Times and other leading business and policy outlets, it quantifies the real-time policy environment at a daily frequency.
The EPT is built to serve two purposes: a research engine for new work across accounting, finance, public economics, and political economy, and a public evidence hub showing which policy domains matter, when, and how much.
Access: Public dashboard, free to use. Raw data free to researchers on request. In development.
Orbis Research Infrastructure
The University of Mannheim holds the most comprehensive version of Orbis, the largest database of corporate ownership structures and financial reporting data, covering more than 400 million entities worldwide. COBRA cleans and hosts this raw data as a one-stop resource for Mannheim researchers, and uses it as the firm-level backbone connecting the EPT and other datasets to firm outcomes.
Access: Licensed via the University of Mannheim — available to Mannheim-affiliated researchers and their co-authors.
Textual Firm-level Reporting Data
In partnership with financialreports.eu, COBRA hosts a large-scale collection of firm-level textual disclosure data: more than 40,000 listed issuers, over 20 million indexed filings, and 56 languages, primarily annual reports with a focus on Europe and substantial global depth. It is built to connect — linking to earnings calls, financial data from Orbis and Compustat, and the EPT — so researchers can study disclosure data alongside firm behavior and related economic outcomes.
Access: Available to Mannheim-affiliated researchers and their co-authors. Aggregated insights shared publicly through COBRA's outreach.
Public Country-by-Country Reporting Repository
In cooperation with ZEW, COBRA is building a public repository of multinational firms' country-by-country reporting (CbCR) data — a novel form of regulatory tax transparency disclosure at global scale, with public filings beginning in 2025.
Access: Public dashboard planned, with large-scale data available to researchers on request. In development.
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