1. Data for my paper with Jan Breuer "Economic Depression in the World", Journal of Macroeconomics, December 2013:

Here is the data for the depression episodes in Excel format: Excel episodes

Here is the data for the depression episodes in Stata format: Stata episodes

Please cite this data as follows if you use it in a paper: Janice Boucher Breuer and John McDermott, "Economic Depression in the World", Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 38, Part B, December 2013, pp. 227 - 242.

The article can be found via Science Direct.