The PRS Group

About The PRS Group

Our publications are used extensively by colleges and universities worldwide, businesses and investors, private equity groups, and all of the main multilateral institutions. From an academic perspective, a range of political and economic phenomena have been distilled through the use of our data, producing significant contributions to the literature in a variety of disciplines. 

The PRS Group has built a reputation as a provider of the highest quality data and analysis anywhere. We offer dozens of products produced by our methodologies. I am going to highlight a few of the more popular products in the academic world. I have attached information on the products. 

PRS Yearbook

• Provides regime probability forecasts over an 18-month and five-year time horizon for 100 countries, and examines and rates the risk to foreign assets of direct government actions or economic functions, including equity restrictions, exchange controls, fiscal & monetary expansion, labor cost expansion, and external borrowing liability.
• Available in eight volumes, delineated on regional basis.
• Published annually in January

 ICRG Researchers Dataset 

• Provides annual averages of all of the ICRG metrics affecting political, economic, and financial risks since 1984.
• Very popular among researchers for its ease of use and timelines
• Published annually in January

The Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis

• The 5th edition of The Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis is part of PRS’  efforts, since the 1990s, to link the academic world with the requirements of global business operations, and is designed to put well-known and innovative risk forecasting methods into the hands of executives and analysts. Edited by Dr Lew Howell, professor emeritus at Thunderbird, the Handbook includes chapters from Political Risk Services, the International      Country Risk Guide, Control Risks, OPIC, Eurasia Group, and the EIU.