R/rd-SBCD.R

In stevedata: Steve's Toy Data for Teaching About a Variety of Methodological, Social, and Political Topics

#' @importFrom tibble tibble
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#' Systemic Banking Crises Database II
#'
#' A data set on banking, currency, debt, and debt-restructuring crises from
#' 1970 to 2017.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 574 observations on the following 4 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{country}}{the country, as it appears in the data}
#' \item{\code{type}}{the type of crisis, entered here as "banking", "currency", "debt", or "debtrestructuring"}
#' \item{\code{year}}{the year of the crisis}
#' \item{\code{month}}{the month the crisis started, if known}
#' }
#'
#' @references Laeven, Luc and Fabian Valencia. 2020. "Systemic Banking Crises
#' Database II". *IMF Economic Review* 68: 307--361.
#'
#' @details Data are cobbled from the second and third sheets of the spreadsheet
#' the authors provide. Country names are as entered in their spreadsheet.
#' Liberia has an "NA" in the raw data for sovereign debt restructuring and I
#' don't know why. I elect to keep it.
#'
"SBCD"