FinancialCrisisFiles: Files containing financial crisis data

In Ecdat: Data Sets for Econometrics

Description

FinancialCrisisFiles is an object of class financialCrisisFiles created by the financialCrisisFiles function in Ecfun. It describes files containing data on financial crises downloadable from http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/.

Usage

data(FinancialCrisisFiles)

Details

Reinhart and Rogoff (http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com) provide numerous data sets analyzed in their book, "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Of interest here are data on financial crises of various types for 70 countries spanning the years 1800 - 2010, downloadable from http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/.

The function financialCrisisFiles in Ecfun produces a list of class financialCrisisFiles describing four different Excel files in very similar formats with one sheet per Country and a few extra descriptor sheets. The data object FinancialCrisisFiles is the default output of that function.

Value

FinancialCrisisFiles is a list with components carrying the names of files to be read. Each component is a list of optional arguments to pass to do.call(read.xls, ...) to read the sheet with name = name of that component.

This corresponds to the files downloaded from http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/ in January 2013 (except for the fourth, which was not available there because of an error with the web site but instead was obtained directly from Prof. Reinhart).

Author(s)

Spencer Graves

Source

http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com

References

Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2009) This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton U. Pr.

See Also

read.xls

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