InstabilityInflation: Political Instability and Inflation
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Description
Usage
Format
Source
References
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Description
yearly observations of 178 countries from 1945 to 2000
number of observations : 9968
country : world
economic topic : macroeconomics
econometrics topic : dynamic model
Usage
1
Format
A dataframe containing :
- country
the country
- year
year
- continent
one of 'other', 'africa', 'asia', 'europe', 'mideast', 'westhem' (western hemispher countries) and 'incount' (industrial countries)
- frac
total fractionalization
- lpcoh
index of political cohesion
- polariz2
ideological polarization
- govcrise
number of government crisis
- cabchg
number of cabinet changes
- polity2
polity scale, from 10 (strongly democratic) to -10 (strongly autocratic)
- exconst
executive constraints
- polright
political rights, 1 to 7 scale (7 highest degree of freedom)
- civillib
civil liberties, 1 to 7 scale (7 highest degree of freedom)
- areai
size of government
- areaii
legal structure and security of proporty rights
- areaiii
access to sound money
- areaiv
freedom to exchange with foreigners
- areav
regulation of credit, labor and business
- index
summary index of the 5 areas above
- agricva
agriculture value added (percentage of gdp)
- trade
trade (percentage of gdp)
- urbpop
urban population (percentage of total population)
- inf
changes in consumer prices
- tbillrate
treasury bill rate
- curbanks
(M2-C)/M2, C is the currency outside banks
- m2
quasi-money
- m2ch
quasi-money
- rgdpl
real gdp per capita
- rgdplgr
real gdp per capita growth
- mdeiangdp
median gdp per capita
- realover
real overvaluation
- gdpgrtp
trading partenr's gdp per capita growth
- oilch
growth of oil prices
- erc5
exchange rate system (5 caregories)
- erc3
exchange rate system (3 categories)
- cbankindep
aggregate legal central bank independence variable
- tor
turnover rates of central bank presidents
Source
Journal Money, Credit and Banking data archive : http://jmcb.osu.edu.
References
Aisen, Ari and Francisco Jos\'e Veiga (2006) “Does political instability leads to higher inflation ? A panel data analysis”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 38(5), 1379–1389.
See Also
Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics
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Description Usage Format Source References See Also
Description
yearly observations of 178 countries from 1945 to 2000
number of observations : 9968
country : world
economic topic : macroeconomics
econometrics topic : dynamic model
Usage
1 |
Format
A dataframe containing :
- country
the country
- year
year
- continent
one of 'other', 'africa', 'asia', 'europe', 'mideast', 'westhem' (western hemispher countries) and 'incount' (industrial countries)
- frac
total fractionalization
- lpcoh
index of political cohesion
- polariz2
ideological polarization
- govcrise
number of government crisis
- cabchg
number of cabinet changes
- polity2
polity scale, from 10 (strongly democratic) to -10 (strongly autocratic)
- exconst
executive constraints
- polright
political rights, 1 to 7 scale (7 highest degree of freedom)
- civillib
civil liberties, 1 to 7 scale (7 highest degree of freedom)
- areai
size of government
- areaii
legal structure and security of proporty rights
- areaiii
access to sound money
- areaiv
freedom to exchange with foreigners
- areav
regulation of credit, labor and business
- index
summary index of the 5 areas above
- agricva
agriculture value added (percentage of gdp)
- trade
trade (percentage of gdp)
- urbpop
urban population (percentage of total population)
- inf
changes in consumer prices
- tbillrate
treasury bill rate
- curbanks
(M2-C)/M2, C is the currency outside banks
- m2
quasi-money
- m2ch
quasi-money
- rgdpl
real gdp per capita
- rgdplgr
real gdp per capita growth
- mdeiangdp
median gdp per capita
- realover
real overvaluation
- gdpgrtp
trading partenr's gdp per capita growth
- oilch
growth of oil prices
- erc5
exchange rate system (5 caregories)
- erc3
exchange rate system (3 categories)
- cbankindep
aggregate legal central bank independence variable
- tor
turnover rates of central bank presidents
Source
Journal Money, Credit and Banking data archive : http://jmcb.osu.edu.
References
Aisen, Ari and Francisco Jos\'e Veiga (2006) “Does political instability leads to higher inflation ? A panel data analysis”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 38(5), 1379–1389.
See Also
Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics
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