Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies 1987-2002
Country
Name
Country code
World
WLD
Study type
Macroeconomics - Indicators
Abstract
This dataset contains all variables used in the regressions of the paper "Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies". The definition and sources of the different variables are explained in an appendix table of the paper, available as external resources. Please note that the growth data reported in Table 1 do not correspond to the growth data used for the analysis. The actual data used for the analysis are in the dataset. The growth data in Table 1 are from an earlier version of the paper that looked at a shorter sample period.
Kind of Data
Aggregate data [agg]
Scope
Notes
The dataset includes indicators related to:
- Socialism
- Raw exports
- Ethnic fractionalization
- CMEA Trade share
- Tertiary enrollment
- Gas reserves / population
- Political Structure and Institution Building - Executive Constraints, Communist share, Liberalization, Privatization
- Change in Rule of Law, Change in Corruption, EBRD reform
- Monetary growth
- Inflation
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven. Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies (IBGTE) 1987-2002. Ref. WLD_2002_IBGTE_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [web address] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.