A new database of financial reforms /
prepared by Abdul Abiad, Enrica Detragiache, and Thierry Tressel.

Description

Main Author

Abiad, Abdul.

Related Names

Tressel, Thierry.
Detragiache, Enrica.
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
IMF Institute.

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, c2008.

Subjects

Monetary policy > Monetary policy / Databases.
Finance > Finance / Databases.
Fiscal policy > Fiscal policy / Databases.

Summary

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973-2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of financial liberalization, provides descriptive statistics, and discusses some possible applications. The database provides a multi-faceted measure of reform, covering seven aspects of financial sector policy. Along each dimension the database provides a graded (rather than a binary) score, and allows for reversals.

Note

"December 2008."
At head of title: IMF Institute and Research Department.
Also available via the World Wide Web.

Physical Description

28 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

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