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inflation: Inflation data

Description

The article developed four measures of central bank independence and explored their relation to inflation outcomes in developed and developing countries. This datafile deals with two of these measures in 23 nations.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following 5 variables.

  • country country where data were collected

  • ques questionnaire index of independence

  • inf annual inflation rate, 1980-1989 (percent)

  • legal legal index of independence

  • dev developed (1) or developing (2) nation

References

A. Cukierman, S.B. Webb, and B. Negapi, "Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes," World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 6 No. 3 (Sept 1992), 353-398.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data(inflation)

# }

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