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leblang2003: Currency attacks

Description

Data on speculative currency attacks and devaluation decisions for 90 countries from 1985 to 1998.

Details

The dataset is taken from Leblang (2003). The unit of observation is the country-month, and the variables are: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object] All of the non-binary variables other than nation, month, and year are standardized to have mean 0 and unit variance.

We are grateful to David Leblang for allowing us to redistribute his data. The original replication file is available in Stata format at http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/leblang/Leblang/Data_files/strat.dta (as of 2010-03-01).

References

David Leblang. 2003. "To Defend or Devalue: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy." International Studies Quarterly 47: 533--559.

See Also

egame12

Examples

## replicate analysis in Leblang (2003)
data(leblang2003)
m1 <- egame12(outcome ~ capcont + lreserves + overval + creditgrow +
USinterest + service + contagion + prioratt - 1 | 1 | 1 | unifgov + lexports
+ preelec + postelec + rightgov + realinterest + capcont + lreserves, data =
leblang2003, link = "probit", type = "private")

summary(m1)

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