A data set for replicating an argument about the relationship between democracy and tariffs/non-tariff trade barriers.
OODTPTA data frame with 75 observations on the following 16 variables.
countrya character vector for the country
isocodea character vector for the three-character ISO code of the country
tariffthe mean statutory most favored nation tariff rate
corecovthe core non-tariff barrier coverage ratio
qualcovthe quality non-tariff barrier coverate ratio
politythe familiar [-10,10] Polity measure of democracy
iecthe index of electorcal competitiveness from the World Bank
lngdppcreal GDP per capita in 1995 dollars
lngdpreal GDP in 1995 dollars
lnexpgdpexport dependence (i.e. export/GDP ratio)
reerreal effective exchange rate
growthGDP per capita growth rate
dimpgdpthe change in the import/GDP ratio over the past three years
lngovconsthe log of country's government consumption spending as a percentage of GDP
gatta dummy variable for GATT membership
avgtarthe country's average most favored nation tariff rate
Data downloaded Joshua Alley's Github repository on simple cross-sectional OLS models. These were originally two separate Stata files that I merged into one. Please read the Kono (2006) article for more information.
Kono, Daniel. 2006. "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency" *American Political Science Review* 100(3): 369-384.