Data for "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency"

Description

A data set for replicating an argument about the relationship between democracy and tariffs/non-tariff trade barriers.

Usage

OODTPT

Format

A data frame with 75 observations on the following 16 variables.

country

a character vector for the country

isocode

a character vector for the three-character ISO code of the country

tariff

the mean statutory most favored nation tariff rate

corecov

the core non-tariff barrier coverage ratio

qualcov

the quality non-tariff barrier coverate ratio

polity

the familiar Polity measure of democracy, from -10 to 10

iec

the index of electoral competitiveness from the World Bank

lngdppc

real GDP per capita in 1995 dollars

lngdp

real GDP in 1995 dollars

lnexpgdp

export dependence (i.e. export/GDP ratio)

reer

real effective exchange rate

growth

GDP per capita growth rate

dimpgdp

the change in the import/GDP ratio over the past three years

lngovcons

the log of country's government consumption spending as a percentage of GDP

gatt

a dummy variable for GATT membership

avgtar

the country's average most favored nation tariff rate

Details

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.

References

Kono, Daniel. 2006. "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency" American Political Science Review 100(3): 369-384.