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

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.