Fiscal variables - Empirical Economics (2015)

This set contains the data used in the empirical analysis of Fincke and Wolski (Are European Fiscal Rules that Bad? Discretionary Fiscal Policies in New Member States, Empirical Economics, 2015). The variable specifications are described in the separate sheet. In particular, the variables include Primary balance (Seasonally Adjusted), Debt to GDP (SA), Output gap (SA), Interest rate gap (SA), Election dummies, Output gap for of the US (SA), group dummies. Data details are presented in the paper.

本数据集收录了Fincke与Wolski于2015年发表在《实证经济学》（Empirical Economics）期刊的论文《欧洲财政规则果真如此糟糕？新成员国的相机抉择财政政策》（Are European Fiscal Rules that Bad? Discretionary Fiscal Policies in New Member States）中开展实证分析所使用的全部数据。变量的具体设定详见单独工作表。具体而言，所涵盖的变量包括：经季节性调整的基本收支差额（Primary balance, Seasonally Adjusted）、债务与GDP之比（Debt to GDP, SA）、产出缺口（Output gap, SA）、利率缺口（Interest rate gap, SA）、选举虚拟变量、美国产出缺口（SA）以及分组虚拟变量。数据的详细细节已在该论文中予以说明。