Data for


Garey Ramey & Valerie Ramey
"Cross-Country Evidence on the Link Between Volatility and Growth"
American Economic Review, December 1995

* pub24.xlsx Excel data file for the OECD (24 country) sample.

* pub92.xlsx Excel data file for the 92 country sample.

* Raw_data.xlsx Raw Summers-Heston data used in project (only partially documented).

* PUB24.DAT ASCII data file for the OECD (24 country) sample.

* PUB24DAT.TSP TSP write statements and documentation for the data.

* PUB24.TSP TSP estimation programs for the OECD (24 country) sample.

* GOV24.TSP TSP programs that run the fixed effects model.

* PUB92.DAT ASCII data file for 92 country sample.

* PUB92DAT.TSP Write statements and documentation for the 92 country sample data.

* PUB92.TSP TSP programs for the 92 country sample.

* GOV92.TSP TSP programs for the fixed effects model for the 92 country sample.

* PWT5.DOC Part of the documentation for the Summers-Heston data set.

Note: The original TSP programs have been modified so that they will run using newer versions of TSP, which have different default values for hiter and hcov.
Further documentation may be found in the Ramey and Ramey paper.