Inflation rate based on gdp deflator from WDI
economic growth from WDI
logged maddison's gdp percapita
country name
country code from cow
reversed scale for FH dem score fh_dem2TR=( - fh_dem2)+12
year code
updated central bank independence 1
polity iv index to code political openness for all the country
political constraints from Henisz 2002
press freedom from Freedom house (FH)
trade openness (import + export, relative to GDP) from WDI
the number of strikes from CNTS
pop of age over 65 (% of total pop)
peg+cpeg
capital_controls_chinito backwardly extended for post communist countries
rescaled oil_gas_rentpop2. divided by 100
fiscal balance data adding some missing values
revenue data adding some missing values
expenditure data adding some missing values
election year dummy using NELDA, Goemans, Nohlen and other internet sources
LJI