Importing U.S. exchange rate data from the Federal Reserve and standardizing country names across datasets

Betul Dicle (), John Levendis () and Mehmet F. Dicle ()
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John Levendis: Loyola University New Orleans
Mehmet F. Dicle: Loyola University New Orleans

Stata Journal, 2013, vol. 13, issue 2, 315-322

Abstract: fxrates is a command to import historical U.S. exchange rate data from the Federal Reserve and to calculate the daily change of the exchange rates. Because many cross-country datasets use different spellings and conventions for country names, we also introduce a second command, countrynames, to convert country names to a common naming standard. Copyright 2013 by StataCorp LP.

Keywords: fxrates; countrynames; exchange rates; country names; standardization; data management; historical data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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