Importing U.S. Exchange Rate Data from the Federal Reserve and Standardizing Country Names across Datasets. (July 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dicle, Betul; Levendis, John; Dicle, Mehmet F.
• Is Part Of: Stata journal. Volume 13:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 315
• Page End: 322
• Publication Date: 2013-07
• Subjects: dm0069 -- fxrates -- countrynames -- exchange rates -- country names -- standardization -- data management -- historical data; Statistics -- Periodicals; Statistics -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 001.422
• DOI: 10.1177/1536867X1301300205
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-867X

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.