Importing US Exchange Rate Data from the Federal Reserve and Standardizing Country Names Across Datasets
Stata Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 315-322, 2013
8 Pages
Posted: 31 Aug 2013
Last revised: 5 Jul 2017
Independent
Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans - Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business
Date Written: February 25, 2013
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.
Keywords: Stata, fxrates, countrynames, exchange rates, country names, standardization, data management, historical data
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Dicle, Betul and Levendis, John and Dicle, Mehmet F., Importing US Exchange Rate Data from the Federal Reserve and Standardizing Country Names Across Datasets (February 25, 2013). Stata Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 315-322, 2013. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2317575
