FinancialCrisisFiles is an object of class
financialCrisisFiles created by the
financialCrisisFiles function in
Ecfun. It describes files containing data
on financial crises downloadable from
https://web.archive.org/web/20150419090824/http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7.
NOTE: When this dataset was created it was
downloaded from http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7. However, it was "Not Found" in testing on 2020-02-09. Fortunately the data are still available on the Internet Archive.
data(FinancialCrisisFiles)FinancialCrisisFiles is a list with
components carrying the names of files to be read.
Each component is a list of optional arguments to
pass to do.call(read.xls, ...) to read the
sheet with name = name of that component. (This
read.xls was part of the gdata
package, which may no longer be available on CRAN.)
This corresponds to the files downloaded from
http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/
in January 2013 (except for the fourth, which was not available there because of an error with the web site but instead was obtained directly from Prof. Reinhart).
Spencer Graves
Reinhart and Rogoff (http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com) provide numerous data sets analyzed in their book, "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Of interest here are data on financial crises of various types for 70 countries spanning the years 1800 - 2010, downloadable from http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/.
Version 0.2-3 of the Ecfun package
included a function financialCrisisFiles
that produced a list of class
financialCrisisFiles describing four
different Excel files in very similar formats
with one sheet per Country and a few extra
descriptor sheets. This data object
FinancialCrisisFiles was produced by
that function. That function required the
gdata package, and users of that package
were advised to terminate use of it, because
it was scheduled to be removed from CRAN along
with all packages that used it. Since Reinhart
and Rogoff seemed not to be actively maintaining
that dataset, there seemed little need to do the
work required to make the
Ecfun::financialCrisisFiles work without
gdata, so it was removed from Ecfun
version 2.0-4.
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2009) This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton U. Pr.