01724cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005473 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451871241 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Detragiache, Enrica. A New Database of Financial Reforms / Enrica Detragiache, Abdul Abiad, Thierry Tressel. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973-2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of financial liberalization, provides descriptive statistics, and discusses some possible applications. The database provides a multi-faceted measure of reform, covering seven aspects of financial sector policy. Along each dimension the database provides a graded (rather than a binary) score, and allows for reversals. Mode of access: Internet Abiad, Abdul. Tressel, Thierry. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/266 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/266/001.2008.issue-266-en.xml IMF e-Library