<p>The paper <em>Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset</em> by Andrés Fernández, Michael W. Klein, Alessandro Rebucci, Martin Schindler,
and Martín Uribe (<a href="https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp1580.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a>) has an index of capital controls.</p>
<p>From footnote 8:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The dataset is publicly available for download at the National Bureau of Economic Research website
(<a href="https://www.nber.org/data/international-finance/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nber.org/data/international-finance/</a>) or at request from the authors.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The link seems to be broken, but you could write to the authors and ask for the data.</p>

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<p>I would like to create a data viz to show, in one chart, where some of the major economies are on the trilemma. It won't be perfect, but I'm just looking for a rough characterization. For my data viz to work, all three need to be <strong>quantitative</strong> not qualitative. Some bits I have already tracked down quantitative measures:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Capital mobility</p>
</li>
<li><p>Independent monetary policy: <a href="https://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb14q1a6.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">There's an index for this</a></p>
</li>
<li><p>Fixed exchange rate: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exchange_rate_regime" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The wiki can be an ordinal variable for this</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>So I'm stuck at capital mobility. I have googled &quot;capital mobility&quot; and related terms but I'm a bit skeptical of the results.</p>
<h2>Question</h2>
If we can't retrieve perfect, capital controls data, what might we consider as an effective substitute that is fairly easy to scrape from the public domain and is still **quantitative**?

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Visualizing the "Impossible Trinity"
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# Visualizing the "Impossible Trinity"

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-02-01)

I would like to create a data viz to show, in one chart, where some of the major economies are on the trilemma. It won't be perfect, but I'm just looking for a rough characterization. For my data viz to work, all three need to be **quantitative** not qualitative. Some bits I have already tracked down quantitative measures:

* Capital mobility
* Independent monetary policy: [There's an index for this](https://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb14q1a6.pdf)
* Fixed exchange rate: [The wiki can be an ordinal variable for this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exchange_rate_regime)

So I'm stuck at capital mobility. I have googled "capital mobility" and related terms but I'm a bit skeptical of the results.

## Question

If we can't retrieve perfect, capital controls data, what might we consider as an effective substitute that is fairly easy to scrape from the public domain and is still \*\*quantitative\*\*?

**Tags:** macroeconomics, monetary-policy, currency, data-request


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-02-01. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

The paper *Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset* by Andrés Fernández, Michael W. Klein, Alessandro Rebucci, Martin Schindler,
and Martín Uribe ([link](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp1580.pdf)) has an index of capital controls.

From footnote 8:

> The dataset is publicly available for download at the National Bureau of Economic Research website
> (<https://www.nber.org/data/international-finance/>) or at request from the authors.

The link seems to be broken, but you could write to the authors and ask for the data.


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