[R-SIG-Finance] Developing Markets Sovereign Debt -- World Bank

[Jim Callahan]

> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:39:42 -0400
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> Hello to All.
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> Has anyone had experience with accessing through quantmod,
> I am guessing that this woulb be via FRED, any data on
> developing world sovereign debt?

World Bank / Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS)
http://go.worldbank.org/4GWXECHWY0

Left hand column:
SDDS/QEDS Data > Database Access

brings up screen...

QUICK QUERY
Tabbed form for selecting Country, Series & Time
Creates custom MS Excel or CSV files

In R:
help("read.csv")

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For the macroeconomic context, you might check out Professor Ray
Fair's Multi-Country (MC) series of econometric models:
http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/main3.htm

In Dr. Ray Fair's US model:
"The federal government surplus (+) or deficit (-) (SGP) is the
difference between receipts and expenditures, which is defined in
equation 107:

107. SGP = RECG - EXPG"

I am not sure off-hand if their is a similar equation for each country
in the MC model.

HTH,
Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL






>
> I am not really looking for specific help, such as
> a snippet or script or code example on how such data
> could be accessed. I am learning R, and would like to take
> a crack at the code first.
>
> I am now just looking to be pointed in the right direction.
>
> Also, are there any R packages, modules available to
> access data from the IMF or Banco Mundial?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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