Introducing the Revised and Updated Financial Reform Database

ABSTRACT This article introduces a revised and updated version of the Financial Reform Database, which is widely used by economists political economists. In this revision, country coverage extended from 91 to 100 economies. Also, time period covered 1973–2005 1973–2013. Furthermore, coding rule relating enhancement banking supervision enhance clarity criteria measure independence supervisory agency, taking into account concepts institutional independence. addition, in order systematically compare policy changes across countries, seven dimensions financial policies are further divided 20 subdimensions, each these subdimensional scores separately coded revision. allows researchers utilize subdimension depending on their interests. The detailed description reform for all countries years made publicly available. article, an overview Database provided.