"Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation"
Quarterly Journal of Economics. May 2011, 126(2), p.651-697.
Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador
September 2010
Online data and code appendix
All the code is in Python 2.7. To run a python file, just download the appropriate python distribution for your computer from http://www.python.org
Description of the files:
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File "data_www.csv" contains the raw data used for plots I and II of the paper.
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File "data_work.py" contains the Python code to generate plots I and II. File "data_work_mathematica.m" generates the same plots in Mathematica.
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File "speed_convergence.py" contains the code to generate the speeds of convergence for the linearized model.
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File "simulation_figures.py" contains the main code that runs the simulations of the model.
Usage
In a Linux distribution, from the command line, issue the following commands:
$ python data_work.py
$ python simulation_figures.py
$ python speed_convergence.py
And figures will be generated in the current directory.
Be sure that you have python, as well as the numpy and scipy packages installed in your machine.