This is the "Read Me" file for the paper:
Christian Friedrich, Kristina Hess, and Rose Cunningham, "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: Cross-Country Evidence", Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Forthcoming.

The zip file contains the following files to produce the results reported in the paper:
- The Stata data file "MPFSdata_csv" contains data from a variety of sources that are compiled into a panel data set. (See the methodology section and appendix of the paper for information about the sources and transformations of the data.)
- The Stata do file "MPFS_VariablePrep" converts the data set "MPFSdata_csv" into a .dta file that can be called directly by Stata, and modifies variable names and labels as needed. (We used Stata 14.2 to run this file.)
- The Stata do file "MPFS_Analysis" uses the data set "MPFSdata_stata" to produce the tables and figures reported in the paper. (We used Stata 14.2 to run this file.)




End of "Read Me" file
