ReadMe file for `Political Attitudes and Inflation Expectations: Evidence and Implications'
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming
Authors: Christian Gillitzer, Nalini Prasad and Tim Robinson
August, 2019

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<..\Melbourne Institute>
	<\Code>
		Analysis.do STATA do file produces: Figure 2, Figure A1, Table A4
		Disagreement.do STATA do file produces: Table 6
		Uncertainty.do STATA do file produces: Figure A3
		Figure4.do STATA do file produces: Figure 4
		Other STATA codes in folder are intermediate files
	<\Data>
		Contains input data files used by code above
		
<..\Michigan SCA>
	<\Code>
		Analysis_panel.do STATA do file produces: Table 1, Table 3, Table 4, Table A2, Table A3
		Analysis_crossSection.do STATA do file produces: Figure 1
		Other STATA codes in folder are intermediate files		
	<\Codebook>
		Contains codebook for Michigan SCA

<..\RAND>
	<\2012 election\Code>
		Analysis.do STATA do file produces: Table 2, Figure 3
		Other STATA codes in folder are intermediate files		
	<\ms303\CodeBook>	
		Codebook for module ms303
	<\ms311\CodeBook>	
		Codebook for module ms311
		
<..\Table 5>
	<\Code>
		CPI.do STATA do file produces: Table 5 (top panel)
		CPI10.do STATA do file produces: Table 5 (bottom panel)
	<\Data>		
		Contains raw data read in by codes above

<..\Table A1>
	<\US>
		InflationByParty_revision.do STATA do file produces: Table A1 (US)
		Contains raw data read in by code above		
	<\Australia>
		InflationByParty_revision.do STATA do file produces: Table A1 (Australia)
		Contains raw data read in by code above
		
<..\Table A5>
	Rankings.do STATA do file produces: Table A5
	Contains raw data read in by code above	

<..\Table A6>
	Quality_appendix.do STATA do file produces: Table A6
	Contains raw data read in by code above

<..\Figure 5>
	calibration.m MATLAB file produces: Figure 5
	Other MATLAB code in folder is an intermediate file
	
<..\Figure A2>	
	Graphs_union.xlsx EXCEL file with data for Figure A2
	
Microdata for the RAND Survey are available free of charge by subscription at <https://www.rand.org/research/data/alp.html>
Microdata for the Michigan SCA including political variables are available upon request from Richard Curtin, Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan (e: curtin@umich.edu)
The unit-record data for the Consumer Attitudes, Sentiments and Expectations Survey are held by the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne. Contact Guay Lim, Director of the Macroeconomics Research Program, to arrange access to the data (e: g.lim@unimelb.edu.au). 
		