10.3886/ICPSR03932.v1 Rector, Chad Kastner, Scott L. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 2004 democracy economic policy international economics international organizations international trade market economy parliamentary governments trade policy 2004-04-28 2004-04-28 1951 1998 event/transaction data 3932 1 This collection measures capital control policy changes using the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) yearly summary of each member state's financial regulations. In the country reports each year, the IMF describes and dates all significant changes in each state's regulations on trade, payments, and capital movement policies. The IMF's written descriptions for each reported change in each country were converted into a set of numeric variables. The survey covered 19 parliamentary democracies that have been continuously democratic since 1951, the first year for which the IMF reported regulatory changes. Since this collection focuses on investment capital, it does not include regulatory changes relating to tourist allocations or payments for services. The date of each regulatory change is included as well as dummy variables which measure whether the change, based on IMF descriptions, was restricting or liberalizing.