Populist Leaders and the Economy

Manuel Funke; Moritz Schularick; Christoph Trebesch (2023) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-176", tranche="tranche100")

Template assessment

The R entry point requires the merged ple_dataset.dta, which is absent. The ZIP contains raw macroeconomic and political inputs, not the completed multi-source country panel.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.