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		Monetary Policy Shock Series for Empirical Macroeconomics //
		Provides a curated multi-country collection of monetary policy
		shock and stance series from the empirical macroeconomics
		literature, bundled as tidy data frames with provenance
		metadata. Version 0.1.0 includes thirteen series covering the
		United States, United Kingdom, and Australia: for the US, the
		policy news shock of Nakamura and Steinsson (2018)
		doi:10.1093/qje/qjy004, the orthogonalised surprise of Bauer
		and Swanson (2023) doi:10.1257/aer.20201220, the target and
		path factors of the Swanson (2021)
		doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2020.09.003 extension of Gurkaynak, Sack,
		and Swanson (2005), the pure monetary policy and central bank
		information shocks of Jarocinski and Karadi (2020)
		doi:10.1257/mac.20180090, the informationally-robust shock of
		Miranda-Agrippino and Ricco (2021) doi:10.1257/mac.20180124,
		and the shadow federal funds rate of Wu and Xia (2016)
		doi:10.1111/jmcb.12300; for the UK, the UK Monetary Policy
		Event-Study Database of Braun, Miranda-Agrippino, and Saha
		(2025) doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103645, the high-frequency
		surprise of Cesa-Bianchi, Thwaites, and Vicondoa (2020)
		doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103375, and the narrative shock
		of Cloyne and Hurtgen (2016) doi:10.1257/mac.20150093; for
		Australia, the three-component RBA surprise of Hambur and Haque
		(2023) doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12786 and the credit-spread-
		augmented RBA narrative shock of Beckers (2020). Helpers
		support date alignment, frequency conversion, and shock
		cumulation. All data is bundled; no runtime network access is
		required.
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