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Hi!
I need to separate positive and negative values from my file deltaop_us

In the research paper "Oil price shocks and stock market activities: Evidence
from oil-importing and oil-exporting countries" by Yudong Wang (2012)


they use
dopt+=max(0, deltaop_us)
dopt-=min(0, deltaop_us)

and later dopt# E { dopt+,dopt- }

i tried running the code, as well as this code (I got this from another thread on the forum)
Genr Pos_deltaop_us=0.5((@abs(deltaop_us)*deltaop_us))
Genr Neg_deltaop_us=0.5((@abs(deltaop_us)*deltaop_us))

Doing the above, all I could generate was one file with the positive values and a "0" where the negative values were originally.

Does anyone know the solution to my problem?

Thank you for reading!

In addition:
When I try to use genr positive_deltaop_us=max(0,deltaop_us)
It says "Illegal lag or index specification"

Hello,

The easiest way to do this in EViews is to use samples or @recode. I'll demonstrate an @recode approach:
If you want the filtered out values to be NAs instead of zeros, you can change the last argument to @recode to NA.