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Disequilibrium (version 1.1)

fjdata: Data from Fair and Jaffee (1972).

Description

A data set of 126 monthly observations of the housing market from June 1959 to November 1969. The variables are

\(T\): Time. A continuous values time variable \(\sum_{i=1}^{t-1}HS_i\): Stock of houses. A sum of housing starts over all previous periods. Assuming initial stock is 0. \(RM_{t-2}\): Mortgage rate lagged by two months. \(DF6_{t-1}\): A six month moving average of $DF_t$. $DF_t$ is the flow of private deposits into savings and loan associations (SLA) and mutual savings banks during period $t$. \(DHF3_{t-2}\): The flow of borrowings by the SLAs from the federal home-loan bank during month t. \(RM_{t-1}\): Mortgage rate lagged by one month.

Usage

fjdata

Arguments

Format

An object of class data.frame with 127 rows and 8 columns.

References

Fair, Ray C., and Dwight M. Jaffee. "Methods of estimation for markets in disequilibrium." Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society (1972): 497-514.