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cgreene76: Christensen's and Greene's (1976) Data

Description

Data set used by Christensen and Greene (1976) on economies of scale in US electric power generation.

  • firmid Observation id.
  • costs Costs in 1970, MM USD.
  • output Output, million KwH.
  • plabor Price of labor.
  • pkap Price of capital.
  • pfuel Price of fuel.
  • labshr Labor's cost share.
  • kapshr Capital's cost share.

Usage

data(cgreene76)

Arguments

encoding

UTF-8

format

A data frame with 99 observations on the following 8 variables. See Hayashi (2000) for more details.

source

Hayashi, F. (2000). Econometrics. Princeton. New Jersey, USA: Princeton University. http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/Hayashi/

References

Christensen, L. R., and Greene, W. H. (1976) Economies of scale in US electric power generation. The Journal of Political Economy, 655--676.