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exchangerate: International Exchange Rate Dataset

Description

This dataset was considered by West and Harrison (1997) and Lopes and West (2004). The dataset consists of n = 143 monthly first-differences of the exchange rates of 6 international currencies against the British pound, from Jan 1975 to Dec 1986, these currencies are: US dollar (USD), Canadian dollar (CAD), Japanese yen (JPY), French franc (FRF), German (deutsche) mark (DEM), and the Italian lira (ITL).

Usage

exchangerate

Arguments

Format

A 143 by 7 matrix of exchange rate time-series. The variables include:

Month_Year

Month and year of exchange rate data.

USD

US dollar

CAD

Canadian dollar

JPY

Japanese yen

FRF

French franc

DEM

German (deutsche) mark

ITL

Italian lira