A dataset containing the monthly U.S. data covering the period from February 1959 to December 2020 (743 observations) and consisting of four variables: the log-difference of industrial production index (IP), the log-difference of consumer price index (CPI), the log-difference of M1 monetary aggregate (M1), and an interest rate variable (RATE). The log-differences are multiplied by hundred. The interest rate variable is the effective federal funds rate from February 1959 to August 2008 after which we replaced it with the Wu and Xia (2016) shadow rate, which is not constrained by the zero lower bound and also quantifies unconventional monetary policy measures.
usamoneA numeric matrix of class 'ts' with 743 rows and 4 columns with one time series in each column:
The log-difference multiplied by hundred, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO
The log-difference multiplied by hundred, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
The log-difference multiplied by hundred, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
From 1959 February to 2008 August https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS and from 2008 September onwards https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/wu-xia-shadow-federal-funds-rate
The Wu and Xia (2016) shadow rate data was retrieved from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's website (https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/wu-xia-shadow-federal-funds-rate) and the rest of the data was retrieved from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis database.
J.C. Wu and F.D. Xia. 2016. Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 48(2-3): 253-291.