dmbp: data: Deutschemark/British pound Exchange Rate
Description
The Bollerslev-Ghysel benchmark dataset. The variables in the data set are:
1.
The daily percentage nominal returns computed as 100 [ln(Pt) - ln(Pt-1)],
where Pt is the bilateral Deutschemark/British pound rate constructed from the
corresponding U.S. dollar rates.
2.
A dummy variable that takes the value of 1 on Mondays and other days
following no trading in the Deutschemark or British pound/ U.S. dollar market
during regular European trading hours and 0 otherwise.format
A data.frame containing 2x1974 observations.source
JBES Data Archive ftp://www.amstat.org/jbes/View/References
Bollerslev, T. and Ghysels, E. 1996, Periodic Autoregressive Conditional
Heteroscedasticity , Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 14,
139--151.