Raotbl6: Data set used by Yash P. Mehra (1994)
Description
This data set contains quarterly data for the U.S.A. in Yash
P. Mehra's article: ``Wage Growth and the Inflation Process: An
Empirical Approach" for his wage-price equations.
Format
A data frame with quarterly data from 1959:1 until 1989:3.
rgnp |
Real GNP. |
pgnp |
Potential real GNP. |
ulc |
Unit labor cost. |
gdfco |
Fixed weight deflator for personal consumption
expenditure excluding food and energy. |
gdf |
Fixed weight GNP deflator. |
gdfim |
Fixed weight import deflator. |
gdfcf |
Fixed weight deflator for food in personal consumption
expenditure. |
Further details about the data can be found in the data appendix of
Rao, ``Cointegration for the Applied Economist". Source
Yash P. Mehra (1994), Wage Growth and the Inflation Process: An
Empirical Approach, in: Cointegration for the Applied Economist,
ed. B. Bhaskara Rao, chapter 5, Data Appendix, Table D.6.