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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.

Usage

data(Raotbl6)

Arguments

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.