urca (version 1.3-0)

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.

rgnpReal GNP.
pgnpPotential real GNP.
ulcUnit labor cost.
gdfcoFixed weight deflator for personal consumption expenditure excluding food and energy.
gdfFixed weight GNP deflator.
gdfimFixed weight import deflator.
gdfcfFixed weight deflator for food in personal consumption expenditure.
gdfceFixed weight deflator for energy in personal consumption expenditure.

Further details about the data can be found in the data appendix of Rao, ``Cointegration for the Applied Economist".

Author

Bernhard Pfaff