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West German Business Cycles 1955-1994
data(B3)
A data frame with 157 observations on the following 14 variables.
1
(upswing),
2
(upper turning points), 3
(downswing), and 4
(lower turning points).where (y) stands for “yearly growth rates”.
Note that years and corresponding year quarters are given in the row names of the data frame, e.g. “1988,3” for the third quarter in 1988.
The West German Business Cycles data (1955-1994) is analyzed by the project B3 of the SFB475 (Collaborative Research Centre “Reduction of Complexity for Multivariate Data Structures”), supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
RWI (Rheinisch Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Essen, Germany.
Heilemann, U. and Münch, H.J. (1996): West German Business Cycles 1963-1994: A Multivariate Discriminant Analysis. CIRET–Conference in Singapore, CIRET–Studien 50.
For benchmarking on this data see also benchB3
data(B3) summary(B3)