Macro {Greene}R Documentation

Macroeconomics Data Set

Description

quarterly observations from 1950-1 to 2000-1

number of observations : 204

observation : country

country : United States

Usage

data(Macro)

Format

A dataframe containing :

Year
date
qtr
quarter
realgdp
real GDP ($bil)
realcons
real consumption expenditures
realinvs
real investment by private sector
realgovt
real government expenditures
realdpi
real disposable personal income
cpiu
consumer price index
M1
nominal money stock
tbilrate
quarterly average of month end 90 day T-bill rate
unemp
unemployment rate
pop
population, mil. interpolate of year and figures using constant growth rate per quarter
infl
rate of inflation (first observation missing)
realint
ex post real interest rate = Tbilrate - Infl. (First observation missing)

Original description

“Quarterly, 1950I to 2000IV.”

Source

Department of Commerce, BEA website . www.economagic.com.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, Table F5.1.


[Package Greene version 0.1-2 Index]