AER (version 1.2-6)

TradeCredit: Trade Credit and the Money Market

Description

Macroeconomic time series data from 1946 to 1966 on trade credit and the money market.

Usage

data("TradeCredit")

Format

An annual multiple time series from 1946 to 1966 on 7 variables.

trade

Nominal total trade money.

reserve

Nominal effective reserve money.

gnp

GNP in current dollars.

utilization

Degree of market utilization.

interest

Short-term rate of interest.

size

Mean real size of the representative economic unit (1939 = 100).

price

GNP price deflator (1958 = 100).

References

Baltagi, B.H. (2002). Econometrics, 3rd ed. Berlin, Springer.

Laffer, A.B. (1970). Trade Credit and the Money Market. Journal of Political Economy, 78, 239--267.

See Also

Baltagi2002

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("TradeCredit")
plot(TradeCredit)
# }