BenderlyZwick: Benderly and Zwick Data: Inflation, Growth and Stock Returns

Description

Time series data, 1952--1982.

Usage

data("BenderlyZwick")

Arguments

Format

An annual multiple time series from 1952 to 1982 with 5 variables.

returns: real annual returns on stocks, measured using the Ibbotson-Sinquefeld data base.
growth: annual growth rate of output, measured by real GNP (from the given year to the next year).
inflation: inflation rate, measured as growth of price rate (from December of the previous year to December of the present year).
growth2: annual growth rate of real GNP as given by Baltagi.
inflation2: inflation rate as given by Baltagi

References

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

Benderly, J., and Zwick, B. (1985). Inflation, Real Balances, Output and Real Stock Returns. American Economic Review, 75, 1115--1123.

Lott, W.F., and Ray, S.C. (1992). Applied Econometrics: Problems with Data Sets. New York: The Dryden Press.

Zaman, A., Rousseeuw, P.J., and Orhan, M. (2001). Econometric Applications of High-Breakdown Robust Regression Techniques. Economics Letters, 71, 1--8.

Examples

Run this code

 if(!requireNamespace("dynlm")) {
  if(interactive() || is.na(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_PACKAGE_NAME_", NA))) {
    stop("not all packages required for the example are installed")
  } else q() }
data("BenderlyZwick")
plot(BenderlyZwick)

## Benderly and Zwick (1985), p. 1116
library("dynlm")
bz_ols <- dynlm(returns ~ growth + inflation,
  data = BenderlyZwick/100, start = 1956, end = 1981)
summary(bz_ols)

## Zaman, Rousseeuw and Orhan (2001)
## use larger period, without scaling
bz_ols2 <- dynlm(returns ~ growth + inflation,
  data = BenderlyZwick, start = 1954, end = 1981)
summary(bz_ols2)