AER (version 1.2-14)

Municipalities: Municipal Expenditure Data

Description

Panel data set for 265 Swedish municipalities covering 9 years (1979-1987).

Usage

data("Municipalities")

Format

A data frame containing 2,385 observations on 5 variables.

municipality

factor with ID number for municipality.

year

factor coding year.

expenditures

total expenditures.

revenues

total own-source revenues.

grants

intergovernmental grants received by the municipality.

Details

Total expenditures contains both capital and current expenditures.

Expenditures, revenues, and grants are expressed in million SEK. The series are deflated and in per capita form. The implicit deflator is a municipality-specific price index obtained by dividing total local consumption expenditures at current prices by total local consumption expenditures at fixed (1985) prices.

The data are gathered by Statistics Sweden and obtained from Financial Accounts for the Municipalities (Kommunernas Finanser).

References

Dahlberg, M., and Johansson, E. (2000). An Examination of the Dynamic Behavior of Local Governments Using GMM Bootstrapping Methods. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15, 401--416.

Greene, W.H. (2003). Econometric Analysis, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

See Also

Greene2003

Examples

## Greene (2003), Table 18.2
data("Municipalities")
summary(Municipalities)