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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

SumHes: The Penn Table

Description

a panel of 125 observations from 1960 to 1985

number of observations : 3250

observation : country

country : World

Usage

data(SumHes)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
year
the year
country
the country name (factor)
opec
OPEC member ?
com
communist regime ?
pop
country's population (in thousands)
gdp
real GDP per capita (in 1985 US dollars)
sr
saving rate (in percent)

Source

Summers, R. and A. Heston (1991) “The Penn world table (mark 5): an exanded set of international comparaisons, 1950-1988”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 29, 229-256.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 5, 358-363.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series