This data set contains quarterly data for the U.S.A. in Yash P. Mehra's article: ``Wage Growth and the Inflation Process: An Empirical Approach" for his wage-price equations.
data(Raotbl6)
A data frame with quarterly data from 1959:1 until 1989:3.
rgnp | Real GNP. |
pgnp | Potential real GNP. |
ulc | Unit labor cost. |
gdfco | Fixed weight deflator for personal consumption expenditure excluding food and energy. |
gdf | Fixed weight GNP deflator. |
gdfim | Fixed weight import deflator. |
gdfcf | Fixed weight deflator for food in personal consumption expenditure. |
gdfce | Fixed weight deflator for energy in personal consumption expenditure. |
Further details about the data can be found in the data appendix of Rao, ``Cointegration for the Applied Economist".
Bernhard Pfaff