volat: volat

volatR Documentation

volat

Description

Wooldridge Source: J.D. Hamilton and L. Gang (1996), “Stock Market Volatility and the Business Cycle,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 11, 573-593. I obtained these data from the Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/ Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('volat')

Format

A data.frame with 558 observations on 17 variables:

  • date: 1947.01 to 1993.06

  • sp500: S&P 500 index

  • divyld: div. yield annualized rate

  • i3: 3 mo. T-bill annualized rate

  • ip: index of industrial production

  • pcsp: pct chg, sp500, ann rate

  • rsp500: return on sp500: pcsp + divyld

  • pcip: pct chg, IP, ann rate

  • ci3: i3 - i3[_n-1]

  • ci3_1: ci3[_n-1]

  • ci3_2: ci3[_n-2]

  • pcip_1: pcip[_n-1]

  • pcip_2: pcip[_n-2]

  • pcip_3: pcip[_n-3]

  • pcsp_1: pcip[_n-1]

  • pcsp_2: pcip[_n-2]

  • pcsp_3: pcip[_n-3]

Used in Text

pages 378, 670, 671, 674

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(volat)

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