USA: US macroeconomic time series

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US macroeconomic time series

Description

The time series of output gap (x), inflation (pi) and interest rate (r) are taken from the FRED database and transformed as in Herwartz & Ploedt (2016). The trivariate time series model is commonly used to analyze monetary policy shocks.
Quarterly observations from 1965Q1 to 2008Q3:

x Percentage log-deviation of real GDP wrt the estimate of potential output by the Congressional Budget Office
pi Annualized quarter-on-quarter growth of the GDP deflator
i Interest rate on Federal funds

A more detailed description of the data and a corresponding VAR model implementation can be found in Herwartz & Ploedt (2016).

Usage

USA

Format

A data.frame containing 174 observations on 3 variables.

Source

Herwartz, H. & Ploedt, M., 2016. Simulation Evidence on Theory-based and Statistical Identification under Volatility Breaks, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78, 94-112.
Data originally from FRED database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.


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