LN2010: US macroeconomic data set from Ludvigson and Ng (2010)

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

A dataset containing 131 monthly US macroeconomic variables spanning the period 1964-2007. The dataset is from Ludvigson and Ng (2010).

Usage

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Format

A list with the following:

rawdata:

The raw dataset as a matrix where the columns are the variables as time series objects.

tcodes:

The transformation codes used to transform the variables to be stationary.

Source

http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/ludvigsons/Data&ReplicationFiles.zip.

References

Ludvigson, S. C., Ng, S. (2010) A Factor Analysis of Bond Risk Premia. Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, 2010, e.d. by Aman Uhla and David E. A. Giles, pp. 313-372. Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton, FL. http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/ludvigsons/handbook-big.pdf


johannestang/macrods documentation built on May 19, 2019, 3:02 p.m.