SW2009: US macroeconomic data set from Stock and Watson (2009)

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

A dataset containing 187 monthly US macroeconomic variables spanning the period 1959-2006. The dataset is from Stock and Watson (2009).

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.

desc:

A matrix containing descriptions of the variables.

shortnames:

Short names of the variables.

longnames:

Description of the variables.

Source

http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/ddisk/hendryfestschrift_replicationfiles_April28_2008.zip.

References

Stock, J. and M. Watson (2009). Forecasting in dynamic factor models subject to structural instability. In J. Castle and N. Shephard (Eds.), The Methodology and Practice of Econometrics: A Festschrift in Honour of David F. Hendry, pp. 173-205. Oxford University Press.


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