NPORG: Nelson and Plosser original data set

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Nelson and Plosser original data set

Description

This data set contains the fourteen U.S. economic time series used by Nelson and Plosser in their seminal paper.

Usage

data(nporg)

Format

A data frame containing fourteen series.

year	Time index from 1860 until 1970.
gnp.r	Real GNP,
	[Billions of 1958 Dollars], [1909 -- 1970]
gnp.n	Nominal GNP,
	[Millions of Current Dollars], [1909 -- 1970]
gnp.pc	Real Per Capita GNP,
	[1958 Dollars], [1909 -- 1970]
ip	Industrial Production Index,
	[1967 = 100], [1860 -- 1970]
emp	Total Employment,
	[Thousands], [1890 -- 1970]
ur	Total Unemployment Rate,
	[Percent], [1890 -- 1970]
gnp.p	GNP Deflator,
	[1958 = 100], [1889 -- 1970]
cpi	Consumer Price Index,
	[1967 = 100], [1860 -- 1970]
wg.n	Nominal Wages
	(Average annual earnings per full-time employee in manufacturing),
	[current Dollars], [1900 -- 1970]
wg.r	Real Wages,
	[Nominal wages/CPI], [1900 -- 1970]
M	Money Stock (M2),
	[Billions of Dollars, annual averages], [1889 -- 1970]
vel	Velocity of Money,
	[1869 -- 1970]
bnd	Bond Yield (Basic Yields of 30-year corporate bonds),
	[Percent per annum], [1900 -- 1970]
sp	Stock Prices,
	[Index; 1941 -- 43 = 100], [1871 -- 1970]

Author(s)

Bernhard Pfaff

Source

Nelson, C.R. and Plosser, C.I. (1982), Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series, Journal of Monetary Economics, 10, 139–162.

References

http://korora.econ.yale.edu/phillips/index.htm

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