This data set contains quarterly data for the U.S.A. in Yash
P. Mehra's article: “Wage Growth and the Inflation Process: An
Empirical Approach" for his wage-price equations.
Usage
data(Raotbl6)
Format
A data frame with quarterly data from 1959:1 until 1989:3.
rgnp
Real GNP.
pgnp
Potential real GNP.
ulc
Unit labor cost.
gdfco
Fixed weight deflator for personal consumption
expenditure excluding food and energy.
gdf
Fixed weight GNP deflator.
gdfim
Fixed weight import deflator.
gdfcf
Fixed weight deflator for food in personal consumption
expenditure.
gdfce
Fixed weight deflator for energy in personal
consumption expenditure.
Further details about the data can be found in the data appendix of
Rao, “Cointegration for the Applied Economist".
Author(s)
Bernhard Pfaff
Source
Yash P. Mehra (1994), Wage Growth and the Inflation Process: An
Empirical Approach, in: Cointegration for the Applied Economist,
ed. B. Bhaskara Rao, chapter 5, Data Appendix, Table D.6.