Description

The data set contains quarterly time series for 196 US macroeconomic variables from 1959Q3 to 2015Q3. It was produced from file "freddata_Q.csv" of the data sets associated with Chan, Koop, Poirier and Tobias (2019). Raw data are available at https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jltobias/second_edition/Chapter18/code_for_exercise_4/freddata_Q.csv.

Usage

Format

A named time-series object with 225 rows and 196 variables. A detailed explanation of the variables can be found in McCracken and Ng (2016).

References

Chan, J., Koop, G., Poirier, D. J., & Tobias J. L. (2019). Bayesian econometric methods (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCracken, M. W., & Ng, S. (2016). FRED-MD: A monthly database for macroeconomic research. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 34(4), 574-589. doi: 10.1080/07350015.2015.1086655