R: Trade Credit and the Money Market

TradeCredit {AER} | R Documentation

## Trade Credit and the Money Market

### Description

Macroeconomic time series data from 1946 to 1966 on trade credit and the money market.

### Usage

    data("TradeCredit")

### Format

An annual multiple time series from 1946 to 1966 on 7 variables.

trade

  Nominal total trade money.

reserve

  Nominal effective reserve money.

gnp

  GNP in current dollars.

utilization

  Degree of market utilization.

interest

  Short-term rate of interest.

size

  Mean real size of the representative economic unit (1939 = 100).

price

  GNP price deflator (1958 = 100).

### Source

The data are from Baltagi (2002).

### References

Baltagi, B.H. (2002). Econometrics, 3rd ed. Berlin, Springer.

Laffer, A.B. (1970). Trade Credit and the Money Market. Journal of Political Economy, 78, 239–267.

### See Also

`Baltagi2002`

### Examples

    data("TradeCredit")
    plot(TradeCredit)

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