R: Data set used by Yash P. Mehra (1994)

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## Data set used by Yash P. Mehra (1994)

### Description

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.

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