Wooldridge Source: C.M. Krupp and P.S. Pollard (1999), Market Responses to Antidumpting Laws: Some Evidence from the U.S. Chemical Industry, Canadian Journal of Economics 29, 199-227. Dr. Krupp kindly provided the data. They are monthly data covering February 1978 through December 1988. Data loads lazily.

data('barium')

Format

A data.frame with 131 observations on 31 variables:

  • chnimp: Chinese imports, bar. chl.

  • bchlimp: total imports bar. chl.

  • befile6: =1 for all 6 mos before filing

  • affile6: =1 for all 6 mos after filing

  • afdec6: =1 for all 6 mos after decision

  • befile12: =1 all 12 mos before filing

  • affile12: =1 all 12 mos after filing

  • afdec12: =1 all 12 mos after decision

  • chempi: chemical production index

  • gas: gasoline production

  • rtwex: exchange rate index

  • spr: =1 for spring months

  • sum: =1 for summer months

  • fall: =1 for fall months

  • lchnimp: log(chnimp)

  • lgas: log(gas)

  • lrtwex: log(rtwex)

  • lchempi: log(chempi)

  • t: time trend

  • feb: =1 if month is feb

  • mar: =1 if month is march

  • apr:

  • may:

  • jun:

  • jul:

  • aug:

  • sep:

  • oct:

  • nov:

  • dec:

  • percchn: percent imports from china

Note

Rather than just having intercept shifts for the different regimes, one could conduct a full Chow test across the different regimes.

Used in Text: pages 361-362, 372, 377, 426, 442-443, 445, 663, 665, 672

Examples

 str(barium)
#> 'data.frame':	131 obs. of  31 variables:
#>  $ chnimp  : num  220.5 94.8 219.4 317.4 114.6 ...
#>  $ bchlimp : num  9578 11219 9720 12921 9790 ...
#>  $ befile6 : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ affile6 : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ afdec6  : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ befile12: int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ affile12: int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ afdec12 : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ chempi  : num  100 101 101 102 104 ...
#>  $ gas     : num  7.83e+09 8.82e+09 8.45e+09 9.24e+09 9.15e+09 ...
#>  $ rtwex   : num  86.7 85.6 85.4 87.3 86.6 ...
#>  $ spr     : int  0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ sum     : int  0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ fall    : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ lchnimp : num  5.4 4.55 5.39 5.76 4.74 ...
#>  $ lgas    : num  22.8 22.9 22.9 22.9 22.9 ...
#>  $ lrtwex  : num  4.46 4.45 4.45 4.47 4.46 ...
#>  $ lchempi : num  4.61 4.61 4.62 4.63 4.65 ...
#>  $ t       : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#>  $ feb     : int  1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ mar     : int  0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ apr     : int  0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ may     : int  0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ jun     : int  0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ jul     : int  0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ aug     : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ sep     : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 ...
#>  $ oct     : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ...
#>  $ nov     : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ...
#>  $ dec     : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ percchn : num  2.302 0.845 2.257 2.457 1.171 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"