Wooldridge Source: J.D. Hamilton and L. Gang (1996), “Stock Market Volatility and the Business Cycle,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 11, 573-593. I obtained these data from the Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/ Data loads lazily.

data('volat')

Format

A data.frame with 558 observations on 17 variables:

  • date: 1947.01 to 1993.06

  • sp500: S&P 500 index

  • divyld: div. yield annualized rate

  • i3: 3 mo. T-bill annualized rate

  • ip: index of industrial production

  • pcsp: pct chg, sp500, ann rate

  • rsp500: return on sp500: pcsp + divyld

  • pcip: pct chg, IP, ann rate

  • ci3: i3 - i3[_n-1]

  • ci3_1: ci3[_n-1]

  • ci3_2: ci3[_n-2]

  • pcip_1: pcip[_n-1]

  • pcip_2: pcip[_n-2]

  • pcip_3: pcip[_n-3]

  • pcsp_1: pcip[_n-1]

  • pcsp_2: pcip[_n-2]

  • pcsp_3: pcip[_n-3]

Used in Text

pages 378, 670, 671, 674

Examples

 str(volat)
#> 'data.frame':	558 obs. of  17 variables:
#>  $ date  : num  1947 1947 1947 1947 1947 ...
#>  $ sp500 : num  15.2 15.8 15.2 14.6 14.3 ...
#>  $ divyld: num  4.49 4.38 4.61 4.75 5.05 ...
#>  $ i3    : num  0.38 0.38 0.38 0.38 0.38 ...
#>  $ ip    : num  22.4 22.5 22.6 22.5 22.6 ...
#>  $ pcsp  : num  NA 46.5 -48.6 -44.3 -21.4 ...
#>  $ rsp500: num  NA 50.9 -44 -39.6 -16.3 ...
#>  $ pcip  : num  NA 5.36 5.33 -5.31 5.33 ...
#>  $ ci3   : num  NA 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ ci3_1 : num  NA NA 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ ci3_2 : num  NA NA NA 0 0 ...
#>  $ pcip_1: num  NA NA 5.36 5.33 -5.31 ...
#>  $ pcip_2: num  NA NA NA 5.36 5.33 ...
#>  $ pcip_3: num  NA NA NA NA 5.36 ...
#>  $ pcsp_1: num  NA NA 46.5 -48.6 -44.3 ...
#>  $ pcsp_2: num  NA NA NA 46.5 -48.6 ...
#>  $ pcsp_3: num  NA NA NA NA 46.5 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"