Inflation and Interest Rates

Description

monthly observations from 1950-2 to 1990-12

number of observations : 491

observation : country

country : United States

Usage

data(Mishkin)

Format

A time serie containing :

pai1

one-mounth inflation rate (in percent, annual rate)

pai3

three-mounth inflation rate (in percent, annual rate)

tb1

one-mounth T-bill rate (in percent, annual rate)

tb3

three-mounth T-bill rate (in percent, annual rate)

cpi

CPI for urban consumers, all items (the 1982-1984 average is set to 100)

Source

Mishkin, F. (1992) “Is the Fisher effect for real ?”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 30, 195-215.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hayashi/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 2, 176-184.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series