KleinI {systemfit}R Documentation

Klein Model I

Description

Data for Klein's (1950) Model I of the US economy.

Usage

data("KleinI")

Format

A data frame containing annual observations from 1920 to 1941

year
Year.
consump
Consumption.
corpProf
Corporate profits.
corpProfLag
Corporate profits of the previous year.
privWage
Private wage bill.
invest
Investment.
capitalLag
Capital stock of the previous year.
gnp
Gross national product.
gnpLag
Gross national product of the previous year.
govWage
Government wage bill.
govExp
Government spending.
taxes
Taxes.
wages
Sum of private and government wage bill.
trend
time trend measured as years from 1931.

Source

Greene (2003), Appendix F, Data Sets Used in Applications, Table F15.1.

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/econometricanalysis.htm

References

Greene, W.H. (2003). Econometric Analysis, 5th edition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (NJ).

Klein, L. (1950). Economic Fluctuations in the United States, 1921–1941. John Wiley, New York.

Examples

## Repeating the estimations of Klein's (1950) Model I
## in Greene (2003, pp. 381 and 412)
data( "KleinI" )
eqConsump  <- consump ~ corpProf + corpProfLag + wages
eqInvest   <- invest ~ corpProf + corpProfLag + capitalLag
eqPrivWage <- privWage ~ gnp + gnpLag + trend
inst <- ~ govExp + taxes + govWage + trend + capitalLag + corpProfLag + gnpLag
system <- list( Consumption = eqConsump, Investment = eqInvest,
   "Private Wages" = eqPrivWage )
# OLS
kleinOls <- systemfit( "OLS", system, data = KleinI )
summary( kleinOls )
# 2SLS
klein2sls <- systemfit( "2SLS", system, inst = inst, data = KleinI,
   rcovformula = 0 )
summary( klein2sls )
# 3SLS
klein3sls <- systemfit( "3SLS", system, inst = inst, data = KleinI,
   rcovformula = 0 )
summary( klein3sls )
# I3SLS
kleinI3sls <- systemfit( "3SLS", system, inst = inst, data = KleinI,
   rcovformula = 0, maxit = 500 )
summary( kleinI3sls )

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