ecb               package:urca               R Documentation(latin1)

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set contains some macroeconomic figures of the Euro Zone
     in order to estimate an exemplary money demand function.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(ecb)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame containing five series.

         'period'  Time index from Q31997 until Q42003.
       'gdp.defl'  Gross Domestic Product Deflator,
                   [Index 2000=100, seasonally adjusted]
        'gdp.nom'  Nominal Gross Domestic Product,
                   [Current prices, EUR billions, seasonally adjusted]
             'm3'  Monetary Aggregate M3,
                   [outstanding amount at end of quarter, EUR billions, seasonally adjusted]
             'rl'  Benchmark Government Bond yield with a maturity of 10 years,
                   [percentages per annum, average of last quarter's month].

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Bernhard Pfaff

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     European Central Bank, Monthly Bulletins, Frankfurt am Main,
     Germany.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     <URL: http://www.ecb.int>

