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Corporate investment, market value, and capital stock for 10 large U.S. firms observed annually over 1935–1954: a balanced panel of 10 firms times 20 years (200 observations). Grunfeld, Y. (1958). The Determinants of Corporate Investment. PhD dissertation, University of Chicago. See Kleiber, C. and Zeileis, A. (2010) for the definitive account of the dataset's provenance and its many circulating variants.

Usage

grunfeld

Format

A data frame with 200 observations and 6 variables (10 firms times 20 years, 1935–1954):

company

Firm identifier (1–10). Use as ivar.

year

Calendar year (1935–1954). The time variable: use as tvar.

invest

Gross investment, current year.

mvalue

Market value of the firm, prior year.

kstock

Capital stock, prior year.

time

Time index (1–20), a linear trend.

Source

Grunfeld, Y. (1958). The Determinants of Corporate Investment. PhD dissertation, University of Chicago.

Kleiber, C. and Zeileis, A. (2010). The Grunfeld data at 50. German Economic Review, 11(4), 404–417.

Distributed via Stata's webuse grunfeld.

Redistribution basis: system.file("COPYRIGHTS", package = "ivreg2r").

See also

Examples

data(grunfeld)

# ivreg2 help file line 1595: Driscoll-Kraay standard errors (bw = 2),
# small-sample correction
fit <- ivreg2(
  invest ~ mvalue + kstock, data = grunfeld,
  dkraay = 2, small = TRUE, tvar = "year", ivar = "company"
)
summary(fit)
#> 
#> OLS Estimation
#> 
#> Call:
#> ivreg2(formula = invest ~ mvalue + kstock, data = grunfeld, small = TRUE, 
#>     tvar = "year", ivar = "company", dkraay = 2)
#> 
#> Observations: 200 
#> VCV type:     Driscoll-Kraay (kernel=Bartlett; bandwidth=2), small-sample corrected 
#> Clusters:    20 (year)
#> 
#> Coefficients:
#>              Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
#> (Intercept) -42.71437   12.22308  -3.495  0.00243 ** 
#> mvalue        0.11556    0.01024  11.289 7.22e-10 ***
#> kstock        0.23068    0.04670   4.940 9.10e-05 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> ---
#> R-squared:      0.8124 
#> Adj. R-squared: 0.8105 
#> F(2, 19):     118.8 (p = 0.0000)
#> Root MSE:       94.4084 
#>