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Ben Zeev, Ramey, Zubairy data for "Do Government Spending Multipliers Depend on the Sign of the Shock?"
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prepared for the AEA P&P 2023
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Subset of the data created by Ramey-Zubairy JPE 2018.
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(See that paper for more details on data construction.)
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ngov
nominal government purchases
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ngdp
nominal GDP
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pgdp
GDP implicit price deflator
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pop
total population, including armed forces overseas
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recession
recession indicator
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unemp
civilian unemployment rate
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news
military news
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rgdpreal GDP
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nfedcurrreceipts_nipa
nominal Federal current receipts, NIPA accrual basis
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rgdp_pott6
real potential GDP, based on 6th degree polynomial fit from 1889:1 - 2015:4, ommiting Great Depression and WWII
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rgdp_potcbo
real potential GDP, based on cubic polynomial fit from 1889:1 - 1950:2( omitting Great Depression and WWII), overlapped with CBO from 1949:1 - on
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rgdp_potma
real potential GDP, based on backward-looking moving average of log(rgdp/tothours) and regression of log(real GDP) on that, plus log of two population series
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