NBERCYCLES: Stata module to generate graph command (and optionally graph) timeseries vs. NBER recession dating

Christopher Baum ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: nbercycles accesses a copy of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) record of economic cycles (see http://www.nber.org/cycles.html), the official dating of U.S. business cycle phases: contractions (recessions) and expansions, defined by their peaks and troughs, from 1854-2006. The ancillary Stata database distributed in the nbercycles package reproduces the data on the NBER web page, and adds quarterly dating information. Given a time-series variable name (and, optionally, a range of dates) nbercycles generates a line graph of the series, superimposed on the shaded NBER-defined recession periods.

Requires: Stata version 9.2
Keywords: time series; recession; NBER; graphics; tsline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07-26, Revised 2006-08-29
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install nbercycles". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/n/nbercycles.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/n/nbercycles.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/tsmktim.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/tsmktim.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/n/nbercycles.dta supporting data file (application/x-stata)

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