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 1854-2024. 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 2024-01-30
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install nbercycles". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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