Hayashi Source: Christensen, L., and W. Greene, 1976, "Economies of Scale in U.S. Electric Power Generation," Journal of Political Economy, 84, 655476.

data('greene')

Format

A data.frame with 99 observations on 9 variables:

  • firm_id: The firm ID (row number) from Nerlove's 1955 sample

  • total_cost: total cost in 1970 of supply in millions of dollars

  • output: in billions of kilowatt hours

  • labor_price: the price of labor

  • fuel_price: the price of fuels

  • capital_price: the price of capital

  • capital_share: capital's cost share

  • labor_share: labor's cost share

  • fuel_share: fuel's cost share

Source

https://sites.google.com/site/fumiohayashi/hayashi-econometrics/data-for-empirical

Details

A cross-sectional data set on 99 firms in the year 1970 with data on total costs, factor prices (the wage rate, the price of fuel, and the rental price of capital), cost shares and output of power plants

Notes

Used in Chapter 4.7 and the Empirical Exercise of Chapter 4.

Examples

str(greene)
#> Classes ‘tbl_df’, ‘tbl’ and 'data.frame': 99 obs. of 9 variables: #> $ firm_id : num 1 20 17 14 28 22 16 15 27 30 ... #> $ total_cost : num 0.213 0.489 0.616 0.761 0.636 ... #> $ output : num 8 14 50 65 67 90 183 295 374 378 ... #> $ price_labor : num 6869 5439 9204 8972 6696 ... #> $ price_capital: num 64.9 86.1 90.5 41.2 58.3 ... #> $ price_fuel : num 18 34.1 32.1 28.5 25.4 ... #> $ labor_share : num 0.329 0.299 0.296 0.28 0.245 ... #> $ capital_share: num 0.4197 0.4571 0.0981 0.1282 0.3674 ... #> $ fuel_share : num 0.251 0.243 0.606 0.592 0.388 ...