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Data Sets

Dataset for the Area-wide Model (AWM). For a description of the model see

ECB working paper No. 42: 'An Area-wide Model (AWM) for the euro area' by Gabriel Fagan, Jérôme Henry, and Ricardo Mestre (January 2001)
(download)

  1. Documentation
  2. Variable Declarations
  3. Dataset (312 KB)

 

Further Data Resources

General Macroeconomic Data:

OECD Statistics Portal OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
The Penn World Tables European Macroeconomic Time Series
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Federal Statistical Office Germany
Eurostat Econometric Society
BEA NIPA Tables

Innovation, Patenting and Industry Data

OECD Statistics Portal OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
Eurostat NBER
National Science Foundation

Unemployment and Labor Market Data

OECD Statistics Portal Eurostat Current Population Survey (wages)
Eurostat BLS

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Software

GAUSS

The GAUSS Mathematical and Statistical System is an easy to use data analysis environment based on the fast and powerful GAUSS Matrix Programming Language. GAUSS is used by technical professionals in all fields for everything from basic statistical analysis to solving real world optimization and data analysis problems of exceptionally large scale. GAUSS runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris and several other platforms.

Manuals and Tutorials:

Jens Rubart: '15 minutes with GAUSS. An Introduction'

Manuals provided by Aptech.com

Marc Nerlove: Notes on Gauss

Mark Watson's GAUSS Basics at Princeton

Felix Ritchie's Guide to Programming in GAUSS at Trig Consulting

GAUSS 5.0 User Guide at Aptech

Useful Links:

GAUSS Source Code Archive at American University

GAUSS Resources by Ruud H. Koning

GAUSS mailing list archive, multiple links to GAUSS resources...

Aptech System Inc. Homepage

 

RATS

RATS (Regression Analysis of Time Series) is a econometrics/time-series analysis software package used worldwide by economists and others for analyzing time series and cross sectional data, developing and estimating econometric models, forecasting, and much more.

RATS is a fast, efficient, and comprehensive time series analysis and econometrics software package. RATS makes simple tasks easy to accomplish, while its command-driven interface and extensive programmability also make it a very flexible and powerful tool for more complex applications.

Links:

Estima Homepage

RATS: Overview

Archives RATS mailing list

 

MATLAB

Manuals and Tutorials:

Ian Cavers' An Introductory Guide to Matlab at UBC

Paul Fackler's Matlab Primer at North Carolina State

Matlab Summary and Turial at Florida

Edward Neuman's Matlab Tutorials at Southern Illinois University

Kermit Sigmon's Matlab Tutorial at Utah

Links:

Matlab Educational Site

Computational Economics in Matlab

 

SCIENTIFIC WORKPLACE

Scientific WorkPlace (SWP) is a special purpose software package. It is an integrated TeX/LaTeX word processor, typesetter, and mathematical equation editor. It is designed to run alongside Maple to exchange data and evaluate expressions in human-readable form. It also allows you to finally get rid of the unfriendly and awful looking results of word's equation editor.

Official SWP

  

 

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