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Dahlberg

Swedish municipalities data


Description

The panel data set consists of 265 Swedish municipalities and covers 9 years (1979-1987).

Usage

Dahlberg

Format

The variables are:

id

ID number for municipality

year

Year

expenditures

Total expenditures

revenues

Total own-source revenues

grants

Intergovernmental grants received by the municipality

Total expenditures contains both capital and current expenditures.

Expenditures, revenues, and grants are expressed in million SEK. The series are deflated and in per capita form. The implicit deflator is a municipality-specific price index obtained by dividing total local consumption expenditures at current prices by total local consumption expenditures at fixed (1985) prices.

The data are gathered by Statistics Sweden and obtained from Financial Accounts for the Municipalities (Kommunernas Finanser).

Source

References

M. Dahlberg and E. Johansson (2000) "An examination of the dynamic behavior of local governments using GMM bootstrapping methods", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15(4), 401-416, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678589.


panelvar

Panel Vector Autoregression

v0.5.3
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Michael Sigmund [aut], Robert Ferstl [aut, cre]
Initial release

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