R: Cost Function of Electricity Producers 1970

Electricity1970

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Cost Function of Electricity Producers 1970

Description

Cross-section data, at the firm level, on electric power generation.

Usage

data("Electricity1970")

Format

A data frame containing 158 cross-section observations on 9 variables.

cost: total cost.
output: total output.
labor: wage rate.
laborshare: cost share for labor.
capital: capital price index.
capitalshare: cost share for capital.
fuel: fuel price.
fuelshare: cost share for fuel.

Details

The data are from Christensen and Greene (1976) and pertain to the year 1970. However, the file contains some extra observations, the holding companies. Only the first 123 observations are needed to replicate Christensen and Greene (1976).

Source

Online complements to Greene (2003), Table F5.2.

https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/tables/tablelist5.htm

References

Christensen, L. and Greene, W.H. (1976). Economies of Scale in U.S. Electric Power Generation. Journal of Political Economy, 84, 655–676.

Greene, W.H. (2003). Econometric Analysis, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Examples

data("Electricity1970")

## Greene (2003), Ex. 5.6: a generalized Cobb-Douglas cost function
fm <- lm(log(cost/fuel) ~ log(output) + I(log(output)^2/2) + 
  log(capital/fuel) + log(labor/fuel), data=Electricity1970[1:123,])