On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the Yen data set which pertains to Yen-dollar Exchange Rate . The Yen data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Yen data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Yen"). This will load the data into a variable called Yen. If R says the Yen data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Yen R data set. The size of this file is about 21,974 bytes.

Yen-dollar Exchange Rate

Description

weekly observations from 1975 to 1989

number of observations : 778

observation : country

country : Japan

Usage

data(Yen)

Format

A dataframe containing :

date

the date of the observation (19850104 is January, 4, 1985)

s

the ask price of the dollar in units of Yen in the spot market on friday of the current week

f

the ask price of the dollar in units of Yen in the 30-day forward market on friday of the current week

s30

the bid price of the dollar in units of Yen in the spot market on the delivery date on a current forward contract

Source

Bekaert, G. and R. Hodrick (1993) “On biases in the measurement of foreign exchange risk premiums”, Journal of International Money and Finance, 12, 115-138.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 6, 438-443.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.