st: New routine for macroeconomists who like to draw graphs

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

TITLE
      'NBERCYCLES': module to generate graph command (and optionally  
graph) timeseries vs. NBER recession dating

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)

      nbercycles accesses a copy of the National Bureau of Economic
      Research (NBER) record of economic cycles (see
      http://www.nber.org/cycles.html), the official dating of U.S.
      business cycle phases: contractions (recessions) and expansions,
      defined by their peaks and troughs, from 1854-2006. The ancillary
      Stata database distributed in the nbercycles package
      reproduces the data on the NBER web page, and adds quarterly
      dating  information. Given a time-series variable name (and,
      optionally, a range of dates) nbercycles generates a line graph
      of the series, superimposed on the shaded NBER-defined recession
      periods.

Available from SSC for Stata 9.2:  ssc install nbercycles

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


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