st: Re: xtreg (Panel fixed effects model): inflation adjustment

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On Apr 11, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Per wrote:

> 
> I am using a fixed effects panel data model,
> - -xtreg ksum_vyta ebh1 ebh2 pop_dens_kn arblos_kn ink_kn, fe-
> , on annual data for a ten year period (across 60 cross section observations). The xtreg, fe model automatically uses year dummies. 

Time dummies would control for inflation, but what makes you think they will be present in this equation? fixed effects introduces individual
fixed effects, not time effects. If you want time effects, you generally must include something like i.year in the regressor list.

Kit


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