* Autocorrelation Induced by Misspecification in Gasoline Market Model * * Keywords: * regression, ols, autocorrelation, misspecification, gasoline, market, us, * graph * * Description: * We address the issue of autocorrelation in the US Gasoline Market by * adjusting the model we are estimating * * Author(s): * Noel Roy * Skif Pankov * * Source: * William H. Greene, Econometric Analysis - 7th Edition * Pearson International Edition, Chapter 20, Example 20.2 (page 943) * time 1953.0 1 sample 1953.0 2004.0 * Reading the data and naming variables, specifying to ignore the first * line read (TableF2-2.shd) year,gasexp,pop,gasp,income,pnc,puc,ppt,pd,pn,ps & /skiplines=1 * Genearing variables genr lgpop = log(gasexp/pop/gasp) genr lpg = log(gasp) * (a) Regression on log pg ?ols lgpop lpg /graph genr lny = log(income) * (b) Regression of log pg, log i/pop ?ols lgpop lpg lny /graph * (c) Full regression genr lpnc = log(pnc) genr lpuc = log(puc) genr lppt = log(ppt) genr lpn = log(pn) genr lpd = log(pd) genr lps = log(ps) ?ols lgpop lpg lny lpnc lpuc lppt lpn lpd lps year /graph * (d) Full regression, separate coefficients break up the sample by setting * dummy variables for 1975-95. genr per2=dum(year-1974) genr lpg2=lpg*per2 genr lny2=lny*per2 genr lpnc2=lpnc*per2 genr lpuc2=lpuc*per2 genr lppt2=lppt*per2 genr lpn2=lpn*per2 genr lpd2=lpd*per2 genr lps2=lps*per2 genr year2=year*per2 ?ols lgpop lpg lny lpnc lpuc lppt lpn lpd lps year per2 lpg2 lny2 lpnc2 & lpuc2 lppt2 lpn2 lpd2 lps2 year2 /graph stop