On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the Mofa data set which pertains to International Expansion of U.S. Mofa's (majority–owned Foreign Affiliates in Fire (finance, Insurance and Real Estate) . The Mofa data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Mofa data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Mofa"). This will load the data into a variable called Mofa. If R says the Mofa 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 Mofa R data set. The size of this file is about 1,686 bytes.

International Expansion of U.S. Mofa's (majority–owned Foreign Affiliates in Fire (finance, Insurance and Real Estate)

Description

a cross-section from 1982

number of observations : 50

observation : country

country : United States

Usage

data(Mofa)

Format

A dataframe containing :

capexp

capital expenditures made by the MOFA's of nonbank U.S. corporations in finance, insurance and real estate. Source: "U.S. Direct Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey data." Table III.C 6.

gdp

gross domestic product. Source: "World Bank, World Development Report 1984." Table 3. (This variable is scaled by a factor of 1/100,000)

sales

sales made by the majority owned foreign affiliates of nonbank U.S. parents in finance, insurance and real estate. Source: "U.S. Direct Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey Data." Table III.D 3. (This variable is scaled by a factor of 1/100)

nbaf

the number of U.S. affiliates in the host country. Source: "U.S. Direct Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey Data." Table 5. (This variable is scaled by a factor of 1/100)

netinc

net income earned by MOFA's of nonbank U.S. corporations operating in the nonbanking financial sector of the host country. Source: "U.S. Direct Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey Data." Table III.D 6.(This variable is scaled by a factor of 1/10)

Source

Ioannatos, Petros E. (1995) “Censored regression estimation under unobserved heterogeneity : a stochastic parameter approach”, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 13(3), july, 327–335.

References

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : http://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20.

See Also

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

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