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Expenditures of the EU-25

Description

This is a data set on the shares of total EU-expenditures received by the individual member states of the EU-25 in 2005. Furthermore, the data describe some relevant characteristics (population share, gross domestic product, etc.) of these member states.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 25 observations on the following seven variables:

member	EU member state.
expend	share of EU-expenditures received by the member state.
pop	member state's population share of the total EU-25-population.
gdp	index relating the member state's per capita income to the average EU-25 per capita income, adjusted for different national price levels.
farm	ratio of the member state's gross value added in agriculture to the member state's gross domestic product.
votes	the member state's voting share in the Council of Ministers.
mship	logarithm of the number of months that the member state is part of the EU.

Source

Imported 2007 from the Website of the EU commission and Eurostat. Published by Auer (2008).

References

Auer, L.v. (2008): Gestaltungspolitik oder Kuhhandel? Eine empirische Analyse der EU-Ausgabenpolitik, in H. Gischer, P. Reichling, T. Spengler, A. Wenig (eds.), Transformation in der Oekonomie - Festschrift fuer Gerhard Schwoediauer zum 65. Geburtstag, Gabler.

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).