--- Thomas Erdmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have panel data for companies. Now I would like to add some
> macroeconomic data like e.g. interest rate spreads, which are
> independent of the firm ids.
>
> Just wondering if there's another way to do this instead of merging
> the data by the time-id only
I don't see why you would not want to go that road. This way the value
of macroeconomic variable x for year y is given to each firm in year y.
Which would be exactly what you want.
hope this helps,
Maarten
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