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Austin said:
I think you mean D.log(sales) instead of log(D.sales) but that cannot
be done in one command as shown--one must generate logsales and then
calculate the difference. In any case, the difference in logs is only
sometimes a good approximation for percent change, so I would stick
with the first syntax:
webuse grunfeld, clear
g not=log(d.kstock)
g lnk=log(kstock)
g dlnk=d.lnk
g pc=d.kstock/l.kstock
li com t kstock not-pc in 1/10
Absolutely right. The log approx does require calculation of
log(sales) first, and the notion that log(1 + x) ~ x is only
appropriate for small x. It would not be a good approximation if used
for daily values of the S&P 500 index from the last couple of weeks,
for instance!
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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