[Gretl-users] Re: Recession bands and the time series G.U.I.

On 18/05/2026 17:52, climnios(a)providence.edu wrote: Ah, that explains everything, thanks. The "NBER bars" GUI thing is only active if the current periodicity of the dataset is annual, quarterly, or monthly, so daily data such as yours can't be handled in this way. That said, in the period you're using there were NO recessions codified as such by the NBER, so the plot would look like that anyway 😉 Of course, you could define your own set of "recession periods" and use those, but again, with daily data this requires some scripting at present. The following example uses my "FRED_get" package to download data, but clearly I'm using it just to make the example easy to replicate: <hansl> clear include FRED_get.gfn nulldata 500 setobs 5 2019-09-01 series ff = get_fred_series("FEDFUNDS") series nber_rec = get_fred_series("USREC") bundle b = _(dummy="nber_rec") plot ff options time-series with-lines band=b literal set grid ytics end plot --output=display </hansl> ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------