Datasets for Applied Time Series Econometrics

The datasets used for the examples in the book Applied Time Series Econometrics can be downloaded here.

Description Filename
quarterly, seasonally adjusted, West German fixed investment, disposable income, consumption expenditures in billions of DM, 1960Q1-1982Q4; source: Deutsche Bundesbank e1.dat
quarterly, seasonally adjusted, U.S. fixed investment (y1), change in business inventories (y2), 1947Q1-1972Q4; source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, The National Income and Product Accounts of the United States, 1929-1974 e2.dat
quarterly, seasonally adjusted real U.S. money (M1), GNP in 1982 Dollars, discount rate on 91-day treasury bills (rd), yield on long term treasury bonds (rb), 1954Q1-1987Q4; source: Business Conditions Digest e3.dat
quarterly, unadjusted, West German real per capita disposable income, personal consumption expenditures, 1960Q1-1987Q4; source: Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin e4.dat
monthly West German interest rate on 3-months loans in the money market (i_short), yields on bonds outstanding for total fixed interest securities (i_long), 1960M1-1987M12; source: Deutsche Bundesbank e5.dat
U.S. time series for growth rate of output (DQ) and civilian unemployment rate (U); source: Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) data archive Blanchard-Quah.dat
Canadian time series for labour productivity (prod), employment (e), unemployment rate (U) and real wages (rw); source: OECD database Canadian.dat
chemical process data from D.W. Bacon & D.G. Watts (1971), Estimating the transition between two intersecting straight lines; source: Biometrika 58, 525-534. Chemical.dat
seasonally adjusted, West Germany: consumption expenditures in billions of DM, 1960.1-1982.4; Source: Deutsche Bundesbank (see also Table E.1 of Lütkepohl (1991)) German_consumption.dat
quarterly, seasonally unadjusted West German real per capita disposable income, 1960.1-1987.4; source: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (see also Table E.4 of Lütkepohl (1991)) German_income.dat
quarterly, seasonally unadjusted nominal German Gross National Product, 1975.1-1996.4 (West Germany until 1990.2 all of Germany afterwards); source: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung GermanGNP.dat
sample: 1960.1 -- 1995.4, seasonally unadjusted data West German data until 1990.2, all of Germany aferwards, see file for more GermanM1System.dat
sample: 1972.1 -- 1998.4 West German data until 1990.2, all of Germany aferwards, see file for more GermanMoneySystem.dat
U.S. time series data: logarithm of real GDP (q), 3 month interbank interest rate (i), real monetary base (m); source: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database IS-LM.dat
U.S. time series data: average weekly hours worked, mfg (AWHours); source: The Conference Board (see www.tcb.org), coded as BCI001 NP_AWHours.dat
German time series data: Returns (first differences of logarithm) of the German XETRA DAX index, multiplied by 100 source: Yahoo - Finanzen NP_xetradax_returns100.dat
Polish prodictivity series: difference of log of Industrial Production Index and employment quarterly, seasonally adjusted, 1970.1-1998.4; source: Polish Central Statistical Office Polish_productivity.dat
Simulated data, SNAR4 process in Yang/Tschernig, ET 2002, 400 observations , generated with GENSTAPS.G SNAR4_jm.dat
first differences of quarterly, seasonally adjusted U.S. fixed investment 1947.2-1972.4; source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, The National Income and Product Accounts of the United States, 1929-1974 US_investment.dat
sample: 1972.1 -- 1998.4 West German data until 1990.2, all of Germany aferwards R - nominal long term interest rate (Umlaufsrendite); source: Monatsberichte der Deutschen Bundesbank, quarterly values are values of last month of quarter Umlaufsrendite.dat
sample: 1972.2 -- 1998.4 West German data until 1990.2, all of Germany aferwards:
Dp - \Delta log gdp deflator; source: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
R - nominal long term interest rate (Umlaufsrendite); source: Monatsberichte der Deutschen Bundesbank, quarterly values are values of last month of quarter
interest-inflation.dat
FX Rates: US/EURO YEN/US DM/US US/GB CAN/US;
08/31/1971-09/08/2006
(5-day week with NaNs replaced with latest observation);
source: www.econstats.com
exrate.dat