James D. Hamilton and Gang Lin, "Stock Market Volatility and the Business Cycle", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 11, No. 5, 1996, pp. 573-593. Data are in the file citi.dat col. 1-- Date (month) col. 2-- S&P 500 index col. 3-- Stock dividend yield col. 4-- Tbill rate col. 5-- index of industrial production Empirical analysis started with observation #215 A sample GAUSS program is maxseek.2s which calls the procs in procs.ext. Sample output files are contained in 2s.* The data file is zipped in hl-data.zip. The program and output files are zipped in hl-progs.zip. All files are in DOS format. Jim Hamilton UCSD