Michel Normandin and Pascal St-Amour, "Substitution, Risk Aversion, Taste Shocks, and Equity Premia", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1998, pp. 265-281. The data are in a file called ns-data.dat, which is zipped in ns-data.zip. They are U.S. data, monthly, for the period 1959:4 to 1992:7 (400 observations). The file has 9 columns, and data are in the Fortran format e14.6. For example, the first three numbers in the file are -.845400E-02 .213100E-02 .373490E-01 These could also have been written as -.00845400 .00213100 .0373490 * Col 1: The consumption growth (used in the paper) * Col 2: One-month T-Bills (the risk-free rate used in the paper) * Col 3: The market return (not used in the paper) * Col 4: The NYSE value-weighted market return (used in the paper) * Col 5: The return for the primary industry (used in the paper) * Col 6: The return for the manufacturing industry (not used in the paper) * Col 7: The return for the transportation industry (used in the paper) * Col 8: The return for the trade industry (used in the paper) * Col 9: The return for the finance and services industry (used in the paper)