Toshiaki Watanabe, "A Nonlinear Filtering Approach to Stochastic Volatility Models with an Application to Daily Stock Returns", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1999, pp. 101-121. The data are in a single file called watanabe.data, which is in DOS format and is zipped in the file watanabe.zip. Data information: Fist column: YYYYMMDD Second column: Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) The number of observations: 1794 Data source: Tokyo Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics Report Faculty of Economics Tokyo Metropolitan University 1-1 Minami Ohsawa, Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-0397 JAPAN TEL +81 426-77-2331 FAX +81 426-77-2304 E-mail: twatanab@bcomp.metro-u.ac.jp