Jonathan Wright, "Testing for a Unit Root in the Volatility of Asset Returns", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1999, pp. 309-318. The data consist of 4 time series, each in a separate file, obtained from Bloomberg: mark.dat: Daily $-DM exchange rate over the calendar years 1986-1996. pound.dat: Daily $-Pound exchange rate over the calendar years 1986-1996 yen.dat: Daily $-Yen exchange rate over the calendar years 1986-1996 stock.dat: Daily SP500 index from Jan. 4 1982 to Sep. 23 1994. For each exchange rate, the data give $ per unit foreign currency. The returns can be constructed as the differences of the logs. For the $-DM data, there are 2,697 observations. For the $-Pound and $-Yen data, there are 2,681 observations. For the SP500 data, there are 3,209 observations. All four files, which are in DOS format, are zipped in the file wdata.zip.