Geoffrey F. Loudon, Wing H. Watt, and Pradeep K. Yadav, "An Empirical Analysis of Alternative Parametric ARCH Models", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2000, pp. 117-136. The file lwydata.zip contains the file lwydata.dat, which is an ASCII file in DOS format. lwydata.dat contains dates and levels of the FT All Share Price Index for the period 1969:12:31-1997:10:29 obtained from Datastream (7261 observations). Dates have the format yyyymmdd.