G. Fagiolo, M. Napoletano, and A. Roventini, "Are Output Growth-Rate 
Distributions Fat-Tailed? Some Evidence from OECD Countries", Journal of 
Applied Econometrics, Vol. 23, No. 5, 2008, pp. 639-669.

All original growth-rate data used in the paper are contained in the 
file fnr-data.zip. This file contains 15 ASCII txt files in DOS format. 
The name of each file reflects the name of the time-series. Each file is 
single-column. More specifically:

US time-series
--------------

Growth-rate series are taken from the FRED database. Files are as follows:

series_us_GDP.txt: quarterly real GDP growth-rates, 1947Q1-2005Q3, 234 obs
series_us_IP_1921.txt: monthly Industrial Production growth rates,
                       1921M1-2005M10, 1017 obs
series_us_IP_1947.txt: monthly Industrial Production growth rates,
                       1947M1-2005M10, 702 obs


OECD time-series
----------------

The analyses for the other OECD countries are performed by relying on 
monthly IP data drawn from the ``OECD Historical Indicators for Industry 
and Services'' database (1975M1 - 1998M12, 286 observations). Files are 
as follows:

canada.txt
japan.txt
austria.txt
belgium.txt
denmark.txt
france.txt
germany.txt
italy.txt
netherlands.txt
spain.txt
sweden.txt
uk.txt