Min Wei and Jonathan H. Wright, "Reverse Regressions and Long-Horizon Forecasting", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2013, pp. 353-371. The data are in in two text files. The first file, bond-yields.txt, gives the Fama-Bliss zero coupon yields at maturities 1 month, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years and 5 years, at the monthly frequency from 196401 to 200912 for a total of 552 observations per variable (Source: CRSP). The second file, stock-returns.txt, gives the log dividend yield, the one month riskfree interest rate, and continuously compounded excess stock returns, at the monthly frequency from 195301 to 200912 for a total of 684 observations per variable (Source: CRSP). Both files are ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file ww-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".