Bingduo Yang, Christian Hafner, Guannan Liu, and Wei Long, "Semiparametric Estimation and Variable Selection for Single-Index Copula Models", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 36, No. 7, 2021, pp. 962-988. ########## The empirical part uses data from two sources. 1. The quarterly housing price index data are downloaded from Federal Housing Finance Agency (https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads). All 50 states' quarterly housing price indices are provided, and we only extract observations in AZ, CA, FL and NV. In HPI_AT_state.csv, the first column denotes state, the second column denotes year, the third column denotes quarter, and the fourth column denotes the price index (1980Q1 = 100). ########## 2. The eight macroeconomic variables are downloadable from FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/). Specifically: i). A067RL1Q156SBEA (Real Disposable Personal Income (1975Q2-2018Q1)) ii). UNRATENSA (Civilian Unemployment Rate (1975Q2-2018Q1)) iii). FEDFUNDS (Effective Federal Funds Rate (1975Q2-2018Q1)) iv). A939RX0Q048SBEA (Real gross domestic product per capita (1075Q2-2018Q1)) v). A011RE1Q156NBEA (Shares of gross domestic product: Gross private domestic investment: Fixed investment: Residential (1975Q2-2018Q1)) vi). CPIAUCSL (Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items (1975Q2-2018Q1)) vii). INDPRO (Industrial Production Index (1975Q2-2018Q1)) viii). WTISPLC (Spot Crude Oil Price: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) (1975Q2-2018Q1)) ########## All data files are .CSV files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file yhll-data.zip. ########## List of data files: HPI_AT_state.csv A067RL1Q156SBEA.csv UNRATENSA.csv FEDFUNDS.csv A939RX0Q048SBEA.csv A011RE1Q156NBEA.csv CPIAUCSL.csv INDPRO.csv WTISPLC.csv