Antonello D'Agostino, Luca Gambetti, and Domenico Giannone, "Macroeconomic Forecasting and Structural Change", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2013, pp. 82-101. The data are stored in the file dgg-data.xls file. It includes three sheets: Defl (GDP Deflator) Unem (Unemployment Rate) TB3MS (Three Months Treasury Bill Secondary Market) The file dgg-data.xls is zipped in dgg-excel.zip. In addition, the data are also contained in three CSV files (comma separated ASCII files, in DOS format). These files (tbill.csv, unemp.csv, and deflator.csv) are zipped in the file dgg-csv.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a". The source of the data for the first two sheets is the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: http://www.phil.frb.org/econ/forecast/reaindex.html For TB3MS, the source is the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED Dataset): http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/TB3MS.txt