Tai-kuang Ho and Cheng-chung Lai, "A Silver Lifeboat, not Silver Fetters: Why and how the Silver Standard Insulated China from the 1929 Great Depression", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2016, pp. 403-419. The data are in six files, all them ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file hl-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a". ***** data.for.Figure1.txt description: data used to plot Figure 1 of the article series name: price level indexes (from left to right: China, Canada, France, Germany, UK, and US) time span: from 1929 to 1936 unit: 1929=100 source: annual price level indexes for Canada, France, Germany, UK, and US are from the online dataset provided by Kehoe and Prescott (2007) under http://www.greatdepressionsbook.com/datasets.cfm. China's price level index is from Global Financial Data, originally monthly and converted to annual frequency ***** data.for.Figure2.txt description: exchange rate data used to plot Figure 2 of the article series name: exchange rates (from left to right: China, Canada, France, Germany, and UK) time span: from 1929 to 1936 unit: for Canada, France, Germany, and UK, exchange rate is expressed in units of domestic currency per US dollar. For China, exchange rate is expressed in US dollars per 100 Chinese dollars. source: annual exchange rates for Canada, France, Germany, and UK are from Global Financial Data. China's exchange rates are from various issues of Tongji Yuebao (Statistics Monthly), originally monthly and converted into annual frequency ***** data.for.Figure3.txt description: data used to plot Figure 3 of the article series name: Bank of England Base Lending Rate time span: from January 1920 to December 1936 unit: annualized and expressed in percentage terms source: Global Financial Data ***** data.for.UK.inflation.rate.txt description: UK inflation rate (demeaned). This series is used (after annualized) in Figure 4 of the article and is used in the counterfactual analysis in Section 5.2 of the article. series name: UK inflation rate time span: from April 1928 to September 1934 unit: UK Producer Price Index is first log-differenced and then demeaned source: UK Producer Price Index is from Global Financial Data ***** data.for.dsge.estimation.txt description: monthly data for the four variables used in the estimation of DSGE and DSGE-VAR models of the article series name: (from left to right) output, the rate of change of the wholesale price index, the short-term interest rate, and the growth of the money base time span: from April 1928 to September 1934 unit: the logarithm of the output is transformed using the Hodrick-Prescott filter, and the inflation rate, the interest rate, and money growth are demeaned source: output is approximated by the annual index of industrial production taken from Chang (1969). The series is interpolated from an annual frequency to a monthly frequency using a cubic spline. The other series are taken from various issues of Tongji Yuebao (Statistics Monthly). See Data Appendix of the article for further details. ***** data.for.dsge.estimation.missing.output.txt description: the same as data.for.dsge.estimation.txt, with the only exception that for the output series, the growth rates from the annual index of industrial production are used as the December data and all other months of the year are treated as missing data. This dataset is used in the test of robustness in Section 5.3.