Re: [Gretl-users] WPI series - Has somebody access to IMF's International Financial Statistics? (Leon Unger)

1. There is a longer term alternative to the suggestion made by John. It appears that you are at the Free University in Berlin. Most academic libraries and/or computing services have access to IMF, EU and other data for use by students and staff, often through data services provided by consortia of universities. There is one in the UK and I would expect that there is something similar in Germany. If the Free University doesn't have such access, then you should lobby for it. Academic subscriptions to international datasets are usually very cheap. 2. There is no particular advantage to using data from the IFS. It is just a compilation of data from national sources. Since you are dealing with a few OECD countries, you can extract data from the OECD's online databank without charge or, indeed, from the relevant national sources. I am not sure about Japan but it is certainly possible to get what you want for the other countries. Gordon Hughes