Xiaoqing Zhou, "Refining the Workhorse Oil Market Model", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2020, pp. 130-140. The data are monthly. Each dataset includes the growth rate of global oil production, the measure of global business cycle, the log of real price of oil, and the change in global crude oil inventories, in that order. The datasets are arranged in column format with rows corresponding to months and columns corresponding to variables. dataset1.txt: 1973m2-2009m8 original data with corrected Kilian index of global economic avtivity dataset2.txt: 1973m2-2018m6 extended data with corrected Kilian index of global economic avtivity dataset3.txt: 1973m2-2018m6 extended data with log-linearly detrended OECD+6 industrial production Data sources: The corrected Kilian index of global economic activity was made available by Lutz Kilian. The OECD+6 industrial production is available on James Hamilton's website. The other data were constructed as described as in: Lutz Kilian and Daniel P Murphy, "The Role of Oil Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 29. No. 3, 2014, pp. 454-478. See http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/datasets/kilian003/ .