Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Prof. Dr. Jörg Baten

Data hub "Firms and capital markets"

Data on firms and capital markets are one of the most important sources of information in and economic-historical research, especially for the pre-statistical period. Scholars working in this field are invited to register their work, and to make their data bases available through the internet - either on their own webpages (which may be made accessible via this list) or on our webpages. Scholars like Christos Cabolis, William Goetzmann, Peter Radchenko, Roger G. Ibbotson, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Wenzhong Fan, Jeremy Atack, Thomas Weiss, Fred Bateman and Liang Peng make their data bases available through the internet, especially on our homepage. If you are interested to make your data set available on our homepage, it is also possible to send the data set with the obligation that we make it available only in two or three years after the first major publication. The long term goal is to enhance the exchange and (re-)use of these data in order to write truly international-comparative histories of the development of firms and capital markets and their consequences. All data bases will not only include the data themselves, but also descriptions about the data.

Data base login USA

(Explanation and hints)

You have to be a registered user to download the files of Christos Cabolis, William Goetzmann, Peter Radchenko, Roger G. Ibbotson, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Wenzhong Fan and Liang Peng . If you have not registered before, click here to register now. If you are a registered user, login to download the files. They will email you the password.Passwords are not encrypted, please do not register your regular password for this system.
The information gathered from the form will be held in strictest confidence.

GERMANY

Profits and capital stock informationfrom tax-lists . Germany (1878-1913)
- Author: Jörg Baten
- About the pilot project
- The datafile : Data sets (zipped)

RUSSIA

St. Petersburg Stock Exchange
- Author: Christos Cabolis, William Goetzmann, and Peter Radchenko
- About the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange1865-1917
- The datafile : Data sets (zipped)

USA

New York Stock Exchange
- Author: William N. Goetzmann, Roger G. Ibbotson and Liang Peng
- About the New York Stock Exchange 1815-1925
- The datafile : Data sets (zipped) (scanned data, has to be transferred to Excel)

Documentation on coding in the Bateman-Weiss and Atack-Bateman sampels from the manuscript censuses of manufactures
- Author: Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss
- About the data set 1850-1880
- The datafile: Data sets

ENGLAND

London Stock Exchange
- Author: William N. Goetzmann, K. Geert Rouwenhorst
- About the London Stock Exchange 1869-1929
- The datafile : Data sets (zipped)

CHINA

Shanghai Stock Exchange
- Author: Christos Cabolis, Wenzhong Fan and William Goetzmann
- About the Shanghai Stock Exchange 1870-1940
- The datafile: Data sets (zipped)

Data formats

Excel is our standard format, but as some data sets contain 100000s of cases, the SPSS format is also used. If you want to save SPSS files in another format, you could use software such as STAT Transfer. You can also try out the SPSS evaluation license for 30 days:

SPSS download for 30 days (evaluation license)