economic history – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:55:58 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Price Quotations in Early United States Securities Markets, 1790-1860 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100008/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:51:17 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=591 The data consists of compiled public securities as listed in newspapers from the period 1786 to 1862; the full set of files cover a number of U.S. cities plus London, and among the areas covered is New York. The data is encoded as prices over a span of time (at the level of detail of year, month, and day) described here as a run. Issuers of the securities are named, and are grouped by commercial…

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