data1_means.xlsx
Dataset 1 gives the annual means of interest rates organized by annuity-selling market and year. Rates are divided into heritable annuities, life annuities and a combined series in which rates on life annuities have been converted into means comparable with those of heritable annuities in years when rates on heritable annuities are not available.
Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | XLSX |
| License | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Type | data |
| Version | 1 |
| Authors | Huang, Angela and Chilosi, David and Sapoznik, Alexandra |
| DOI | |
| Publication Date | 2019 |
| Availability | Download |
| Geographic Area (controlled) | Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland |
| Geographic Area (free) | Holy Roman Empire, Low Countries |
| Temporal Coverage (controlled) | 1240-01-01 to 1809-12-31 |
| Temporal Coverage (free) | 14th-18th century (main data) |
| Unit Type | Other |
| Number of Units | 5740 |
| Sampled Universe | annuities sold by urban authorities across the Holy Roman Empire and Italy |
| Number of Variables | |
| URL | https://journaldata.zbw.eu/dataset/1d5fb8dc-7443-4ffe-917a-547fd2f8ce14/resource/3c3ccfb0-519d-4601-8412-2750908f233b/download/data1means.xlsx |
| Last updated | March 25, 2019 |
| Created | March 25, 2019 |
