Public Debt Holland - Prices and Yields of Losrenten
<Description>This dataset contains the prices and yoelds from losrente of three cities of in Holland between 1600 - 1795, sc. Amsterdam, Leiden en Gouda. The data is used and described in several publications, including: Oscar Gelderbom and Joost Jonker, “Public Finance and Economic Growth. The Case of Holland in the Seventeenth Century”, The Journal of Economic History, 71-1 (March 2011), 1-39. Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker, “Low Countries Finance, 1348–1700” In. Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure, edited by Douglas W. Arner et al. (Elsevier 2013) 175-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397873-8.00007-4. The data contains one excel file with three sheets. The sheets cover: 1) Provenance information 2) Recorded prices of transactions of losrenten and obligaties registered by the aldermen of Gouda, Leiden, and Amsterdam 3) Yields on Hollands losrenten calculated from (a) the nominal interest rate minus the withholding taxes (100th and 200th pennies) and (b) the weighed average of the prices paid for losrenten in Gouda and Leiden All data collected by Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker.
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