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Project

Economic and financial databases for state-of-the-art empirical research in finance, business and economics

Economics and business schools can only excel in quantitative empirical research when an excellent infrastructure and high quality databases are available to the researchers. The requested infrastructure consists of a set of novel top-level financial and economic databases, as well as a user-friendly upgraded state-of-the art platform to access these data. This implies a very significant expansion and upgrade of the databases currently available to the researchers and research groups that support this application. The expansion of the number of high-quality databases allows to keep up with leading universities where these databases are available and to excel in research nationally and internationally.

The project group covers all research disciplines within the four campuses of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the KU Leuven. All parties involved share the concern for excellent economic and financial research, and have successfully collaborated on several occasions - and will continue to do so. Therefore they feel the need for high-end financial and economic databases.

Date:1 May 2016 →  30 Apr 2020
Keywords:Economic database, finance, economics, financial database, business
Disciplines:Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth