The Data Library maintains a large number of these data sets and provides online access to some of them via the arizona UNIX system. The Social Science Reference Center also maintains economic materials in electronic format. These are listed here since they are often requested by users of the Data Library. Please consult the Data Librarian or the Economic Librarian at SSRC should you require other time series. The data include closing price, shares outstanding and the return for the stock.
Most files contain annual data but there are also quarterly files.
Special files are available that contain Canadian data, bank data and historical data. The Citibase data files contain detailed data about various economic indicators such as currency exchange rates, bond information and stock market information. TAQ has been purchased from the NYSE for the time period of January 1994 through the latest month released. Data is derived from national governments, central banks, the International Monetary Fund, OECD, major investment houses, stock exchanges, and Datastream's own researchers. This type of file can be easily imported into Stata for analysis.