The Bretton Woods Transcripts
edited by Kurt Schuler and Andrew Rosenberg
published by Center for Financial Stability,
indicated by Arthur Garbayo and Silvio Figer (2012).
Bretton Woods Transcripts:
“The Bretton Woods Transcripts, edited by Center for Financial Stability (CFS) Senior Fellow Kurt Schuler and CFS Research Associate Andrew Rosenberg, offer the reader a front row seat at the conference that has shaped the international monetary system for nearly 70 years. The Bretton Woods Transcripts were never intended for publication, and give an inside perspective of what participants at this major international gathering said behind closed doors.
The Transcripts reveal an untold story from World War II, as well as the vision of luminaries such as John Maynard Keynes, future presidents, prime ministers, and other world leaders. Despite a war still waging in 1944, delegates from 44 nations worked tirelessly in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to construct a financial system that would promote growth, minimize global imbalances, and foster stability…”
https://centerforfinancialstability.org/brettonwoods.php
Financial Timeline
“The timeline’s horizontal bands segregate notable developments to help you explore linkages between financial markets, private sector institutions, and policy responses. See how policy responded to events, and then how markets and institutions reacted to the policy changes. Click on the events for more information. See more in the full screen version…”
Historical Financial Statistics
https://centerforfinancialstability.org/hfs.php
“Welcome to Historical Financial Statistics (HFS), a free, noncommercial data set on exchange rates, central bank and commercial bank balance sheets, interest rates, money supply, inflation, international trade, government finance, national accounts, and more. Our focus is data from roughly 1500 to 1950, although we have earlier and later data. Historical Financial Statistics currently contains about 150,000 annual data points and more than 2 million higher-frequency data points. It is intended to complement a number of long-established databases whose coverage begins in the mid 20th century.
The editor of Historical Financial Statistics is Kurt Schuler, Senior Fellow in Financial History at the Center for Financial Stability (CFS). The data in Historical Financial Statistics are available thanks to the generosity of many researchers. For a full list, see the acknowledgments…”
 Historical Financial Statistics Welcome to Historical Financial Statistics (HFS), a free, noncommercial data set on exchange rates, central bank and commercial bank balance sheets, interest rates, money supply, inflation, international trade, government finance, national accounts, and more. Our focus is data from roughly 1500 to 1950, although we have earlier and later data. Historical Financial Statistics currently contains about 150,000 annual data points and more than 2 million higher-frequency data points. It is intended to complement a number of long-established databases whose coverage begins in the mid 20th century. The editor of Historical Financial Statistics is Kurt Schuler, Senior Fellow in Financial History at the Center for Financial Stability (CFS). The data in Historical Financial Statistics are available thanks to the generosity of many researchers. For a full list, see the acknowledgments. Data Data are in Excel spreadsheets, often in Excel binary (.xlsb) format, which is only compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions. Click on the links below to download the spreadsheet workbooks. On some computers, files may download to your default download folder. Several are large and may download slowly. Data are often not repeated across tables, so if you are looking for an end of year exchange rate, for instance, start with the annual general table, and if you do not find it there, look at the monthly general table and the monthly and daily indicator tables focusing on exchange rates. (1) General tables, showing many categories of data (one big workbook)
(2) Indicator tables, focusing on a single category of data
(3) Additional data that do not fit into the standard templates above
Documentation The “Data Notes” PDF file, more than 250 pages long, provides detailed background information and references for the data in Historical Financial Statistics. It also contains copyright information, a legal notice, suggestions on how to cite us, and the conditions that apply to reproducing data. (In particular, restrictions exist on reproducing data for any commercial use and for noncommercial database use, and we assume no liability for the data.) Certain other useful files are also listed below. All are in Excel or PDF.
Contact Information Kurt Schuler Acknowledgments The editor of Historical Financial Statistics is Kurt Schuler, Senior Fellow in Financial History at the CFS. The data in Historical Financial Statistics are available thanks to the generosity of many researchers. For a full list, see the acknowledgments. For the latest update, we thank in particular the following researchers: Scholars in the South-East European Monetary History Network for data on the countries of that region: Neraida Hoxhaj, Arta Pisha, and Besa Vorpsi (Bank of Albania); Clemens Jobst and Thomas Scheiber (Oesterreichische Nationalbank); Kalina Dimitrova (Bulgarian National Bank); Martin Ivanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for History); Sophia Lazaretou (Bank of Greece); Adriana Aloman. Elisabeta Blejan, Brînduşa Graţiela Costache, and George Virgil Stoenescu (National Bank of Romania); Ljiljana Đurđević, Branko Hinić, and Milan Šojić (National Bank of Serbia); Yüksel Görmez (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey); Sevket Pamuk (Bogaziçi University and London School of Economics); Ali Coşkun Tunçer (University College London); Serkan Yiğit (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) Sally Hills (Bank of England), Ryland Thomas (Bank of England), and Nicholas Dimsdale (Oxford University) for three centuries of data on the British economy. Nicholas Krus (formerly Johns Hopkins University, now Warner Music) for balance sheet data from many currency boards around the world from the mid 1800s to the present. Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University) for government finance data for many British colonies Frankema and Marlous Van Waijenburg (Northwestern University) for wage data for a number of African countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Links of Interest Sites with extensive data before the mid 20th century:
Sites whose data are predominantly or entirely since the mid 20th century:
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