Encompassing original, extrapolated, interpolated, and imputed price data for various commodities purchased in Asia and sold in Amsterdam by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It covers the period from 1608 to 1800, providing a long-term view of trade economics.
Use Cases
- Analyze price trends for specific commodities over the 192-year period to study market volatility.
- Compare purchase prices in Asian locations with sale prices in Amsterdam to calculate trade margins.
- Use imputed and interpolated price data to model missing values in historical economic series.
- Study the economic impact of the VOC by examining commodity price data across its operational timeline.
Strengths
- Covers a long historical time range of 192 years (1608-1800).
- Includes multiple types of price data: original, extrapolated, interpolated, and imputed.
- Focuses on a historically significant trading entity, the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Limitations
- Specific data structure details like row count, column names, and file formats are unknown.
- The use of extrapolated, interpolated, and imputed data may introduce methodological assumptions.
- Geographic coverage is limited to VOC trade routes between Asia and Amsterdam.
Provenance
- Source
- De Zwart, Pim; DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Contains original source data alongside extrapolated, interpolated, and imputed price figures.
- Time Range
- 1608 to 1800
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Asian purchase locations and Amsterdam, Netherlands