Re: [Gretl-devel] RFC: gretl calendar

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> Hmm, if I'm remembering correctly Jack was telling me about some Italian >> econometric medievalists last summer, as we drove south from Ancona on a >> fine June evening. Their data might make a nice test case, if we can get >> hold of it. > > I've been in touch with Paolo Malanima, who has lots of long-term dataset$ > (incredibly interesting if you're into development economic and economic > history). Those are mainly yearly data, though. There's nothing I know of > at higher frequencies, let alone daily data. I seriously doubt there's > any need for a piece of software that can correctly deal with infra-week > periodicities for the Middle Ages. Simply, there are no data at that > disaggregation level. There are infra-week (but generally incomplete) financial market data going back to the 12th century -- see for example http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/170/whm.html How many people want to make use of such data is another matter.