Central banks in SE Europe publish 19th century data

Governors welcome project as building block to wider European comparisons

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Project casts light on 'statistical dark ages'

Central banks in southeast Europe have combined to overcome the "statistical dark ages" in the region and build a database of monetary and financial data reaching back to the 19th century.

The central banks from Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey jointly published the database on December 5, which includes data from the Ottoman Empire in 1830.

"Southeastern European monetary history is no longer terra incognita," Matthias Morys, a lecturer at the University of York

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