Research on German and European financial markets suffers from a lack of pan-European data sets. Also, existing sets do not provide a standard identification of, for example, companies. Therefore, researchers often utilize data from the United States where the integration of different databases is more advanced. As a consequence, empirical analyses are mostly based on non-European data. Because of the institutional differences, political recommendations that result from these analyses cannot – or only in a limited scope – be transferred to Europe.
Against this background, the SAFE Research Data Center not only draws on the usual international data sources but also creates new European data sets, brings existing data together and processes them. The aim is to place the central research areas of SAFE on a common European data footing.
Data access is provided by 'SAFE data sources' https://datacenter.safefrankfurt.de/datacenter/_databases/ and 'FiF - Repositorium für Forschungsdaten aus dem Finanzbereich (Preview version)' https://fif.safe-frankfurt.de/xmlui/