Three centuries of Belgian stock exchange data

Who - History

The team of historians started in 1998 with Professors Greta Devos and Helma Houtman-De Smedt. Hans Willems joined the team and obtained his PhD in 2006. Greta Devos retired the first of April 2008. Hans Willems joined the FWO in 2006.

Hans Willems realised several publications among which a complete inventory of the Brussels Stock Exchange collection on companies. This inventory can be bought at the Belgian State Archives. Hans Willems has joined the national FWO-team in the meanwhile.

Prof. Dr. Helma Houtman-De Smedt
Director of the Center on Business History 
University of Antwerp
Department of History
Prinsstraat 13 (Room B 303)
B - 2000 Antwerpen
T: +32.3.265.42.94
helma.desmedt@uantwerpen.be
Prof. Dr. Erik BUYST
Professor of Economic History at the University of Louvain
T: +32.16.32.68.00
erik.buyst@kuleuven.be

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