Examples using Ken French Global Data

These examples uses data from Ken French's data library to illustrate various empirical methods

The examples are concerned with the GLOBAL asset returns.

Lectures

Data examples

Note that you will usually have to edit the files to get them into a statistics package. Typically a file holds both VW and EW versions of portfolios, and monthly / annual data in the same file. This needs to be split into separate files. Example data files used in the R examples for reading data, created by splitting the original files provided by Ken French

R code examples