Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)

In 1960, Chicago Booth embarked on development of the worlds first comprehensive database for historical security prices and returns information. The research-quality data created by this transformational project spawned a vast amount of scholarly research from several generations of academics. For more than 60 years CRSP has maintained the level of quality and industry standards introduced by Professors James Lorie and Lawrence Fisher in the formation of CRSP. Today, with a staff of nearly 100 professionals, CRSP continues its commitment to providing research data for the most rigorous tests in academic research and in backtesting applications by practitioners. In addition, since 2013 CRSP has offered a broad suite of proprietary equity indexes for authorized clients to use for active and passive investment management, benchmarking and analysis. These transparent and efficient indexes provide the foundation for new areas of research and also serve as benchmarks for over $2 tril...