Trading (for?) peace - some datasets are probably required

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Trading (for?) peace - some datasets are probably required

edited Feb 5, 2017

Dear Quantopianers,

World in which we are living is definitely marked by periods of peace and periods of war(s).

Some economists claim that cost of war is estimated to $9.8trn.

Whether you are a hawk or a dove, it would be illusory to think that such a bill have no impact (positively or negatively) on markets.
It may affect more particularly some sectors of economy, some companies...

Maybe Quantopian should add some datasets that are related to peace, war and terrorism in order to quantify such an impact.

I noticed that an index named "Global Peace Index" (from Institute for Economics and Peace) exists.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

I'm not related to them but it may be an interesting dataset to have.

An other index named "Global Terrorism Index" exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Index

Maybe other sources could be used (UCDP, EIU, IISS, SIPRI...)

It could be a part of the job of your new data analyst to also think about such data requirements and how to
provide a way to include such data to Quantopian community (free and/or premium).

I would be very pleased to have opinion of economists, political scientists on economic consequences of war and terrorism on market behavior
and how/if it could be quantified.

Kind regards

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