19th Century American Whaling. Where is the Risk Premium ? Proving that location does matter, returns by key harbors.

Whaling evokes images of great mansions, tragic losses and fearless sailors. While much has been written about the voyages little has been written about the financial returns. Data from the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport facilitated an updated view of the financial returns garnered by these voyages. Also, analysis showed that returns were not uniform across harbors, location did matter.

Meet the Facilitator:
Barbara Coffey, finance research librarian.
I joined Princeton University Library in 2017 after having worked over 20 years in different areas of finance. As an avid sailor, I found the topic of whaling to be captivating. Finding that this portion of history had not be recently examined and that there was data to do so was serendipity. This work builds on my presentation to the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

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