Center for Research in Security Prices

About Center for Research in Security Prices

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) is a research affiliate of the University of Chicago that benchmarks and provides authoritative financial market data. It offers market indexes, historical financial datasets, and research data products used by academic, commercial, and government institutions for financial analysis, policymaking, and forecasting. Its offerings include CRSP US Stock Databases, CRSP/Compustat Merged Database, and other specialized datasets such as Survivor-Bias-Free US Mutual Fund Database and Ziman Real Estate Database, with data access tools and governance guiding data integrity. Located in the United States, CRSP positions itself as a leading source for high-quality, academically rigorous market data for research and index construction.