Research Database

Data supports the chapter "The Brazilian Depression in the 1980s and 1990s."

Railroad stock prices, quarterly indices

For use with Ellen R. McGrattan's additional data files.

MATLAB files that supplement Staff Report 595.

This dataset supports Staff Report 629: Comment on "Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back" and Staff Report 630: Online Appendix for: "Star Wars the Empirics Strike Back".

The zip file contains the replication programs, code, data, results, tables, and graphs that accompany Staff Report 620. The readme.pdf file is included in the zip file and also available separately.

Data supporting the chapter "A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s."

Balance sheets, North Carolina state banks

Balance sheets, Minnesota state banks

Balance sheets, Louisiana state banks

Balance sheets, Mississippi state banks

Balance sheets, New Hampshire state banks

This spreadsheet contains data for Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK, and US for the period 1810 – 1995. The data reported are for specie, M0, M2, prices, and output. The results in Rolnick-Weber, Journal of Political Economy (1997) are based on the data in this spreadsheet. For a description of how the data are constructed, see Rolnick and Weber, Staff Report 175 (1995) : https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/staff-reports/inflation-money-and-output-under-alternative-monetary-standards.

Data supporting the chapter "A Second Look at the U.S. Great Depression from a Neoclassical Perspective."

Balance sheets, Missouri state banks

Data supporting the chapter "Argentina’s Lost Decade and the Subsequent Recovery Puzzle."

Data supporting the chapter "The Role of Real Wages, Productivity, and Fiscal Policy in Germany’s Great Depression, 1928-37."

Balance sheets, Indiana state banks

Balance sheets, Georgia state banks

Balance sheets, Iowa state banks

Balance sheets, Maryland state banks

This spreadsheet contains the disaggregated national bank call reports by state and reserve city for each call report date. These data appear as compiled by the Comptroller of the Currency. These data are a “cleaned” version of the data published in the Annual Reports of the Comptroller of the Currency. Where assets and liabilities were not equal for a state or reserve city in the original, they have been corrected to be equal in this data set. This was done by comparing for each asset and liability category differences between totals as reported by the Comptroller and totals category obtained by aggregating the individual state and reserve city data. It should also be noted that aggregates for the entire National Banking System should be based on the individual data in this dataset and not those reported by the Comptroller. After 1900 the dates for the data for Alaska and Hawaii that the Comptroller used in his totals do not match the dates given in the individual state reports.

PDF of Quarterly Review article and related Excel data file.

Balance sheets, Illinois state banks

Balance sheets, New Jersey state banks

Balance sheets, Florida state banks

Balance sheets, South Carolina state banks

Balance sheet, Kentucky state banks

Data supporting the chapter "Prosperity and Depression." The file Ely-Sources.xls contains the original data and constructed series used to generate the Tables 1 to 6 and the Figures 1 to 3. Each of the nine objects has its own worksheet in the file. For example the worksheet that contains series used to generate figure 1 in the paper, is entitled Fig 1. In each worksheet, original series are labeled On and constructed series are labeled Cn. Constructed series Cn are obtained from the original and/or other constructed series in the respective worksheet.

Balance sheets, Kansas state banks

Balance sheets, Alabama state banks

Balance sheets, Connecticut state banks

Balance sheets, Rhode Island state banks

Banknote discounts

Balance sheets, Tennessee state banks

Data supporting the chapter "The French Depression in the 1930s."

Balance sheets, Delaware state banks

The files below demonstrate how to calibrate the neoclassical growth model and then solve the model numerically, using data from Finland as an example. You can download all files at once by clicking "create the zip" or you can download individual files by clicking on the title or selecting "download" from the action column.

BaseCaseCalibration.xls calibrates model parameters and derives a sequence of TFP values in the ‘calibration’ worksheet. The parameters are also saved in paramBase.txt, and the series of TFP values along with labor endowment and taxes are saved in dataBase.txt. The MATLAB program depressions.m uses these text files and solveModel.m to solve the model numerically. The output this program saves to output.xls can be used to generate the graphs in BaseCaseCalibration.xls.

These files can be used to model any economy over any period by replacing the data in BaseCaseCalibration.xls and saving the results in the correct format to paramBase.txt and dataBase.txt. The files below contain an overview of the calibration procedures, the MATLAB programs, and instructions on using the files on your own data. More details can be found in the files themselves.

Balance sheets, Connecticut state banks

This file contains a listing of all banks that existed in the United States between 1784 and 1860 along with their opening and closing dates. Further, if a bank went out of existence, its disposition – whether it closed, failed, or other – is given. For the methodology to obtain beginning and ending dates see Weber, Warren E., “Early State Banks in the United States: How Many Were There and When Did They Exist?” Journal of Economic History, 433–455, June 2006.

Balance sheets, Nebraska state banks

Data supporting the chapter "The Great Depression in Canada and the United States: A Neoclassical Perspective."

Data supporting chapter "Recent Great Depressions: Aggregate Growth in New Zealand and Switzerland."

Balance sheets, District of Columbia banks

Balance sheets, Vermont state banks

Balance sheets, Pennsylvania state banks

Data supporting the chapter "The Great U.K. Depression: A Puzzle and Possible Resolution."

Data supporting the chapter "The Great Depression in Italy: Trade Restrictions and Real Wage Rigidities."

Balance sheets, New York state banks

Balance sheets, Maine state banks