Research Database

Warren Weber joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in 1981 and served as senior research officer in the Research Department from 1989 to 2012, when he retired. Before joining the Bank, he taught economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Tulane University and Duke University. He also has been an adjunct economics professor at the University of Minnesota. Warren's M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Carnegie-Mellon University. His research agenda focuses on monetary and banking theory and history, with particular emphasis on banking in the United States before 1861. Weber is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina.

The Warren E. Weber Historical Data Archives consists of data collected by Weber while at the Minneapolis Fed including banknote discounts, disaggregated call reports, census of state banks, railroad stock prices, international data, and antebellum U.S. state bank balance sheets.

A collection of data, code, tools and supplemental materials that accompany articles created by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Files are given the same name as the corresponding paper’s title.

The State Mortgage Broker Regulation Collection consists of a master data file and associated research documenting mortgage broker regulation in all 50 states. The data is provided here in Excel format, and is broken out by state or by year (1996-2006). Data were primarily collected by Cynthia Pahl for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Resulting research was performed by Dick Todd and Morris Kleiner.