Research Database

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