DATA ARCHIVE AND Projects by Warren E. Weber

Current Working Papers

• Coin size and Payments in Commodity Money Systems [pdf] (with Angela Redish)
• A Model of Banknote Discounts [pdf] (with Laurence Ales, Francesca Carapella, Pricila Maziero)
• Early State Banks in the United States: How Many Were There and When Did They Exist? [pdf]
  • Count of Banks by State - Daily [xls]
  • Listing of all State Banks with Beginning and Ending Dates [xls]
• Were U.S. State Banknotes Priced as Securities? [pdf]
• Costly Banknote Issuance and Interest Rates under the U.S. National Banking System [pdf] (with Antoine Martin and Cyril Monnet).

Data Archive

Antebellum U.S. State Bank Balance Sheets

This data set consists of individual bank balance sheets for the antebellum period in the United States compiled from reports of state banking authorities. The data set is updated periodically. For each state, data are available in two forms. The worksheet "detailed" contains the data in as detailed a form as in the original source. In the worksheet "full", data are presented in a consistent set of asset and liability categories for each bank.

Alabama	Arkansas	Connecticut	Delaware	Florida
Georgia	Illinois	Indiana	Iowa	Kansas
Kentucky	Louisiana	Maine	Maryland	Massachusetts
Michigan	Minnesota	Mississippi	Missouri	New Hampshire
Nebraska	New Jersey	New York	North Carolina	Ohio
Pennsylvania	Rhode Island	South Carolina	Tennessee	Vermont
Virginia	Wisconsin	District of Columbia

In the compilation, individual asset and liability categories have been preserved as much as possible. The data have also been modified in two primary ways:

• Where the original data have both differences between assets and liabilities for a given bank and corresponding differences in reported aggregated totals for individual asset/liability categories, the data have been changed to eliminate such differences.
• Where the original data have obvious inaccuracies (e.g., capital of $100,000 for several years in a row and then $10,000 for one year), such inaccuracies have been corrected.

Note also that for many dates, aggregate totals for individual asset/liability categories do not match reported data, presumably due to calculation and other errors by the original compilers.

To cite this data set, please use this reference:

Weber, Warren E. 2008. Balance sheets for U.S. Antebellum State Banks. Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. http://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/economists/wewproj.html.

Pre-1900 Date Functions Add-In

Some of the downloadable Excel files that follow use Pre-1900 dates that Excel does not natively handle. We wrote an Add-In to overcome this limitation. Download the Pre-1900 Date Functions Add-In, copy it to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Library (for Microsoft Office XP). Then open Excel, go to Tools | Add-Ins and check the corresponding box.

The financial assistance of the Financial Services Research Group of the Federal Reserve System in compiling this data set is gratefully acknowledged.

Banknote Discounts

Discounts on bank notes in Philadelphia from Bicknell's and Van Court's, 1832-1858. [xls]

To cite this data set, please use this reference:

Gorton, Gary and Weber, Warren E. Quoted Discounts on State Bank Notes in Philadelphia, 1832-1858. Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. http://minneapolisfed.org/research/economists/wewproj.html

Discounts on bank notes in New York, selected dates, 1817-1859. [xls]

To cite this data set, please use this reference:

Weber, Warren E. Quoted Discounts on State Bank Notes in New York, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, selected dates, 1827-1858. Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. http://minneapolisfed.org/research/economists/wewproj.html

Discounts on bank notes from Van Court's - Gorton's original data. [xls]

Dividends of Massachusetts Banks, 1807-1861. [xls]

Images of Minnesota Money

U.S. National Banks, 1880-1910

U.S. National Banks. 1880-1910. Disaggregated Call Reports for U.S. National Banks. [xls]

This spreadsheet contains the disaggregated call reports by state and reserve city for each call report date. These data appear as compiled by the Comptrolleur of the Currency. A full description of the data can be found here.

To cite this data set, please use this reference:

Weber, Warren E. 2000. Disaggregated Call Reports for U.S. National Banks, 1880-1910.  Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. http://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/economists/wewproj.html.

Data for "Some Monetary Facts" [xls]

McCandless and Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Summer 1995 (reprinted Fall 2001).

International Data

International Data. 1810-1995 Spreadsheet. [xls]

This spreadsheet contains data for Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US. for the period 1810-1995. The data report:
- Specie
- M0
- M2
- Prices
- Output

Miscellaneous Data

Indices of Railroad-Stock Prices Quarterly, 1834-1845. [xls]

Matlab Code for "A Model of Bimetallism"

The Matlab (v5) programs used to compute the equilibria and produce the graphs for the paper "A Model of Bimetallism" with François Velde are located here. A "readme" file is included to explain the purpose of the various scripts.  

This web page was last updated March 29, 2005.

 

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