Insights from Newly Digitized Banking Data, 1867-1904

Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck

No 20230306, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Call reports—regulatory filings in which commercial banks report their assets, liabilities, income, and other information—are one of the most-used data sources in banking and finance. Though call reports were collected as far back as 1867, the underlying data are only easily accessible for the recent past: the mid-1980s onward in the case of the FDIC’s FFIEC call reports. To help researchers look farther back in time, we’ve begun creating a complete digital record of this “missing” call report data; this data release covers 1867 through 1904, the bulk of the National Banking Era. Here, we describe the digitization process and highlight some of the interesting features of that era from a research perspective.

Keywords: banking; data; National banks; call reports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03-06
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