Establishing an International Data Archive on Free Banking

Kurt Schuler ()
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Kurt Schuler: The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise

No 24, Studies in Applied Economics from The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise

Abstract: In the past 40 years, enough work has been done on historical cases of free banking to show that it was a widespread phenomenon. There has been no concerted effort, however, to draw all this material together. The Internet, which did not exist when the revival of interest in free banking began, offers the chance to create an open international research hub to bring together a mass of statistical, legal, and other material on the various cases of free banking. I describe the advantages of a research hub, what components it should include, and an existing research hub that provides a model. The postscript announces progress toward a research hub.

Keywords: Free banking; data archive; Internet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 E59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2015-01
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