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Empirical Research: Banking

This guide will provide resources for empirical legal research including information on data sets and statistical packages.

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United States

Datasets:

FDIC Quarterly: periodical produced by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation with quarterly statistics.

FDIC Institution Directory provides the latest demographic and financial information for every FDIC-insured institution.

FDIC Statistics on Depository Institutions this utility allows a user to compile reports containing customized peer groups of FDIC-insured institutions and bank holding companies.

FDIC Trust Institutions Information: trust information available from 2001.

FDIC Statistics on Banking: allows the user to create customized reports.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Data Download Program: allows users to download data related to Fed statistical releases. Includes information on bank assets and liabilities.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System R esearch: finance and economics working papers, including statistics. They also have a separate data page.

Books & Journals:

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Statistics on Banking: a statistical history of the United States banking industry. Washington, DC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. HG2493 .S72 and on microfiche.

Office of the Comptroller General. Quarterly Journal. HG2543 .U56a