This $141,544 National Science Foundation project grant will support the National Bureau of Economic Research to build new datasets and conduct research examining the impact of political control on financial regulation and institutions during the Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1930s. Specifically, the awardee will create a dataset on business and bank foundation and failure rates by state and quarter as well as aggregate liabilities and assets. A second dataset will track the structure of financial regulation across U.S. states. This funding also supports merging these new datasets with existing political and economic data to advance understanding of relationships between politics and economics during this period, which has relevance to contemporary debates around optimal regulatory design. Awarded on September 1, 2022 for a two-year period, this research aligns with the National Science Foundation's mission to promote basic social science and falls under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program.
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