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Nick Anderson Economics · The New School for Social Research

Nick Anderson

I am an economics PhD candidate at The New School for Social Research. I work on public finance, banking and financial history, and the empirical methods that make long-run economic data usable — which mostly means going and getting the sources myself.

Sources

1782 – 2026

  • FDIC failures / history1782–2026586,743 rows
  • Warehouse catalog (catalog.*)1782–2026229,338 rows
  • OCC historical (1863-1941)1863–194117,775,763 rows
  • Robin / Failing Banks (derived)1863–20242,885,730 rows
  • Clean bank panel (163-yr $ levels)1863–20261,114,822 rows
  • Call Reports (FFIEC/Fed micro)1959–20261,954,826,984 rows
  • FDIC SDI (financials)1984–202669,868,690 rows
  • FR Y-9C / BHCF (holding cos)1986–2025208,147,772 rows
  • NCUA 5300 (credit unions)1994–20251,180,978,509 rows
  • FDIC SOD (branch deposits)1994–20252,815,984 rows
  • UBPR ratios2002–20261,251,149,050 rows
  • DFAST / stress tests2013–202528,883 rows
  • FR Y-15 (systemic indicators)2020–202422,481 rows
  • Pillar 3 (G-SIB disclosures)2024–20258,653 rows

Plus 7 reference and cross-sectional families with no time axis (UBPR peer rank, UBPR peer stats, NIC identity & attributes, FRED / H.8 (macro context), Reference / crosswalks, HMDA (mortgage summary), Data dictionary (dict.*)) — 275,455,170 further rows.

4,965,894,572 rows of banking and public-finance data, assembled

Every bar is a source family I went and retrieved, drawn across the years it actually covers. Counts are exact and come from the FreeNIC warehouse coverage matrix; the 21 families shown sum to the figure above. Hover a bar for its provider, exact span and provenance tier.

The work The data The method

Projects

Research

My empirical work on public finance and data: Treasury duration, tax-revenue cyclicality, and the long-run balance of payments. Both papers are downloadable.

Heterodata

The research-data platform gathering my interactive data sites and their downloads.

Economics at the New School

A three-part institutional and intellectual history of The New School’s economics department. A 121-page draft of Part 1 is available on request.

AI Tools

The open-source research tooling I built for AI-assisted empirical economics, with links to the GitHub repositories.

HMDA Explore

An interactive explorer over Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data. The actively developed web version is at hmdaexplore.com; the earlier R-Shiny draft is slower to start.

The platform hosts Gerhard (US public finance, gerhard.heterodata.org), Shaikh Data (shaikh.heterodata.org — replications of Anwar Shaikh’s Capitalism and Measuring the Wealth of Nations), Lewis (international economics, lewis.heterodata.org), Leonid (Soviet statistics, leonid.heterodata.org), Leontief (US input–output, leontief.heterodata.org), and StarCruiser (US employment and inflation, starcruiser.heterodata.org), plus affiliated standalone sites: freenic.org (banking data), volcker.org (my dissertation), foodberg.org (food prices), hmdaexplore.com (mortgage lending), methodex.fyi (statistical methodology), nycvisualizer.com (New York City transit and sidewalk accessibility), and jjmuni.com (municipal pedestrian infrastructure). Data downloads across the ecosystem are gathered at files.heterodata.org and indexed on the hub’s data page.

Thank you and let me know if you have any questions!

Nick

Last compiled: 2026-07-24