Confidential datasets in finance & economics research
Neither free nor commercially licensed. Confidential supervisory, administrative-registry, individual-level, or single private-counterparty microdata, reachable only through a qualifying affiliation or an approved restricted-data arrangement inside a secure environment. Unlike the commercial tier, this data is not purchasable off the shelf at any price.
These pages document what the collection is and the gotchas, but carry no provenance badge: there is no access path we can run here.
| Dataset | What it is | Page |
|---|---|---|
| FR Y-14Q | Fed stress-test bank data (loan-level corporate/CRE) | FR Y-14Q |
| FHA | FHA single-family loan-level (restricted; public aggregates separate) | FHA |
| FR 2052a | Bank liquidity flows by counterparty, product, maturity | FR 2052a |
| FR 2004C | Weekly primary-dealer positions and financing (dealer-level) | FR 2004C |
| FR 2420 | Transaction-level money-market rates (FF, ED, CD) | FR 2420 |
| FR 2644 | Weekly bank balance sheet (bank-level; H.8 basis) | FR 2644 |
| Fed funds (confidential) | Transaction-level federal funds borrowing/lending | Fed funds |
| Discount window (confidential) | Loan-level Fed discount window borrowing | Discount window |
| Fedwire | Payment-level interbank transfers (RTGS) | Fedwire |
| NIC (Fed) | CAMELS ratings (confidential) + BHC structure (public) | NIC |
| STBL (Fed) | Loan-level C&I terms and internal risk ratings (risk rating 1997 on; survey ended 2017) | STBL |
| MCR (NMLS) | Company-level nonbank mortgage lender reports | MCR |
| INSEE DADS | French matched employer-employee data (via CASD) | INSEE DADS |
| INSEE LIFI | French inter-firm ownership / business-group links (via CASD) | INSEE LIFI |
| INSEE tax files | French firm balance sheets and income statements (via CASD) | INSEE tax files |
| LISA (Sweden) | Swedish individual-level population register (via SCB) | LISA |
| FEK (Sweden) | Swedish firm structural business statistics (via SCB) | FEK |
| Statistics Norway | Norwegian income/wealth registers (aggregates public; microdata restricted) | Statistics Norway |
| VPS (Norway) | Complete individual securities holdings (Norwegian CSD) | VPS |
| IEB (Germany) | German administrative employment biographies (via IAB FDZ) | IEB |
| IAB Establishment Panel | German establishment survey (via IAB FDZ) | IAB Establishment Panel |
| Italy Credit Register | Italian firm-bank loans + bank boards (Bank of Italy) | Italy Credit Register |
| Spain CIR | Spanish loan-level corporate credit register (Banco de Espana) | Spain CIR |
| FDIC construction loans | Loan-level construction-loan servicing (single failed bank) | FDIC construction loans |
| FDIC failed-bank bids | Bid-level bank-failure resolution records | FDIC failed-bank bids |
| FDIC supervisory | Account-level deposits + enforcement actions | FDIC supervisory |
| OSFI (Canada) | Contract-level mortgages from federally regulated lenders | OSFI |
| Banorte (Mexico) | One bank’s account panel + a savings field experiment | Banorte |
| Online broker (Germany) | One broker’s retail-investor holdings and trades | Online broker |
| Bank proprietary (Germany) | One bank’s customer wealth/income/holdings | Bank proprietary |
| Bilendi survey (Germany) | Author-commissioned representative online survey | Bilendi survey |
| Indifi (India) | One FinTech lender’s loan applications + payment history | Indifi |
| China shadow margin | One platform’s off-exchange margin balances (2015) | China shadow margin |
| SLI private meetings | One asset manager’s meeting notes, ratings, trades | SLI private meetings |
| TSP user list | Which banks used the attacked tech service provider | TSP user list |
| 401(k) administrative | One recordkeeper’s participant allocations and defaults | 401(k) administrative |
| DTCC commercial paper | Transaction-level CP issuance (issuer, rate, maturity) | DTCC |
| FICC GCF repo | Dealer-level interdealer general-collateral repo | FICC GCF repo |
| Equifax credit | US consumer credit microdata + payroll income verification | Equifax credit |
| TransUnion (Canada) | Population-wide Canadian credit-bureau records | TransUnion |
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