CV Research Data

Monetary Policy

FOMC Communications Data

On this page, I host

FOMC minutes, split by paragraph, categorized by portion of the FOMC meeting (economic go-round, policy discussion, etc.)
FOMC transcripts, split at each change of speaker, categorized by portion of the FOMC meeting
Indexes of the transparency of Fed communications
Updaed Romer and Romer (2004) shocks, with replication code

U.S. Monetary Policy Database (USMPD)

The USMPD contains high-frequency changes of interest rates and asset prices around FOMC statements, press conferences, and minutes. The USMPD is hosted and updated regularly by the Center for Monetary Research at the San Francisco Fed. Alongside the dataset is code to create the monetary policy surprises of Nakamura and Steinsson and Gürkaynak, Sack, and Swanson

U.S. Tariffs and Trade

Lydia Cox and I are slowly posting U.S. tariff and trade data going back to 1930.
The data can be found here. Currently, we have posted

Corrected U.S. MFN and column 2 tariffs from 1989-1996, with replication code.
A concordance from the HTS to its predecessor, the TSUSA.