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Freedman's Savings and Trust Bank Passbook and Dividend Repayment Records flagship

Transcribed depositor records from the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, assembled for the Review of Financial Studies paper on societal inequality and bank deposit dynamics. Published as a standalone data paper so the records are citable independently of the analysis built on them.

AuthorsVirginia Traweek and Malcolm Wardlaw
PublishedJournal of Slavery and Data Preservation (2022)
CoverageAbout 500 sampled depositor passbooks with transactions, plus all 40,000-odd dividend repayments after the 1874 dissolution; Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865 to 1874
FormatsCSV, TAB (Dataverse), DOCX documentation
LicenseCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
DOI10.25971/7jn5-5x58

Loan Agreement Text Data: Contract Texts, Parsed Sections, and Clause Breakpoints from SEC EDGAR Filings (1996–2017)

The corpus behind the loan-agreement paper with Bernhard Ganglmair: every contract re-flowed from EDGAR HTML into clean text, a control file with dates, Dealscan and Compustat linkage keys and the line ranges of the defaults and covenants sections, and the parser's clause breakpoints. Dealscan identifiers are included only as merge keys; no licensed Dealscan variables ship with it.

AuthorsMalcolm Wardlaw and Bernhard Ganglmair
PublishedZenodo (2026)
Coverage14,526 contract documents from EDGAR, of which 7,934 are primary credit agreements matched to Dealscan; events-of-default and covenants sections located by line range, with clause-level breakpoints
FormatsPlain text (ZIP, 1.4 GB), JSON control file, JSON breakpoints
LicenseCC BY 4.0
DOI10.5281/zenodo.20014336

LLM-Generated Synthetic Covenant Packages

The synthetic counterfactuals behind the covenant-tightness paper with Daniel Rettl. Generation was nondeterministic, so the raw API responses are archived as the source of record rather than regenerated. Parsed outputs that depend on Dealscan and Compustat are not included; the replication repository rebuilds them from these files.

AuthorsMalcolm Wardlaw and Daniel Rettl
PublishedZenodo (2026)
CoverageRaw prompts and model responses for 1,909 syndicated loan deals, five counterfactual covenant packages per deal
FormatsJSON (ZIP, 67 MB)
LicenseCC BY 4.0
DOI10.5281/zenodo.19102897