An Old Novel Idea: Introducing G-Pub, An Original Dataset of Public Bank Formation

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Brief Overview

Why do governments become involved in banking by directly controlling bank activity through ownership or managerial control—i.e. by forming public banks? I introduce an original dataset and discuss its theoretical and empirical contributions.

Author

• Devin Case-Ruchala, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill