Research institutes and organizations

• European Banking Center (Tilburg University)
• American Finance Association
• Western Finance Association
• European Finance Association 
• Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS)
  
• International Banking, Economics and Finance Association
• LSE Systemic risk center
• London FIT (Financial Intermediation Theory)
• BOFIT

Data sources

• NBER database links
• Regulatory reporting in the U.S.: Richmond Fed
• U.S. Flow of Funds: Fed Board
  
• National Information Center: find a bank and corresponding RSSD ID
• Credit Risk Database at RMI of NUS
  
• Macro controls
• World Governance Indicators
• Deposit Insurance coverage by Demirguc-Kunt, Kane and Laeven 
• Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey and Databases at World Bank
• Global Financial Development Database (GFDD) at World Bank
  
• Securitization data (privately managed)
• ABS Alert: Asset Backed Securities database

Latex

• Richard Stanton: Latex template for Finance paper
  
• Convert tables in Excel into Latex

Bank databases manual: getting started

• Bankscope: by Thibaut Duprey and Mathias LÉ
  
• Call reports: by Wouter J. den Haan, Steven W. Sumner, and Guy Yamashiro