... salaries; a table of earnings and charges since the last examination; a table of dividends declared over the year; and, finally, a table of the deposit rates and amounts paid at each rate. Again, ... methodological criticisms, though, are not as serious as a data limitation that both Cox and Benston faced. Not having explicit data on rates paid by banks, they had to construct an interest rate ... between bank rates and bank risk. Consequently, he turned to a data base that did not go back as many years as the New York State banking data, but did contain interest paid on demand deposits...