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Dodd Frank financial reform at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): Public comments, January 14th, 2010 – July 16th, 2014

Posch, Konrad1; Nath, Thomas2; Ziegler, J. Nicholas2

Published Oct 24, 2019; Updated Jan 10, 2024 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.6078/D1610G

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Abstract

This dataset includes a complete record of the 36,066 public comments submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to notices of proposed rule-making (NPRMs) implementing the Dodd-Frank Act over a 42-month period (January 14, 2010 to July 16, 2014). The data was exported from the agency’s internal database by the CFTC and provided to the authors by email correspondence following a cold call to the CFTC public relations department. The source internal database is maintained by the CFTC as part of its internal compliance with the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) and includes all rule-making notices that appear in the Federal Register. Owing to the salience and publicity of the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFTC made a special tag in its database for all comments submitted in response to rules proposed under the authority of the Dodd-Frank Act. This database thus includes all comments which the CFTC considers relevant to the Dodd-Frank reform.

In short, the CFTC gave the authors all comments related to the implementation of Dodd-Frank that it received between January 14th, 2010 and July 16th, 2014.

Please note that this dataset includes only public domain data from the CFTC (under the stipulations of the APA, all comments must be published in the Federal Register and thus become public domain information). It should be noted that the CFTC does have additional meta-data which they declined to rovide (i.e. IP addresses for commenters and other personally identifiable information) which they noted could be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. We did not pursue this avenue, but future researchers interested in, for example, the geographic distribution of commenters could request such data by using a FOIA request.