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RESOURCES FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE INTERNET
ISSN 1081-4248
Vol. 4, No. 2
September, 1999
Editor: Bill Goffe
Dept. of Economics and International Business
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
<Bill....@usm.edu>
Editorial Assistant: Elise Braden
Journal of Economic Literature
4615 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
<el...@econlit.org>
This guide, sponsored by the American Economic Association, lists
more than 1,000 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and
practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all
resources are also described.
In selecting these resources, we exercise some editorial judgment and
select items that either offer a substantial amount of information,
or are specialized to a specific area. A particularly good place to
look for a broader array of business and economic resources is WebEc
<http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/>.
We would like to thank two people in particular for constant help
with this guide. The first is Bob Parks <bpa...@wuecona.wustl.edu> of
Washington University in St. Louis. He runs the most widely used web
site for RFE and has continually helped in many different and
valuable ways. Second we would like to thank Colin Kuskie
<cku...@teleport.com> for the set of Perl scripts he wrote for this
project (they translate the "source" of this guide into the HTML you
are reading). He did an excellent job and is highly recommended for
Perl contract programming.
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. The Table of Contents below shows
the contents of each part.
For other locations of this guide, see the section titled "1.5 Where to
Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
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1.0 Introduction
1.1 Copyright
1.2 Format and Display Conventions
1.3 Suggestions Solicited
1.4 Internet Talks and Demos
1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide
1.6 Acknowledgements
----------------------------- Part 3 ----------------------------------
2.0 Data
2.1.0 U.S. Macro and Regional Data
2.1.1 Economic Indicators 104th Congress
+ 2.1.2 Economic-Indicators.com
2.1.3 Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
2.1.4 Econ Data & Links
2.1.5 Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
2.1.6 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
2.1.7 Conference Board
2.1.8 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
2.1.9 Federal Budget for the Fiscal Year 2000
2.1.10 Survey of Consumers from the Univ. of Michigan
2.1.11 Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)
2.1.12 Economic Report of the President: 1999
2.1.13 Economic Reports of the President: 1996-1999
2.1.14 Economic Reports of the President: 1992-94
2.1.15 EconData
2.1.16 Economic Information Systems
2.1.17 Economagic
2.1.18 FRB of St. Louis
2.1.19 Haver Analytics
2.1.20 STAT-USA
2.1.21 National Income and Product Accounts (Univ. of Virginia)
2.1.22 NBER's Macro-Historical Database
2.1.23 USinfostore.com
2.1.24 County and City Databooks
2.1.25 EconData
2.1.26 Regional Economic Information System
+ 2.1.27 Dismal.com Economic Calendar
2.1.1.0 Federal Reserve
2.1.1.1 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2.1.1.2 FRB of Atlanta
2.1.1.3 FRB of Boston
2.1.1.4 FRB of Chicago
2.1.1.5 FRB of Cleveland
2.1.1.6 FRB of Dallas
2.1.1.7 FRB of Kansas City
2.1.1.8 FRB of Minneapolis
2.1.1.9 FRB of New York
2.1.1.10 FRB of Philadelphia
2.1.1.11 FRB of Richmond
2.1.1.12 FRB of San Francisco
2.1.1.13 FRB of St. Louis
----------------------------- Part 4 ----------------------------------
2.2.0 Other U.S. Data
2.2.1 B&E Data Links
2.2.2 Data on the Net
2.2.3 FEDSTATS
2.2.4 Federal Web Locator
+ 2.2.5 Google -- Uncle Sam
2.2.6 GOVBOT: Database of Government Web Sites
2.2.7 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR)
2.2.8 National Archives Center for Electronic Records
2.2.9 Statistical Resources on the Web (Univ. of Michigan)
2.2.10 U.S. Census Bureau
2.2.11 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS)
2.2.12 Summary U.S. Census Info at Missouri Census Data Center
2.2.13 General Social Survey (GSS)
2.2.14 Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
2.2.15 Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD)
2.2.16 National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) Bibliography
2.2.17 Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID)
2.2.18 Study of American Families, 1994
2.2.19 Department of the Treasury
2.2.20 Energy Information Administration (EIA)
2.2.21 Energy Resources Board
2.2.22 Datazone: EPI's Labor Market Data
2.2.23 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
2.2.24 Government Information Sharing Project
2.2.25 U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)
2.2.26 Joint Economic Committee: House of Representatives
2.2.27 Joint Economic Committee: U.S. Senate
2.2.28 National Trade Data Bank
2.2.29 National Transportation Statistics
2.2.30 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
2.2.31 Social Security Administration (SSA)
2.2.32 Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC)
2.2.33 USDA Agriculture Economic Research Service
2.2.34 USDA Economics and Statistics System (Cornell Univ.)
----------------------------- Part 5 ----------------------------------
2.3.0 World and Non-U.S. Data
2.3.1 Alta Plana International Economics Gateway
2.3.2 Central Bank Resource Center
2.3.3 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the
World (EDIRC): Statistical Offices
2.3.4 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the
World (EDIRC): Central Banks and Monetary Authorities
2.3.5 Statistical Data Locators
2.3.6 CIA World Factbook 1998
+ 2.3.7 EIU CountryData
+ 2.3.8 GlobalMetrix
2.3.9 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
2.3.10 OANDA
2.3.11 PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service Retrieval Interface
2.3.12 Penn World Tables (Univ. of Toronto)
2.3.13 PRS Online Country Data
2.3.14 Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe (r·cade)
2.3.15 Asian Development Bank
2.3.16 Eurostat
2.3.17 Inter-American Development Bank
2.3.18 International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC)
2.3.19 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD)
2.3.20 International Monetary Fund (IMF)
2.3.21 U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
2.3.22 U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
2.3.23 U.N. Statistics Division/DESIPA
2.3.24 World Trade Organization (WTO)
2.3.25 India 1997-98 Budget
+ 2.3.26 Statistics Indonesia
2.3.27 Bank of Japan
2.3.28 Japanese Macro Data
2.3.29 Kokumin Keizai Research Institute
+ 2.3.30 National Statistical Office of Korea
2.3.31 Canadian Industry Statistics
2.3.32 Statistics Canada
2.3.33 Statistics Canada CANSIM
2.3.34 Austrian and Eastern European Economic Data (WIFO)
+ 2.3.35 Hungarian Central Statistical Office
2.3.36 Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
+ 2.3.37 Statistics Finland
+ 2.3.38 National Institute of Statistical and Economic Studies
2.3.39 Bundesbank
2.3.40 German Federal Statistical Office
2.3.41 Statistik Regional (German Regional Stats)
+ 2.3.42 Statec
2.3.43 Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB)
2.3.44 Netherlands Central Bank
2.3.45 Statistics Netherlands
+ 2.3.46 Statistics Sweden
2.3.47 Bank of England
2.3.48 BizEd Net: CSO Data (U.K.)
2.3.49 ESRC Data Archive
2.3.50 HM Treasury
2.3.51 Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services
(MIDAS)
+ 2.3.52 Office of National Statistics
2.3.53 Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780
2.3.54 Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
2.3.55 Praedicta: Israeli Economic Data
2.3.56 Central Bank of Turkey
2.3.57 Australian Bureau of Statistics
2.3.58 New Zealand Treasury
2.3.59 Reserve Bank of New Zealand
2.3.1.0 World Bank
2.3.1.1 World Bank
2.3.1.2 Economic Growth Research
2.3.1.3 Finance & Development
2.3.1.4 Living Standards Measurement (LSMS)
2.4.0 Finance and Financial Markets
2.4.1 Bond Market Association
2.4.2 Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
2.4.3 CRSP Data Access and Analysis
2.4.4 Financial Data Finder at Ohio State
2.4.5 Finance Area (Top Services International)
2.4.6 FINWeb
2.4.7 Global Financial Data
2.4.8 Investment FAQ
2.4.9 OSU Virtual Finance Library
2.4.10 Public Domain Financial Data
2.4.11 SEC EDGAR
2.4.12 Wall Street Directory
2.5.0 Journal Data and Program Archives
2.5.1 Economic Journal Datasets Online
2.5.2 Journal of Applied Econometrics
2.5.3 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
2.5.4 Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
----------------------------- Part 6 ----------------------------------
3.0 Economists, Departments, & Universities
3.1 Braintrack University Index
3.2 College and University Home Pages
3.3 American Universities Home Pages
3.4 Marr and Kirkwood Official Guide to Business School Webs
3.5 Yahoo Directory of Business Schools
3.6 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC)
3.7 Economics Departments Outside the U.S.
3.8 Economics Departments in the U.S.
3.9 Association for Univ. Business and Economic Research (AUBER)
3.10 Economics Departments with PhD Programs
3.11 American Economics Association (AEA) Directory of Members
3.12 International Directory of Finance and Economics Professionals
3.13 Directory of Canadian Economists and Economics Departments
3.14 Directory of International Economists
3.15 Economists on the World Wide Web
3.16 Economists with Web Pages
----------------------------- Part 7 ----------------------------------
4.0 Forecasting & Consulting
4.1 Conference Board
4.2 First Union's Economic Information
4.3 Bank of America Economics and Financial Reports
4.4 Cents Financial Journal
4.5 Congressional Budget Office
4.6 The Dismal Scientist
4.7 DRI/McGraw-Hill
4.8 Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI)
4.9 FAIRMODEL
4.10 The Financial Forecast Center
4.11 Foster Associates
4.12 Forecasting Center of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute
4.13 Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
+ 4.14 McKibbin Software Group
4.15 Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum
4.16 Regional Economic Models (REMI)
4.17 Regional Financial Associates
4.18 Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network
4.19 WEFA Group
+ 4.20 Wells Fargo Economic Reports
4.21 DIA Agency Inc.
4.22 Bank of Hawaii Economic Research Center
4.23 The Brattle Group
4.24 Charles River Associates Auction Consulting
4.25 Green Interest Rate Swap Management
4.26 Market Design Inc. (MDI)
4.27 Regional Economic Research, Inc. (RER)
4.28 STA Research
4.29 Damage Valuation Associates
4.30 Econ One
4.31 Economists Incorporated
4.32 Fishkind & Associates
+ 4.33 Micronomics, Inc.
4.34 Spectrumeconomics
4.35 Triangle Economics Research
4.36 Alphametrics
4.37 Atlantica Associates
4.38 BCS Consulting Enterprise
4.39 Cambridge International Forecasts
4.40 Centre for International Economics (CIE)
4.41 Conference Board of Canada
+ 4.42 Infometrics
4.43 London Economics
4.44 Lombard Street Research Ltd.
+ 4.45 McKibbin Software Group
4.46 Olsen & Associates
4.47 Oxford Economic Consulting
4.48 Boye-Lord International
4.49 Economic Consulting Services Inc. (ECS)
4.50 Klonic Morocco Consultants
----------------------------- Part 8 ----------------------------------
5.0 General Interest
5.1 The Dismal Scientist
* 5.2 About.com
5.3 Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network
----------------------------- Part 9 ----------------------------------
6.0 Jobs, Grants, & Academic Advice
6.1 Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education) Job Listings
6.2 E-JOE (European Job Openings for Economists)
6.3 JOE (Job Openings for Economists from the AEA)
6.4 UK-JOE (Royal Economic Society)
6.5 Economics Ph.D. Job Candidates
6.6 New Ph.D.s in Economics (NBER)
6.7 Survey of the Labor Market For New Ph.D.s in Economics
6.8 American Association of State Colleges and Universities: Office
of Federal Programs
+ 6.9 GrantSelect
6.10 Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
6.11 Department of Justice
6.12 Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Research and
Development
6.13 National Science Foundation: Economics Program
6.14 Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
+ 6.15 Manhattan Institute
6.16 How to Publish in Top Journals
6.17 Magnificent Publications, Inc.
6.18 Resources for New Faculty and Their Mentors
----------------------------- Part 10 ---------------------------------
7.0 Mailing Lists & Usenet
7.1.0 Mailing Lists
7.1.1 Introduction
7.1.1.0 A - General Economics and Teaching
7.1.1.1 Cato Online Update (cato-list)
7.1.1.2 CTI Centre for Computing in Economics (cti-econ)
7.1.1.3 Chinese Economic Association Discussion List
(econ-cea-uk)
7.1.1.4 Discussion of the ideas of Friedrich A. Hayek
(hayek-l)
7.1.1.5 Economic Issues and Policies (EIP)
7.1.1.6 Economic-Research (econometric-research)
7.1.1.7 Economics & Business Educators List
(econ-business-educators)
7.1.1.8 Economics and Management of Education (educ-econ)
7.1.1.9 Elsevier/North-Holland "Contents Alert Economics"
(econbase-e)
7.1.1.10 Innovation in Instruction of Economics (I3econ)
7.1.1.11 International Economics and Business Education
(int-econ-biz-educators)
7.1.1.12 Parkin Professor Discussion Group (ParkinPr)
7.1.1.13 Parkin Student Discussion Group (ParkinSt)
7.1.1.14 Research in Economic Education (econed-l)
7.1.1.15 Scout Report for Business & Economics (srbusecon)
7.1.1.16 Talk-Econ: List for Principles Students (tlk-econ)
7.1.1.17 Teaching of Economics (tch-econ)
7.1.1.18 Young Economists' Discussion List (yedl)
7.1.2.0 B - Methodology and History of Economic Thought (none at
this time)
7.1.2.1 History of Economics Society List (HES)
7.1.3.0 C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
7.1.3.1 Census Bureau List on U.S. Statistical Abstracts
(compendia)
7.1.3.2 Census Bureau Press Release (press-release)
7.1.3.3 Census Bureau Product Announcements
(product-announce)
7.1.3.4 Center for Economic Studies (ces)
7.1.3.5 Complexity Theory (timeseries)
7.1.3.6 Corryfee (corryfee)
7.1.3.7 Csemlist (csemlist)
7.1.3.8 Econometria Espanola (Econometria)
7.1.3.9 Gaussians (gaussians)
7.1.3.10 GAMS user list (Gams-L)
7.1.3.11 International Journal of Game Theory Abstracts
(Ijgt-Abstracts)
7.1.3.12 LIMDEP List (LIMDEP-L)
7.1.3.13 Minitab Discussion List (minitab)
7.1.3.14 Model User's Group (MUG-L)
7.1.3.15 Numerical Analysis Network (NA-NET)
7.1.3.16 RATS (rats-l)
7.1.3.17 SAS Discussion (SAS-L)
7.1.3.18 SAS Public Access Consortium (SASpac-L)
7.1.3.19 Statistics Canada's General Discussion List
(Statcan)
7.1.3.20 Statistics Canada's Daily (Daily)
7.1.3.21 Statistique Canada Quotidien (Quotidien)
7.1.3.22 Strictly Declarative Modelling Language (SDML)
7.1.3.23 Time Series (timeseries)
7.1.4.0 D - Microeconomics
7.1.4.1 Experimental Economics (economics-experimental)
7.1.4.2 Information Economics List (information-economics)
7.1.5.0 E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
7.1.5.1 Central Bank Bulletin (central-banks)
7.1.5.2 H.M. Treasury Press Releases (PRESS)
7.1.5.3 What's New on H.M. Treasury Internet Site
(WHATSNEW)
7.1.5.4 Longwaves (longwaves)
7.1.5.5 Post Keynesian Thought (PKT)
7.1.6.0 F - International Economics
7.1.6.1 International Political Economy (Ipe)
7.1.6.2 International Trade Policy (trade)
7.1.6.3 Trade Library (trade-library)
7.1.6.4 Trade News (trade-news)
7.1.6.5 Trade Strategy (trade-strategy)
7.1.7.0 G - Financial Economics
7.1.7.1 Debt (debt)
7.1.8.0 H - Public Economics
7.1.8.1 Social Scientists in Peace Economics and Conversion
(peace-econ)
7.1.9.0 I - Health, Education, and Welfare
7.1.9.1 Health-EconEval (health-econeval)
7.1.9.2 Quantitative Techniques in Health Economics
(health-econometrics)
7.1.10.0 J - Labor and Demographic Economics
7.1.10.1 Economic Demography Workshop Annoucements
(edw-announce)
7.1.10.2 Economics and Demography of Aging, Aging Policy
(ecnaging)
7.1.10.3 Economics of Pensions and Retirement (pension.
retire)
7.1.10.4 Feminist Economists Discussion Group (Femecon-L)
7.1.10.5 Gender Economics (gender-economics)
7.1.10.6 Labor in the Global Economy (Labor-L)
7.1.10.7 Social Policy Research Centre Notice List
(sprc-notices)
7.1.11.0 K - Law and Economics
7.1.11.1 EconLaw (econlaw)
7.1.12.0 L - Industrial Organization
7.1.12.1 Communications Privatization (com-priv)
7.1.13.0 M - Business Administration and Business Economics;
Marketing; Accounting (none at this time)
7.1.14.0 N - Economic History
7.1.14.1 Discussions in Economic History (eh.disc)
7.1.14.2 European Historical Economics News (ehenews)
7.1.14.3 Economic History Association Announcements (eha)
7.1.14.4 Economic History Association of Australia and New
Zealand (OZNZ.Society)
7.1.14.5 Economic History of the Eastern Bloc (eh.
eastbloc)
7.1.14.6 Economic History News (eh.news)
7.1.14.7 Issues in Teaching Economic History (eh.teach)
7.1.14.8 Italiana Storici dell'Economia (nestore-l)
7.1.14.9 Macroeconomic History (eh.macro)
7.1.14.10 Recurrent Economic History (quanhist.recurrent)
7.1.14.11 Research in Economic History (eh.res)
7.1.14.12 Teaching and Research in Business History
(H-Business)
7.1.15.0 O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and
Growth
7.1.15.1 Australian Economics (australian-economics-l)
7.1.15.2 Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic
Analyses (ibase-texts-l)
7.1.15.3 Caribbean Economy (caribbean-economy)
7.1.15.4 Community Economic Development in Developed
Countries (ced-net)
7.1.15.5 Economic and Social Development (econ-soc-devt)
7.1.15.6 Economic Development (econ-dev)
7.1.15.7 Economic Growth (economic-growth)
7.1.15.8 Information Bank on African Development Studies
(ibads)
7.1.15.9 Italian Economic Policy (polec-ita)
7.1.15.10 Lista de Correo de Economia Latinoamericana
(latam-econ)
7.1.15.11 Transition in Eastern Europe & former Soviet
Union (east-west-research)
7.1.15.12 Turkish Economics (turk-econ)
7.1.16.0 P - Economic Systems (none at this time)
7.1.17.0 Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
7.1.17.1 Agricultural Economics (agric-econ)
7.1.17.2 Agricultural Economics Discussion List (agecon-l)
7.1.17.3 Canadian Chapter of the Inter. for Ecological
Econ. (cansee)
7.1.17.4 Ecological Economics (ecol-econ)
7.1.17.5 Economics of Climate Variability and Global
Change (clim-econ)
7.1.17.6 Environment and Game Theory (Egt)
7.1.17.7 Land and Natural Resource Economic Theory
(land-theory)
7.1.18.0 R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
7.1.18.1 Community and Rural Economic Development
Interests (ruraldev)
7.1.18.2 Economic and Demographic Models (remi-l)
7.1.19.0 Z - Other Special Topics
7.1.19.1 Netnomics (netnomics)
7.2.0 Usenet Newsgroups
7.2.1 Usenet
----------------------------- Part 11 ---------------------------------
8.0 Meetings & Conferences
+ 8.1 Inomics Conference Calls
8.2 Conferences in Econometrics
8.1.0 Future Conferences
+ 8.1.1 American Consumer in the Changing Food System
8.1.2 American Economic Association (AEA)
+ 8.1.3 Association for Cultural Economics International
+ 8.1.4 Business History Conference
+ 8.1.5 Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance
Workshop on Economic Dynamics
+ 8.1.6 Cliometric Society
+ 8.1.7 Computational Methods in Economics, Finance and
Statitistics
8.1.8 Econometric Society
+ 8.1.9 European Simulation Symposium
+ 8.1.10 European Social Science History Conference
+ 8.1.11 European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) Annual
Congress
+ 8.1.12 Fourth Annual Post-Graduate Economics Conference
+ 8.1.13 Hume Society
8.1.14 International Business and Economics Conference
+ 8.1.15 International Working Group on Value Theory (IWGVT)
+ 8.1.16 Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic
Games and Nonlinear Dynamics
+ 8.1.17 Rethinking Marxism
+ 8.1.18 Society for Computational Economics (SCE)
+ 8.1.19 What We Don't Know about Pacific Northwest Fish Runs:
An Inquiry into Decision-Making under Uncertainty
8.2.0 Past Conferences
8.2.1 Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences (ABAS)
8.2.2 Advancing the Integration of New Technologies into the
Undergraduate Teaching of Economics
8.2.3 American Agricultural Economics Association Conferences
8.2.4 Berlin Workshop on Internet Economics
8.2.5 Business and Economics Society International
8.2.6 Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics
8.2.7 Tenth International Conference on Cultural Economics
8.2.8 Econometric Society: Far East Meeting (ES)
8.2.9 Econometric Society: Latin American Meeting (ES)
+ 8.2.10 Economic and Social Research Council
8.2.11 Economic Beliefs and Behaviour
8.2.12 EIIT - Empirical Investigations in International Trade
Conference
8.2.13 European Economic Association (EEA)
8.2.14 European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ES)
8.2.15 8th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and
Applications
8.2.16 First Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
8.2.17 International Ukrainian Economic Association Fourth
Congress and Economics Symposium
8.2.18 International Conference on Islamic Economics in the
21st Century
8.2.19 International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
8.2.20 International Institute of Forecasters
+ 8.2.21 Society for Computational Economics (SCE)
8.2.22 Society for Economic Dynamics (SED)
8.2.23 Western Economic Association International (WEA)
----------------------------- Part 12 ---------------------------------
9.0 News Media
9.1 Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education)
9.2 Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
9.3 Barron's Online
* 9.4 The Economist
9.5 The Financial Times
9.6 New York Times
9.7 Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
9.8 Bloomberg Online
+ 9.9 dowjones.com
9.10 CNN
9.11 CNN-FN
+ 9.12 Reuters Moneynet
9.13 World News Connection (WNC)
9.14 Slate
----------------------------- Part 13 ---------------------------------
10.0 Organizations & Associations
10.1.0 Academic Research Organizations and Institutes
10.1.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in
the World (EDIRC)
10.1.2 Austrian Economics Program at New York Univ.
10.1.3 Canadian International Labour Network (CILN)
10.1.4 Carolina Population Center
10.1.5 Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA)
10.1.6 Center for the Study of Population
* 10.1.7 Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and
Employment (CREFE)
10.1.8 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona
10.1.9 Game Theory Society
10.1.10 Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE)
10.1.11 Hoover Institution
10.1.12 Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
10.1.13 Jerome Levy Economics Institute
10.1.14 Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa
Cruz (LEEPS)
10.1.15 Ludwig von Mises Institute
10.1.16 NetEc
10.1.17 West Virginia Regional Research Institute
10.1.18 Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)
10.1.19 Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution
(ELSE)
10.1.20 Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
10.1.21 Centre for Economic Forecasting
10.1.22 Centre for Policy Modelling
10.1.23 ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau (U.K.)
10.1.24 National Institute of Economic and Social Research
10.1.25 Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the
Environment (CESSE)
10.1.26 Centre for Economic Research (CCSO)
10.1.27 Center for the Study of Law and Economics
10.1.28 Central European Regional Research Organization
(CERRO)
10.1.29 European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic
Relations (ERCOMER)
10.1.30 Experimental Economics Laboratory, Univ. of Trento,
Italy
10.1.31 IKE Group (Aalborg Univ., Denmark)
10.1.32 Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER)
10.1.33 Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
10.1.34 Groningen Growth and Development Centre
10.1.35 Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation
and Technology (MERIT)
10.1.36 Nijenrode Forum for Economic Research (NYFER)
10.1.37 Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)
10.1.38 Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory
10.1.39 Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), Univ. of NSW,
Sydney
10.1.40 Theoretical Research Institute (Australia) Exchange
Rate Target Zone Database
10.1.41 New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and
Regulation
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10.2.0 Non-Academic Research and Policy Organizations
10.2.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in
the World (EDIRC)
10.2.2 Policy.Com: Think Tanks
10.2.3 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
10.2.4 Brookings Institution
10.2.5 Cato Institute
10.2.6 Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
10.2.7 Employee Benefit Research Institute
10.2.8 Employment Policies Institute
10.2.9 Employment Policy Foundation
10.2.10 EPA Economy and Environment Program
10.2.11 Group of 30
10.2.12 Heritage Foundation
10.2.13 Independent Institute
10.2.14 Institute for International Economics
10.2.15 Institute for Policy Innovation
10.2.16 Mathematica Policy Research
10.2.17 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
10.2.18 National Center for Policy Analysis
10.2.19 Policy.com
10.2.20 Rand
10.2.21 Resources for the Future (RFF)
10.2.22 Santa Fe Institute Economics Program
10.2.23 Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
10.2.24 Urban Institute
10.2.25 International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG)
10.2.26 Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
Economics (ABARE)
10.2.27 Fraser Institute
10.2.28 Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
10.2.29 Belgian Federal Planning Bureau
10.2.30 Centre d'etudes Prospectives et d'Informations
Internationales (CEPII)
10.2.31 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
10.2.32 Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
10.2.33 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
10.2.34 Infrastructure and Spatial Economics
10.2.35 Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
+ 10.2.36 Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
10.2.37 Institute of Public Finance
10.2.38 Kiel Institute of World Economics
10.2.39 Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies
(WIIW)
10.2.40 Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research
10.2.41 Economic Planning Agency (Japan)
+ 10.2.42 India Policy Institute
10.2.43 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
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10.3.0 Societies and Associations
10.3.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in
the World (EDIRC): Associations and Societies
10.3.2 Academy of Economics and Finance
10.3.3 American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)
+ 10.3.4 American Committee on Asian Economic Studies (ACAES)
10.3.5 American Economic Association (AEA)
+ 10.3.6 American Finance Association (AFA)
10.3.7 American Law and Economics Association (ALEA)
10.3.8 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
(AREUEA)
10.3.9 Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI)
+ 10.3.10 Association for Economic and Development Studies in
Bangladesh (AEDSB)
+ 10.3.11 Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
+ 10.3.12 Association for Social Economics (ASE)
+ 10.3.13 Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
10.3.14 Association des Economistes Quebecois (ASDEQ)
+ 10.3.15 Association of Christian Economists (ACE)
10.3.16 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
(AERE)
10.3.17 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
Inc (AARES)
10.3.18 Business & Economics Society International
10.3.19 Business History Conference
10.3.20 Canadian Economic History Server
10.3.21 Canadian Economics Association (CEA)
10.3.22 Canadian Law and Economics Association
+ 10.3.23 Chinese Economists Society (CES)
10.3.24 Cliometric Society
10.3.25 Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics
Profession (CSWEP)
10.3.26 Eastern Economic Association (EEA)
10.3.27 Econometric Society
10.3.28 Economic History Association
10.3.29 Economic Science Association (ESA)
+ 10.3.30 Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR)
10.3.31 European Association for Evolutionary Political
Economy (EAEPE)
10.3.32 European Association of Law and Economics (EALE)
10.3.33 European Historical Economic Society (EHES)
10.3.34 European Economic Association (EEA)
10.3.35 Financial Management Association (FMA)
10.3.36 Finnish Society for Economic Research
10.3.37 History of Economics Society
+ 10.3.38 International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
10.3.39 International Association for Feminist Economics
(IAFFE)
+ 10.3.40 International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES)
10.3.41 International Economics and Philosophy Society
+ 10.3.42 International Economic and Finance Society (IEFS)
10.3.43 International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
10.3.44 International Indian Economic Association (IIEA)
+ 10.3.45 International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade
(IIFET)
10.3.46 International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
+ 10.3.47 International Society for Intercommunication of New
Ideas (ISINI)
+ 10.3.48 International Society for New Institutional Economics
(ISNIE)
+ 10.3.49 International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA)
10.3.50 International Ukrainian Economic Association
10.3.51 International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG)
+ 10.3.52 Korea-American Economic Association (KAEA)
+ 10.3.53 Latin American Economic Association (LAEA)
+ 10.3.54 Middle East Economic Association (MEEA)
10.3.55 National Association of Business Economists (NABE)
10.3.56 National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE)
10.3.57 National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE)
+ 10.3.58 National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
10.3.59 National Economic Association
10.3.60 National Economists Club
+ 10.3.61 National Tax Association
+ 10.3.62 Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE)
+ 10.3.63 Peace Science Society (International) (PSSI)
10.3.64 Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN)
10.3.65 Progressive Economics Forum (PEF)
10.3.66 Public Choice Society
10.3.67 Royal Economic Society
10.3.68 Regional Science Association (RSA)
10.3.69 Societa Italiana degli Storici dell'Economia
10.3.70 Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics
(SABE)
10.3.71 Society for Computational Economics (SCE)
10.3.72 Society for Economic Dynamics
10.3.73 Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)
10.3.74 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: UK
Chapter (SASE)
10.3.75 Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
(SDAE)
+ 10.3.76 Society of Government Economists (SGE)
10.3.77 Southwestern Social Science Association
10.3.78 Southwestern Society of Economists
10.3.79 Southern Appalachian Committee on Resource and
Environmental Economics (SAPPCREE)
10.3.80 Southern Economic Association (SEA)
+ 10.3.81 Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
10.3.82 The Vietnamese Economics Network (VECON)
10.3.83 Western Economic Association International (WEA)
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11.0 Other Internet Guides
11.1.0 General Internet Resources
11.1.1 EFF's Guide to the Internet
11.1.2 ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
11.1.3 Internet Web Index
11.1.4 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained
11.1.5 Beginner's Guide to URLs
11.1.6 SYSTRAN Translation Software
11.1.7 Internet Cookies
11.1.8 Argus Clearinghouse
11.1.9 Net-Direct Index (NDI)
11.1.10 WWW Virtual Library
11.1.11 Usenet FAQs
11.1.12 Yahoo!
+ 11.1.13 dmoz -- Open Directory Project
11.1.14 AltaVista
+ 11.1.15 Google!
11.1.16 HotBot
* 11.1.17 Lycos
+ 11.1.18 Northern Light
11.1.19 DejaNews
11.1.20 Dow Jones Business Directory
11.1.21 LISZT: Directory of E-Mail Discussion Groups
11.1.22 Reference.com
11.1.23 Yahoo People Search
11.1.24 WhoWhere?
11.1.25 internet @ddress.finder
11.2.0 Multiple Subject Sites
11.2.1 AEAweb
* 11.2.2 Inomics
11.2.3 Internet Resources for Economists
11.2.4 Scout Report: Business and Economics
11.2.5 Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
11.2.6 WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics
11.3.0 Single Subject Sites
11.3.1 Adam Smith Page
11.3.2 Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)
11.3.3 Agricultural Economics Virtual Library
11.3.4 Resources for Agricultural Economists
11.3.5 Antitrust Case Summary Browser
11.3.6 Supreme Court Antitrust Debates
11.3.7 Antitrust Policy: research, policy and cases
11.3.8 Asymmetry of Economic Time Series
11.3.9 Banking on the WWW
11.3.10 Business Forecasting
11.3.11 The Capitalism Site
+ 11.3.12 Center for Advanced Macroeconomic Policy -- Challenges
to Mainstream Economics
11.3.13 Clearing and Settlement System Research
11.3.14 Communications for a Sustainable Future
11.3.15 Computational Economic Modeling
11.3.16 Econometric Links
11.3.17 Econometric Resources on the Internet
+ 11.3.18 Econometrics World
11.3.19 Economic Development Resource Page
11.3.20 Economic Growth Resources
11.3.21 Economic History Services (EH.Net)
11.3.22 Economy in Latin America
11.3.23 European Research Papers Archive (ERPA)
11.3.24 Friedrich Hayek Scholar's Page
11.3.25 EmuNet
11.3.26 Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
11.3.27 Health Economics - Places to Go
11.3.28 History of Economics Internet References
11.3.29 History of European Integration Site
11.3.30 The Information Economy
11.3.31 Informational Cascades and Rational Herding: An
Annotated Bibliography and Resource Reference
11.3.32 Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
11.3.33 International Trade & Business WWW Reference Pages
11.3.34 International Trade Data
11.3.35 Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and
Applications (CITG)
11.3.36 Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS)
11.3.37 Institutional and Behavioral Economics
11.3.38 Law and Economics
11.3.39 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page
11.3.40 Stan Liebowitz on Path Dependence and Network
Externalities
11.3.41 MacLean's Economic Policy Page: Progressive Canadian
Policies
11.3.42 Macro Economic Models
11.3.43 Marshall Studies Bulletin
11.3.44 Microcredit Virtual Library
* 11.3.45 Microsoft Legal Battle
11.3.46 Model User Group International (CGE Modeling)
11.3.47 Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics
+ 11.3.48 Online Glossary of Research Economics
11.3.49 Principles of Forecasting Project
11.3.50 Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle
Home Page
11.3.51 REESweb : Russian and East European Studies
11.3.52 RESECON: Land and Resource Economics Network
11.3.53 RISKWeb
11.3.54 Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page
11.3.55 A Selected Bibliography on Electronic Purses
11.3.56 StatServ
11.3.57 Studies using Applied General Equilibrium models
(SAGE)
11.3.58 Survey of Regional Economics
+ 11.3.59 Sustainable Earth Exchange Link Information for
Educators (SEELIFE)
11.3.60 Telecom Information Resources on the Internet
+ 11.3.61 Victorian Economics: An Overview
11.3.62 Walrasian General Equilibrium Theory
11.3.63 WWW Pages With EU Information and Pointers Into the
Web
----------------------------- Part 17 ---------------------------------
12.0 Scholarly Communication
12.1.0 Bibliographical Databases and Information
12.1.1 Introduction
12.1.2 BibEc: Hardcopy Working Papers in Economics
12.1.3 CARL's UnCover
12.1.4 IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)
* 12.1.5 Journal of Economic Literature and EconLit (JEL)
12.1.6 JEL Subject Descriptors
12.1.7 Univ. of Minn. Econ. Library Discussion Paper
Collection
12.1.8 Working Papers in Economics and Management
12.2.0 Working Papers
12.2.1 Introduction
12.2.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)
12.2.3 HoPEc: Home Page Papers in Economics
12.2.4 IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)
12.2.5 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working
Papers
12.2.6 RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
12.2.7 WoPEc (Working Papers in Economics)
12.3.0 Working Paper and Publication Notification Services
12.3.1 BibEc
12.3.2 Current Contents Connect (ISI)
12.3.3 Economics Research Network (ERN)
12.3.4 New Economics Papers (NEP)
12.3.5 UnCover Reveal (CARL)
12.3.6 Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)
12.3.7 Financial Economics Network (FEN)
12.3.8 International Journal of Game Theory Abstracts
12.3.9 Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)
12.3.10 Latin American Network (LAN)
12.3.11 North-Holland
12.3.12 Pool Listing Service in Game Theory
12.3.13 Springer's LINK ALERT
12.3.14 sci.finance.abstracts
12.3.15 USDA Economics and Statistics System
12.4.0 Indices to Journals
12.4.1 Economic Journals on the Web
12.4.2 Journals Indexed in the EconLit
12.4.3 WebEc - Economics Journals on The Internet
12.5.0 On-Line Journals
+ 12.5.1 EBSCO Information Services
+ 12.5.2 Journal Storage Project (JSTOR)
+ 12.5.3 OCLC Electronic Collections Online
+ 12.5.4 UMI
12.5.5 Agribusiness
12.5.6 Agriculture and Human Values
12.5.7 American Political Science Review
12.5.8 American Prospect
12.5.9 Annales d'Economie et de Statistique
12.5.10 Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
12.5.11 Annals of Regional Science
12.5.12 Applied Economics
12.5.13 Applied Economics Letters
12.5.14 Applied Financial Economics
12.5.15 ASEAN Economic Bulletin
12.5.16 Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
12.5.17 Asian Economic Journal
12.5.18 Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
12.5.19 Australian Economic History Review
12.5.20 Australian Economic Papers
12.5.21 Australian Economic Review
12.5.22 Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource
Economics
12.5.23 Australian Journal of Management
12.5.24 Banco de Espana Economic Bulletin
12.5.25 Bank of Japan Monetary and Economic Studies
12.5.26 British Journal of Industrial Relations
12.5.27 Bulletin of Economic Research
12.5.28 Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
12.5.29 Cato Journal
12.5.30 Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and
Research
12.5.31 Development
12.5.32 Development and Change
12.5.33 Economia Politica
12.5.34 Economic and Industrial Democracy
12.5.35 Economic Journal
12.5.36 Economic Policy: A European Forum
12.5.37 Economic Theory
12.5.38 Economics and Politics
12.5.39 Economics Letters
12.5.40 Environment and Development Economics
12.5.41 European Economic Review
12.5.42 Explorations in Economic History
12.5.43 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review
12.5.44 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives
12.5.45 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Review
12.5.46 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Review
12.5.47 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review
12.5.48 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review
12.5.49 Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy
Review
12.5.50 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review
12.5.51 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Review
12.5.52 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Review
12.5.53 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
12.5.54 Federal Reserve Bulletin
12.5.55 Feminist Economics
12.5.56 Finance and Development
12.5.57 Finance and Stochastics
12.5.58 Financial Industry Studies
12.5.59 Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
12.5.60 Games and Economic Behavior
12.5.61 Growth and Change
12.5.62 Housing Studies
12.5.63 Human Resource Development Quarterly
12.5.64 Independent Review
12.5.65 Industrial Relations
12.5.66 International Economic Journal
12.5.67 International Journal of the Economics of Business
12.5.68 International Journal of Industrial Organization
12.5.69 International Journal of Manpower
12.5.70 International Journal of Social Economics
12.5.71 International Journal of Theoretical and Applied
Finance
12.5.72 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
12.5.73 International Organization
12.5.74 International Social Science Journal
12.5.75 Investigaciones Economicas
12.5.76 Japan Research Quarterly
12.5.77 Japanese Economic Review
12.5.78 Journal of Accounting and Economics
12.5.79 Journal of Applied Statistics
12.5.80 Journal of Banking and Finance
12.5.81 Journal of Common Market Studies
12.5.82 Journal of Comparative Economics
12.5.83 Journal of Conflict Resolution
12.5.84 Journal of Econometrics
12.5.85 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
12.5.86 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
12.5.87 Journal of Economic Education
12.5.88 Journal of Economic Surveys
12.5.89 Journal of Economic Theory
12.5.90 Journal of Economics and Finance
12.5.91 Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
12.5.92 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
12.5.93 Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
12.5.94 Journal of Evolutionary Economics
12.5.95 Journal of Finance
12.5.96 Journal of Financial Economics
12.5.97 Journal of Financial Intermediation
12.5.98 Journal of Housing Economics
12.5.99 Journal of Monetary Economics
12.5.100 Journal of Peace Research
12.5.101 Journal of Population Economics
12.5.102 Journal of Public Economics
12.5.103 Journal of Public and International Affairs
12.5.104 Journal of Regional Science
12.5.105 Journal of Risk and Insurance
12.5.106 Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
12.5.107 Journal of Urban Economics
12.5.108 Kyklos
12.5.109 Labor History
12.5.110 Labour
12.5.111 Law and Contemporary Problems
12.5.112 Liiketaloudellinen Aikakauskirja
12.5.113 Macroeconomic Dynamics
12.5.114 Manchester School
12.5.115 Mathematical Finance
12.5.116 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
12.5.117 Metrika
12.5.118 Metroeconomica
12.5.119 Monthly Labor Review
12.5.120 Netnomics
12.5.121 New Economy
12.5.122 New England Economic Review
12.5.123 Nonprofit Management and Leadership
12.5.124 Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
12.5.125 Oxford Review of Economic Policy
12.5.126 Pacific Economic Review
12.5.127 Policy Analysis
12.5.128 Policy Review
12.5.129 Public Finance Review
12.5.130 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
12.5.131 Quarterly Journal of Economics
12.5.132 RAND Journal of Economics
12.5.133 Regional Science and Urban Economics
12.5.134 Regulation
12.5.135 Research in Economics (Ricerche Economiche)
12.5.136 Review of Austrian Economics
12.5.137 Review of Development Economics
12.5.138 Review of Economic Design
12.5.139 Review of Economic Dynamics
12.5.140 Review of Economics and Statistics
12.5.141 Review of Financial Studies
12.5.142 Review of International Economics
12.5.143 Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies
12.5.144 Scandinavian Journal of Economics
12.5.145 Scottish Journal of Political Economy
12.5.146 Survey of Current Business
12.5.147 Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
12.5.148 Transportation Research: Part E: Logistics and
Transportation Review
12.5.149 Urban Studies
12.5.150 World Economy
12.6.0 Student On-Line Journals
12.6.1 Opus
+ 12.6.2 SOAS Economic Digest (SED)(Web Version)
12.6.3 Student Economic Review
12.6.4 University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics
(UAUJE)
+ 12.6.5 The Visible Hand
+ 12.6.6 Wits Student Journal of Economics
12.7.0 Academic Publishers
12.7.1 Association American University Presses
12.7.2 Academic Press
+ 12.7.3 University of Alabama Press
12.7.4 Ashgate
+ 12.7.5 Asia Pacific Press
+ 12.7.6 Asian Development Bank
+ 12.7.7 University Press of America
+ 12.7.8 Australian National University
+ 12.7.9 Basic Books
+ 12.7.10 Bernan Press
12.7.11 Blackwell Publishers
+ 12.7.12 University of British Columbia Press
+ 12.7.13 Brookings Instittution Press
+ 12.7.14 C. D. Howe Institute
+ 12.7.15 University of Calgary Press
+ 12.7.16 University of California Press
+ 12.7.17 Cambridge University Press
+ 12.7.18 CATO Institute
+ 12.7.19 Centre for Economic Policy Research
12.7.20 University of Chicago Press
+ 12.7.21 Copenhagen Business School Press
+ 12.7.22 Cornell University Press
+ 12.7.23 Duke University Press
12.7.24 Edward Elgar Publishing
12.7.25 Elsevier/North-Holland
+ 12.7.26 Bank of Finland
+ 12.7.27 Greenwood Publishing Group
12.7.28 Grove's Dictionaries
+ 12.7.29 HarperCollins Publishers
+ 12.7.30 Harvard Business School Publishing
+ 12.7.31 Harvard University Press
+ 12.7.32 Haworth Press
+ 12.7.33 Institute for Fiscal Studies
+ 12.7.34 International Food Policy Research Institute
+ 12.7.35 JAI Press
+ 12.7.36 John Wiley & Sons
+ 12.7.37 Johns Hopkins University Press
12.7.38 Kluwer Academic Publishers
+ 12.7.39 Manchester University Press
+ 12.7.40 McGraw-Hill
+ 12.7.41 Macmillan Press
+ 12.7.42 University of Michigan Press
+ 12.7.43 MIT Press
+ 12.7.44 Mohr Siebeck
+ 12.7.45 National Centre for Development Studies
+ 12.7.46 New York University Press
+ 12.7.47 State University of New York Press
+ 12.7.48 University of North Carolina Press
+ 12.7.49 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
+ 12.7.50 Pickering and Chatto Publishers
+ 12.7.51 Princeton University Press
+ 12.7.52 Resources for the Future
+ 12.7.53 Routledge
+ 12.7.54 Rowman and Littlefield
+ 12.7.55 Russell Sage Foundation
+ 12.7.56 Sage Publications
+ 12.7.57 Sharpe
12.7.58 Springer
+ 12.7.59 University of Texas Press
+ 12.7.60 University of Toronto Press
+ 12.7.61 United National Publications
+ 12.7.62 W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
+ 12.7.63 World Bank
+ 12.7.64 Yale University Press
+ 12.7.65 Zed Books
12.7.66 Camden Books
12.8.0 Book Support Sites
12.8.1 "Foundations of International Macroeconomics" (Obstfeld
and Rogoff)
12.8.2 "Handbooks in Economics" (North-Holland/Elsevier)
12.8.3 "Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy" (Taylor)
12.9.0 Collected Works
12.9.1 Collected Works of Ray Fair
12.10.0 Libraries and Classification Systems
12.10.1 Library of Congress
12.10.2 Libweb
12.10.3 COPAC
12.10.4 JEL Subject Descriptors
12.10.5 Nomenclatures: Documentation on Economic
Classifications
+ 12.10.6 Online Glossary of Research Economics
12.11.0 Newsletters
12.11.1 American Agricultural Economics Association
Newsletter
12.11.2 Economic History Newsletter
12.11.3 electronic Health Economics Analysis Letters (eHEAL)
12.11.4 European Economic Association Student Newsletter
12.11.5 International Economics and Finance Society
12.11.6 International Society of Dynamic Games - ISDG
12.12.0 Style Guides
12.12.1 Citing Sources from the World Wide Web: MLA Handbook
+ 12.12.2 The Economist Style Guide
12.12.3 Electronic Sources: APA Style of Citation
----------------------------- Part 18 ---------------------------------
13.0 Software
13.1.0 Internet Software
13.1.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader
13.1.2 Ghostscript, Ghostview, and GSview
13.1.3 Netscape
13.1.4 Real Networks
13.1.5 uuencode/uudecode
13.1.6 WinZip
13.1.7 xpdf
13.2.0 Software Program Libraries
13.2.1 Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS)
13.2.2 Netlib
13.2.3 CodEc: Code for Economics and Econometrics
13.2.4 Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA)
13.2.5 GAUSS Source Code Archive at American Univ.
13.2.6 Statlib
13.2.7 Xlisp-Stat Archive
13.2.8 Software for Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)
13.3.0 Statistical and Computational Software
13.3.1 AREMOS (WEFA Group)
13.3.2 AUTOBOX
13.3.3 BETA (Laissez Faire Software)
13.3.4 ComLabGames
13.3.5 EPS (DRI/McGraw-Hill)
13.3.6 EXPO & EXPO/SE (Leading Market Technologies)
13.3.7 GAMS
13.3.8 GAUSS (Aptech)
13.3.9 Ivation (Beyond 20/20)
13.3.10 Limdep
13.3.11 LINDO
13.3.12 MLE++ and MLEQuick (Cahill Software)
13.3.13 MODLER
13.3.14 Otter Research Ltd. (AD Model Builder & MULTIFAN)
13.3.15 Maple (Waterloo Maple)
13.3.16 MathCad & S Plus (Mathsoft)
13.3.17 Mathematica (Wolfram Research)
13.3.18 MATLAB and SIMULINK (MathWorks)
13.3.19 Microfit
13.3.20 Minitab
13.3.21 Modeleasy
13.3.22 Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
13.3.23 Numerical Recipes
13.3.24 Ox
13.3.25 Octave
+ 13.3.26 O-Matrix (Harmonic Software)
13.3.27 PcGive, PcFiml, and GiveWin
13.3.28 Qplot for Gnuplot
13.3.29 Quantitative Micro Software
13.3.30 RATS (Estima)
13.3.31 SAS
13.3.32 SHAZAM
13.3.33 SORITEC
13.3.34 SPSS
13.3.35 Stata
+ 13.3.36 Statgraphics (Statistical Graphics Corporation)
13.3.37 STATISTICA
13.3.38 TSP International
13.3.39 VORSIM
13.3.40 Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
13.3.41 Xlisp-Stat
13.3.42 XTREMES
13.4.0 Word Processing
13.4.1 Creating Quality Adobe PDF Files from TeX with DVIPS
13.4.2 MT and MTs
13.4.3 TeX and LaTeX References
13.4.4 TeX Macros for Economics and TeX/LaTeX Sources
13.4.5 T3, Scientific Word and WorkPlace (TCI Software)
13.4.6 Using Xdvi for Presentations
----------------------------- Part 19 ---------------------------------
14.0 Teaching Resources
14.1 AmosWorld
14.2 ECONlinks
+ 14.3 Economic-Indicators.com
+ 14.4 Economicsearch.com
+ 14.5 Online Glossary of Research Economics
14.6 CTI Centre for Economics
14.7 EcEd Web
14.8 Economic Education Station
14.9 Economics and Business Education Association (EBEA)
+ 14.10 Foundation for Teaching Economics
+ 14.11 Journal of Economic Education
14.12 National Center for Research in Economic Education
14.13 National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
14.14 Resources for University Teachers of Economics
14.15 Iowa Electronic Markets
14.16 Univ. of British Columbia Election Stock Market (UBC-ESM)
14.17 Classroom Expernomics
14.18 "Experiments with Economic Principles" (Bergstrom and
Miller)
14.19 Academic Assistance Access
14.20 Click & Learn Regression
14.21 Coin Flipping Page
14.22 ComLabGames
14.23 Edward Flaherty's Page on Economic Myths
14.24 Election Calculator
14.25 eur macro tutor
14.26 FAIRMODEL
14.27 Learning Skills on the Internet
14.28 National Budget Simulator
14.29 Problems in Microeconomics
+ 14.30 Tutor2u
14.31 Virtual Economy (U.K.)
14.32 Walras Law and Macroeconomics
14.33 Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
14.34 Economics Textbook Information
14.35 Online Economics Textbooks
14.36 Publishers of Economic Textbooks
14.37 EconWeb
14.38 "oo...Micro!" (Joe Daniel)
+ 14.39 Archipelago Economics Courses
14.40 World Lecture Hall: Economics
14.41 Syllabits:Economics
+ 14.42 Electronic Collaboration: A Practical Guide for Educators
+ 14.43 Globewide Network Academy (GNA)
+ 14.44 RealSlideshow
14.45 TeleCampus
14.46 Census Data and Exercises for College Classes
14.47 Cents Financial Journal
14.48 Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
14.49 Copyright Management Services (CMS)
14.50 DIA Agency Inc.
14.51 Economics Club at the Univ. of Michigan-Flint
+ 14.52 Griesinger Films
14.53 Idea Channel
+ 14.54 Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1800 to the Present
14.55 Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics
14.56 Resampling Stats
14.57 Net Benefits: The Revolution Linking Statistics & ICT
14.58 World Bank EDI Economic Policy Forums
+ 14.59 World Game of Economics
----------------------------- Part 20 ---------------------------------
15.0 Neat Stuff
15.1 JokEc: Jokes About Economists and Economics
15.2 One Line Economics
15.3 Apache Web Server Project
15.4 Ask-A-Geologist
15.5 Center For Responsive Politics' "Open Secrets"
15.6 Center for Economic Studies Video Lecture Service
15.7 Cyberian Outpost
15.8 EDSAC Simulator
15.9 Galileo Solid State Imaging Full Data Releases
15.10 Interactive Marine Observations
15.11 Mapquest
15.12 Mission Statement Generator
15.13 Microsoft TerraServer
15.14 Photo Collection of Famous Economists
15.15 Travel with Bicycles (Air/Rail/Other)
Bill Goffe
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
2.2.0 Other U.S. Data
2.2.1 B&E Data Links
[ASA list of 300 useful data sites]
This site is sponsored by the Business and Economic Statistics (B&E)
Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA). It lists more
than 300 sites "of interest to economists and business statisticians.
" Sites are rated for their quality and usefulness by users (who can
also suggest sites). There are several ways to search for data here.
One way is with their search engine, and another is by viewing the
three categories they organize the data into: "Finance,"
"Macroeconomics," and "Labor and General Microeconometrics." The
sites and evaluations change in response to feedback from users.
# http://www.econ-datalinks.org/
2.2.2 Data on the Net
[surveys 400 social science sites]
This site, at the University of California San Diego, lists a very
large number of social science data sites (more than 400) on the
Internet. Many of the sites contain economic data (unfortunately,
there is little organization to the listing, so some searching will
likely be required). It also lists some 100 data archives around the
world, and another 100 searchable catalogs of data. Finally, they
list about 50 data vendors and offers 149 Social Science Gateways.
# http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/
2.2.3 FEDSTATS
[covers 70+ different federal agencies]
This site, run by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical
Policy, lists detailed information and provides links to more than 70
different federal statistical agencies. Besides information on this
site, you can search for statistical information several different
ways -- these include a search engine (with data from these
agencies), a listing of data via programs (including, of course,
economic ones), and a general listing of data from A to Z. The site
also lists contacts at the various agencies, and you can both list
and search for press releases from 11 of the sites (which happens to
include most of the major economic ones).
2.2.4 Federal Web Locator
[directory for federal government sites]
This material is collected by the Villanova Center for Information
Law and Policy. It lists and links federal government information for
the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the executive branch
(with departments), independent agencies, quasi-official agencies,
and non-governmental federally-related sites, in several different
formats.
# http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/
+ 2.2.5 Google -- Uncle Sam
+
+ [subset of well-regarded Google.com search engine]
+
+ This search engine for U.S. federal government sites is a subset of
+ Google, which has been getting good reviews for the relevance of its
+ search results. It makes very heavy use of the number of links to a
+ site to rate them. In trials for various economic data terms (both
+ obvious and non-obvious), it generally returns very useful links.
+
+ # http://www.google.com/unclesam
2.2.6 GOVBOT: Database of Government Web Sites
[search engine for federal government sites]
This search engine specializes in U.S. government and military web
sites. At last count, there were more than 842,000 pages in its
database.
# http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/
2.2.7 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR)
[leading U.S. social science archive]
This organization offers a substantial amount of social science data
in machine readable form to its more than 600 colleges, universities,
and institutions (data is available to individuals whose institutions
are not members of the ICPSR). All their data is available on-line,
and soon researchers at ICPSR institutions will be able to access it
directly. Some data is available to non-ICPSR members.
In the section of the archive titled "Economic Behavior, Attitudes"
you will find the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of
Consumer Finances. Other data of possible interest (in other
sections) includes the World Bank's World Tables Of Economic And
Social Indicators, 1950-1988; the NBER's Macroeconomic Time Series
For The United States, United Kingdom, Germany, And France (which has
1.6 million entries in numerous categories including regional data;
most data is from the early part of this century, but a substantial
amount is from the 19th century; the most recent is from 1968); and
United States Microdata Samples Extract File, 1940-1980: Demographics
Of Aging (which is an extract of the Censuses of 1960, 1970, and
1980). In addition, there is a substantial amount of more specialized
data of likely interest to economists.
For economists, an especially useful collection of data is Class V,
which contains data funded by the NSF's Economics Division. This data
is in the "Publication-Related Archive" section of the archive. This
material is available to all.
The Consumer Expenditures Survey and the Current Population Survey
are available through their "FastTrack Service" (which makes data
available before their usual testing and checking). Information on
FastTrack datasets is available from their comprehensive list of
resources on their main web page. The data itself is available on
their ftp site in the "pub/FastTrack" directory. This material is
available to all.
To obtain most data from ICPSR, you generally must contact your local
representative, assuming that your university or college is a member
of the ICPSR.
# http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
# gopher://gopher.icpsr.umich.edu:70/1/
# ftp://ftp.icpsr.umich.edu
# Information: <ICPSR_...@um.cc.umich.edu>
2.2.8 National Archives Center for Electronic Records
[long-term storage of records]
The National Archives has a branch devoted to the storage of
electronic records from many federal entities, which now contains
over 30,000 files. Of interest to economists are records from the
Bureaus of the Census, Economic Analysis, and Labor Statistics, the
Civil Aeronautics Board, Department of Transportation, IRS, SEC, and
Social Security Administration. In general, records cannot be
accessed online via the Internet, however, detailed information about
them, including a listing of "data files" and ordering information
for the data files (available either on tape or CD-ROM).
# http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/
2.2.9 Statistical Resources on the Web (Univ. of Michigan)
[very wide-ranging]
This very wide ranging listing describes where a multitude of data
sets can be found on the Internet. While there is little additional
economic data beyond what is covered here, there is a wealth of other
data -- everything from agriculture to weather (26 categories in
all).
# http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html
2.2.10 U.S. Census Bureau
[great wealth of information]
The Census offers a great wealth of data. It is tempting, and in fact
accurate to say, that if you think it is at all possible that the
data is produced by the Census, check here -- you're likely to find
it. The material is a mix of general interest material (I've even
used some for my principles classes) and highly detailed information.
The "News" category includes news releases, tipsheets, fact sheets,
Census briefs, and the "Census and You" monthly newsletter. It also
has a section titled "Ask the Expert," where you can ask find contact
information of different Census functions.
The "Search" category includes many different ways of searching this
site and material on it. This includes words in on-line Census
documents, searching by place that Census reports on, and searching
for Census staff members. You can even search via a map, from which
you can choose the geographical area you're interested in, and then
view summary information about that area. You can proceed to the
country level, and it provides a wealth of interesting and
easy-to-find information.
"Access Tools" includes software that works over the net, such as
"Map Stats" (which profiles information from states and counties (the
same as map searching described above); the "Tiger" map system for
generating maps on the fly; "1990 Census Lookup" (you can extract
files from a given Census); a gazetteer for the U.S. (which also
performs lookups); "FERRET" (Federal Electronic Research and Review
Tool) for extracting data; and "MABLE/Geocorr," which accesses MABLE
geographic database and generates correlation lists as reports or
files. This section also includes software you can download, and
Census access tools at other sites.
The "CenStats and "CenStore" section lists various products.
"CenStats" is an fee-based Internet service for statistical data.
"CenStore" has information on various products, such as tapes,
CD-ROMS, diskettes, publications, and maps. You can purchase all
documents generated by Census after January, 1996 in electronic form.
Most material is in the section titled "Subjects A-Z" (only 2 letters
have no entry). The slightly edited entries are:
A: Abbreviation and Acronym Glossary, Acquisition Information,
Advance Monthly Retail Sales, Advisory Committees, Age, Age Search,
Aging, Agriculture, Alaska Native, American Community Survey,
American Indian, Ancestry, Annual Research Conference, Apportionment,
Asian, and Assets.
B: Birthplace, Births, Black-Owned Businesses, Black Population,
Building Permits, and Business (Customized Tabulations, Databases,
Enterprises, General, Inventories, Owners, Totals by County, Reports,
and FAQ)
C: Calendars, Capital Assets, Capital Expenditures, CD-ROMs, Census
Briefs, Census Catalog and Guide, CenStats, CenStore, Census 2000,
Census & You, Census Bureau, Census Tract Coding Resources, Children,
Citizenship, City/County Governments, College Enrollment, Commodity
Flow, Commodity Input/Exports Related to Output, Communication
Services, Communications, Commuting, Companies, Computer Ownership
and Use, Conferences, Congressional Affairs, Congressional Districts,
Consolidated Federal Funds Report, Construction (Current Reports,
Industry Series, and Statistics), Continuous Measurement, Contracts,
County Business Patterns, County & City Data Book, County Profiles,
Crops, Current Industrial Reports (CIRs), Current Population Survey
(CPS), and Customer Liaison Office.
D: Data Capture Services Contract, Data Developments, Data Extraction
System, Deaths, Decennial Census (2000, 1990, Historical, and Report
to Congress -- The Plan for Census 2000), Demographic and Social
Characteristics, Demographic Business Characteristics, Disability,
Divorces, and Durable Goods Orders.
E: Economic Census, Economic Indicator Releases Schedule, Economic
Indicators, Economic Statistics Briefing Room, Education, Education
Finances, Elderly, Electronic Data Product Support - TechTalk:,
Elected Officials, Electronic Subscription Service,
Employee-Retirement Systems, Employment (General/Public and
Opportunities (Census Bureau)), Empowerment Contracting Resources,
Enterprises, Entrepreneurs, Establishment and Firm Size, Estimates
(1996 Estimates of the Population of Cities, Places, and MCDs Housing
Units & Households, Income, Persons, and Poverty), Expenditures,
Exports, and Extract Software for CD-ROM.
F: Families, Farms, Federal Depository Libraries, Federal
Expenditures, Federal Government Data, Federal-State Cooperative
Program, Federal Statistics Briefing Room, FEDSTATS Fellowship
Opportunities, Fertility, Finance (Insurance & Real Estate), Finances
of Governments and Schools, Fishing, Foreign Born, and Foreign Trade.
G: Gazetteer (U.S.), Genealogy, Geographic (Area Profiles, Mobility,
Services & Information), Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms,
Governmental Interactions Calendar, and Governments.
H: Health Insurance, Health Statistics, Hispanic Origin,
Hispanic-Owned Businesses, Homeownership, Hotels (Motels and Other
Lodging Places), Households and Families -- CPS Households and
Families Projections, Household and Housing Unit Estimates, Housing
(Characteristics, Completions, Inventory Change, Houses Sold, Housing
Starts, Press Releases Starts, and Statistics), and Hunting.
I: Immigration, Imports, Income, Indicators - Economic, Industries
Statistics, Insurance, International (Statistics and Trade),
Irrigation, Inventories (Business), and ITPlans.
J: Journey to Work.
L: Labor Force, Land, Language Use, Livestock, Living Arrangements,
Local Retirement Systems, and Lodging Places.
M: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Financial Report, Maps, Marital
Status, Market Value of Agricultural Products, Marriage, Merchandise
Line Sales, Metropolitan Areas, Migration, Mining, Minority-Owned
Businesses, Mobility/Movers, Money Income, Monthly Retail Sales,
Monthly Wholesale Trade, Motels, and Motor Freight.
N: Native American Population, Nativity, NAICS (North American
Industry Classification System), New on Site, and Nonemployer
Statistics (Retail and Services).
O: Occupation, Other Official Statistics/FedStats, Other Topics, and
Outlying Areas (Economic).
P: Pacific Islander Population, PDFPublications, Place of Birth,
Place of Work, Population (1996 Estimates of the Population of
Cities, Places, and MCDs (Characteristics, Density, Estimates, P-20,
P-23, Profile, Projections, and Topics)), Poverty, Press Releases,
Previous Residence, Prices and Inflation, Procurement Activities,
Product Profiles, Product Shipments, Program Participation, Public
Finance and Employment, Publications, and Puerto Rico.
Q: Quarterly Financial Report (Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade
Corporations).
R: Race, Radio Broadcasts, Ranches, Real Estate, Recreation,
Redistricting Data Program, References, Regional Offices of Census
Bureau, Report to Congress (revised August 1997), Residential
Construction, Residential Improvements, Retail (Monthly Retail Sales,
Retail Trade, Retail Trade for Outlying Areas, and Sales and
Inventories -- Retail), and Rural/Urban.
S: Sales and Inventories -- Retail, Sales and Inventories --
Wholesale, School (Characteristics of Students, Enrollment -
Including College, Finances, Public Education Finances, and Schools),
Service Annual Survey, Service Industries, Service Industries for
Outlying Areas, Shipments (Inventories, & Orders), SIC Codes
(Standard Industrial Classification), Small Area Income and Poverty
Estimates, Small Business, Solicitations, Sources of Receipts,
Sources of Revenue, State Data Centers, State Government, State
Profiles, State Retirement Systems, Statistical Abstract, Statistical
Agencies (Federal and International), Statistical Briefs See also:
Census Brief, Statistical Research Report Series, Subject Index to
Population Reports, Subscription Service, Survey of Income and
Program Participation (SIPP), and Surveys.
T: Taxes (Quarterly Tax Revenues (by state and local governments),
State Tax Collection, and Taxable Property Values), TechTalk
(Electronic Data Product Support), TIGER, Trade (Goods and Services,
Trade and Employment, Trade Balance, Trade Corporations Financial
Report, International, and with U.S. Possessions), Transportation,
Travel to Work, and Truck.
U: Urban/Rural, U.S. Exports and Imports, U.S. Gazetteer, U.S.
Merchandise Trade, U.S. Possessions - Trade, U.S. Trade with Puerto
Rico, and Utilities.
V: Vacancy, Value of New Construction, and Voting and Registration.
W: Warehousing, We the Americans Series, Wealth, Wholesale (Monthly
Wholesale Trade, Sales and Inventories -- Wholesale, Wholesale Trade,
and Wholesale Trade Outlying Areas), Wildlife, Women-Owned
Businesses, and Working Papers.
Y: Year 2000.
Z: ZIP Code Statistics.
Finally, several miscellaneous entries provide additional
information: "About the Bureau," "User Manual," "New on the Site,"
"Current Economic Indicators" (with recent reports), and the current
U.S. and world populations.
# http://www.census.gov
# ftp://ftp.census.gov
# Information: <p...@census.gov>
2.2.11 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS)
[Census data from 1850 to 1990]
To quote from their documentation on the newest version, IPUMS-98,
"The IPUMS consists of twenty-five high-precision samples of the
American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses. Some of
these samples have existed for years, and others were created
specifically for this database. The twenty-five samples, which span
the censuses of 1850 to 1990, collectively comprise our richest
source of quantitative information on long-term changes in the
American population." The samples include censuses from 1850, 1860,
1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990;
many are 1 percent individual samples of that census. In all, there
are some 25 gigabytes of data on some 50 million people. On-line
documentation is available, as is an extraction engine (more useful
than downloading a complete sample, the smallest of which has an
uncompressed size of 73 megabytes). Compared to past versions,
"IPUMS-98 is a comprehensive revision of the Integrated Public Use
Microdata Series. We have expanded the documentation threefold, added
new datasets and variables, and revised dozens of variables."
# http://www.ipums.umn.edu/
# Information: <ip...@hist.umn.edu>
2.2.12 Summary U.S. Census Info at Missouri Census Data Center
[summary data for cities, towns, and counties (easy to get)]
At first glance, one would think that this site would be Missouri
specific, but they have taken data from the 1990 U.S. Census and made
it publically available in their "Basic Tables." The Center has
"organized the 100 most frequently used social and economic variables
from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, Summary Tape File 3
into a set of 14 descriptive tables in Lotus 123 format (ver.2)" and
ASCII. Data is available for metro areas, places (which covers a very
large number of communities), all counties, and states." The
spreadsheet format covers a given geographical entity, such as all
states, all counties, etc. They also offer "Basic Trends Reports,"
which show changes from the 1980 to 1990 Census. Finally, they offer
a "profile generator," which will generate this data from your
geographical area of interest.
# http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/usinfo.html
2.2.13 General Social Survey (GSS)
[annual survey; broad, but some economic questions]
"The GSS (General Social Survey) is an almost annual 'omnibus,'
personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the
National Opinion Research Center." The first one was run in 1972, and
has been run almost every year since. In total, there have been some
35,000 respondents answering a very wide variety of questions of
interest to social scientists. Of interest to economists are
questions on economic policy, as well as income received.
# http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/
2.2.14 Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) studies many characteristics of
those near or in their retirement years. Specifically, it is a
longitudinal national panel study. The baseline consists of
interviews in 7,600 households in 1992 (respondents aged from 51 to
61, along with their spouses), with followups every two years for 12
years. The data contains a wealth of economic, demographic and health
information, which of course are generally related to retirement
issues. The entire dataset, including errata, is available at this
site.
Besides data, this site also offers the latest information related to
this project, material from papers using this dataset, links to
related sites, and some useful software.
Robert J. Willis, of the Institute for Social Research, University of
Michigan, is the Principal Investigator for this project and "Asset
and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD).
# http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/
2.2.15 Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD)
The Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) is an HRS
Auxiliary Study, and is also known as Aging and Health in America. It
centers on "data to address a broad range of scientific questions
focused on the interplay of resources and late life health
transitions." The initial sample consisted of 7,447 respondents aged
70+, including 2,548 aged 80 and over, plus 775 younger spouses.
There are followups every two years. Like the HRS, data, including
errata, is available on-line.
Besides data, this site also offers the latest information related to
this project, material from papers using this dataset, links to
related sites, and some useful software.
Robert J. Willis, of the Institute for Social Research, University of
Michigan, is the Principal Investigator for this and for "Health and
Retirement Study (HRS)."
# http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/
2.2.16 National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) Bibliography
This online version of the NLS Bibliography provides current and
retrospective entries from previous editions and supplements. Though
data itself is not available, the bibliography contains approximately
2,500 citations of NLS-based journal articles, working papers,
conference presentations, and dissertations published from 1968 to
1995. Several methods of searching can be used and detailed search
instructions are provided.
# www.chrr.ohio-state.edu/nls-bib/
2.2.17 Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID)
[well-known longitudinal survey of U.S. residents]
The data available here is best described by their own documentation.
To quote: "The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a
longitudinal survey of a representative sample of U.S. individuals
(men, women, and children) and the families in which they reside. It
has been ongoing since 1968. Data are collected annually, and the
data files contain the full span of information collected over the
course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional,
longitudinal and intergenerational analyses, and for studying both
individuals and families.
"The general design and core content of the study have remained
largely unchanged, and considerable effort has been expended cleaning
the data. These two features greatly enhance the PSID's potential for
longitudinal analysis. Preparation and distribution of comprehensive
documentation and a User Guide also facilitate use of the PSID data."
"The study has been conducted at the Survey Research Center,
University of Michigan since its beginning in 1968, with the
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
data archive handling the public distribution of the data files,
documentation, and User Guide. PSID data files have been disseminated
widely throughout the United States and to numerous foreign
countries."
The site has very extensive documentation, extensive introductory
material, a newsletter, and lists of the very large number of working
papers and publications that use the data (some of this material is
in RTF (Rich Text Format), which can be read by Microsoft Word or
WordPerfect). Some material is even available in languages other than
English.
The entry "PSID Files" contains the main PSID files. There are
individual "family files" from 1968 to 1996, as well as a "24 year
individual file." When uncompressed, they become ASCII files, and SAS
and SPSS programs are available that will bring the data into those
packages. Additional datasets include (i) Active Saving Files, (ii)
Estimating Risk Tolerance, (iii)Health Care Burden File, (iv)
Marriage and Birth History Supplements, (v) Parent Health Supplement,
(vi) Relationship File, (vii) Telephone Health Questionnaire
Supplement, and (viii) Self Administered Questionnaire Supplement.
The "What's New" section shows availability of newest datasets and is
updated frequently.
# http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/
2.2.18 Study of American Families, 1994
[extends GSS]
This study extends the General Social Survey (GSS) with information
on "the role of families in the transmission and maintenance of
socioeconomic inequality." To this end, they collected data on GSS
respondents' first occupation, mother's occupations when respondents
were young, and GSS respondents' first spouses (if married more than
once). GSS respondents' first spouses (if married more than once)."
Another extension to the GSS was a short test of cognitive ability.
Finally, additional information was obtained on the respondents'
siblings.
The data is available on-line, and the staff will archive datasets
onto CD-ROMs for users on or off campus (the University of
Wisconsin).
The data is available on-line.
# http://DPLS.DACC.WISC.EDU/SAF/
2.2.19 Department of the Treasury
[many areas; includes financing the federal debt, international
finance, and federal spending]
One item of particular interest is the "Treasury Bulletin," which has
three sections. The first is "Financial Operations" (with details on
federal fiscal operations, the accounts of the Treasury, the Federal
Debt, and Public Debt Operations, which deals with Treasury
financing). This section also covers the ownership of federal
securities. The second section is "International Statistics," which
covers capital movements, the stabilization fund, and the like. The
third section is "Special Reports." In all these reports, there is
great detail, as one would expect. Some of the data is in spreadsheet
format.
A second item of likely interest is the "The Monthly Treasury
Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government"
(MTS), which details Treasury operations, and thus of the Federal
Government.
There are links to agencies that report to or are part of the
Treasury: the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift
Supervision (OTS), the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the U.S.
Customs Service, and the IRS.
There is also considerable material of "consumer" interest, such as
on Treasury securities, savings bonds, IRS forms (they can be
downloaded here), and information from the Mint. Finally, there is
information on the Treasury itself, which includes speeches and press
releases.
2.2.20 Energy Information Administration (EIA)
This agency, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, offers a wide
variety of information in this area, broadly defined. Indeed, it is a
veritable treasure trove of useful information on nuclear, oil,
natural gas, coal, and other forms of energy. If you are looking for
information in any way related to energy, this is a fine place to
look.
2.2.21 Energy Resources Board
The ERB, part of the Department of Energy, is separate from the
Energy Information Administration. "Its purpose is to provide a
consolidated and integrated home page for the member offices: Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Energy Information Administration,
Energy Research, Fossil Energy, Nuclear Energy, and Policy." In
short, it contains a variety of useful information for economists
interested in information in this sphere of the economy.
# http://www.eia.doe.gov/energy/
2.2.22 Datazone: EPI's Labor Market Data
The Economic Policy Institute makes a considerable amount of summary
labor market data available here. It includes national, regional, and
state data on employment, unemployment, wages, wage distribution,
median hourly wages, the college -- high school wage premium, a
historical minimum wage series, etc. Much of the data starts in 1979.
# http://epinet.org/datazone/dzlocal.html
2.2.23 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
This site contains extensive statistical information on the banking
system in the U.S. of interest to economists and bankers, as well as
more general information on the FDIC and the banking system, some of
which will be of interest to the general public. There are also press
releases and speeches, as well as background information on the FDIC.
The "Data Bank" includes the "FDIC Institution Directory System,"
which "provides the latest comprehensive financial profile for every
FDIC-insured institution." The FDIC/OTS "Summary of Deposits"
provides "detailed information on over 82,000 branches of
FDIC-insured institutions. Individual office data can be obtained for
each institution or for each state and county. Aggregate data are
available at the state and county level and for metropolitan areas."
Other data sets include "FDIC Institutions," "Statistics on Banking,"
"Historical Statistics on Banking," and the "Survey of Real Estate
Trends."
2.2.24 Government Information Sharing Project
[repacked data (regional, econ. and agric. census, exports/imports,
and federal spending by cities and counties)]
This project, run by Oregon State University, offers a number of very
useful regional demographic and economic databases. They include "USA
Counties 1996" (with data from the Census), the "1990 Census of
Population and Housing" (again with easily obtained, well-organized,
and detailed data), and "Population Estimates by Age, Sex, and Race:
1990-1997." Other databases include the "Equal Employment Opportunity
File: 1990" (which has "occupation distribution and educational
attainment data by sex, race, and Hispanic origin," the "Regional
Economic Information System: 1969-1996" from the BEA, the "1992
Economic Census" disks 1J (Census of Mineral Industries, Census of
Construction Industries, and Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses),
disk 2B (ZIP Code Statistics) and disk 4 (Nonemployer Statistics).
Finally, other databases include "US Imports/Exports (1993-1997),"
the "Consolidated Federal Funds Report 1987-1996" (which shows
federal spending and obligations on a county and city basis), "School
District Data Book Profiles: 1989-1990," the "Census of Agriculture:
1982, 1987, and 1992," and "Earnings by Occupation and Education:
1990."
# http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/
2.2.25 U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)
[large number of trade-related resources (includes many links)]
This site is very useful for the academic and practicing trade
economist. It includes: weekly petitions and complaints filed with
the agency; a monthly calendar of hearings, deadline dates, and
status of investigations; five-year (Sunset) reviews; news releases;
notices from the Federal Register dealing with the USITC; numerous
reports and publications; the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States; USITC Tariff Database; International Harmonization of
Customs Rules of Origin; and a bibliography of trade-related law
articles. They also have an extensive list of Internet resources by
country, industry, and region that many will find useful.
2.2.26 Joint Economic Committee: House of Representatives
[policy papers of the majority party in Congress]
This committee is one of only four joint committees in the U.S.
Congress. While it could be argued that the material does carry some
biases of the majority party, it does provide a valuable viewpoint.
There are a large number of press releases and a smaller number of
policy papers. Some topics covered are: Federal Reserve policy and
inflation, economic growth, fiscal policy, the welfare state and the
size of government, the middle class, and tort reform.
# http://www.house.gov/jec/welcome.htm
2.2.27 Joint Economic Committee: U.S. Senate
The material supplied by this committee (one of four joint committees
in the U.S. Congress) presents valuable opinions, though it may carry
the biases of the majority party. This site provides the JEC reports,
hearings, press releases and other events. Reports are from the last
four Congresses and focus on foreign affairs, taxes, economic growth,
employment, and other items of topical interest.
2.2.28 National Trade Data Bank
While probably not of much interest to academic economists, this site
pulls together a very wide range of information (more than a
gigabyte) from more than 25 U.S. government agencies that will be of
interest to firms wishing to export from the U.S. Much of the
information is fee-based. Obviously, it contains a substantial amount
of material that may be of interest to those interested in non-U.S.
countries. One can even search the entire database with "natural
language requests" (that is, you can query the database as you might
a person).
# http://www.stat-usa.gov/tradtest.nsf
2.2.29 National Transportation Statistics
This organization, part of the Department of Transportation,
generates a variety of statistics on the U.S.'s transportation
system. Besides "Transportation Statistics Annual Report " (found in
the "Transportation Studies" section), this site includes other
extensive data (in spreadsheet format) from the "National
Transportation Data Archive." This includes the "FAA Statistical
Handbook of Aviation" and the "Commodity Flow Survey," a joint
project of the DOT and Census which tracks shipments in the U.S.
There are also data sets from the FAA, the Coast Guard, the Federal
Highway Administration, and the Army Corps of Engineers. It also
contains information on the "Journal of Transportation and
Statistics," sponsored jointly be the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
2.2.30 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
This site provides a great deal of information on trade issues.
Besides information on itself, this includes press releases, reports,
speeches, and testimony. Perhaps even more useful are the NAFTA and
GATT trade agreements.
2.2.31 Social Security Administration (SSA)
[extensive data on trust funds, beneficiaries, and studies]
By its nature, this site offers a variety of material for employers,
employees, and beneficiaries. However, there is substantial
statistical information from the "Office of Research, Evaluation and
Statistics (ORES)" and the "Office of the Chief Actuary." The former
includes the "Current Operating Statistics Tables" (with everything
from the trust funds, to current benefits to black lung benefits),
income maintenance programs, economic indicators, beneficiaries by
county, and studies on disability programs. The latter includes data
on the financial aspects of the Trust Fund, and beneficiary data, as
well as other material.
# http://www.ssa.gov/
# Information: Bruce Carter <bwca...@ssa.gov>
2.2.32 Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC)
This page, run by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA), offers two ways to find 4-digit SIC
codes: by searching for a specific codes by keywords and by browsing
the actual classifications. Note that SIC codes have been superseded
by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) on
January 1, 1997 (information on it can be found at the Census web
site).
# http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html
2.2.33 USDA Agriculture Economic Research Service
This service is distinct from the USDA Economics and Statistics
System at Cornell University. Besides reading about the mission and
organization of the service (including e-mail addresses), you can
also read many of their publications. You can also retrieve their
data (much of it from the Cornell site). They also offer a "Special
Topics Briefing Room," where they address a variety of topical
issues. Finally, they offer an extensive catalog of their products.
2.2.34 USDA Economics and Statistics System (Cornell Univ.)
This project is jointly sponsored by the Mann Library at Cornell
University, the USDA's Economic Research Service, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service, and World Agricultural Outlook
Board. It contains more than 300 reports and data sets from the
economic agencies of the USDA. By subject area, they are
# Agricultural Baseline Projections
# Farm Sector Economics
# Field Crops
# Food
# Inputs, Technology, and Weather
# International Agriculture
# Land, Water, and Conservation
# Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
# Miscellaneous
# Rural Affairs
# Specialty Agriculture
# Trade Issues
These data sets cover a very wide range of agricultural topics, and
even include international and climate data. The are categorized in a
number of different ways. They are frequently quite detailed, and can
be viewed using a spreadsheets and occasionally with dBase.
Bill Goffe
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Editor: Bill Goffe <Bill....@usm.edu>
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Part 2 of 20
This guide, sponsored by the American Economic Association, lists
more than 1,000 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and
practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all
resources are also described.
Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) is a copyrighted work
of the American Economic Association (the "AEA"). Permission to make
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or classroom use, Usenet distribution, or mailing lists is granted,
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and attributed to the rightful owner. Abstracting and short quotes
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on web pages, in whole or in part requires prior specific permission.
Permissions may be requested from the American Economic Association,
2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203, or via E-mail:
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Copyright
Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) is a copyrighted work
of the American Economic Association (the "AEA"). Permission to make
digital, electronic or hard copies of part or all of RFE for personal
or classroom use, Usenet distribution, or mailing lists is granted,
provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or direct
commercial advantage and that whole copies show the following notice:
"Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE), Copyright 1999
American Economic Association"
Otherwise the AEA owns the exclusive right to print, publish,
distribute, reproduce, sell, prepare derivative works, transmit,
download, or otherwise transfer copies of RFE. Copyrights of
components of this work owned by others than the AEA must be honored
and attributed to the rightful owner. Abstracting and short quotes
are permitted. To copy otherwise or to republish otherwise, including
on web pages, in whole or in part requires prior specific permission.
Permissions may be requested from the American Economic Association,
2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203, or via E-mail:
aea...@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu. RFE is provided without any express
or implied warranty.
1.2 Format and Display Conventions
In general, the name of a resource links you directly to that
resource. The exceptions are mailing lists (the links go to the
descriptions here in RFE) and sections of this guide (which links you
to "index pages").
"Index pages" are the organizing theme of this format. Each lists a
number of similar resources. See "U.S. Macro and Regional Data" for
an example. In it, you will find the name of a resource (clicking on
it takes you directly to that resource), optional short descriptions
to the right of each name, links to extended descriptions on their
own pages marked with "[more]," and optional sub-groupings of
resources in RFE are in italics.
Entirely new resources are marked with a "new" icon, and
significantly updated resources are marked with an "updated" icon.
The table of contents page is a summary of index pages, but there are
no short descriptions. Again, each each name links you to the
resource, and "[more]" leads you to an extend description here in
RFE. Note that it a fairly large file.
A navigation panel is at the top left of every index page and
extended description. It show your current location in the guide,
links to the title page, the table of contents, and the higher-level
groupings of resources. If you are in an extended description, there
are links for the previous and next extended descriptions, as well as
the current index page.
Each extend description is a detailed description of that resource.
At the bottom of each you will find a link or links to the resource,
and some have e-mail contacts.
1.3 Suggestions Solicited
If you see a missing item, an item not correctly reported, or would
like to suggest an item, please contact us.
# Suggestions: <Bill....@usm.edu>
1.4 Internet Talks and Demos
Bob Parks <bpa...@wuecona.wustl.edu> and Bill Goffe <Bill.Goffe@usm.
edu> are available for visits and talks on the Internet. Please
contact either of us if you are interested.
1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide
This guide can be found in a number of places. They include:
On the World Wide Web:
# rfe.org (Missouri -- main site) <http://rfe.org>
# Missouri (rfe.org is a shortcut for this) <http://rfe.wustl.edu/
EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# Texas <http://coba.shsu.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# California <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/
EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# New York <http://www.econ.nyu.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# Maryland <http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Economics/EconData/
Econdata.html>
# U.K. <http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/EconFAQ.html>
# Netherlands <http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/sae/related/
EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# Italy <http://www.scpol.unina.it/economia/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# Singapore <http://nbs1.ntu.edu.sg/econfaq/EconFAQ.html>
# Australia <http://www.ucs.uwa.edu.au/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
# Russia (Siberia) <http://www.ieie.nsc.ru/rfe/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html>
MAILING LISTS: There are two lists for the distribution of the ASCII
form: rfe-all, and rfe-summary. The first distributes the entire
ASCII guide, but the second list just contains the table of contents,
instructions on how to obtain the guide, and a few notes on major new
resources.
These two lists will only be used to distribute "Resources for
Economists," so there is very little traffic on the list.
To subscribe to rfe-all, send e-mail to Majo...@wuecon.wustl.edu,
and in the body (not subject line) of your e-mail message, write
"subscribe rfe-all"
To subscribe to rfe-summary, send e-mail to Majo...@wuecon.wustl.
edu, and in the body (not subject line) of your e-mail message, write
"subscribe rfe-summary"
To unsubscribe from either, send e-mail to Majo...@wuecon.wustl.
edu, and in the body of the message, write "unsubscribe rfe-summary"
or "unsubscribe rfe-all"
E-MAIL REQUEST: Finally, we would be happy to send it out via e-mail
to all who request it. WE also encourage folks to obtain a copy from
one of the economics sites mentioned above. You'll find a huge amount
of other material of interest there.
1.6 Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge many who have commented and made
suggestions on this and previous issues of this guide. Without their
help, there would be fewer resources listed and the existing
descriptions would be more difficult to read. In particular, we would
like to thank Forrest Smith for suggesting this project, Hal Varian
for suggesting the web version, and Drucilla Ekwurzel, Thomas
Krichel, George D. Greenwade, Lauri Saarinen, Bob Parks, and
Christian Zimmerman for constant suggestions. Debbie Sharp provided
valuable research assistance during the 1994-95 academic year, while
Luis Hernando Herrera provided valuable research assistance during
the 1995-96 academic year. Paul Robbins provided valuable technical
assistance for the 1996-97 academic year, Chris Rasmussen provided
valuable research support for 1996-97 and 1997-98 academic years,
while Charlie Ring did the same for the 1998-99 academic year. Liz
Braunstein wrote code that supports RFE, and Colin Kuskie wrote the
Perl scripts that generate the HTML and ASCII formats from a custom
input format that we developed. I owe him a great debt. He is
available for contract Perl programming at <cku...@teleport.com>.
Finally, Bob Parks provided excellent support for RFE at its main
website and helped in many other valuable ways.
More generally, we have received assistance from Peter Abad, Darrin
Abernathy, Lakshman Achuthan, Leon Adelman, Thomas P. Aebersold, Erik
Van Aert, Arvind Agarwalla, Gaj Alessandro, Ken Alexander, Neil
Alper, Morris Altman, Hans Amman, Mona Andersen, David Anderson, Jim
Anderson, Keith Antonyshyn, Werner Antweiler, Rafael de Arce, Andrew
Arch, George Argyrous, Scott Armstrong, Paul Arvis, Rick Ashley, Kyle
Atkinson, Azeem Azhar, Alberto Baccini, Christian Bacon, Brenda
Bailey, Al Ballinger, Laurenz Baltzer, Cedric Banker, Alex Bannister,
Jim Barbour, Owen Barder, Wijnand Baretta, Dave Barrett, Newt
Barrett, Deb Barry, Laure Barthel, Dick Bash, Kit Baum, Spencer Baum,
Cary Bean, Andrew Beath, Hanno Beck, Anthony D. Becker, Bill Becker,
Brian Becker, Kai Becker, Matt Becker, Tony Becker, Robert Bednarzik,
Steve Benson, Howard M. Benz, Joyce Berg, Simon Bergeron, Mark
Bernkopf, Jared Bernstein, Kurt Beron, Hakan Berument, Ted Bilek,
Beth A. Billy, Chris Birchenhall, Douglas Bittinger, Roy Bixler,
Wolfgang Blaas, Stanley Black, Dean Blobaum, Glenn Blomquist, David
Blond, Larry Blume, Peter J. Boettke, Michael D. Boldin, Lech
Borkowski, Ted Bos, Jean Bourdon, John Bowen, Tricia Bowman, Jesse
Brackenbury, Julii Brainard, Eric Branckaert, Harold Brashears,
Harker Brautighan, James Breece, Anne E. Bresnock, Bob Bressan,
Adrienne Bronfeld, Byron Brown, Rob Brox, Francis Buckley, Kristeen
Bullwinkle, Robert Bunge, Christian Burks, Brent Burmester, Alexander
Byron, Sergio Cagol, Ian Cahill, Paul Calvert, Nauro Campos, David
Carrier, George Carter, Robin Carter, Susan Casement, Hubert
Castelain, Arie ten Cate, Catrina F. Catus, Valerie Chereskin, David
Chester, Edward Cheung, Jack Chizmar, E. Kwan Choi, Keith Church, T.
Matthew Ciolek, Dave Clark, Robert Clark, Victoria Clarke, Geoffrey
E. Cleave, Michael Clemens, Carl Close, Don Coffin, Fred Collopy,
Chris Cooper, Chris Cornell, Kevin Cotter, Allin Cottrell, Arnold R.
Cowan, Don Cram, Clay Cravens, David W. Crawford, Carmel Cregg, Dean
Croushore, Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz, Clint Cummins, Melinda Da
Cunha, Rosemary Thomas Cunningham, Carlo Dade, Sylvester Damus, Joe
Daniel, Jill Davidson, Gareth Davis, Al DeCook, Alex Deacon, Laura
Debski, David Delquadro, Emmanuel Deschamps, Mark Dickie, Markus
Diehl, Cynthia P. Dietzmann, Robert Dixon, Toker Doganoglu, Pat
Donahoe, Laurie Dougherty, Stratford Douglas, Thomas Dowling, Roger
A. Downey, Kevin Doyle, Mauricio Drelichman, Darrell Duane, Sean
Dunne, Carol Dvoracek, Judy Eargle, Bill Easterly, Lisa Eaton, Nick
Economides, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Mary C. Edwards, Chris Elbers, John
Elder, Stuart Eldred, Brenda Ellis, Mike Emslie, Mathew Englander,
Mike Ensley, Menong Enverga, Jared Enzler, Guido Erreygers, Michel
Euriat, Mark Evans, Karen Ewens, Terry Fahy, Ray C. Fair, Mary
Fanslau, Nitai Farmer, Ned Farrington, Daniel Feenberg, Nicky
Ferguson, Peter Ferguson, Gary Ferrier, Luis Fierro, Matthew D.
Fletcher, Matthew Flynn, Bob Forsythe, Peter Foti, Dave Fournier,
John Frain, Stephen D. Franklin, Ralph Frasca, Robert O. Frasca,
James H. Freeman, David Friedman, Joe Friedman, Dan Friel, Luke
Froeb, Yukio Froehlich, Drew Fudenberg, Larry Fuller, Mike Fuller,
Manfred Gaertner, Mauro Gallegati, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Maurice
Garneau, James R. Garven, David E.R. Gay, Rusty Gaynes, Hans Geeroms,
Jonah Gelbach, Alexis Gendron, Paul Getman, Tom Getzen, Frans van de
Gevel, Paul Gilbert, David Giles, Tom Giovanetti, Ben Gladstone, Paul
Gleason, Eric Glynn, David Golumbia, Jean Gomm, Gerhard Gonter,
Ximena Gonzalez, Jeff Gordon, Thomas Gramstad, Jenny Gray, Jim Gray,
Robin Greeley, Seth Greenblatt, Bill Greene, Stuart Greenfield, Steve
Greenlaw, R.T. Griffiths, Seth Grimes, Molly Gowen Groome, John
Gross, Rob Grunewald, Bill Gunther, Bruce Guthrie, Laura Guy,
Hansjoerg Haas, Leslie M. Haas, Ezra Hadar, Chris Ernest Hall, Jamie
M. Hall, Bob Hammond, Carol Hammond, David M. Hammond, Robin D.
Hanson, Suzanne Harris, Sergiu Hart, Dave Hartland, Markus
Hatterscheid, Anita Hattiangadi, Jon Haveman, Frank Heemskerk,
Christian Helmenstein, Sharon Heminger, Rick Henning, Tulkens Henry,
Doug Henwood, Sigi Herzog, James Higgo, John A. Hill, Joe Hirschburg,
Scott Hoenig, Charlie Hofacker, George Hofsink, Cynthia Holliday,
Bill Holmes, Leo Van Hove, T.A.Z. Howard, David Howell, Michael
Howell-Moroney, Paul C. Y. Huang, Friedrich Huebler, Jeanette Hull,
Jeffrey Humin, Brad Humphreys, Ashraf Nazir Hussain, John Van Huyck,
Prue Hyman, Mansor Ibrahim, Mark E. Ingles, Gordon Irlam, John S.
Irons, Todd Irwin, Alan G. Isaac, Masumi Ishikawa, Christian Isnardi,
Moldovan Istvan, James A. Jacobs, Joe Jadlow, Vickram Jain, Warren
Jensen, John Jiller, Peter M. Joftis, Dean Jolliffe, Ed Junod, John
Kane, Mary Patricia Kane, Pat Kane, Helen Kantarelis, Nicholas
Karatjas, Grace Katagiri, Arnie Katz, Barry P. Keating, Angelina
Keil, Bill Kelly, Jon David Kendall, Kristiaan Kerstens, Ray Kiddy,
Buddy Kilpatrick, Hal Kirkwood, David Kissner, C. P. Kitsos, Jacob
Klerman, Mark Klinedinst, Lorrie A. Knight, Karl Kollmann, Ruud H.
Koning, Lukasz Konopielko, Appa Rao Korukonda, Michael Kosz, Remco
Kouwenhoven, Marc Krawatsky, Claire Kreider, Anne Krill, Hans Wim
Kroodsma, Tony Ku, Pasi Kuoppamakki, Kevin Lacobie, Nicole Ladewig,
Bruce Laforest, Skip Laitner, Dave Lambert, Julian Lamont, Gary F.
Langer, Alessandro Lanza, Daniel Larkins, Louise Laurence, Anna Lee,
In Ho Lee, S. L. Lee, Michael Lehmann, Matthias Leisi, Kenneth Leong,
Mary Lesser, Michael Levi, Rachel Levine, Denise Lievesley, Kuan-Pin
Lin, Tom Lindley, Ron Linssen, Peter Ljungman, David Lloyd-Jones,
Walter Loffler, Montague Lord, Wendy P. Lougee, John Lozowsky, Mark
Lundin, Colin MacArthur, Ian MacArthur, Stephen MacDonald, Barry
MacKichan, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, James G. MacKinnon, Brian K.
MacLean, Richard MacMinn, Charlotte Mack, Craig Mackenzie, Hugh
Madden, Farhat Mahmood, Richard Leigh Mains, Obayashi Mamoru, Dr.
Linda M. Manning, Ken Markus, Wayne Marr, Thomas Martinovsky, Clive
Massey, David G. Mathiasen, Lucy Matthew, Peter McCawley, Dennis
McConnell, Justin McCoy, Warwick McKibbin, Matt McLaughlin, Paul
McMahan, John McMillan, Bill Meade, Douglas S. Meade, Thomas Meeks,
Sherry Melecki, Margaret Menchen, Frieda Mendelsohn, Peter B. Meyer,
Jorg Meyer-Stamer, Fethy Mili, Ken Miller, Thad Mirer, Ty B.
Mitchell, Peter Mitter, Frank Mixon, Bruce Mizrach, Mathias Moersch,
Keith Morgan, Julian Morris, Bob Morse, Scott Moss, Janusz Mrozek,
Jesse Mullis, Michael Curtis Munger, Raleigh Muns, Paul Murray,
Robert Myers, Sterling Nakano, Jeroen Nas, Karim Nauphal, Phil Neal,
Eric Neumayer, Therese Ng, Trien Nguyen, Neuheimer Nicholas, Peter
Nolan, Dennis O'Conner, Inge O'Connor, Mamoru Obayashi, Henry
Ohlsson, Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Henry Olsen, Ray Olszewski, Akiko Onari,
Yuji Onuki, Marius Ooms, Tim Opler, Annika Ostergren, Nick Oulton,
Ron Overman, Lisa Pargas, Tim Parker, Tom Parris, Rocco Pasquale,
Fioravante Patrone, André Patry, Joelle Patten, Sanjay Paul, Valery
P. Pavlov, Cem Payaslioglu, Sally Pearson, Carlos Pelay, Mark Perry,
Huáscar Fialho Pessali, Torsten Peters, Keith L. Peterson, Chris
Pflaum, Lucio Picci, Rick Platt, Richard Porter, Manoj Potapohn,
Vesna Prasnikar, Margaret Prendergast, Edward S. Prescott, Ed Price,
John Qualls, Karl B. Radov, Rob Raisch, Jaishankar Raman, Shyamala
Raman, Laura Randall, Greg Ransom, Eric Rasmusen, Sam Rea, David P.
Reilly, Peter Reinecke, Robert Reinsel, Rolf Reiss, Charles Renfro,
James Renfro, Terry Rephann, Keith Reutter, Karen Rich, Paul Riches,
Alan R. Riley, Geoff Riley, Fernando Rizzo, Phil Roan, Ken Robb,
Michel Roche, Dave Rockove, Richard C. Rockwell, Wolfgang Roeckelein,
Christiane Roehler, Ken Rogers, R. Mark Rogers, Kenneth Rogoff, Hugh
Ronalds, Vernon Oley Roningen, Colin Rose, Larry Rosenburg, Joyce
Ellen Rosendah, Joyce Rosendahl, Joachim Rosenmuller, David R. Ross,
Rebecca Ross-Bown, Al Roth, Philippe Roussiere, Teague Ruder,
Randolph R. Russell, John Rust, Robert Rycroft, Lauri Saarinen,
Sanjeev Sabhlok, Gerard Salou, Vittorio Santaniello, Luc Savard,
Fernando Savasini, William Savino, Charlie Sawyer, Barry Schachter,
Paige Schaefer, Edwin Schalk, Sally Scheiderer, Robert Schenk, Oren
Schlieman, Gerald E. Schluter, Carl Schmertmann, A. Allan Schmid,
David Schmidt, Rachel Schmidt, Frank Scholtens, Terry Schroepfer,
Kurt Schuler, Craig T. Schulman, Michael Schulman, Bill Schwert, Dave
Scocca, Carole Scott, Glen Segell, Sarah Seidl, Pam Selthun,
Esther-Mirjam Sent, Ray Seyfarth, Jérôme Sgard, Jean Shackelford,
Gene Shackman, Milt Shapiro, Ajay Shaw, John A. Shaw, Ross Shaw, Yuko
Shimamoto, Ann Shriver, Jack Siler, Leah Silver, Scott P. Simkins,
Stuart Simmons, Aloysius Siow, Angela Skeete, George Slotsve, Timothy
Smeeding, Simon Smelt, Jay Smith, Una Smith, Sarah Snider, Mohammed
Sohail, Catherine Sokil, Jennifer Soller, Andrew Solnick, B. Solomon,
Kim Sosin, Bruce Speyer, Hari Srinivas, Erich Staib, Timothy Stanley,
Mike Stannett, Graham Stark, Dick Startz, Marten Stavenga, J.
Steenwinkel, Gianluca Stefani, Michael Sterling, Jean-Philippe
Stijns, Melissa Stockton, Johannes Strasser, Roland Strausz, Wolfram
Struewe, Herman Styler, Victor Suchar, Glenn Sueyoshi, Richard
Suzman, Lars Svensson, Marian Swainston, Mark Sylva, Kuniaki
Takahashi, Hirata Takako, Sailesh Tanna, I. Menguc Tanriseven, George
Tauchen, Bryan Taylor, Sandy Teeters, Jonathan Temple, Leigh
Tesfatsion, David J. Theroux, Russ Thibeault, Dawn Thilmany, Mark
Thissen, Michael Thoen, Henry Thompson, Emer Thornton, Russell Tokle,
Harald Trabold, Vasily Trenev, Sunay Tripathi, Charalambos
Tsardanidi, Jeff Tucker, Mark Turner, Goetz Uebe, Jens Ulrich, A.
Sinan Unur, Frank Urbanowski, Lori Urbanski, Amaury de la Vaissiere,
Patrick VanHoudt, Hylke Vandenbussche, Patrick Vanhoudt, Lilian van
der Vardt, Chris Varvares, Michelangelo Vasta, Bart Verspagen,
Vittorio Viaggi, Edward Vielmetti, Rob Vienneau, Bill Vilberg, Larry
W. Virden, Zoltan Vorosbarany, Bert Vos, Andreas Waldkirch, Peiling
Wang, David Ward, Jennifer Ward-Batts, Aurelie Von Wartensleben,
Yasutora Watanabe, Kent Weber, Lisa Weekes, Henry Weigel, Daniel
Weinberg, Larry Weiser, Ivo Welch, Mark Weller, Ted H Westerfield,
Georg Westermann, Eric Wexler, Will Wheeler, Ken White, Lori White,
John Whitehead, Thorsten Wichmann, Pete Wilcoxen, David Wildasin,
Leslie Williams, Sam Williamson, Wendy Williamson, Michael Wilson,
Joachim Winter, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Enrique Wintergerst, Walt
Woerheide, Melville Wolfson, Art Woolf, Karen Wright, Robert Wright,
Edith Wu, Nancy Wulwick, Rich Wyrwa, Michael Yaffey, Yasuyuki
Yakushiji, Ed Yardeni, Andrew Yee, Dolores Yent, Stephen Yeo, Michael
J. Yoder, Grace York, Richard Young, Jim Zajkowski, Jan Zauha,
Gennaro Zezza, Joachim Zietz, and Stan Zin.
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
2.0 Data
2.1.0 U.S. Macro and Regional Data
2.1.1 Economic Indicators 104th Congress
[most major releases; no graphs]
This data is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the
President's Council of Economic Advisors. This site offers news
releases on the current and recent past performance of the U.S.
economy. While material can be searched for, the "Catalog or Table of
Contents Listing," which offers monthly reports, is probably the
easiest way to view the material. This site is run by the University
of California for the Government Printing Office and is updated
monthly.
# http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/info/econind.html
+ 2.1.2 Economic-Indicators.com
+
+ [links to data and current numbers]
+
+ This site is by R. Mark Rogers and is the on-line companion to his
+ book "The Handbook of Key Economic Indicators" (he is also at the
+ Atlanta Fed). He lists links to macro data, with some emphasis on
+ recent releases and commentary on the current state of the economy.
+ Overall, it offers very extensive coverage.
+
+ The category "Economic Indicators, Summary Data Tables" contains the
+ latest U.S. macro data. The data is updated weekly.
+
+ The category "Economic News and News Releases" contains (besides the
+ above):
+
+ # Financial or Economic News Updates
+ # Current Economic Analysis
+ # Economic Calendars
+ # Economic News Releases from Agencies
+
+ In addition, there are the following categories for data:
+
+ # Monetary and Fiscal Policy Links
+ # Interest Rates and Currency Exchange Rates
+ # U.S. Statistical or Economic Policy Departments and Agencies
+ # Federal Reserve System and Non-U.S. Central Banks
+ # International Statistical or Economic Policy Agencies
+ # Sites for Downloading Data, Actual and Forecast Series
+
+ Finally, technical papers on "indicator methodologies" as well as
+ information about Mark Rogers and the book are available here.
+
+ # http://www.Economic-Indicators.Com/
2.1.3 Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
[handful of most important data series with graphs (White House
site)]
This part of the White House web site offers summary data and graphs
of macroeconomic series. While the series are relatively short, it is
convenient to have summary information in one place with links to the
originator. Data is organized in the following categories: output;
income; employment, unemployment, and earnings; production and
business activity; prices; money, credit, and securities markets;
transportation; and international statistics.
# http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
2.1.4 Econ Data & Links
[current values and links to sites that generate them]
This site, run by John A. Shaw, offers current economic data and
links for a number of different variables. Most of the data is from
the U.S., but there is also data from Australia; California; and
Fresno, California; as well as links to other countries. To quote
from the author, "Over the years I have found that I cannot always
remember the current value of a particular economic statistic. This
page was created to provide quick access to a variety of up-to-date
statistics... In addition, when it was feasible the links in the
table were chosen so the user has access to time series or data for
other areas and to related data. Often you will have to follow the
links or peruse a document or table to get to the particular
statistic ..."
# http://www.csufresno.edu/Economics/econ_EDL.htm
# John Shaw <joh...@csufresno.edu>
2.1.5 Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
[National Income and Produce Accounts (GDP, etc.), international and
regional data]
Perhaps the most important data on the U.S. economy is found here:
the National Income and Products Account (NIPA): GDP and its
components, personal income, and corporate profits. There is both
current and historical NIPA data -- quarterly from 1946, and annual
from 1929. They also offer extensive international data (Balance of
Payments, Exports and Imports, Investment Position, U.S Direct
Investment Abroad, and Foreign Direct Investment in the United
States) from recent years in a variety of formats.
On the regional side, it offers Gross State Product (GSP), State
Personal Income (some annual data from as far back as 1929, with more
recent quarterly data), Local Area Personal and Per Capita Personal
Income, and Employment and Income Projections. Finally, it offers
gross product by Industry and Tangible Wealth.
In terms of reports, it offers the BEA monthly journal, "Survey of
Current Business," which frequently explains recent data, changes in
survey methods, and the like. This journal is offered online, free of
charge. Finally, it offers extensive documentation on the
methodologies of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and guides to their
data, as well as information about themselves.
2.1.6 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
[more than 250,000 long series; unemp. and price series most
prominent]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is perhaps best known for
reporting the unemployment rate and CPI, but they generate a very
extensive amount of other data as well. Their LABSTAT database is
very extensive and detailed -- in all, it contains hundreds of
thousands of time series.
Their data consists of:
# Average Price Data
# Collective Bargaining-State and Local Government
# Collective Bargaining-Private Sector
# Consumer Price Index-All Urban Consumers
# Consumer Price Index-Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
# Consumer Expenditure Survey
# Employee Benefits Survey
# Employment Cost Index
# Employment, Hours, and Earnings-National
# International Price Index
# Employment Projections by Industry
# Geographic Profile
# Occupational Injury and Illness Rates
# International Labor Statistics
# Local Area Unemployment Statistics
# Department Store Inventory Price Index
# Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Index
# Producer Price Index
# Major Sector Productivity and Costs Index
# State and Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings
# Occupational Injury and Illness Rates
# Work Stoppage Data
For detailed access to their hundreds of thousands of series, their
"Selective Access" section is quite useful. Experienced users can
also directly retrieve a series with the BLS series id. The majority
of users will be satisfied with their "Most Requested Series"
section.
Besides current and historical data, they have press releases on
recent data releases (quite useful for tracking the economy), current
summary data in "The Economy at a Glance" section, the Monthly Labor
Review and details on their various programs and the BLS itself.
# http://stats.bls.gov/
# gopher://stats.bls.gov:70/1/
# ftp://stats.bls.gov
# Information (Internet access): <labstat....@bls.gov>
2.1.7 Conference Board
["Leading Economic Indicators" and non-govt. data]
This organization "is the world's leading business research and
membership organization with 2,800 companies and other enterprises in
63 counties." For data, of particular note are their "Leading,
Coincident, and Lagging Indicators," which are composite indexes of
macro variables that lead the business cycle, coincide with it, or
lag behind it. The most recent release is available here, as are
their values from 1959. There is also information on how the series
are put together.
They also offer the "Business Cycle Indicators" database, which has
some 250 macro variables "that have proven to be most useful in
determining current conditions and predicting the future direction of
the economy." About half the sources are private. Data is updated
several times a month, and is in both spreadsheet and ASCII formats.
It costs $250 a year for individuals, and site licenses and
educational discounts are available.
# http://www.tcb-indicators.org
2.1.8 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
[current federal spending and revenue; macro forecasts]
This agency was created by Congress in 1974. Its "mission is to
provide the Congress with objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses
needed for economic and budget decisions and with the information and
estimates required for the Congressional budget process." It is best
known for its estimates of federal spending, revenue, and the
resulting deficit, but it also generates numerous reports, studies,
papers, and memorandums (the different names reflect different levels
of review and how the document was requested). Every new one is
available here, as well as Congressional testimony and cost
estimates, and they cover the complete range of federal spending and
taxing (both at the aggregate level and down to specific programs).
Besides these reports, they offer considerable data. Their "Current
Budget Projections" is their well-known twice-annual budget
projections, which contain many details besides the basic federal
revenues, expenses, and deficit. "Current Economic Projections" offer
both short-range (18-24 month) and long-range macro forecasts (the
latter do not include cyclical fluctuations). Their "Historical
Budget Data" contains extensive information on not just budgetary
data, but actual and potential GDP and the NAIRU (the
"non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment," or the rate of
unemployment consistent with stable inflation). "Current Status of
Discretionary Appropriations" details this category of spending.
Finally, their "Monthly Budget Review" summaries federal spending,
revenue, and the deficit month-by-month.
2.1.9 Federal Budget for the Fiscal Year 2000
[summary and very detailed federal budget info]
This site offers a wealth of information on the U.S. federal budget.
Students and others with a limited background should find "A
Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget" to be very useful. Besides the
budget itself (which is in considerable detail), one can also find a
wealth of historical and some forecasted information (some of the
data starts in 1901). Data is available in spreadsheet format.
# http://www.access.gpo.gov/omb/
2.1.10 Survey of Consumers from the Univ. of Michigan
[well-known survey of consumer attitudes]
Information about this famous survey on consumer beliefs and
expectations (including the Index of Consumer Expectations) and the
data itself can be found here. As one might expect, the Index has
many components, each of which is reported here. Data, charts and
various reports are available.
# http://athena.sca.isr.umich.edu
2.1.11 Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)
["White Papers" on policy]
Besides some information on the Council and its members, this site
offers four things: the current "Economic Report of the President,"
"Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by
Race and Hispanic Origin," its white papers on policy matters, and
"Monthly Economic Indicators." However, the latter is somewhat
difficult to use as the only interface to it is via a search engine
-- you must have some idea of what terms occur in the material if you
want to read it.
# http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/html/CEA.html
2.1.12 Economic Report of the President: 1999
[President's policies and a fair number of time series]
This site offers the 1999 Economic Report of the President. Besides
the text (in ASCII and PDF), it also includes the statistical tables
from the appendices in various formats. Text is in plain format
(there appear to be no charts). Data is offered in spreadsheet, text,
and PDF formats.
# http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/catalog/erp99.html
2.1.13 Economic Reports of the President: 1996-1999
[old reports]
You can search some old versions of this publication here, as well as
read the 1999 report in PDF format. The full documents and data are
said to be available, but they do not seem to be available.
# http://www.access.gpo.gov/eop/
2.1.14 Economic Reports of the President: 1992-94
[old reports]
Old versions of some issues of this publication are available here.
Some have data and graphs, and some do not.
# gopher://gopher.umsl.edu:70/11/library/govdocs/erps/
2.1.15 EconData
[very extensive data, but requires a downloadable program]
This database is collected from a variety of U.S. government agencies
by INFORUM, a project building an inter-industry model of the U.S.
economy. It contains a wide variety of macro data, regional, and
international data and places it in a common format. A slightly
abridged list of categories includes
# Annual U.S. Data:
# Annual National Income and Product Accounts
# Annual Jobs, Hours, and Output
# Gross Output and Product by Industry
# SIC Shipments by Manufacturing Products
# International Sales and Purchases of Private Services
# County Business Patterns
# Value of Construction Put in Place
# Annual Survey of Manufactures
# Annual Retail Trade
# Service Annual Survey
# Annual Sales of Merchant Wholesalers
# Quarterly U.S. Data:
# Quarterly National Income and Product Accounts
# SIC Export & Import
# Monthly National Employment, Hours, & Earnings
# Consumer Price Indexes
# U.S. Import Price Indexes Locality of Origin
# BEA End Use Export and Import Indexes
# Harmonized System Export & Import
# SITC Export & Import Price Indices
# Industrial Production
# Kilowatt Hours
# Capacity and Capacity Utilization
# State & Local Data:
# Gross State Product (regions and states)
# State Personal Income
# Hours and Earnings
# Employment by State
# International Data:
# Foreign Trade by Country and Area
# Exports and Imports by 2-digit SIC
# U.S. Intl. Transactions & US Trade in Goods
# Average Exchange Rates
The data is accessed by programs (only for PCs) provided by this
project and it can easily be output to ASCII or into a spreadsheet
format. The data is also compressed with pkzip, and they provide this
and similar programs as well.
# http://inforumWeb.umd.edu/Econdata.html
2.1.16 Economic Information Systems
[key long time series]
This firm sells value-added software and consulting services, and as
a sidelight offers a substantial amount of historical (from the
beginning of the series) and current data in a useful format. This
includes formatted National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA, which
includes such variables as GDP); Flow of Funds Accounts, reserves,
credit, interest rates, and monetary data from the Federal Reserve;
gross state product and personal income data from the Bureau of
Economic Analysis, and state and metro area employment by industry
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Such formatting makes the data
particularly useful as it is easy to import into statistical and
spreadsheet programs. The site also lists 4 digit SIC codes, and
there is a concordance between SIC codes and NAICS (North American
Industrial Classification System) codes.
They also offer "Economic Insight," which provides economic analysis
and of the U.S. economy, the states, and for metro and counties.
2.1.17 Economagic
[excellent source of macro time series (some 100,000 series
available)]
According to Ted Bos, this site is a major overhaul, and indeed
replaces his "Economics Time Series Page." Thus, it is a
one-stop-shop for a variety of time series data: "This page is meant
to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time
series data useful for economic research, in particular economic
forecasting." In all, over 100,000 time series are available. Users
can build charts of the series on-line without the need to download
the data and using their own charting software. Data comes from a
variety of sources: the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' FRED
database, other Federal Reserve Banks, Business Cycle Indicators
(some 250 time series that behave consistently over the business
cycle, but which has not been updated in several years), the BLS's
employment and unemployment data, the BEA's national accounts data,
and retail sales and building permits data from Census. There is even
tax collection data from the IRS. Downloading is particularly easy
with some 8,000 series -- you can click on a file and Excel will
automatically start with the data (this assumes you you are running
MS Excel and your browser is configured to call it when you click on
an .xls file).
In addition to the data offered by the "Economic Time Series Page,"
EconoMagic adds the BLS Labor Force data. For features, it offers
mechanical forecasts of the data for subscribers. The user can input
their own data, or use the data from the site. Various variables can
be used to aid the forecast, and this includes the public forecasts
of key macro variables.
2.1.18 FRB of St. Louis
[very convenient macro data source with key (500) macro series]
The major resource of this site is FRED, their macro database. In
all, more than 500 different macro, monetary, and financial time
series are available from a variety of different sources. Information
in this source is current, relatively extensive, easily available,
and easily downloaded.
Data comes in the following categories:
# Daily/Weekly U.S. Financial Data
# Monthly Monetary Data
# Monthly Interest Rates
# Monthly Reserves Data
# Monthly Commercial Banking Data
# Business/Fiscal Data
# Quarterly Gross Domestic Product and Components
# Monthly Consumer Price Indexes
# Monthly Producer Price Indexes
# Monthly Employment and Population Data
# Exchange Rate Data and Balance of Payments Data
# Monthly Regional Data (for the 8th District)
Each category consists of a large number of series (forty is not at
all uncommon). Each series is available in an ASCII file, suitable
for very easy downloading. Each group can also be downloaded as a
compressed or zipped file. Most series are available for long or very
long periods, and the most recent values are quite current. In
addition, compressed files are available with all series in each
category. To help users find data, information on all files is
available in one summary file. You can also arrange for new data to
be e-mailed to you.
This site also offers information on the St. Louis Fed and the
Federal Reserve System, banking information, community affairs,
economic research, and educational opportunities. Articles, data, and
programs from the St. Louis Fed "Review" since 1993 are available
here. Copies of the "Regional Economist", "Annual Report," and the
"Beige Book" are also available. Data publications include "Monetary
Trends," "National Economic Trends," International Economic Trends,"
and "U.S. Financial Data." Newsletters include "Bridges," "Inside
the Vault," "Central Banker," and "Payments Quarterly."
2.1.19 Haver Analytics
[emphasis on rapid delivery, quality checks, and very wide coverage
(fee-based)]
This firm provides "the most accurate and timely economic data
available. By using time tested computer programs we are able to
provide most of the time sensitive data within 10-25 minutes of
release. In addition, we do extensive quality assurance checks on
every series before it is made available to clients." In all, they
have 60 databases with data from 100 sources. Besides the usual U.S.
macro data, they also offer daily and weekly data, forecasts, data
from Canada, Germany, Japan, Europe, the OECD, emerging markets, and
energy statistics.
2.1.20 STAT-USA
[broad and current coverage]
This site, run by the Department of Commerce, specializes in timely
reporting of federal government statistics. Thus, rather than going
to Census, BLS, the Fed, and the BEA for different series and
reports, you can go to this single site. Retrieving most of the data
requires payment -- subscriptions (both for individuals and site
licenses) are available, and single reports can also be purchased.
While most (nearly all?) of the data can be found elsewhere on the
Internet, some users might prefer the ability to go to a single
well-organized site. For those interested in the most recent
statistics, a particularly useful section is the "Newsstand" -- it
has recent data, and it is where individual reports can be purchased.
The "State of the Nation" contains the data. Besides daily and "hot"
releases, its major headings are:
# General Economic Indicators
# Housing and Construction
# Employment
# Manufacturing and Industry
# Monetary Statistics
# Economic Policy
2.1.21 National Income and Product Accounts (Univ. of Virginia)
[graph NIPA data on-line and get data]
This site at the University of Virginia allows one to graph data from
the National Income and Product Accounts (GDP and such); Personal
Income and Outlays; Government Receipts and Expenditures; Foreign
Transactions; Saving and Investment; Income, Employment, and Product
by Industry; Quantity and Price Indexes; and Supplementary Tables.
With each, you can pick a series and plot the data.
# http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/nipa/
2.1.22 NBER's Macro-Historical Database
[pre-WW II data from the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany]
This database comes from the National Bureau of Economic Research's
early history. To quote from its introduction: "During the first
several decades of its existence, the National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER) assembled an extensive data set that covers all
aspects of the pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production,
construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions,
foreign trade, and government activity. Many series are highly
disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency.
The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and
Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States." In all,
more than 3,500 series are available. More details can be found in
"Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data, Daniel
Feenberg and Jeff Miron, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics,
vol. 15 num. 3, July 1997, pp. 293-299 (also NBER Working Paper no.
5186). More detailed paper documentation is available from the NBER,
and an on-line "analytical index" is available as well.
Data is arranged in 16 chapters; they are
# Production of Commodities
# Construction
# Transportation and Public Utilities
# Prices
# Stocks of Commodities
# Distribution of Commodities
# Foreign Trade
# Income and Employment
# Financial Status of Business
# Savings and Investment
# Security Markets
# Volume of Transactions
# Interest Rates
# Money and Banking
# Government and Finance
# Leading Indicators
Data are offered in Micro-TSP.db format (which is pure ASCII) and is
supported directly by RATS, TSP, EViews, and other packages.
# http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/index.html
2.1.23 USinfostore.com
[buy 60,000 macro series]
This firm resells some 60,000 different macro time series; they offer
convenience by gathering series from many sources and making them
available in one place. They focus on:
# Flow of Funds
# National Income and Product Accounts
# Output and Productivity
# Employment
# Prices
# Money, Interest Rates, and Foreign Exchange
They offer a search service for their data, an on-line charting
capability, and the ability to download the data into Excel
spreadsheets. They have two subscription levels: the less expensive
one is $39 a month for some 10,000 series, and the complete service
is $99 a month. Finally, their "Top 150+" service is free -- all you
need to do is register.
2.1.24 County and City Databooks
[useful extraction engine]
This service takes data from the BLS's 1988 and 1994 County and City
Databooks, and converts the data to a particularly easy to use
format. The data available is extensive and varied; there are more
than 200 variables, and they can be output in a variety of formats.
# http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/
2.1.25 EconData
[very extensive data, but requires a downloadable program]
This database is collected from a variety of U.S. government agencies
by INFORUM, a project building an inter-industry model of the U.S.
economy. It contains a wide variety of macro data, regional, and
international data and places it in a common format. A slightly
abridged list of categories includes
# Annual U.S. Data:
# Annual National Income and Product Accounts
# Annual Jobs, Hours, and Output
# Gross Output and Product by Industry
# SIC Shipments by Manufacturing Products
# International Sales and Purchases of Private Services
# County Business Patterns
# Value of Construction Put in Place
# Annual Survey of Manufactures
# Annual Retail Trade
# Service Annual Survey
# Annual Sales of Merchant Wholesalers
# Quarterly U.S. Data:
# Quarterly National Income and Product Accounts
# SIC Export & Import
# Monthly National Employment, Hours, & Earnings
# Consumer Price Indexes
# U.S. Import Price Indexes Locality of Origin
# BEA End Use Export and Import Indexes
# Harmonized System Export & Import
# SITC Export & Import Price Indices
# Industrial Production
# Kilowatt Hours
# Capacity and Capacity Utilization
# State & Local Data:
# Gross State Product (regions and states)
# State Personal Income
# Hours and Earnings
# Employment by State
# International Data:
# Foreign Trade by Country and Area
# Exports and Imports by 2-digit SIC
# U.S. Intl. Transactions & US Trade in Goods
# Average Exchange Rates
The data is accessed by programs (only for PCs) provided by this
project and it can easily be output to ASCII or into a spreadsheet
format. The data is also compressed with pkzip, and they provide this
and similar programs as well.
# http://inforumWeb.umd.edu/Econdata.html
2.1.26 Regional Economic Information System
[nice extraction engine for employment and earnings data]
This system, sponsored by the University of Virginia's Geospatial and
Statistical Data Center, has a very extensive collection of
employment and earnings variables collected by the U.S. Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA) from 1969 to 1995 for (i) U.S. regions, (ii)
U.S. states and counties, (iii) U.S. MSAs, and (iv) BEA Economic
areas. Large extractions from this database can even be placed on an
ftp site for ease of use.
# http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/reis/
+ 2.1.27 Dismal.com Economic Calendar
+
+ [find release dates and forecasts for data]
+
+ This section of "The Dismal Scientist" offers a very useful calendar
+ of macroeconomic data releases. It often includes the consensus
+ forecast (from Thomson Global Markets), as well as the value for the
+ last period. It also covers some data from outside the U.S.
+
+ # http://www.Dismal.com/economy/releases/calendar.asp
2.1.1.0 Federal Reserve
2.1.1.1 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
[broad and detailed financial and monetary data]
This site offers extensive material about the Federal Reserve
(including a listing of its regulations from A to Z), a very
extensive list of their books, pamphlets, staff studies, periodic
releases, press releases, and miscellaneous publications (with
ordering information). There is a section devoted to the Federal Open
Market Committee (FOMC), which includes meeting dates, the Beige
Book, minutes, transcripts, and press releases. There are also press
releases, speeches and testimony (including Humphrey-Hawkins),
consumer information, regulatory information, and numerous reports to
Congress. This "background" information is quite extensive.
They also offer various "Surveys and Reports." This includes the
triennial "Survey of Consumer Finances," "National Survey of Small
Business Finances," "Senior Financial Officer Survey," "Senior Loan
Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices," and "Survey of
Corporate Medium Term Notes."
Very extensive data is also in the "Statistics: Releases and
Historical Data" section. This includes the following releases:
# Commercial Paper
# H.15 Selected Interest Rates
# H.3 Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary
Base
# H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances
# H.6 Money Stock, Liquid Assets, and Debt Measures
# H.8 Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States
# H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates
# H.15 Selected Interest Rates
# G.5 Foreign Exchange Rates
# G.13 Selected Interest Rates
# G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
# G.19 Consumer Credit
# G.20 Finance Companies
# E.2 Survey of Terms of Bank Lending to Business
# E.16 Country Exposure Lending Survey
# Z.1 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States
# Corporate Medium-Term Notes
# G.5A Foreign Exchange Rates
Many of these releases include long historical time series. Some are
of high frequency, and many series begin years ago. The frequency of
new data varies: some are daily, some weekly, some monthly, some
quarterly, and some annual. The breadth of many of these releases is
quite surprising.
There is also extensive information on bank and financial market
regulation and supervision (including supervision manuals), and
information for consumers. Some articles from the "Federal Reserve
Bulletin" are available, as are many working papers from the staff.
Finally, the offer a link to "Fed in Print," a database of Federal
Reserve publications.
2.1.1.2 FRB of Atlanta
Besides information about the bank and the Federal Reserve (including
educational information and some Treasury information), you can also
find regional economic information for this, the 6th Federal Reserve
District, links to other regional data, and their publication
"Regional Update." Among publications, you'll find their "Economic
Review," "Economics Update" and "Financial Update." Finally, they
offer their videos, press releases, speeches, information on their
publications, and research working papers.
2.1.1.3 FRB of Boston
This Federal Reserve Bank offers information about itself, material
for education and public service (including frequently asked
questions of their research library), and information on financial
services for consumers (including Treasury Direct). For regional
data, for this, the 1st Federal Reserve District, they offer
extensive links to information on their region's states, as well as a
link to the "New England Electronic Economic Data Center" (NEEEDc)),
which is run by Jim Breece of the University of Maine. The data is
published in the "New England Economic Indicators" and the "New
England Banking Trends." It has some 90 variables from 1969 for all
states and some metropolitan areas and GSP data for the New England
area from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Finally, you can read
their publications "New England Economic Review," "New England
Economic Indicators," "Regional Review," "Fiscal Facts," "New England
Banking Trends," "Bank Notes," "FedFlash," and "Fedtalk." Conference
proceedings, research reports, press releases, and working papers
from the bank's staff are on-line as well.
2.1.1.4 FRB of Chicago
This site includes a number of guides to the Chicago Fed (the 7th
Federal Reserve District), the Fed in general, and financial markets
(including extensive information on Treasury securities). Some of
this will be of interest to economic educators (they also have a
large section with education specific material). Many of their
publications are available as well; these include "Agricultural
Letter," "Chicago Fed Letter," "Economic Perspectives," "FedWire,"
"Detroit FedPoints," "Economic Development News & Views,"Profitwise,"
"Midwest Economic Report," and "On Reserve." This material will be of
interest to economists, the general public, consumers, and educators
who have an interest in the many activities of the Fed. There is also
some regional economic information, as well as various reports,
working papers, working papers by their staff, and speeches.
2.1.1.5 FRB of Cleveland
[particularly nice macro publications]
This site first offers extensive information about this Federal
Reserve Bank, which covers the 4th Federal Reserve District. In
addition, they have various public announcements, but likely to be of
the most interest are their publications. Under the heading of
Economic Research there is "Economic Commentary," which analyzes
recent events (it would be an excellent classroom supplement), and
"Economic Trends" (which examines and plots recent economic
statistics), and the "Economic Review" (which offers detailed
analysis of economic issues). They also offer working papers from
their Financial Services Research Group. Under the banking category
they offer the "Community Reinvestment Forum," "Fourth District
Focus: News for Depository Institutions," and "Fourth District
Dialogue," "FedWord," and "Fourth District Operating Circulars."
In addition, there are entries for functional areas of the bank:
Banking Supervision and Regulation (BS&R), Corporate Communications
(CC), Community Reinvestment (CR), Data Services, Economic Research,
Electronic Payments, Marketing, and Securities. Finally, they list
employment opportunities with the bank, and other resources on the
Internet.
2.1.1.6 FRB of Dallas
This federal reserve bank offers information about itself and the
Federal Reserve System. In addition, they offer many of their
publications: "Southwest Economy," "Financial Industry Issues,"
"Financial Industry Trends," "Houston Business," "Financial Industry
Studies," "Banking and Community Perspectives," "Vista," and
"Economic Insights" (which offers "commentary from Dallas Fed
president, Robert D. McTeer and noted public policymakers and
analysts on a variety of economic topics of current interest"), and
their quarterly research journal "Economic Review". They also offer
summary regional economic data for this, the 11th Federal Reserve
District, numerous links to macro data (including the Conference
Board's Leading, Lagging, and Coincident Indices). They also offer
their exchange rate measure, (the Trade Weighted Value of the Dollar
(TWVD)), and two regional indicators: Texas Industrial Production
Index (TIPI), and Texas Index of Leading Indicators (TILI). Finally,
they have information on bank supervision, and their Center For Latin
American Economics.
2.1.1.7 FRB of Kansas City
This federal reserve bank offers information about itself and the
Federal Reserve System. Additional information is offered by
functional areas: Economic Research, Bank Supervision, Community
Affairs, Financial Services, Public Affairs, and Consumer Affairs.
Economic Research offers a wide range of interesting material: their
"Economic Review," "Regional Economic Digest," "Economic Forces
Shaping the Heartland," "Financing Rural America," and their
symposia. For the financial sector, they offer "Financial Industry
Perspectives," "Financial Industry Trends," and "Fed Letter." For
regional data (this is the 10th Federal Reserve District), they offer
their "Manufacturing Survey," and offer extensive regional data from
their "Regional Economic Update," which includes information in the
following areas: employment, income and taxes, business activity,
construction, energy, agriculture, and banking. Finally, they offer
abstracts of their working papers.
2.1.1.8 FRB of Minneapolis
Besides information on the Fed and itself, they offer fairly
extensive regional (Ninth District) data: agriculture, banking,
business, construction and real estate, exports, labor markets,
natural resources, population, and travel and tourism. There are also
links to macro data. They also offer their publications: "Quarterly
Review," "Fedgazette," "The Region," their "Annual Report," and
"Community Dividend." Papers from their economists (staff reports,
working papers, and discussion papers) are available too. Of special
interest is the "Economic War Between the States" section, which
deals with development incentives that states offer on a competitive
basis. They also offer extensive banking information. Finally, they
provide nice educational information.
# http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/
2.1.1.9 FRB of New York
[more than the usual amount of material; includes current exchange
rates]
Besides offering extensive information on themselves (they cover the
2nd Federal Reserve District) and the Federal Reserve in general,
this site has extensive information on banking (including regulatory
issues), various news items (including news in various financial
markets and from speeches), and same day exchange rate and interest
rate information (see the "Statistics" section). Regarding
publications, they offer their "Annual Report," "Current Issues in
Economics and Finance" (which focuses on "specific public policy
issues"), "Economic Policy Review," ("a policy-oriented research
journal on macroeconomics, banking, and financial market topics"),
"Research Update" (which summarizes recent research), "Staff
Reports," and "Research Papers." There is also extensive educational
information (some of the publications can be ordered on-line).
For statistics, they offer considerable interest rate data (some from
the early part of this century). This includes the Federal Funds
rate, the Discount Rate, the Prime Rate and some CD data. Finally,
there is considerable information for consumers on savings bonds and
the Treasury Direct Program.
2.1.1.10 FRB of Philadelphia
[well known for surveys of macro forecasts]
Besides the usual information on itself and the Fed in general
(including press releases), they offer two surveys of macro
forecasts: the "Livingston Survey" and the "Survey of Professional
Forecasters." They also offer extensive regional information (they
cover the 3rd Federal Reserve District), banking information,
consumer information, working papers from their research department,
and their "Business Review."
2.1.1.11 FRB of Richmond
Besides offering general information (including news releases and
material for educators), this federal reserve bank (for the 5th
Federal Reserve District), also has extensive material on banking for
its member banks, information for consumers, and community affairs.
There is also extensive regional information. Finally, it also
includes the research department's working paper series, "Annual
Report," and its "Economic Quarterly."
2.1.1.12 FRB of San Francisco
[offers "Fed in Print" database]
This site offers information about itself and the Federal Reserve
System as a whole (this includes extensive educational material,
including downloadable simulators for monetary and fiscal policy). Of
particular interest are their publications: "Economic Letters"
(formerly the "Weekly Letter"), "Economic Review," and "Western
Economic Developments." Of topical interest is "FedViews," which
analyses economic events on a very frequent basis. This Federal
Reserve Bank is home to "Fed in Print," a database of many types of
Federal Reserve publications, including working papers.
There is also extensive information for banking and financial
services, community affairs, and consumer information.
2.1.1.13 FRB of St. Louis
[very convenient macro data source with key (500) macro series]
The major resource of this site is FRED, their macro database. In
all, more than 500 different macro, monetary, and financial time
series are available from a variety of different sources. Information
in this source is current, relatively extensive, easily available,
and easily downloaded.
Data comes in the following categories:
# Daily/Weekly U.S. Financial Data
# Monthly Monetary Data
# Monthly Interest Rates
# Monthly Reserves Data
# Monthly Commercial Banking Data
# Business/Fiscal Data
# Quarterly Gross Domestic Product and Components
# Monthly Consumer Price Indexes
# Monthly Producer Price Indexes
# Monthly Employment and Population Data
# Exchange Rate Data and Balance of Payments Data
# Monthly Regional Data (for the 8th District)
Each category consists of a large number of series (forty is not at
all uncommon). Each series is available in an ASCII file, suitable
for very easy downloading. Each group can also be downloaded as a
compressed or zipped file. Most series are available for long or very
long periods, and the most recent values are quite current. In
addition, compressed files are available with all series in each
category. To help users find data, information on all files is
available in one summary file. You can also arrange for new data to
be e-mailed to you.
This site also offers information on the St. Louis Fed and the
Federal Reserve System, banking information, community affairs,
economic research, and educational opportunities. Articles, data, and
programs from the St. Louis Fed "Review" since 1993 are available
here. Copies of the "Regional Economist", "Annual Report," and the
"Beige Book" are also available. Data publications include "Monetary
Trends," "National Economic Trends," International Economic Trends,"
and "U.S. Financial Data." Newsletters include "Bridges," "Inside
the Vault," "Central Banker," and "Payments Quarterly."
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3.0 Economists, Departments, & Universities
3.1 Braintrack University Index
This site lists some 4,600 universities around the world.
3.2 College and University Home Pages
This site contains a somewhat dated list of some 3,000 colleges and
universities home pages around the world. It is arranged both
alphabetically and geographically, and is organized by Christina
DeMello.
# http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
3.3 American Universities Home Pages
This site maintains a very current list of some 1,200 U.S. university
home pages. It is organized by Mike Conlon.
# http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
3.4 Marr and Kirkwood Official Guide to Business School Webs
Wayne Marr and Hal Kirkwood have put together this very useful guide
to business school sites on the web. They also rank the quality of
the web sites.
3.5 Yahoo Directory of Business Schools
This portion of Yahoo lists numerous business schools.
# http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_Schools/
3.6 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC)
[lists more than 4,000 departments, organizations, etc.]
This list has more than 4,000 economic institutions: departments,
institutes, and research institutes. The list is arranged by country;
the U.S. section lists more than 1,000.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/index.html
3.7 Economics Departments Outside the U.S.
Lief Bluck and David Giles of the Department of Economics, University
of Victoria, British Columbia, lists "home pages" (that is, web
sites) of different departments and colleges of economics outside the
U.S.
# http://web.uvic.ca/econ/depts.html
3.8 Economics Departments in the U.S.
Ed Price, of the Department of Economics & Legal Studies in Business,
Oklahoma State University, lists home pages of economics and
agricultural economics departments in the U.S.
# http://price.bus.okstate.edu/econdept.html
3.9 Association for Univ. Business and Economic Research (AUBER)
This site, part of the Raymond M. Haas Center for Business Research
and Economic Development at the University of West Florida, lists
members of this association.
# http://www.cbred.uwf.edu/auber.htm
3.10 Economics Departments with PhD Programs
This site, run by Thad Mirer of the University of Albany, is is based
on one from "Peterson's Guide to Graduate Programs in the Humanities,
Arts, & Social Sciences, 1997." It lists programs in the U.S. and
Canada.
# http://www.albany.edu/econ/eco_phds.html
3.11 American Economics Association (AEA) Directory of Members
This electronic version of the directory is offered by the AEA and
the Economics Department at the University of Texas in Austin. It
contains addresses, phone numbers, research fields, biographical
data, and e-mail addresses. Data is from the 1998 Membership List,
(which has e-mail addresses) and 1993 Survey of Members.
Note that updates should NOT be sent here, but to the AEA. The
directory has a fairly sophisticated search capability, but only the
first 256 matches will be returned. However, one must be a bit
thoughtful in using it. For instance, if I wanted to find all
economists in Mississippi, I might search for MS. However, this will
not match Miss. or Mississippi, and it will match Adams and those
with MS degrees. Thus, searches are not restricted to one particular
field and are not case sensitive.
# http://www.eco.utexas.edu/AEA/
# Information: <a...@eco.utexas.edu>
3.12 International Directory of Finance and Economics Professionals
This site, run at UCLA, is a directory of both finance and economics
researchers. Currently, most of the database consists of finance
professionals, but it intends to expand to economists. One can easily
add or subtract a listing.
# http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/dir/
3.13 Directory of Canadian Economists and Economics Departments
This site, part of the Canadian Economics Association, lists CAE
members. The database can be searched in many different ways (even by
city).
# http://www.economics.ca/directory.html
3.14 Directory of International Economists
This directory lists the e-mail addresses of economists with an
international focus. There is also a short listing of organizations
with the same focus.
# http://www.ag.iastate.edu/journals/rie/dir.htm
3.15 Economists on the World Wide Web
This site, run by Kuan-Pin Lin, lists the home pages of a number of
economists. If you wish to add yours, you can e-mail him or use a
form on the page. There is some overlap with the previous listing.
# http://eclab.ch.pdx.edu/ecwww/
# Information: Kuan-Pin Lin <kuan...@ch2.ch.pdx.edu>
3.16 Economists with Web Pages
This site, run by John Irons, lists the home pages of a number of
economists. If you wish to add yours, you can e-mail John or use a
form on the page. There is some overlap with the next listing.
# http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/irons/ecgeek.html
# Information: John Irons <ir...@mit.edu>
Bill Goffe
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more than 1,000 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and
practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all
resources are also described.
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of the American Economic Association (the "AEA"). Permission to make
digital, electronic or hard copies of part or all of RFE for personal
or classroom use, Usenet distribution, or mailing lists is granted,
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commercial advantage and that whole copies show the following notice:
"Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE), Copyright 1999
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are permitted. To copy otherwise or to republish otherwise, including
on web pages, in whole or in part requires prior specific permission.
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4.0 Forecasting & Consulting
4.1 Conference Board
["Leading Economic Indicators" and non-govt. data]
This organization "is the world's leading business research and
membership organization with 2,800 companies and other enterprises in
63 counties." For data, of particular note are their "Leading,
Coincident, and Lagging Indicators," which are composite indexes of
macro variables that lead the business cycle, coincide with it, or
lag behind it. The most recent release is available here, as are
their values from 1959. There is also information on how the series
are put together.
They also offer the "Business Cycle Indicators" database, which has
some 250 macro variables "that have proven to be most useful in
determining current conditions and predicting the future direction of
the economy." About half the sources are private. Data is updated
several times a month, and is in both spreadsheet and ASCII formats.
It costs $250 a year for individuals, and site licenses and
educational discounts are available.
# http://www.tcb-indicators.org
4.2 First Union's Economic Information
[large bank's economic commentaries]
This bank, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is the sixth largest bank
holding company in the U.S. Their economics department offers
extensive commentary on most features of the regional, U.S., and
international economy. This includes an analysis of that week's
economic releases, weekly commentaries of the national and
international economy, and forecasts for the next few quarters.
# http://firstunion.com/econews/
4.3 Bank of America Economics and Financial Reports
[large bank's economic commentaries]
This department of Bank of America offers "Weekly U.S. Economic
Briefing" (which focuses on the latest statistical releases with some
emphasis on the likely impact on the bond market), a monthly survey
of Wall Street Economists (which offers summaries of their
publication "Economics Illustrated"), and various reports on topical
macro issues. They offer similar information on the global economy.
# http://www.bankamerica.com/econ_indicator/econ_indicator.html
4.4 Cents Financial Journal
[commentary from many Wall Street economists]
This electronic journal features commentary from some of the finest
analysts of the financial industry. Most of the commentary focuses on
various economic issues, and most is written by economists. The
breadth is surprising and is updated daily. While many will find it
useful, it is designed for students.
# http://www.lp-llc.com/cents/
4.5 Congressional Budget Office
[short and long-term forecasts]
This agency's primary mission is to provide economic and budget
analyses to Congress. Part of this mission is their "Current Economic
Projections," which offers both short-range (18-24 month) and
long-range macro forecasts. Note that the latter do not include
cyclical fluctuations. More information on this office can be found
in the entry "Congressional Budget Office (CBO)" on them.
4.6 The Dismal Scientist
[macro and regional data with analysis plus general commentary]
This site, part of "Regional Financial Associates," a consulting
firm, bills itself as "The Best Free Lunch on the Web." On the macro
side, they offer not only current releases of many macro series, but
also analysis of each release, and analyses of the economy in general
on a monthly basis. They do the same for regional data. They offer
nearly 130 series on the states, and 60 on 257 metropolitan areas. In
a nice twist, you can sort states and metropolitan areas by these
series (surprisingly interesting). They also offer analyses in the
"Thoughts" section; current sections include the Asian crisis,
financial markets, industry analysis, regional, and the U.S. economy.
There are also macro and regional forecasts, and finally, there is a
useful dictionary and calendar of data releases.
4.7 DRI/McGraw-Hill
[leading firm]
This very well-known consulting and forecasting firm offers a number
of services on-line. For economic information, they offer a weekly
summary of the U.S. economy, the international economy, and financial
markets; they also offer news releases with economic analyses, and an
economic statistics release calendar. You can also read about their
consulting services, their numerous and extensive databases, and
their economic "services" (based upon their U.S., regional, and
sectoral models). Many of their client services are located on-line.
# http://www.dri.mcgraw-hill.com/
4.8 Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI)
[headed by Geoffrey Moore]
This organization is headed by Geoffrey Moore, who of course has
devoted his career to business cycle analysis (for instance, he was
one of the developers of the Leading Economic Indices). Analysis and
development continues here with new methods and techniques, and
forecasting continues (notably, his group forecasted the 1990-91
recession, and the 1998 Japanese downturn, which many missed).
This firm offers two publications to its customers: "U.S. Cyclical
Outlook" and "International Cyclical Outlook" (which covers 14
countries, including the G-7). Back issues are freely available here
for non-customers. They also offer business cycle turning points for
the U.S. and all other countries covered by ECRI, as well as
historical data for the ECRI Weekly Leading Index (published in
"Business Week"). The firm also offers training to governments and
the development of private indicators.
# http://www.businesscycle.com/
4.9 FAIRMODEL
[well-known domestic and international model]
This well-known macroeconometric model is now available on the
Internet. Virtually all the features of the stand-alone package are
now accessible to any user free of charge. This includes the ability
to "forecast, do policy analysis, and examine historical episodes."
Data and forecasts can be both graphed and put into tables (which can
be downloaded). It appears the model itself can be downloaded, and
thus adapted for your own use. Both Fortran and EViews versions are
available.
The U.S. version of the model is rather complex (131 equations in
all; 101 identities and 30 stochastic equations), it is highly
recommended that users read the manual before using it. Extensive
documentation (in fact, much material similar to "Testing
Macroeconometric Models," Ray Fair, Harvard University Press, 1994)
is available. One can also read about the latest forecasts of the
model. To use FAIRMODEL, you must have a browser that supports Java
and frames.
In addition, the multicountry (MC) model is available as well. It
covers the U.S. and 32 other countries. In all, there are some 4,000
variables, not counting the trade share variables (which can be
downloaded). It is thought to be "one of the largest computational
problems that has so far been offered on the Internet."
# http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/
4.10 The Financial Forecast Center
[focus on financial data]
This site uses neural networks to generate forecasts of financial and
economic data. Besides many stock market indices, they also forecast
various interest rate series (the Prime Rate, Fed Funds Rate, 90 Day
T-Bills, 10 Year T-Bonds, and 30 Year Mortgage Rates). They also
offer a CPI forecast. Short-term forecasts are freely available,
while access to long-term forecasts require a subscription.
# http://www.neatideas.com/economics/
4.11 Foster Associates
[macro, regional, and electrical forecasts (much freely available)]
This 40-year-old economic consulting firm provides information and
analyses for the the U.S. economy, states, metro areas, and the
natural gas and electricity industries. These reports are freely
available. The "Economic Insight/Macro edition" "offers insight into
current macroeconomic conditions, business cycle developments, and
long term economic trends and issues. It surveys both real and
financial sectors of the U.S. economy and provides a quarterly GDP
forecast with detailed explanations of forecast assumptions and
risks." This material is updated weekly, monthly, and quarterly. They
also offer detailed analyses of the current economy. "The State and
Metro area editions of the Foster Forecast provide economic analysis
and performance measures for all 50 states and over 350 metro areas
in the U.S., including relative income and wage levels, employment
growth and volatility, and employment, income, and location quotients
by major industry." The state and metro area information is updated
annually. Detailed analyses, population, income, and employment
forecasts are available for a fee for all states, counties and metro
areas. Currently only examples from some areas are available. Other
areas will be added in the future. (David Carrier kindly looked over
this entry.)
4.12 Forecasting Center of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute
[background on their fee-based services]
The Levy Institute Forecasting Center focuses on current trends and
future forecasts of the U.S. economy. The site offers information on
the Forecasting Center and the Levy Institute of Bard College; an
explanation of the profit perspective; and information on staff,
internships, and fellowships. Subscriptions to the "Levy Institute
Forecast" are available for $295 (one year) or $565 (2 years) and
some special academic rates do apply. Information on subscribing is
provided. Some recent press releases are available free-of-charge.
# http://www.forecast.levy.org/
4.13 Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
[well regarded firm]
Macroeconomic Advisers was founded in 1982 as Laurence H. Meyer &
Associates, Ltd. by Laurence Meyer, Joel Prakken and Chris Varvares.
Laurence Meyer left the firm in June of 1996 to assume a seat on the
Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Macroeconomic Advisers (MA) is
a privately owned corporation that specializes in macroeconomic
forecasting and policy analysis. MA built, maintains and supports the
Washington University Macroeconometric model of the United States
Economy (WUMM), the first sophisticated macro model available on
personal computers, and now available in our new WUMMSIM for Windows
software.
At this site they offer a fairly detailed description of their model
(including graphs of its response to shocks). They also describe
their services, list their press releases and coming events, a
"Reading Room" with their studies and offer a special area to their
subscribers. This includes a weekly economic commentary, "Fast Facts"
(analyses of recent events), and material for updating and using
their model. Finally, there is a discussion area.
# http://www.macroadvisers.com/
+ 4.14 McKibbin Software Group
+
+ [advanced algorithms]
+
+ This organization, with offices in Texas and Australia, "was formed
+ in 1993 with the goal of making available the latest developments in
+ numerical algorithms for research and policy analysis." These include
+ "DYNGAME" for dynamic rational expectation, Fair-Taylor for nonlinear
+ rational expectations, and CELLVISION a "full-featured spreadsheet
+ editing and graphics for GAUSS." The models include MSG2, a dynamic
+ optimizing CGE model, co-authored with Jeff Sachs; G-CUBED for "the
+ current policy debate on environmental policy and international trade
+ with a focus on global warming policies" (but useful for other topics
+ too); and G-Cubed, ASIA PACIFIC which specializes on that region.
+ They can be ordered on-line.
+
+ The site also contains the many papers that use these tools. Finally,
+ there is information on training and support for these products.
+
+ # http://www.msgpl.com.au/msgpl/msghome.htm
4.15 Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum
[daily commentary]
This is a regular service to Morgan Stanley customers. It also offers
a daily view on economic affairs and events around the world to
general readers. On each business day, a number of issues are
discussed. Back issues are available as well in the "Archives."
# http://www.ms.com/GEFaccess/index.html
4.16 Regional Economic Models (REMI)
[extensive regional models]
This organization specializes in regional models. They are said to
have special expertise in this area. This site details their
expertise, gives examples of their work, and lists upcoming seminars.
4.17 Regional Financial Associates
[full integration of regional model into macro model]
This rapidly growing firm, founded in 1990, analyzes both the U.S.
macroeconomy and regional economies. Like others, they use large
macroeconometric models, but theirs is said to be unique as it fully
integrates local and regional data into the model (causation runs
both from and to the regional sector). The implications for regional
analysis are obvious. They offer a number of services to their
clients, including analysis at the regional and national levels, and
forecasts. All this can be delivered over the net. Some information
is available to non-subscribers.
4.18 Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network
[macro and international charts and analysis]
Ed Yardeni is chief economist of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (North
America). His site offers a wealth of analysis and data (much of the
later in a very convenient form). It includes "Weekly Economic
Analyses" ("explore the latest economic and financial controversies")
and "Weekly Economic Briefings" ("focus on a key issue each week").
The most recent versions are restricted to customers of his firm. He
also offers "Topical Studies," which cover most any economic topic.
Other material of interest includes macro forecasts of Deutsch Morgan
Grenfell, stock market valuation information, many "Chart Rooms" with
data from markets, the U.S., and the global economy (they are
remarkably insightful and well chosen). Other areas of interest
include "Slide Shows" (of financial and economic charts), a section
on monetary and fiscal policy, and demography and marketing. In the
"Center for CyberEconomics," the interplay between economics and
computing is examined. The current focus is the Year 2000 computer
problem, which Yardeni thinks has a better than even chance of
causing a recession in 2000. Finally, there is a area of links to
useful Internet tools and sites. Almost all the data and analysis is
in PDF format.
4.19 WEFA Group
[leading forecasting and consulting firm]
This company has a staff of more than 200 economists,
econometricians, researchers, database specialists and support staff
who maintain databases, prepare forecasts for more than 90 countries
and conduct specialized client studies. They offer four general types
of services: (i) forecasts with a focus from an industry to the
globe, (ii) data -- more than two million time series are available
to their customers, (iii) software for managing these time series in
many different ways, and (iv) consulting for clients. As one would
expect, they have a considerable effort devoted to the U.S. economy,
and one can sample their work here.
Their site offers a great variety of information on themselves and
their products. This includes details on their U.S. macro products,
their services for various industries, Latin America, foreign
exchange, decision support and data software, and corporate
information on themselves. In short, they offer a wealth of services
for anyone interested in economic issues and decision support
services.
WEFA is an outgrowth of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates,
which was founded in 1963 by Lawrence R. Klein. It merged with Chase
Econometrics in 1987, and in 1994 it was acquired by Bain Capital,
and in 1997 by Primark, a global economic and financial information
company. (Pat Rocco kindly contributed to this summary.)
+ 4.20 Wells Fargo Economic Reports
+
+ [financial market and foreign exchange focus]
+
+ This bank's economic department offers two wide-ranging reports:
+ "Financial Market Strategies" and "Foreign Exchange Report." The
+ former examines factors that might influence the bond, currency, and
+ equities markets; it is surprisingly wide-ranging. The latter clearly
+ has an international focus.
+
+ # http://wellsfargo.com/econ/
4.21 DIA Agency Inc.
[general equilibrium models]
This firms specializes in general equilibrium models. They offer two
versions of a U.S. GEModel that can be downloaded from their site
(further, the model is not U.S. specific). They also offer a number
of support and educational materials, a list of fees, and information
about their consulting services.
# http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DiaAgency/diaagenc.htm
4.22 Bank of Hawaii Economic Research Center
[Pacific conditions]
This site offers a number of analyses and reports of both Hawaii and
a number of other Pacific islands. There is substantial data as well,
and you can even tailor data requests.
4.23 The Brattle Group
[world-wide consulting]
This consulting group provides services to world-wide corporations
and law firms. The firm specializes in the areas of environmental
compliance and liabilities, financial and regulatory economics,
litigation, and utility companies. This site provides information on
these areas of expertise and practice; staff members; job
opportunities; and publications, including newsletters that can be
downloaded.
4.24 Charles River Associates Auction Consulting
[assistance with auctions]
Charles River Associates (CRA), a consulting firm, has partnered with
Market Design Inc. (MDI), and they specialize in providing auction
design and implementation to government and business clients
participating in auctions in telecommunications, electricity, mineral
rights, and other industries. The company also offers bidder support
and strategies, auction software, and training for both auctioneers
and bidders. This site provides information on the CRA auction team,
projects of the firm, and selected auction publications.
# http://www.crai.com/auction.htm
4.25 Green Interest Rate Swap Management
[help with interest rate swaps]
This company advises on interest rate swaps. To quote, "We do an
in-depth analysis of your debt portfolio and advise as to alternative
transactions. We also facilitate closings and administer
documentation." Thus, while quite specialized, they do offer a very
useful service.
# http://home.earthlink.net/~green/
4.26 Market Design Inc. (MDI)
[assistance with auctions]
"Market Design Inc. offers consulting services in the design of
auction markets. Our principals are academic experts in economic
theory and game theory, and have advised governments and firms
worldwide on setting up electronic markets for telecommunications,
electricity, mineral rights, and 'stranded assets.'" This site lists
members of the firm, and provides downloadable technical papers and
reports. MDI is also involved in designing auction rules tailored to
particular auction sales. Along with Charles River Associates, they
create software which enables clients to implement their designs.
Some projects include spectrum auctions in Australia, Mexico, Canada,
and for the FCC; California Power Exchange; Standard Offer Service
Auction Design and Implementation; Universal Service Auctions; and
designs for New Zealand. They are also involved in giving strategic
advice to bidders in spectrum auctions; and in spectrum license
valuations. However, they do not advise bidders and sellers in the
same auction.
# http://www.market-design.com/
4.27 Regional Economic Research, Inc. (RER)
[energy consulting]
This research and consulting firm provides services to utility
companies and corporate clients and government agencies interested in
energy. The forecasting section of this site focuses on energy and
business forecasting, while the market information area provides
market research and energy studies, as well as several energy
analysis software packages. Customized software and business
solutions are also available. Utility restructuring services,
workshop sessions, and user group information is available on this
site. Finally, eight software packages for the energy industry are
highlighted.
4.28 STA Research
[futures and options analysis]
This company, as part of its futures and options trading for clients,
makes available a variety of current data and short term forecasts
(when available) for many economic and agricultural variables. It is
organized by economic and agricultural data that will be released in
the U.S. and other countries in both the coming week and month. One
portion, the "Weekly Economic Report Outlook," is available via a
mailing list. It is described in the mailing list section.
# http://stafutures.com/
# Information: <stare...@syncentral.com>
4.29 Damage Valuation Associates
This firm "brings you the latest information on valuation of
environmental damages from the courts, from government agencies, from
the academic literature, and from unpublished studies." Besides
on-line information, they have an electronic newsletter that
publishes this information. Their consulting business "specializes in
evaluating the economic and financial impacts of environmental
hazards and real estate development projects."
# http://www.damagevaluation.com/
4.30 Econ One
This site explains this firm's litigation goals, their expertise in
regulation, and their consulting arrangements with both corporate and
government clients. Speeches, papers, and articles can be ordered
on-line. Information on clients, staff, job opportunities, and news
about the firm is available on this site.
4.31 Economists Incorporated
This firm, based in both Washington and London, "has participated in
path breaking and high profile antitrust, commercial litigation, and
regulatory matters." They have a staff of more than 30 economists who
have extensive experience in almost all areas of commerce. They also
employ nearly 20 research associates.
4.32 Fishkind & Associates
This firm, based in Orlando, Florida, provides litigation support and
a model of the Florida economy.
+ 4.33 Micronomics, Inc.
+
+ This consulting firm, based in both Los Angeles and Washington, D. C.
+ , claims expertise in intellectual property valuation, mergers and
+ acquisitions, antitrust law, health care, database management, and
+ market research. The firm is "a leading provider of litigation
+ support services, economic analysis and expert testimony" to many of
+ the country's top law firms. They also specialize in intellectual
+ property, forecasting, financial analysis, and risk management and
+ are available to provide this knowledge to the business consulting
+ community. Publications and employment opportunities can be found at
+ this site.
+
+ # http://www.micronomics.com
4.34 Spectrumeconomics
This firm "specializes in litigation support and economic analysis of
business enterprises." Here you can read about their work, personnel,
papers, sample reports, and speeches.
# http://www.spectrumeconomics.com/
4.35 Triangle Economics Research
This consulting firm specializes in environmental economics. They
have a particular focus on damage assessment and health valuation.
You can read about their staff and organization, their work, and read
their working papers.
4.36 Alphametrics
[financial trading and economics consulting]
This firm specializes in consulting for firms that have needs in
financial trading and economics (such as risk management with their
FXAT system). Economic consulting includes "the development of
policy, compilation of large-scale reports, quantitative analysis,
data processing, modeling, packaged econometrics software (MODLER),
and the development of bespoke economic information systems." They
have offices around the world, and do a considerable amount of
business in Europe.
# http://www.Alphametrics.co.uk
4.37 Atlantica Associates
[specializes in currency risk]
This economic and financial organization provides personal and
customized research support for its worldwide clients. Their
expertise on currency risk is used in different ways, subject to
clients' different internal business objectives. This site provides
information on currency risk for twenty different countries, current
research topics, and publications.
# http://www.aainternational.org
4.38 BCS Consulting Enterprise
[Canadian firm with many areas]
This Canadian firm has a number of areas of expertise. They include
"defence economics, economic and business forecasting, economic
modeling and quantitative analysis (Including national and community
level Input-Output models), program evaluation and management,
peacekeeping and U.N. issues, regional and sectoral economics and
socio-economic data analysis and management." They also assist small
and home offices with information technology, including Intranet and
Internet work. You can read about their various products here (such
as impact analysis at national and local levels, and decision
management algorithms) as well as read a list of their papers.
# http://www.infomatch.com/~bsolomon/bcs1/bcs.htm
4.39 Cambridge International Forecasts
[free and fee-based country studies]
This organization of academics, statisticians and country experts
prepares country studies that are updated monthly. One can purchase a
all studies, a single study, or even part of one study (each is
broken into 17 sections. In addition, there is a substantial amount
of sample information.
4.40 Centre for International Economics (CIE)
[Australian firm]
This private company, with offices in Canberra and Sydney, Australia,
offers a wide variety of services to it customers, who are around the
world. Their services range from trade policy analysis to economic
model building to conferences to analysis of commodities and markets.
Besides information on itself, they also have their publication
on-line.
4.41 Conference Board of Canada
[largest non-profit research group in Canada]
This organization is said to be the largest non-profit economic
research group in Canada. They offer many services: the "Consumer
Confidence Index," the "Business Attitudes Index," and forecasts
(including construction and housing and the provinces). They also
offer various reports on the Canadian economy and both U.S. and
Canadian data (the latter is CANSISIM). Some of the material is
available to all, while material is available only to subscribers.
# http://www2.conferenceboard.ca/weblinx/
+ 4.42 Infometrics
+
+ [New Zealand focus]
+
+ This privately-owned, commercial-oriented, and business-focused New
+ Zealand consulting firm provides economic forecasts of both New
+ Zealand and overseas economies affecting New Zealand. They use a
+ variety of economic models. The company also presents up-to-date,
+ multi-media presentations for clients at conferences and seminars, as
+ well as customized publications and regular data updating services.
+ The online index includes the following areas: overseas economies,
+ New Zealand macro topics, business issues, New Zealand industries,
+ New Zealand regions, financial markets, consulting, on-line seminars,
+ weekly overview, economic terminology, customized data, portfolio
+ investments, and publications. An on-line subscription can cost
+ anywhere from $NZ 1,000 for individual areas to $NZ 15,000 for full
+ access to all of the website. The "Free Lunch" area has relevant
+ articles, debates, media releases, market rates, and column archives.
+
+ # http://www.infometrics.co.nz/
4.43 London Economics
[large U.K. firm]
This firm, "the largest and most successful independent economics
consultancy in the UK," details itself here. They have a full-time
staff of 70, and more than 40% of their business is from outside the
U.K. (they also have offices in Melbourne and Boston). An area of
special skills is "industries where regulatory or fiscal structure
have a strong impact on performance." However, they are also quite
wide-ranging: their services range includes litigation support,
strategy, energy, water, and infrastructure. Finally, they publish an
on-line newsletter, "Economics in Action"
4.44 Lombard Street Research Ltd.
[said to forecast well]
This U.K. firm is said to have an excellent forecasting track record.
It was founded in 1989 by Tim Congdon, who has long experience in
forecasting the U.K. and other economies. Prof. Congdon heads up the
U.K. service, while Brian Reading leads the international sector. A
variety of service levels are available; this includes slightly dated
material that is freely available (though one must register). Their
customers include a number of firms in the City and beyond.
+ 4.45 McKibbin Software Group
+
+ [advanced algorithms]
+
+ This organization, with offices in Texas and Australia, "was formed
+ in 1993 with the goal of making available the latest developments in
+ numerical algorithms for research and policy analysis." These include
+ "DYNGAME" for dynamic rational expectation, Fair-Taylor for nonlinear
+ rational expectations, and CELLVISION a "full-featured spreadsheet
+ editing and graphics for GAUSS." The models include MSG2, a dynamic
+ optimizing CGE model, co-authored with Jeff Sachs; G-CUBED for "the
+ current policy debate on environmental policy and international trade
+ with a focus on global warming policies" (but useful for other topics
+ too); and G-Cubed, ASIA PACIFIC which specializes on that region.
+ They can be ordered on-line.
+
+ The site also contains the many papers that use these tools. Finally,
+ there is information on training and support for these products.
+
+ # http://www.msgpl.com.au/msgpl/msghome.htm
4.46 Olsen & Associates
[financial market research and consulting]
"(O&A) is a world leader in high-quality economic research in the
field of financial markets. In particular, O&A specializes in the
forecasting and historical analysis of foreign exchange rates, but
soon also interest rates and market indices. We also provide trading
models which give explicit recommendations for a number of currencies
and specific trading profiles. O&A's innovation and research has led
to cutting-edge forecasting and trading model technology and risk
management products.
"Over the past eight years with over 120 man-years of effort, O&A has
developed and operated a real-time foreign exchange decision support
system covering 84 currencies, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This
is the O&A Information System (OIS). The fully supported system
offers price and volatility forecasts, historical analysis, and
specific trading recommendations with user-friendly graphical
interfaces."
Some of their forecasts and analyses are available without paying a
fee (though you must register). In addition, you can find just about
any foreign exchange rate for a given day since January 1, 1990
(including, it seems, rates on the previous day). Obviously, this
feature is very useful.
But, perhaps of greater interest to researchers is the high frequency
exchange rate data they sell for a quite reasonable fee. The dataset,
called HFDF93, was originally made available for their "High
Frequency Data in Finance" conference, held March, 1995.
Specifically, it has data from "1. Exchange rate quotes for USD-DEM,
USD-JPY and DEM-JPY; 2. Three month maturity interbank deposit rate
quotes for USD, JPY and DEM; and 3. Money Market Headline News
(text)." The data spans the year from Oct. 1, 1992 to Sept. 30, 1993,
is 112 megabytes in size, and they charge $200 for this dataset
(which allows them to cover some of their costs). Data is available
on tapes (DAT or 8mm Exabyte) or via ftp. They can be contacted at
the address given below. When requesting the data, one should include
a short abstract of the proposed work.
In addition, they have other data, and internal and published papers,
that are publicly available.
# http://www.olsen.ch/
# Information: <in...@olsen.ch>
4.47 Oxford Economic Consulting
[U.K. forecasting and consulting]
This firm was formed "in 1981 by a group of academics and
professional forecasters." It has partners in the U.S., China, and
Europe. Its reach is large; its products include "PC-based models,
regular reports, conferences, specialist reports and analysis of the
international economy, and consultancy." As one would expect, they
also prepare forecasts and large econometric models (demonstration
software for their World model is available here). Currently, they
offer their "World Economic Prospects Monthly Review" and the "Oxford
Weekly UK Indicator" on-line.
4.48 Boye-Lord International
This small firm carries "out research in international economic
development, with strong links to trade and investment, private
sector development, macroeconomics, agriculture, industry,
econometrics and other quantitative methods in Latin America,
Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe."
Information on their services and projects can be found here.
4.49 Economic Consulting Services Inc. (ECS)
This firm deals with consulting on international trade issues. Their
specific areas of expertise are (i) "International transfer pricing
for tangible and intangible property," (ii) "Antidumping,
countervailing duty, and other trade remedy actions," (iii) Trade
representation and information services, customs rules and
regulations, and international trade policy," and (iv) "Foreign and
domestic market research and analysis."
# http://www.economic-consulting.com/
4.50 Klonic Morocco Consultants
This consulting firm, based in Morocco, covers the gamut of economic
and business consulting. They have a considerable amount of
experience with a number of different firms and agencies from around
the world.
Bill Goffe
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
2.3.0 World and Non-U.S. Data
2.3.1 Alta Plana International Economics Gateway
[various international and non-U.S. entities]
This site, run by Seth Grimes, has a number of links to sites with
non-U.S. data. Specifically, he lists "Resource Pages and Data
Archives" (for general economic resources), "International
Organization Pages," "National Government Pages," and "Corporate
Servers" (of many varied types that economists are likely to find
useful).
# http://altaplana.com/gate.html
2.3.2 Central Bank Resource Center
[both central banks and ministries of finance]
This site, run by Mark Bernkopf, deals with all aspects of central
banking. This includes an extensive list of central banks and
ministries of finance. There are numerous other items of interest,
including currency boards, conferences in the area, multilateral
financial institutions, monetary research institutes and
consultancies, central bank research departments, and other
resources.
# http://patriot.net/~bernkopf/
2.3.3 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC): Statistical Offices
[very many listings]
This section of this very useful resource contains a section on
"Statistical Offices." In all, EDIRC lists more than 4,000 sites.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/statoff.html
2.3.4 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC): Central Banks and Monetary Authorities
[very many listings]
This section of this very useful resource contains a section on
"Central Banks and Monetary Authorities." In all, EDIRC lists more
than 4,000 sites.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/central.html
2.3.5 Statistical Data Locators
[directory of international stat sites]
This site, part of the library at Nanyang Technological University in
Singapore, offers a very extensive list of international data sites
on the Internet (as one might expect, its first listing is
Singapore). It is organized by region: "Asia, Oceania, North America,
Europe, Africa, International, Latin America, and Others."
# http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/statdata.htm
2.3.6 CIA World Factbook 1998
[well-known summary data and analysis]
This well-known reference has wide-ranging summary data on 263
countries and other similar entities from around the world. While the
economic information is of the snapshot variety, it includes a
written overview and some 20 current observations of key economic
values. There is also extensive information on geographical,
demographic, government, communications, transportation, military,
and "transnational issues" for each country.
# http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
+ 2.3.7 EIU CountryData
+
+ [271 mostly quarterly series from 116 countries]
+
+ This dataset comes from the "Economist Intelligence Unit," which of
+ course is affiliated with "The Economist" magazine. EIU CountryData
+ results from a partnership between the EIU and Bureau van Dijk: the
+ data is collected by the EIU and the software is developed by Bureau
+ van Dijk. The data comes from a variety of sources, and it covers
+ 116 countries from 1980 with some 271 variables (for most countries,
+ the data is quarterly). Forecasts are available to five years in the
+ future. The data is updated monthly, although data on each country
+ is updated four times each year. The discounted annual cost for a
+ standard, single academic user is $7,800 (with higher group rates).
+ Data can also be purchased by geographic region. For non-academic
+ pricing and regional rates, call 1-888-797-7120.
+
+ A key feature of this dataset is the very feature-laden interface. It
+ could well eliminate the need for pre-processing with a spreadsheet
+ or other programs. They also provide extensive support, and one can
+ communicate with those responsible for collating the data. Trial
+ subscriptions can also be arranged.
+
+ # http://www.bvdny.com/products/eiu/overview.htm
+ 2.3.8 GlobalMetrix
+
+ [very extensive international and trade data]
+
+ This firm sells a great variety of data from a number of
+ international organizations and packages them in easy-to-use formats.
+ Specifically, data is available from 72 countries (which can be
+ purchased by country, region, or the world), and some 64 industries,
+ including 80 internationally traded commodity groups with an initial
+ date of 1980, and forecasts to 2017. Quoting from their material
+ (with some editing for brevity) they offer:
+
+ # Global Consumer Spending - 16 spending categories
+ # Gross Fixed Investments - 64 industry and service sector
+ expenditures
+ # Global Government Expenditures - 10 categories
+ # Global Industry and Services Output - 64 industry and service
+ sector gross-outputs
+ # Global Employment and Occupation - number of employees in 64
+ industry and service sectors
+ # Global Wage and Salary - annual wage and salary per employee in 64
+ industry categories
+ # Global Pollution - estimates of toxic waste release by 64
+ industries for 300 noxious substances
+ # Global Commodity Trade - covers 80 commodities, produced by 50
+ industries, showing bilateral trade between 65 countries and
+ regions worldwide (4,225 trade routes)
+ # AirFlow - covers air freight volume between 65 countries and
+ regions worldwide (4,225 trade routes)
+ # SeaFlow - covers ocean freight volume between 65 countries and
+ regions worldwide (4,225 trade routes)
+ # PaxFlow - includes passenger traffic for 50 major route corridors
+ worldwide.
+
+ The data can be purchased in many different increments -- it can be
+ purchased by county, region, or country. As one would guess, the cost
+ per observation decreases as they size of the purchase increases.
+
+ In addition, "Intelligence Reports" "of a particular country,
+ economic sector or trading relationship" are also available for
+ purchase. They are updated every six months. Finally, "Customized
+ Models" can be created at a customer's request.
+
+ # http://GlobalMetrix.com
2.3.9 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
[households survey from 25 countries and macro data from OECD
countries]
This project brings together household surveys from 25 countries
(surveys from four other countries are under negotiation) into a
common database to make studies of international economic comparisons
easier. For instance, it includes Current Population Surveys from the
U.S., French Surveys of Income, and a Hungarian Income Study. To
maintain confidentiality and restrictions on use, the data remains on
the host computer in Luxembourg and researchers run jobs remotely on
that system through electronic mail. Users must first register to use
the database.
They also have a database (Institutional Database, IDB) of annual
macro indicators on all OECD countries. This database also contains
rules on taxes and transfers in each country to make international
comparisons possible. This dataset is available on floppy disks.
This site also includes the Comparative Welfare State Database, which
focuses on a wide range of indicators of welfare state development,
its causes, and its outcomes on an annual basis for the period
1960-89.
The purpose of the LES project "is to construct a databank containing
Labour Force Surveys from the early nineties from countries with
quite different labour market structures. These surveys provide
detailed information on areas like job search, employment
characteristics, comparable occupations, investment in education,
migration, etc." The micro data from the labour force surveys has
been standardized to facilitate comparative research.
The datasets are well documented, and workshops and newsletters help
the researcher to use this complex database. They also offer working
papers.
# http://lissy.ceps.lu/index.htm
# Tim Smeeding, Overall Project Director: <tmsme...@maxwell.syr.
edu>
# Kati Foley, Administrative Assistant (U.S.): <li...@maxwell.syr.
edu>
# Caroline de Tombeur, Administrative Assistant (Europe):
<Caro...@lissy.ceps.lu>
# Koen Vleminckx, Technical Questions <ko...@lissy.ceps.lu>
# Tim Smeeding, Overall Project Director: <tmsme...@maxwell.syr.
edu>
# Inge O'Connor, Administrative Assistant (U.S.): <li...@maxwell.syr.
edu>
# Caroline de Tombeur, Administrative Assistant (Europe):
<caro...@post.ceps.lu>
2.3.10 OANDA
[current and historical exchange rates]
This organization is owned by "Olsen & Associates" which is said to
be a leader in financial and especially foreign exchange studies and
forecasts. Here they make their foreign exchange data available. Both
current and historical rates can be found for some 164 countries.
Daily historical data is available from 1990, and a single table can
have as many as 2,000 observations. Forecasts are also available, as
are various specialized features.
2.3.11 PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service Retrieval Interface
[current and historical exchange rates]
This offering, run by Werner Antweiler of the Policy Analysis
Division, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University
of British Columbia (and named PACIFIC for Policy Analysis Computing
& and Information Faculty in Computing) offers two types of exchange
rate data: current and historical. In both cases daily data is
available, and from many countries (65 countries are updated daily,
and about 200 are updated at least weekly; not all countries have
historical data). It also provides a list of all currencies of the
world and each country's exchange-rate arrangements, as well as
analysis and trend projections of the Canadian Dollar. The data comes
from Xenon Laboratories.
# http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/
2.3.12 Penn World Tables (Univ. of Toronto)
[valid cross-country comparisons (data ends in 1992, however)]
This organization, which for a fee also makes available the Canadian
CANSIM database, demonstrates how the web can make it very easy to
retrieve economic data across the Internet. With your browser, you
can very easily select and retrieve individual or multiple series
from this database (in formats for most any statistical program), or
plot them interactively. It sets the standard for data retrieval on
the Internet.
This dataset covers 152 countries with 29 time series. They are
carefully adjusted to make comparisons meaningful.
# http://arcadia.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/
2.3.13 PRS Online Country Data
[purchase current and historical data from 144 countries]
This firm takes data from the World Bank, IMF, OECD, the CIA and
others and resells it here on-line. They offer data from 144
countries, and for each country they have some 50 annual series from
the last 10 years. Coverage includes domestic economic conditions,
international transactions, geographical and political data, and
various social indicators. They also offer risk ratings and macro
forecasts.
While being a subscriber is more efficient for bulk purchases, it is
possible to purchase one series or a group of series. A single series
is $5, and and all data for a country is $50.
2.3.14 Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe (r·cade)
[data from Eurostat can be purchased here]
This organization currently sells access to datasets from three
different organizations: Eurostat, ILO (International Labor
Organization), and UNESCO. They are an official host of Eurostat, and
the data includes all of the "New Cronos" database, which is a fairly
comprehensive dataset; it has detailed agricultural, energy,
economic, industrial, and demographic information (some of the data
is available down to the NUTS 3 level). The ILO data contains
information on labor conditions from around the world (such as
injuries, unemployment, wages, hours, strikes, etc.). Perhaps the
most interesting part of UNESCO data is the educational material.
This organization has a variety of pricing models, including reduced
rates for academics. Bills can be paid by credit card.
2.3.15 Asian Development Bank
This site describes all aspects of this bank's work. This not only
included information about themselves, but also includes business
opportunities, news releases, extensive information on their
projects, and their work with law and development. There is also
extensive material on their publications.
For many countries in the region, they offer fairly lengthy time
series data on national accounts, the financial system, trade, and
other indicators. Data is also available in spreadsheet format.
2.3.16 Eurostat
This organization, which covers economic activity for the European
Union, currently offers press releases, information about itself,
information on products and EU-specific CD-ROMs and databases,
on-line indicators, on-line catalogs, and statistical news.
# http://europa.eu.int/eurostat.html
2.3.17 Inter-American Development Bank
This sites describes many aspects of the bank's work. It also has
extensive information on their projects, press releases,
publications, some information on business opportunities, information
on their private sector projects, and information on the
Inter-American Investment Corporation, Multilateral Investment Fund,
and Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology.
They also have fairly extensive summary statistical data on their
member countries.
2.3.18 International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC)
This organization, jointly operated by the UN and WTO, deals with
international trade (particularly with developing and transitional
countries). Besides detailed information on their mission and
programs, they offer considerable data on-line (and even more is
available on their CD-ROM products). Their COMTRADE database contains
detailed import and export statistics from 1962 for more than 100
countries. This data is available on a CD-ROM product. In addition, a
subset of this data is available on-line. It identifies the largest
and most dynamic import and export countries and highlights the most
important import/export products (3 digits level) of the Standard
International Trade Classification Revision 3.
2.3.19 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
You can read extensive information on the the OECD's activities,
publications, and their data products here. The "Statistics" section
offer a variety of socio-economic indicators. Of particular interest
are "Economic Statistics," which offers some recent summary data for
OECD countries. "Latest short-term indicators" and "Frequently
requested statistics" provide much of the most useful data (the
former is basically the last quarter's data, while the latter
includes GDP, GDP per capita, unemployment, and the like). However,
there are no publically available long length time series. There is
also some analysis of current economic conditions. News releases and
newsletters can be found in the "News and Events" area.
2.3.20 International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF has responded to recent complaints about their operations by
becoming more transparent itself. At this site, you can read a great
deal about the IMF (including its annual report and extensive
material on its structure), their fact sheets on a number of topics,
press releases, news briefs, speeches from the managing director, and
details from their publications catalog. Among data, they offer
currency exchange rates. Among publications, they offer the "IMF
Survey" (which "provides topical coverage of the IMF's activities,
policies, and research in the context of global economic and
financial developments") and the full text of IMF Working Papers,
Staff Country Reports, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.
They also offer "Letters of Intent, Economic Programs, Memoranda of
Economic and Financial Policies and Policy Framework Papers" for the
various countries that they deal with. Finally, their "Dissemination
Standards Bulletin Board" is available here. The Special Standard and
its associated bulletin board provide access to international capital
markets and their economic and financial data with equal and ready
access for all users. For many countries, it lists where most any
sort of macro data can be obtained (including on the Internet) from
countries that participate in this program. For just the U.S., this
is a very useful resource as it says who generates various series and
how they are collected.
2.3.21 U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
This part of the U.N. has the major responsibilities for trade and
development. Here, they offer extensive information on the
organization (including its "basic documents"), its many varied
projects, its upcoming meetings and events, and press releases. There
are links to its "Debt Management and Financial Analysis System,"
newsletters on the "Generalized System of Preferences" and "Trade
Facilitation and Multimodal Transport," and summary information on
their publications, including "Trade and Development Report," "World
Investment Report," "Least Developed Countries Report," "Handbook of
International Trade and Development Statistics," and "Review of
Maritime Transport."
2.3.22 U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
This organization's mission is well described by its title. Perhaps
most useful to economists is their extensive collection of
agricultural, fisheries, forestry, economics, and nutrition data from
around the world. This site provides information on WAICENT, the
World Agricultural Information Center. It also offers FAOSTAT, an
online and multilingual database which currently contains 1 million
time-series records on international statistics. Besides data, there
are a number of items of additional interest and links to other
sites.
2.3.23 U.N. Statistics Division/DESIPA
This section of the U.N. collects various statistical information.
Perhaps of greatest interest is data from the "Monthly Bulletin of
Statistics," which is now available on-line for a fee (currently $295
for academic users, and $525 for the "for profit" sector). Data
includes national accounts, labour force, prices, forestry, industry,
mining, energy, manufacturing, construction, finance, international
economic relations, transport, and population. There is also snapshot
cross country data for many socio-economic indicators.
# http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/index.html
2.3.24 World Trade Organization (WTO)
This organization oversees international trade. Their web site has
three main sections: general information about WTO, trade topics, and
international trade resources. You can register for e-mail
notification of "new developments, updates, publications, reports
etc." They offer information on goods, services, intellectual
property, environment, development, policy reviews, dispute
settlements, government procurements, legal texts, and international
trade. They also offer working papers and information on the economic
research and analysis division (ERAD). Their "Document Dissemination
Facility" (DDF) that offers "selected documents" (such as those that
established the WTO). Finally, they have news releases (including an
area of restricted access for the news media).
2.3.25 India 1997-98 Budget
This site has information on the 1998 budget of India, with many
details. Also presents information on past budgets, Exim Policy,
Credit Policy, analyses and opinions, and EcoSurvey 98.
+ 2.3.26 Statistics Indonesia
+
+ This site provides information about this Indonesian governmental
+ agency, as well as listing information on the country's statistics by
+ both subject and region; summaries of new statistics; macroeconomic
+ statistics; census summaries; abstracts, papers, and research;
+ publications, and a statistical glossary. The macroeconomic
+ statistics are reported monthly and can be downloaded with Adobe
+ Acrobat Reader. Information includes charts on inflation, consumer
+ price index, wholesale price index, exports and imports, and tourism.
+ Where statistics are organized by subjects, one can find explanations
+ and definitions of each subject, the methods used to gather
+ statistical information, publications, and statistical tables.
+
+ The subjects featured are population, employment, social welfare,
+ wages, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, energy, construction,
+ tourism, foreign trade, transportation, communication, public
+ finance, consumer price index, wholesale price index, consumption and
+ expenditure, and national and regional accounts. If tables are not
+ available on the site, they can be requested through Data
+ Dissemination Services.
+
+ # http://www.bps.go.id/
2.3.27 Bank of Japan
Besides information about the bank, they offer extensive information
on their publications (including CD-ROMs), a list of dates for press
releases as well as press releases and speeches, current exchange
rates, reports (including the "Monthly Report of Recent Economic and
Financial Developments," "Quarterly Economic Outlook," the "Annual
Review of Monetary and Economic Developments," the "Monthly Economic
Review," and the "Flow of Funds." Data (including long time series)
includes the money stock, TANKAN Outline ("Short-Term Economic Survey
of Enterprises in Japan"), various price indices and interest rates,
foreign exchange rates, and data from financial institutions.
# http://www.boj.or.jp/en/index.htm
2.3.28 Japanese Macro Data
This site contains some 20,000 macro series from Nikkei Needs. It has
been reformatted into the ASCII format used by the BCI Data Manager.
When you first use this site, be sure to read the warnings concerning
some oddities in the data and details on how to search for it (the
data is located in this database with a WAIS search).
# http://econom10.cc.sophia.ac.jp/needs/index.htm
2.3.29 Kokumin Keizai Research Institute
"Kokumin Keizai Research Institute (KKRI) is an independent,
nonprofit organization which conducts economic and policy research."
Founded in 1945, it has more than 700 members. It generates forecasts
for the Japanese economy (available here), and studies of industries,
regions, Asia, and various public policy issues. A simplified version
of their macro model can be obtained here (it requires either Eviews
or the FAIRMODEL).
# http://www.kkri.org/index_eng.htm
+ 2.3.30 National Statistical Office of Korea
+
+ This site provides information on the National Statistical Office of
+ Korea, its statistical database (KOSIS), statistical reports, graphs,
+ publications, and surveys. Recent graphical data on land and
+ population; agriculture; mining and manufacturing; energy;
+ construction; wholesale, retail trade and services; transportation
+ and communication; labor and wages; prices and household economy;
+ money and banking; finance; national accounts; balance of payments
+ and economic cooperation; education, science and health; society
+ tourism and environment; and international statistics is provided on
+ the site. However, the statistical report section provides an
+ economic and financial data link to the Bank of Korea, where one can
+ find statistics dating back to 1970.
+
+ # http://www.nso.go.kr/
2.3.31 Canadian Industry Statistics
This site provides details of various aspects of Canadian economic
activity, emphasizing economics, employment, international trade,
investment, public equity financing, growth indices, and other
business-related information. The Canadian Industry Statistics site
is comprised of 5 main components: The CIS Classic, Public Equity
Financing, Growth Trends, Industry Overview, and other World Wide
Links. The CIS Classic offers data on 230 Canadian manufacturing
industries, focusing on variables such as wages and salaries, number
of employees, operational costs, manufacturing shipments, imports,
exports, and performance by establishment size. It is also possible
to make comparisons across Canadian national averages in various
statistics for each manufacturing industry. This information is
available for downloading in WordPerfect format. The Industry
Overview serves as a complementary function to CIS Classic by
providing an analysis of Canadian industry trends in production,
investment, research and development, employment, and trade. The
section also provides comparative analyses of Canadian and U.S.
industries.
# http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_ecnmy/sio/homepage.html
2.3.32 Statistics Canada
Currently, Statistics Canada, the Canadian national statistical
agency, provides information from their daily report, the "Daily," on
this site. It contains substantial summary macro information for the
last few quarters. Previous issues of the "Daily" are available as
well. It also contains information on Canadian statistics, census
data, ordering their publications, lists of offices, their
classification systems, subscription information on their listserv,
and ordering information on their database, CANSIM (which has more
than 650,000 time series on Canada).
Another entry of this guide deals with "Statistics Canada CANSIM" , a
fee-based collection of Canadian statistical data.
# http://www.statcan.ca/
# Information: Michael Thoen <tho...@statcan.ca>
2.3.33 Statistics Canada CANSIM
This extremely extensive database (it has more than 650,000 time
series) covers a very wide variety of social and economic data in
Canada. Unfortunately, the data is not freely available, although
customers can retrieve the data over the Internet through an
agreement with the University of Toronto, or you can purchase
individual data on-line. For academic users, the database costs $995,
though discounts are possible in some situations.
# http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/
# Information: Bill Graham, Statistics Canada <gra...@statcan.ca>
# Information: Chris Leowski, University of Toronto <chris@chass.
utoronto.ca>
# Information: Bill Graham, Statistics Canada <gra...@statcan.ca>
# Information: Chris Leowski, University of Toronto <chris@epas.
utoronto.ca>
2.3.34 Austrian and Eastern European Economic Data (WIFO)
This site is run by the Austrian Institute of Economic Research, and
it offers two datasets. The first is a comprehensive dataset of the
Austrian economy with more than 20,000 time series (there is an
emphasis on long time series). The second dataset has some 5,000 time
series of "Central Europe and the former Soviet Republics: Bulgaria,
Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Russia and Ukraine" starting with 1989. Data must be
purchased, but it is available on-line.
+ 2.3.35 Hungarian Central Statistical Office
+
+ This statistical office focuses on "designing and conducting surveys,
+ recording, processing and storing data, data analyses, and
+ dissemination, protection of individual data." This site provides
+ links to the professional and scientific institutes of the Hungarian
+ Central Statistical Office; publications, periodicals, and major
+ surveys conducted by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office; press
+ releases; a glossary of statistical terms; current statistical
+ figures, including geography, road, population, employment, incomes,
+ consumption, dwellings, education, GDP, tourism, and financial;
+ recent Office reports; annual figures; and subscription information
+ for the data of HCSO STADAT.
+
+ # http://www.ksh.hu/
2.3.36 Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
This private organization offers information on their forecasting
activities (they produce a number of publications) and general
economic studies. They also offer a substantial amount of data,
including international data and thousands of time series on the
Finnish economy, but one must register to use it.
+ 2.3.37 Statistics Finland
+
+ This site provides information on Finland's main center for
+ statistical information, recent statistical news, the Library of
+ Statistics, statistical databases and other electronic products, and
+ statistical data. The economic statistics section focuses on GDP,
+ employment and unemployment, and industrial production dating back to
+ 1991, and consumer price inflation since 1996; recent information on
+ population, families, education, employment, income, and electoral
+ participation; and main economic indicators from Europe and the
+ Pacific Region. Online databases include FINREGION--a regional
+ database that provides about 6000 short time series for every region
+ included; FINSERIES--a long time series database which covers the
+ production, consumption, trends, employment and other economic
+ information for the whole country; and the Bulletin of Statistics,
+ which is a diskette produced monthly containing both monthly and
+ quarterly updated economic statistics. Information on obtaining the
+ online products is provided.
+
+ # http://www.stat.fi/
+ 2.3.38 National Institute of Statistical and Economic Studies
+
+ This site contains information on the National Institute of
+ Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), its products and services,
+ and key figures for the French economy. Tables provide numeric
+ information on twenty-five key figures, with all but seven dating
+ back to 1970. This data includes information on important economic
+ statistics such as income, labor, employment, consumer prices,
+ businesses, GDP, production, and financial markets.
+
+ # http://www.insee.fr/
2.3.39 Bundesbank
The central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany offers extensive
information about itself at this site. Other items of interest are
their press releases and speeches. Of greater interest is their
"Monthly Report," which includes extensive macroeconomic and
financial data on Germany (though for recent years). They even offer
daily updates for some of the data (mostly financial data). You can
also find a list of their publications.
# http://www.bundesbank.de/index_e.html
2.3.40 German Federal Statistical Office
This site offers information about itself (including helplines),
extensive press releases, short term economic indicators (GDP and the
like for recent years), basic statistical figures, time series (only
in German at the moment), and book and media store (including on-line
data).
# http://www.statistik-bund.de/e_home.htm
2.3.41 Statistik Regional (German Regional Stats)
This site provides extracts from the "Statistik regional" dataset
published by the federal and regional statistics offices of Germany.
It covers population, health, education, employment, agriculture and
forestry, industry, construction, tourism, transport, social
services, financial statistics and taxes, national accounting,
environmental data and election results. It has the complete coverage
of themes of the full version but the level of disaggregation is not
as deep. (As I do not read German, Thomas Krichel kindly wrote this
for me.)
# http://www.brandenburg.de/statreg/
+ 2.3.42 Statec
+
+ This site provides information on the Central Service for Statistics
+ and Economic Studies in Luxembourg (Statec), its role as the national
+ statistical institution of Luxembourg, and its products and services.
+ The statistical information presented on this site consists of
+ economic data, including tables dating back to the early 1980s for
+ employment, population, national accounts, and the budget; and dating
+ back to the early 1990s for producer price index, activity indices
+ for industry, and consumer price index.
+
+ # http://statec.gouvernement.lu/
2.3.43 Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB)
The CPB is a research center for the Netherlands which provides macro
analyses and forecasts. It is also the budgetary and economic policy
accounting center for the Netherlands. This site provides general
information about the CPB; member information; press releases (mostly
in Dutch); job openings and seminar listings; publications, with both
Dutch and English reports of the outlook for the Dutch economy;
information on the current research agenda, highlighting the most
important projects of the year; and downloadable economic data in the
form of spreadsheet files (mostly in Dutch).
2.3.44 Netherlands Central Bank
At this site, this central banks offers information on itself, its
banknotes, news releases, details of its supervisory duties, and
monetary and financial statistics (relatively long time series are
available). Information on the research department is available, and
there is extensive information on their research papers. In addition,
they offer some software, "Fysioen," which illustrates macro
principles, which are derived from "MORKMON," their macro econometric
model of the Dutch economy.
# http://www.dnb.nl/english/index.htm
2.3.45 Statistics Netherlands
This site contains current information on the Dutch economy. There is
also summary demographic and social information on the Netherlands,
information on the institution, and press releases. There appear to
be no long term time series. This site also provides access to
StatLine, which is the statistical database on the Netherlands.
+ 2.3.46 Statistics Sweden
+
+ This site provides information on Statistics Sweden, its products and
+ services, databases, press releases, statistical fields, recent news,
+ and statistics. The statistics section consists of economic
+ statistics; population; research and development; information
+ technology; construction; housing and settlement; and education. For
+ economic statistics, there are graphics for economic indicators such
+ as inflation rate, trade, employment, GDP, and others, dating on
+ average to the early 1990s. Also provides consumer price index data
+ dating back to 1949 and net price index data dating to 1959.
+
+ # http://www.scb.se/
2.3.47 Bank of England
Founded in 1694, this central banks offers on-line information about
itself and its various functions. Of specific interest are its
extensive set of publications; many of them are on-line, including
the "Monetary Policy Committee Minutes" (which supersedes the
"Minutes of Monthly Chancellor/Governor Meetings"), the "Inflation
Report," and reports on the gilt market (debt securities issued by HM
Treasury) and on the Euro. Other reports, "Fact Sheets," and speeches
are available, as is information on British banknotes and its "Centre
for Central Banking Studies."
# http://www.BankofEngland.co.uk
2.3.48 BizEd Net: CSO Data (U.K.)
BizEd (Business Education) Net is designed for students and faculty
members, and others interested in obtaining data. They currently
offer the Penn World Tables, and perhaps more importantly, some data
from the Office for National Statistics of the U.K., which is a
substantial resource with economic datasets and labor market data.
Also offered are MIDAS (Manchester Information Datasets Associated
Services), summary demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau,
Extel Data (Which has substantial financial data for 500 well-known
companies), Company Report Browser, and Company Report Profiler.
# http://bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/home.htm
2.3.49 ESRC Data Archive
This UK archive, funded by the University of Essex, the Economic and
Social Research Council, and the Joint Education Systems Committee,
is the largest social sciences and humanities archive in the United
Kingdom. It holds nearly 7,000 social science computer datasets, both
historical and contemporary, that are in some way related to the U.K.
(about the U.K., conducted by U.K. investigators, or of interest to
U.K. users). For economists, datasets of particular interest include
the CSO Macroeconomic Databank, the Family Expenditure Survey, and
the Labour Force Survey. In addition, some of datasets contain
multi-country surveys, so other countries are frequently included.
Thus, this archive is of interest even to non-U.K. economists. Since
the datasets are held under agreement with the depositors, one must
contact the archive for information on how to obtain the data, some
of which is available on-line (other formats include CD-ROMs and
tapes, diskette, and DAT).
2.3.50 HM Treasury
This site contains extensive information on the U.K. budget (both
proposed and past ones). Other information includes the "National
Assets Register," the "Debt Management Report" from recent years,
fiscal policy papers, forecasts for the U.K. economy (both
independent and from the "The Financial Statement and Budget Report
(FSBR)" (also known as the "Red Book"), and information on the Euro.
There are also press releases, statements by the Chancellor (and
speeches by him and others), a list of print publications, and
extensive information on the Treasury.
Two mailing lists (one on press releases, the other on new Internet
offerings by the H.M. Treasury) are described in the mailing list
section titled "E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics" .
# http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
# ftp://ftp.hm-treasury.gov.uk
# Information: <n...@hm-treasury.gov.uk>
# Suggestions: <edi...@hm-treasury.gov.uk>
2.3.51 Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services (MIDAS)
This site offers a variety of services for U.K. users. In particular,
it offers the National Dataset Service that has, or will soon have,
many datasets of interest to economists. Datasets for registered
users include the IMF's International Finance Statistics (with 24,000
time series from 196 countries), Balance of Payments Statistics
(35,000 time series from 160 countries), Direction of Trade
Statistics (61,000 time series from 184 countries), and Government
Finance Statistics Yearbook (19,000 time series from 145 countries);
the 1991 U.K. Census in various forms; the General Household Survey;
the National Labour Force Survey; the Family Expenditure Survey; the
British Household Panel Study; Office of National Statistics
Macro-econ Databank (with 3000 U.K. time series); the OECD's Main
Economic Indicators (with more than 2500 time series).
Some of this data is from the ESRC Data Archive at the University of
Essex.
+ 2.3.52 Office of National Statistics
+
+ This site provides information on the U.K. Office of National
+ Statistics, press releases, statistics, products and services, and
+ the Census. The statistical data includes economic and financial
+ trends, the purchasing power of the pound, employment, output of
+ industries, and national accounts. Also available on this site is
+ information about both the DataBank Subscription Service (which
+ provides monthly, quarterly and annual macroeconomic time series
+ data) and StatBase (which is the official on-line government database
+ of key statistics).
+
+ # http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons_f.htm
2.3.53 Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780
This database has data on crop yields, demographic data, price
series, wage series, and weather statistics for the time period
1550-1780. Detailed information on this dataset is on-line here, and
is also in AJS Gibson and TC Smout, "Scottish food, wages and prices,
1550 - 1780," Cambridge University Press, 1994. They ask that any
users report use of this database to further the financial support
for it, and that users cite its use.
# http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html
2.3.54 Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
Besides a listing of the CBS' publications, dates of press releases,
and information about itself, this site offers a substantial amount
of on-line information. This includes data from the "Monthly Bulletin
of Statistics" (available in several formats) which has 18 different
categories from climate to public order (most of the categories are
economic, such as national accounts, balance of payments, foreign
trade, finance, prices, labor and wages, industry, etc.). In
addition, there is a very useful search engine.
# http://www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm
2.3.55 Praedicta: Israeli Economic Data
This company specializes in a wide range of data on Israeli and world
economy; in all, more than 50,000 series are available. Of interest
to economists is their economic data, which includes demographic
information, national accounts, balance of payments, foreign trade,
finance and taxes, price indices and exchange rates, the labor
market, and many other areas. It is a fee-based service.
2.3.56 Central Bank of Turkey
This site offers a wealth of economic information on Turkey with 43
different data groups. Data includes Outstanding External Debt, Daily
Exchange Rates, Interest Rates on Deposits, Treasury Wholesale
Prices, Treasury Istanbul Wage Earners Index, SIS Wholesale Prices
Index, SIS Consumer price Index, Consolidated Budget, Balance of
payments, Weekly Monetary Aggregates, GNP at Fixed Prices, and SIS
Monthly Industrial Production. This site also offers information on
the bank history and functions, as well as information on
publications.
2.3.57 Australian Bureau of Statistics
This site provides information on the ABS; media releases; products
and services, including its catalog of publications; and statistical
data. Data includes key national indicators (national accounts,
international accounts, consumption and investment production,
prices, labor, income, and financial markets) and Census information.
# http://www.statistics.gov.au
2.3.58 New Zealand Treasury
Currently, this site offers material on recent budgets, and a
substantial amount of information on general fiscal issues and New
Zealand, such as their annual report, an overview of the country's
financial and economic framework, some regulatory issues, etc. It
also contains working papers and educational resources.
# http://www.treasury.govt.nz/
2.3.59 Reserve Bank of New Zealand
This central bank offers information about itself, its most recent
"Monetary Policy Statement," its forecasts, a summary of recent New
Zealand economic policy, some of its "Information Pamphlets," and
recent press releases and speeches. The "Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Bulletin" is offered online at no charge. Finally, they offer
information on bank regulation.
2.3.1.0 World Bank
2.3.1.1 World Bank
[wealth of development info with summary country data]
Besides a considerable amount of information on itself and on topical
issues (including news releases, speeches, and summaries of new
projects), the World Bank offers a wealth of information on
development and growth topics. Their "Country Data" <http://www.
worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html> (part of the "Data"
area) offers "Country Briefs" (several thousand word descriptions of
economic policies and events) and "Country-at-a-Glance" (summary
statistical information, with many cross-country comparisons). They
also offer "World Development Sources (WDS)" <http://www-wds.
worldbank.org/> which has some 6,000 searchable World Bank reports
(the search engine is quite sophisticated).
In "Development Topics," there are many items of interest for
economists. They include "Economics & Trade:"
# AIDS Economics
# Central Capital Markets
# Economic Growth Research
# Economic Management and Policy Courses
# Environmental Economics and Indicators
# International Financial Architecture
# IFC Loan Syndications
# Prospects for Development
"Finance & Private Sector Development" offers
# Investment Information (IPAnet) and Privatization Opportunities
(PrivatizationLink)
# Microfinance - Sustainable Banking with the Poor
# Private Sector Development
# Resource Mobilization and Cofinancing
The "Research" <http://www.worldbank.org/research/> area includes
# Abstracts of Current Studies
# Policy Research Working Papers
# Topic-Specific Research Sites
# Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE)
# Evaluations of Research
# Frequently Asked Questions
# Speeches of the Chief Economist
Also available are various well-known publications (some portions or
even all of some of them are on-line, and some back issues are
available as well):
# The World Development Report
# Assessing Aid
# Confronting Aids
# Global Economic Prospects
# World Development Indicators
# World Bank Journals
# Development Economics Newsletters
# World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin
# Various "Policy Research Reports"
Other parts of the web site include "Partnerships," which lists those
who do similar work (by regions and by subject areas), "Regional
Focus," with resources by geographical region, and the "Development
Forum" which uses electronic methods (mailing lists and such) to
discuss development issues. It is described as "Where the development
community meets to share knowledge and experiences." Finally, their
"InfoShop" brings their on-line bookstore and public information
center (PIC) together.
2.3.1.2 Economic Growth Research
This project, sponsored by the Macroeconomics and Growth Division of
the Policy Research Department of the World Bank, and the
International Center for Economic Growth (San Francisco) examines
"the relationship between national policies and economic growth." It
offers two basic resources: abstracts and especially data from
articles, and abstracts and data on World Bank working papers on this
subject. It also offers links to a newsletters registry and weekly
seminar information.
# http://www.worldbank.org/html/prdmg/grthweb/growth_t.htm
2.3.1.3 Finance & Development
This quarterly magazine is published by the IMF. The publication
ended a co-publisher arrangement with the World Bank on June 1998.
Publication covers a wide range of important issues for both the
international monetary system and the global economy. Currently, the
online issues begin with the March, 1996 issue.
2.3.1.4 Living Standards Measurement (LSMS)
This section of the World Banks studies poverty in developing
countries. The information here includes an overview of LSMS survey
and datasets, specific information from several surveys, (including
some data), reports that use the data, and information for managers
of new surveys.
# http://www.worldbank.org/html/prdph/lsms/lsmshome.html
2.4.0 Finance and Financial Markets
2.4.1 Bond Market Association
[material on this important market]
While much of this site is devoted to material of interest to this
industry trade group, they do offer interesting annual data on this
market, which of course has an important macro impact. For instance,
in their "Research Desk" you can find find the percent of U.S.
Treasury securities held outside the U.S.
2.4.2 Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
[key security price data set]
This very well-known data set tracks security prices from the New
York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ Stock
Markets from 1926. Here you can read about how to buy this data, as
well as obtain support.
2.4.3 CRSP Data Access and Analysis
[suggestions on using CRSP]
This site doesn't offer CRSP data, but it does offer a number of
guides and links to using it. The sponsor of this site, Don Cram, has
also written a paper on accessing this dataset.
# http://www.stanford.edu/~doncram/crsp.html
2.4.4 Financial Data Finder at Ohio State
[lists numerous financial data sets]
This site provides a number of pointers to financial datasets and
other financial information both on and off the Internet. In
addition, it lists information about on-line business libraries.
# http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm
2.4.5 Finance Area (Top Services International)
[lists some 6,000 finance sites]
This site, with something of a European emphasis, is said to list
some 6,000 sites in finance. Major headings include companies,
markets, the EU Market, stocks, valuables, vademecum (for travelers),
offshore, equity, analysis, and miscellaneous.
# http://www.tsi.it/finanza/index.html
2.4.6 FINWeb
[lists finance sites]
"The primary objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources
providing substantive information concerning economics and
finance-related topics." To this end, resources are broken up into
the following categories: electronic publishing (both journals and
working papers), databases, other servers in finance and economics,
miscellaneous topics, and highly recommended general resources. It is
another good place to look for financial market information.
2.4.7 Global Financial Data
[historical finance data]
To quote from Brian Taylor, who is the President of this service: "We
offer extensive historical financial data. On our site we provide
free over 700 years of inflation data, and 200 years of data on
exchange rates, interest rates and the stock market. We also provide
long-term data on stock market returns and inflation rates for almost
40 countries. Our database includes data on over 50 countries and
includes monthly data back to the 1690s."
To quote from their offerings:
The Long-term Monthly Database includes over 500 series of monthly
data on stock markets back to 1693, exchange rates back to 1624 and
inflation rates back to 1748. Over 50 countries are included in the
database.
The United States Interest Rate Database includes 70 series of weekly
interest rate data. Data begin in 1835 on a monthly basis and in 1872
on a weekly basis.
The Foreign Interest Rate Database includes over 400 series of
monthly foreign interest rate data from 50 countries. Monthly data
begin in 1700 and go back to the 1800s for most major economies.
Discount rates, interbank rates, money market rates, government bond
yields and treasury bond yields are included.
The United States Daily Stock Market Indices Database includes 75
series of daily stock market data. All major United States stock
market indices are complete back to their beginning. Daily data begin
in 1885.
The Foreign Daily Stock Market Indices Database includes over 200
series of daily stock market data from 45 world stock markets. Daily
data begin in 1930.
The United States Stock Market Sector Database includes over 350
series of weekly sector data back to 1918. Monthly data go back to
1871.
The Foreign Stock Market Sector Database includes over 1300 series of
monthly sector data for 25 countries. Data begin in the 1920s or
earlier for the world's major stock markets.
Some of these series, and summary information on the rest, is offered
for free, and the rest can be purchased. As appropriate, there are
frequent updates.
# http://www.globalfindata.com/
2.4.8 Investment FAQ
[Usenet FAQ on finance]
This document is the FAQ for the newsgroup misc.invest. As such, it
covers a wide variety of material for individual investors, such as
mutual funds, the tax code, financial planning, trading, technical
analysis, and much more.
# http://www.invest-faq.com/
# ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/investment-faq/general
2.4.9 OSU Virtual Finance Library
[nice listing of finance sites for academics]
This listing of finance resources on the Internet is quite
wide-ranging. It breaks finance sites up into the following set of
categories:
# New Links
# Popular Sites
# Banks
# Exchanges
# World Market
# Insurers
# Investment Banks
# Current Quotes
# Market News
# For Investors
# For Researchers
# For Students
# For Executives
# For Educators
The "For Researchers" area is particularly extensive (though densely
packed with information).
# http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/overview.htm
2.4.10 Public Domain Financial Data
[various freely-available data sets]
This site allows those with financial data they would like to share
to place it at a common site. Thus, some caution might be advised
since the data may not be "official." Details about this site can be
found in the "README" file.
# ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/archives/misc.invest
2.4.11 SEC EDGAR
[electronic filings with the SEC]
This database opened in January of 1994. It covers public filings by
U.S. public companies made to the SEC from that data, this includes
such things as 10K, 10Q, annual, quarterly reports, and many other
items.
Previously, this database was available only through Mead Data in
either inconvenient locations or at very considerable expense. In an
experiment, it was available at no cost over the Internet. The
experiment was deemed a success, and now the SEC itself makes the
data available.
This database only covers filings made from 1994 on, for public
consumption, and when made electronically by the filing company.
Thus, it does not cover earlier years, current paper fillings, or
non-public ones.
There are a number of utilities that make using this large database
easier. Some help you easily search for material, and another formats
EDGAR fillings into WordPerfect format.
# http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
# ftp://ftp.sec.gov/edgar
2.4.12 Wall Street Directory
[listing of finance sites]
This directory claims to list nearly 10,000 separate web pages
organized separate ways for different uses.
2.5.0 Journal Data and Program Archives
2.5.1 Economic Journal Datasets Online
Datasets from articles from the "Economic Journal" can be found here.
Data is from papers from 1995 to the present, where not restricted by
copyright or technical issues.
# http://www.res.org.uk/datasets/
2.5.2 Journal of Applied Econometrics
Authors of papers accepted after 1994 are required to put the data
from their paper here unless there is a very good reason (such as
excessive size or confidentiality considerations). There is some data
from earlier papers.
# http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/
# ftp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae
# Information: James MacKinnon <j...@qed.con.queensu.ca>
2.5.3 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Programs and data from publications in this journal can found here.
Current authors are expected to place their data and program here.
# ftp://www.amstat.org/jbes/View/
2.5.4 Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
This journal, which may have well started economists' interest in
data archiving, now offers data and programs from empirical articles
since the start of 1996. The only exception is proprietary data and
exceptional circumstances.
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5.0 General Interest
5.1 The Dismal Scientist
[macro and regional data with analysis plus general commentary]
This site, part of "Regional Financial Associates," a consulting
firm, bills itself as "The Best Free Lunch on the Web." On the macro
side, they offer not only current releases of many macro series, but
also analysis of each release, and analyses of the economy in general
on a monthly basis. They do the same for regional data. They offer
nearly 130 series on the states, and 60 on 257 metropolitan areas. In
a nice twist, you can sort states and metropolitan areas by these
series (surprisingly interesting). They also offer analyses in the
"Thoughts" section; current sections include the Asian crisis,
financial markets, industry analysis, regional, and the U.S. economy.
There are also macro and regional forecasts, and finally, there is a
useful dictionary and calendar of data releases.
* 5.2 About.com
[topical focus (nice on new econ material on the Internet)]
This economics guide, run by John Irons, is part of the About.com web
* site (formerly the Mining Company), which provides "expert guides
to help you find/learn/share" information on the Internet (there are
several hundred guides, typically in areas of general interest). This
particular guide addresses two "markets:" very topical subjects, and
general interest (of course, much of this is of interest to
professional economists). It is updated several times a month, and
does a good job of covering new economic events on the Internet. For
instance, there is a section dealing with economics articles in
on-line magazines ("Econ in Online Mags"), and newly added economic
resources on the Internet ("Net Finds"). There are also short essays
and reviews on topical areas. Finally, there are sections dealing
with less topical areas as well: "Books, Economics Community, Data,
Government, News, Newsletter, Archives, Organizations, Resources, and
Special Topics."
# http://www.economics.about.com
5.3 Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network
[macro and international charts and analysis]
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6.0 Jobs, Grants, & Academic Advice
6.1 Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education) Job Listings
[worth a look]
This section of the electronic version of The Chronicle of Higher
Education lists job openings.
# http://chronicle.merit.edu/jobs/
6.2 E-JOE (European Job Openings for Economists)
[European emphasis]
This site, a joint project of the Technical University of Berlin and
the European Economic Association (EEA), lists job openings for
economists in Europe. It has a particularly nice search interface. In
addition, those looking for jobs can subscribe to an e-mail
notification service.
# http://maynard.ww.tu-berlin.de/e-joe/
# Information: <e-...@maynard.ww.tu-berlin.de>
6.3 JOE (Job Openings for Economists from the AEA)
[standard reference]
This electronic version of JOE, run the by American Economic
Association, offers all the material in the printed version. In
addition, this electronic version makes it much easier to search for
specific information, but if one wishes, one can also browse the
entire document in its usual form.
Before you use it, be sure to read the directions dealing with the
details of searching for information, and the classification codes
for the job listings.
# http://www.eco.utexas.edu/joe/
6.4 UK-JOE (Royal Economic Society)
[U.K. emphasis]
This site, run by the Royal Economic Society, lists job openings in
the U.K. Job ads can be posted on-line.
# http://newdomino.lbs.ac.uk/econ.nsf/UKJoe/Home
6.5 Economics Ph.D. Job Candidates
This site lists the "other side" of this market -- those looking for
jobs. It is arranged by school.
# http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jwpatty/jobcand/index.html
6.6 New Ph.D.s in Economics (NBER)
The NBER offers this listing of departments with PhD students in the
job market. It is arranged by school.
# http://www.nber.org/candidates/
6.7 Survey of the Labor Market For New Ph.D.s in Economics
This report describes the outcome of the labor market. It contains a
great variety of data (salaries, summer support, number of hires,
etc.).
# http://www.uark.edu/depts/cberinfo/aea/index.html
6.8 American Association of State Colleges and Universities: Office of
Federal Programs
[searchable grant database]
This organization is composed of more than 430 public colleges and
universities. Their interests are quite wide-ranging, but one
includes listing grant opportunities for member institutions. This
database, "GrantSearch" is obviously searchable, and seems to be
fairly broad -- a search for "economic" yielded almost 90 "hits."
Further, most seemed "reasonable" -- that is, it is easy to imagine a
few economists interested in most of the offerings. To access this
database, it appears that your institution must be a member of this
organization.
+ 6.9 GrantSelect
+
+ [searchable grant database]
+
+ This database is compiled by Oryx Press, and is said to have some
+ 10,000 funding opportunities by some 3,400 entities. A search for
+ "economic" yielded 300 hits (even though it was not one of their
+ listed programs), and a quick search showed that most seemed
+ "reasonable." It is a fee-based service, with rates from $350 to
+ $1,500 for an institution. They offer a 30-day free trial.
+
+ # http://www.higheredconnect.com/grantselect/
6.10 Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
[searchable grant database]
This service is operated by the library of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. It maintains a database of close to 8,000
funding opportunities, and is updated daily. A search for "economic"
yielded some 900 "hits," but not all of them seemed to be of interest
to academic economists. Your institution must be a subscriber to use
this database. There are more than 200 institutional members, and a
link to the list is in on the main page.
# http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/
6.11 Department of Justice
This section of the Justice Department deals with grants that
researchers can apply for. This site details the different offices
that sponsor grants and lists the various opportunities for funding.
# http://www.ncjrs.org/fedgrant.htm
6.12 Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Research and Development
This section of the EPA deals with grants that researchers can apply
for. It includes announcements of opportunities, background material
for those who wish to apply for grants, and information on the
findings of grants.
6.13 National Science Foundation: Economics Program
This section of the NSF, under the newly formed Division of Social
and Economic Sciences (SES), offers extensive information about
itself here. This includes a listing of the program directors and
their assistants, and their contact information. There is a wealth of
information on applying for NSF grants: guides, checklists, and
forms, as well as information on regular proposals and special
funding opportunities. You can also read about grants awarded and
grants that are currently funded. For those who currently have an NSF
grant, there is information on extensions and the NSF's data
archiving policy.
# http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sber/econ/start.htm
6.14 Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
This foundation points out a survey of high school students showed
that "Only 30 percent know that low income results from the lack of
marketable skills," and "48 percent think that high wages are a
result of minimum wage laws, government actions or socially
responsible business leaders." Not surprisingly, they promote
economic education in many different ways. Besides information on how
to apply for grants, there is also background information on the
foundation, its very specific goals, and its mission statement.
+ 6.15 Manhattan Institute
+
+ The Manhattan Institute, "a market-oriented think tank," is offering
+ a $10,000 grant to graduate students and academics in a variety of
+ policy areas. Details on the application procedure and areas of
+ interest can be found at this site.
+
+ # http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/fellowship_program.htm
6.16 How to Publish in Top Journals
[views of an editor]
This set of more than 100 suggestions, written by Kwan Choi, the
Editor of the "Review of International Economics," is a very useful
set of suggestions from a unique viewpoint. Many should find it
useful.
# http://www.ag.iastate.edu/journals/rie/how.htm
6.17 Magnificent Publications, Inc.
[writing assistance]
This firm specializes in writing assistance, such as writing "plain
english," and related services including visual display of
quantitative information. Some members of this firm have a background
in economics, so they should be able to assist the economics
profession.
6.18 Resources for New Faculty and Their Mentors
[hints for new faculty]
This site provides a resource for new faculty members who are
adjusting to the academic lifestyle. It describes the obligations of
teaching and the expectations of the academic community. Annotated
listing of resources to assist new faculty in this adjustment are
available. Topics covered include general mentoring issues; journals;
getting a job; perspectives on being a faculty member; teaching
effectiveness; research, scholarship and publications; professional
vs. personal; tenure; adjunct and part-time service; and networking
and networks.
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resources are also described.
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7.0 Mailing Lists & Usenet
7.1.0 Mailing Lists
7.1.1 Introduction
Mailing lists work as follows. Software on a computer run by the
organizer (or moderator) of the list sends mail to all members of the
list when it receives mail. For obvious reasons, the term mail
exploder is sometimes used for such software. On some lists, the
moderator will approve mail to be sent to all list members. Whether
it is moderated or not, to send mail to all members, you need only
write to one address: the list address. However, to subscribe or
unsubscribe from the list, commands are not sent to the list address
(and thus all the people on the list), but to the software running
the list. Such software appears to be a user on the machine housing
the list, but it has a name such as listserv, majordomo, listproc,
mailbase, etc.
When using a mailing list, please follow "netiquette:"
# Use a meaningful subject line. A subject of "help", particularly
when received by those on more than one list, is not likely to
elicit much of a response.
# If you're responding to a previous post, quote accordingly, but
judiciously. This helps put your comments in context, yet avoids
messages that are too long.
# Enclose a short note (or "signature") at the bottom with at least
your e-mail address. Some mailing systems mangle the information in
the header with your address.
# If you have a response, consider responding directly via e-mail if
you think no one on the list will be interested.
# Watch your temper. E-mail sometimes makes tempers flare. If you
think you should wait or tone down your note, you most likely
should.
# Don't type in all capital letters (IT IS CALLED SHOUTING).
# Finally, employ common courtesy. If someone helps you out, a thank
you will be appreciated.
While not part of netiquette, the value of mailing lists should be
approached like other many other sources of information, such as a
newspaper or a journal. Much of the material may not be of interest,
but occasionally something very useful may cross your path. Note that
digests (described below) help you manage lists more effectively.
Note that in ALL cases, you subscribe and unsubscribe from a list NOT
by sending e-mail to the list itself (which means it goes to ALL the
members of the list), but to some special address that deals with
subscriptions. Sending mail to the list itself marks you as a novice
who hasn't taken time to carefully read directions. It also irritates
list members (numbering into the hundreds) who receive useless mail.
One hint: when subscribing to a list, you'll receive information on
how to unsubscribe. Keep it and use it.
The next sections contain the list of mailing lists. They are
organized them around JEL classifications (some of the
classifications may be a bit arbitrary, so be sure to look around
some). Each list has its own directions and information. These
include the name of the list, the commands to subscribe and
unsubscribe via e-mail (note that (i) commands go in the body of the
e-mail unless otherwise noted, and (ii) when it says <Your First and
Last Name>, type your name without the angle bars). The directions
also include the address of the list itself: e-mail sent there will
be forwarded to other list members (as above, this is different than
joining or subscribing to a list, which is handled by software when
you send commands to the program running the list. There are also
directions on how to receive the list in digest form (i.e. rather
than receiving each piece of e-mail individually, they come grouped
together as one piece of e-mail; this helps you organize your
e-mail), and the location of the archive of past messages.
7.1.1.0 A - General Economics and Teaching
7.1.1.1 Cato Online Update (cato-list)
Summary: The Update is your guide to what's happening on the Cato
Institute Web site. Each issue contains information on the
latest Cato studies, testimony, articles, and upcoming major
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7.1.2.0 B - Methodology and History of Economic Thought (none at this
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7.1.3.0 C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
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7.1.4.0 D - Microeconomics
7.1.4.1 Experimental Economics (economics-experimental)
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7.1.5.0 E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
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7.1.6.0 F - International Economics
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7.1.6.3 Trade Library (trade-library)
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7.1.15.0 O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
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7.1.16.0 P - Economic Systems (none at this time)
7.1.17.0 Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
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7.1.18.2 Economic and Demographic Models (remi-l)
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7.1.19.0 Z - Other Special Topics
7.1.19.1 Netnomics (netnomics)
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7.2.1 Usenet
Usenet is a decentralized discussion system running on tens of
thousands of cooperating computers around the world (much of the
traffic runs over the Internet). It covers some tens of thousands of
subjects in areas called newsgroups. The estimated number of readers
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Newsgroups and their descriptions:
# comp.text.tex: TeX and LaTeX
# comp.soft-sys.spss: SPSS
# comp.soft-sys.shazam: Shazam
# comp.soft-sys.sas: SAS (same as mailing list SAS-L)
# comp.soft-sys.matlab: Matlab
# sci.stat.edu: Statistics and Education (same as mailing list
edstat-l)
# sci.stat.math: Statistics and Math
# sci.stat.consult: Statistics and Consulting
# sci.math.stat: Statistics Discussion
# sci.op-research: Operations Research
# sci.econ.research: Research in Economics (Moderated)
# sci.econ: Discussions in Economics (often dominated by current
political economy questions; a good place for economic education if
you're really patient)
# fj.sci.economics: Discussion in Economics (Japan)
# sci.finance.abstracts: Abstracts in Finance
Bill Goffe
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8.0 Meetings & Conferences
+ 8.1 Inomics Conference Calls
+
+ This section of the Inomics search engine (which specializes in
+ economic sites) lists conferences. One can search by location, JEL
+ category, date, conference job markets, and open or closed dates.
+
+ # http://www.inomics.com/query/conf_search
8.2 Conferences in Econometrics
This listing of conferences in econometrics, collected by Marius
Ooms, is part of a larger listing of econometric resources. The
conference section is updated every two weeks or so and it is quite
extensive.
# http://www.eur.nl/few/ei/links/#conferences
8.1.0 Future Conferences
+ 8.1.1 American Consumer in the Changing Food System
+
+ The Economic Research Service of the USDA, along with the Food
+ Marketing Institute, Food Marketing Policy Center, Retail Food
+ Industry Center, American Institute of Food Distribution, NE-165, and
+ the Farm Foundation, will sponsor a conference in Washington, D. C.
+ on April 20-21, 2000. The "overall objective of the conference is to
+ take stock and improve our understanding of causes and effects of
+ increasing consolidation, concentration, and coordination in the food
+ system." This site provides information on guidelines and submission
+ dates for abstracts, plus proposed topics and addresses for
+ submissions.
+
+ # http://www.econ.ag.gov/whatsnew/events/consumer.htm
8.1.2 American Economic Association (AEA)
The next meeting of the AEA, held in conjunction with the Allied
Social Science Association (ASSA) will be held in Boston January 7-9,
2000. Information about the meeting can be found here.
# http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm
+ 8.1.3 Association for Cultural Economics International
+
+ The Association for Cultural Economics International will hold its
+ 11th International Biennial Conference on May 28-31, 2000 in
+ Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Association welcomes papers "in all
+ areas of the application of economics to the performing, visual,
+ heritage and media arts, cultural policy, and related areas." The
+ submission deadline is January 31, 2000.
+
+ # http://www.acei.neu.edu/MNcall1.htm
+ 8.1.4 Business History Conference
+
+ The next Business History Conference will be March 10-12, 2000, in
+ Palo Alto, California. The conference will be hosted by the Prologue
+ Group and will focus on "Enterprise in Society." The deadline for
+ submissions is October 15, 1999. Guidelines and additional
+ information can be found at this site.
+
+ # http://www.eh.net/bhc/Conference/confnews.shtml
+ 8.1.5 Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance Workshop on
+ Economic Dynamics
+
+ The Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF)
+ at the University of Amsterdam will hold a workshop on January 13-15,
+ 2000. The focus of the workshop will be dynamic modeling in
+ economics and finance. The deadline for submission of contributed
+ papers is September 1, 1999. This site also lists keynote speakers
+ and fee information.
+
+ # http://www.fee.uva.nl/cendef
+ 8.1.6 Cliometric Society
+
+ The Cliometric Society will sponsor sessions at the ASSA meetings on
+ January 7-9, 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts. Further information is
+ available on this site.
+
+ # http://www.eh.net/Clio/Conferences/ASSA/Jan_00/index.shtml
+ 8.1.7 Computational Methods in Economics, Finance and Statitistics
+
+ This Conference, organized by the University of Rousse and in
+ cooperation with SIAM, will be held in Rousse, Bulgaria on June
+ 11-15, 2000. The conference will focus on numerical linear algebra,
+ numerical methods for differential equations, numerical modeling, and
+ high performance scientific computing. Abstracts should be submitted
+ by January 15, 2000. This site provides information on keynote
+ speakers, the international program committee, and contact persons.
+
+ # http://unidhp.uni-c.dk/~yalamov/rousse00.html
+ # http://orca.st.usm.edu/marcin/mp/cfp/rousse00/rousse00.html
8.1.8 Econometric Society
This page offers information on both past conferences (programs and
abstracts) and future ones (calls for papers and general
information).
# http://gemini.econ.yale.edu/es/meetings/future.html
+ 8.1.9 European Simulation Symposium
+
+ The Eleventh European Simulation Symposium and Exhibition Simulation
+ in Industry will be held at Friedrich-Alexander University in
+ Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany on October 26-28, 1999. Conference
+ topics will focus on methodology and tools, logistics,
+ telecommunications, virtual reality, analytical and numerical
+ modeling techniques, simulation in industry/economics, and high
+ performance simulation. The abstract submission deadline has been
+ extended to June 30, 1999. This site also provides deadlines and
+ registration fees, conference program, keynote speaker, and other
+ information.
+
+ # http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ess99/
+ 8.1.10 European Social Science History Conference
+
+ The Third European Social Science History Conference (EHHSC) will be
+ held in Amsterdam on April 12-15, 2000. This conference is organized
+ by the International Institute of Social History, which is part of
+ the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. On this site,
+ one can find general information about the ESSHC; information on
+ papers, sessions, and proposals; how to organize a panel session;
+ fees; and a time schedule.
+
+ # http://www.iisg.nl/ESSHC/
+ 8.1.11 European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) Annual Congress
+
+ The Fourteenth Annual Congress of the European Society for Population
+ Economics will be held in Bonn on June 15-17, 2000. The focus of the
+ conference will be on "labor economics, household economics, public
+ economics, demography, statistics, and economic history." The
+ deadline for abstracts for this conference is February 1, 2000.
+ Submission and registration guidelines are presented at this site.
+
+ # http://www.iza.org/espe/
+ 8.1.12 Fourth Annual Post-Graduate Economics Conference
+
+ This conference will be held on Friday, November 12, 1999 at the
+ University of Leeds and will be supported by the Leeds University
+ Business School, Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University
+ and the Post Keynesian Study Group. Papers will focus on the
+ following topics: the economics of work and employment;
+ methodological and philosophical issues in economics; money and
+ uncertainty; and technological and industrial change in a global
+ economy. The submission deadline is September 17, 1999. An e-mail
+ address for submission is provided, as are programs for the past two
+ conferences.
+
+ # http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cipp/pgc.htm
+ 8.1.13 Hume Society
+
+ The 27th Hume Society Conference will be held July 23-29, 2000, in
+ Williamsburg, Virginia. It will focus on Hume's life and work,
+ particularly the areas of rhetoric, representation, religion, and
+ 18th century American thought. The deadline for submissions is
+ November 1, 1999. This site provides guidelines and addresses for
+ submissions and other conference information.
+
+ # http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Hume/
8.1.14 International Business and Economics Conference
The Second Annual International Business and Economics Conference
will be held at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin on October
8-9, 1999. The conference will focus on business and economic issues
in the global context. Additional information on the conference and
the submission of abstracts and papers is available on this site.
# http://www.snc.edu/econ/conf99/
+ 8.1.15 International Working Group on Value Theory (IWGVT)
+
+ The International Working Group on Value Theory will hold its 7th
+ mini-conference as part of the Eastern Economic Association
+ Conference in Crystal City on March 24-26, 2000. Abstracts are
+ welcome beginning May 1, 1999; proposals are due by August 1, 1999;
+ and completed papers by November 1, 1999. Besides the call for
+ papers, this site provides information on the International Working
+ Group on Value Theory and 1999 sessions and papers.
+
+ # http://www.gre.ac.uk/~fa03/iwgvt/
+ 8.1.16 Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and
+ Nonlinear Dynamics
+
+ The Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and
+ Nonlinear Dynamics will be held in Vienna on May 24-26, 2000. This
+ site provides information on the organizing committee, pre-registered
+ participants, programs, registration fees, and submission deadlines.
+
+ # http://www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/prod/EVENTS/ws2000
+ 8.1.17 Rethinking Marxism
+
+ The fourth International Gala Conference of Rethinking Marxism is
+ scheduled for September 21-24, 2000 at the University of
+ Massachusetts, Amherst. Submissions must be received by June 1,
+ 2000. The focus of the conference will be to "explore and engender
+ fresh insights and struggles, and to (re)claim utopian visions and
+ hopes for just and humane global alternatives." The conference is
+ sponsored by the journal "Rethinking Marxism." Conference
+ information, guidelines, and registration information can be found at
+ this site.
+
+ # http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/Marxism2000/
+ 8.1.18 Society for Computational Economics (SCE)
+
+ The Sixth International Conference of the Society for Computational
+ Economics, "Computing in Economics and Finance," will be held in
+ Barcelona, 6-8 July 2000 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Currently, only
+ the Call for Papers is available here; the deadlines is January 15,
+ 2000. As the conference approaches, there will be information on
+ accommodations, the program, Barcelona, and UPF.
+
+ # http://enginy.upf.es/SCE/
+ 8.1.19 What We Don't Know about Pacific Northwest Fish Runs: An Inquiry
+ into Decision-Making under Uncertainty
+
+ The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Portland State
+ University, along with funding from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation
+ of Seattle, will sponsor this two-day conference in the Spring of
+ 2000. This site links to either a Word Document or an Adobe Acrobat
+ pdf file with details on the background of the project, suggested
+ topics, abstract submission guidelines and dates, addresses for
+ submissions or questions, and other project details.
+
+ # http://www.econ.pdx.edu
8.2.0 Past Conferences
8.2.1 Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences (ABAS)
The 1999 International Conference of the Academy of Business and
Administrative Sciences will be held in Barcelona, Spain on July
12-14, 1999. The conference will focus on globalization and emerging
economies. Information about the conference, topics of discussion,
registration and fees, and a registration form are available on this
site.
# http://www.sba.muohio.edu/abas/
8.2.2 Advancing the Integration of New Technologies into the
Undergraduate Teaching of Economics
This conference, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh and
Journal of Economic Education (with NSF support) is devoted to
technology for the teaching of economics. It will be held May 28-30,
1998, at the University of Pittsburgh. At this site you will find the
conference program and the conference application form.
# http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/confer.htm
8.2.3 American Agricultural Economics Association Conferences
Here you can find information on conferences associated with this
association -- this includes both the annual meeting and specialized
ones. In general, all necessary information about a meeting can be
found here.
# http://www.aaea.org/meetings.html
8.2.4 Berlin Workshop on Internet Economics
The Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop will be held in Berlin,
Germany on May 28-29, 1999. The conference is being organized by
Berlecon Research. This site provides a list of topics, abstract
deadline and requirements, the program committee, and registration
information.
# http://www.berlecon.de/iew2/
8.2.5 Business and Economics Society International
The 1999 Conference of the Business and Economics Society
International will be held in the Canary Islands, on July 22-26,
1999. This site provides program information, abstract and paper
requirements and deadlines, a registration form, a fee schedule, and
a list of subject categories.
# http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Faculty/Kantar/HKANTAR2.html
8.2.6 Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics
This conference, part of a series on complex systems, will feature
ideas from the intersection of economics and ecology. It will be held
November 30-December 4 in Sydney, Australia. At the moment, at this
site, you can read the call for papers and contact the organizer of
the conference.
# http://parallel.acsu.unsw.edu.au/complex/c98/
8.2.7 Tenth International Conference on Cultural Economics
This conference will be held in Barcelona on June 14-17, 1998. Here
you will find basic information on the conference, including the call
for papers and contact information.
# http://www.dac.neu.edu/economics/n.alper/acei/barc.htm
8.2.8 Econometric Society: Far East Meeting (ES)
The 1999 Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, organized by
the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore,
will be held in Singapore on July 1-3, 1999. Conference information
is available on this site.
# http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/ecs/admin/FEMES98.html
8.2.9 Econometric Society: Latin American Meeting (ES)
The Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, sponsored by
the Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, will be held in
Cancun, Mexico on August 2-6, 1999. At this site you will find
information on abstract and manuscript submissions and guidelines,
and a list of the program committee.
+ 8.2.10 Economic and Social Research Council
+
+ The annual conference of the Econometric Study Group will be held at
+ the Burwalls Centre for Continuing Education at the University of
+ Bristol on July 15-17, 1999. Conference schedule, invited speakers,
+ and an application are available on this site.
+
+ # http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/esgc/esgc.htm
8.2.11 Economic Beliefs and Behaviour
This conference is sponsored by the Economic and Social Research
Council of the U.K. It will be held July 1-2, 1998 in Oxford. "This
conference will review our understanding of economic decision-making
and will be of interest primarily to economists, psychologists and
sociologists working in this field." This site contains a wealth of
background information on the conference's topic.
# http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/ESRC/
8.2.12 EIIT - Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference
This conference will be held November 13-15 at Purdue University. The
focus is empirical international trade. Details on this conference
and past ones can be found here. To encourage graduate student
participation, there is a prize for the best graduate student paper;
the winner will receive up to $400 for reimbursement of travel
expenses. The conference is hosted by Jon Haveman and is sponsored by
the Purdue Center for International Business Education and Research.
8.2.13 European Economic Association (EEA)
The annual Congress of the European Economic Association will be held
in Santiago de Compostela from September 1 to September 4, 1999,
immediately following the Econometric Society European Meeting.
Registration, abstract guidelines, and other pertinent information
about both meetings can be found at this site.
8.2.14 European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ES)
The Econometric Society will hold its next European Meeting from
August 29 to September 1, 1999 in Santiago de Compostela. This
meeting will immediately precede the Annual Congress of the European
Economic Association. Registration, abstract guidelines, and other
pertinent information about both meetings can be found at this site.
8.2.15 8th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications
This conference, organized by the International Society on Dynamical
Games, will be held Maastricht, The Netherlands, on July 6-8, 1998.
This site covers all aspects of the conference: a list of organizers,
the program, registration forms, and travel information.
# http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/CONF-isdg.html
8.2.16 First Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
This conference, to be held June 8-10, 1998 at Purdue University,
deals with international trade, with a special emphasis on "applied
general equilibrium methods, data, and applications" as well as
"related theoretical and applied" work. All aspects of the conference
can be found here: the program and schedule, accommodations,
registration forms, housing, meals, etc. This conference is being
held in conjunction with Purdue's Global Trade Analysis Project
(GTAP).
# http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/gtap/conference/index.htm
8.2.17 International Ukrainian Economic Association Fourth Congress and
Economics Symposium
This conference will take place May 25-29, 1998, in Kyiv, Ukraine. It
is for those interested in "Ukrainian economics, the economies of
East/Central Europe, transition economics, economic history,
comparative economics, etc." Here, you can find information on the
conference, travel information, and details on how to reach the
contact person.
# http://www.brama.com/ukrainecon/congress.html
8.2.18 International Conference on Islamic Economics in the 21st Century
This conference, sponsored by the International Islamic University
Malaysia (IIUM) and the Islamic Research and Training Institute
(IRTI), and the Islamic Development Bank will be held on August 9-12,
1999 in Kuala Lumpur. Basic information about the conference can be
found here.
# http://www.iiu.edu.my/enm/active/intl.html
8.2.19 International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
The Second World Conference of Health Economics of the International
Health Economics Association (iHEA 1999), sponsored mainly by the
Dutch Ministry of Welfare, Health & Sport, will be held in Rotterdam,
the Netherlands, from June 6 to 9, 1999. The conference will focus
on the private and public choices in health and health care. General
information, call for abstracts and papers, abstract forms,
information requests, and registration details are available at this
site.
# http://www.healtheconomics.org
8.2.20 International Institute of Forecasters
The International Institute of Forecasters is sponsoring the 19th
International Symposium on Forecasting to be held in Washington, D.
C. on June 27-30, 1999. The conference will focus on issues of
strategic forecasting for government and business. This site
provides links to abstract information, conference details,
registration, and other related conferences.
+ 8.2.21 Society for Computational Economics (SCE)
+
+ The Fifth International Conference of the Society for Computational
+ Economics will be held at Boston College on June 24-26, 1999. The
+ conference is sponsored by Wolfram Research, MathWorks, and MathSoft,
+ Inc., the Enterprise Group of Funds, and the Boston College
+ Department of Economics and Wallace E. Carroll School of Management.
+ The theme focuses on quantitative and qualitative computing in
+ economics and finance. This site supplies a conference schedule,
+ tentative program, call for papers, registration details (including
+ on-line registration), and other conference information.
+
+ # http://fmwww.bc.edu/cef99/
8.2.22 Society for Economic Dynamics (SED)
The annual meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, organized by
the Center for North South Economic Research (CRENOS) at the
University of Cagliari, will be held in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy on
June 27-30, 1999. At this site, you will find a call for papers,
conference information, and a registration form.
# http://www.econ.umn.edu/sed99/
8.2.23 Western Economic Association International (WEA)
The Western Economic Association International's 74th Annual
Conference will be held in San Diego, California, on July 6-10, 1999
and will carry the theme "Institutions and Organizations: Past,
Present, and Prospective." This site provides information on
abstracts and registration.
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10.3.0 Societies and Associations
10.3.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC): Associations and Societies
This material, part of EDIRC, which lists more than 4,000 economics
departments and the like, is devoted to associations. At last count,
the number of associations was more than 200, so it is a fine place
to search for ones not listed here.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/assocs.html
10.3.2 Academy of Economics and Finance
This site offers information on this association, formerly known as
the "Midsouth Academy of Economics and Finance." You can find a list
of the Executive Board, its history, publications, meetings, and
information on membership.
# http://www.mtsu.edu/~jeandf/academy.htm
10.3.3 American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)
Besides links to material in this area, this site describes the
association. This includes its objectives, officers, and material on
its publications and membership. There is also information on
upcoming meetings.
+ 10.3.4 American Committee on Asian Economic Studies (ACAES)
+
+ This committee offers a conference program that focuses on Asian
+ industrialization and its effect on economic relations between Asia
+ and the United States. However, this program differs from many
+ others by not only providing a comprehensive view of Asia-U.S.
+ relations, but also by providing a specific focus on economics and
+ economics policy issues and by covering a broad range of regimes
+ including Japan, Northeast Asian NIE, ASEAN countries, China, India,
+ South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island economies.
+ This site provides a list of the ACAES conference programs, ACAES
+ publications, corporate patrons, and a list of members.
+
+ # http://economics.rutgers.edu/home/dutta
10.3.5 American Economic Association (AEA)
At this site, the AEA offers information about itself, including its
officers, by-laws, minutes of executive committee meetings, audited
financial statements, and the address of its business office. There
are links to the Directory of members and the annual meeting.
# http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/
+ 10.3.6 American Finance Association (AFA)
+
+ This non-profit, professional society has grown in membership to over
+ 8,000 since 1939. The association provides a forum for those
+ interested in finance to improve the understanding and the study of
+ financial problems and ideas, provide a periodical ("The Journal of
+ Finance") for the exchange of financial ideas, and to promote other
+ activities in the field of finance. This site provides announcements
+ and links to financial sites; information on the annual meeting,
+ membership benefits, subscriptions, the 1998 Presidential address,
+ and information on "The Journal of Finance."
+
+ # http://www.afajof.org/
10.3.7 American Law and Economics Association (ALEA)
Besides papers (they will remain until the authors withdraw them, or
until next year's meeting) and other information from their annual
meeting, this site lists members and has pointers to other on-line
law and economics resources.
# http://webserver.law.yale.edu/alea/alea.htm
10.3.8 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA)
This organization offers its membership list, newsletter, and
information on applying for membership at this site. They have a link
to their journal Real Estate Economics.
10.3.9 Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI)
This association is aptly described by its name. Its members range
from "academic scholars, government officials, foundation officials,
managers of arts and cultural organizations and artists, united in
their interest in furthering understanding of the economic aspects of
the arts and culture in their own countries and throughout the world.
" You can read about their conferences, background, and officers
here.
# http://www.dac.neu.edu/economics/n.alper/acei/index.htm
+ 10.3.10 Association for Economic and Development Studies in Bangladesh
+ (AEDSB)
+
+ Though not updated since 1995, this web site provides some
+ information on the AEDSB, whose focus is researching economic
+ development in Bangladesh. There is a link to the Centre for Policy
+ Dialogue and a review of the economic development of Bangladesh.
+
+ # http://www.usi.edu/bets/quddus.htm
+ 10.3.11 Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
+
+ This international association of institutional economists works to
+ "develop cogent and relevant theories for formulating sound economic
+ policies." Besides extensive information on their journal, the
+ "Journal of Economic Issues," they describe the tenets of
+ institutionalism, a bit of its history, and how one can join the
+ association.
+
+ # http://www.cba.unl.edu/additional/ecafee.html
+ 10.3.12 Association for Social Economics (ASE)
+
+ Established in 1941, this association aims to produce economic
+ policies that are "consistent with the integral values of the person
+ and a humane community." This site provides information on
+ membership, published journals (both "The Review of Social Economy"
+ and "The Forum for Social Economics"), annual meetings, research
+ grants, and other publications.
+
+ # http://www.socialeconomics.org/
+ 10.3.13 Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
+
+ This association focuses on the Cuban economy in its transition to a
+ free-market democracy and the problems associated with this
+ transition. The site provides the proceedings of the annual meetings
+ of the ASCE.
+
+ # http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/
10.3.14 Association des Economistes Quebecois (ASDEQ)
"ASDEQ is the most important association of business economists in
Quebec and of those interested in economics. This website contains
all the needed information on its activities, its organization and
its mandate." (Simon Bergeron kindly provided this English summary.)
# http://canarie.hec.ca/asdeq/
+ 10.3.15 Association of Christian Economists (ACE)
+
+ This organization, with over 300 members worldwide, focuses on the
+ relationship between economics and the Christian faith. This site
+ provides information on the ACE Bulletin, working papers,
+ professional gatherings, officers, membership, and a mailing list.
+
+ # http://www.gordon.edu/ace/
10.3.16 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
This organization offers a number of services at this site. It
includes a history of the organization, a version of their print
newsletter, a survey of grad programs in this field, a membership
directory, information on meetings and other items of interest in the
field, and information on the mailing list, AERE-L (most discussion,
however, has been moved to the Land and Resource Economics List.
10.3.17 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc
(AARES)
The principal aim of this society "is to encourage study, research,
discussion and extension in the discipline of agricultural and
resource economics in order to promote the efficient development of
agricultural and natural resources." You can read about their
activities, membership policies, how to contact the society, and
future meetings. They also list contacts for their branch activities,
information about their journals (Review of Marketing and
Agricultural Economics and Australian Journal of Agricultural
Economics), and future conferences of interest to those in
agricultural and resources economics. Finally, they offer a set links
for this area.
10.3.18 Business & Economics Society International
This site describes the aims of this society (among other things, to
"Facilitate communication between Practitioners and Business/
Economics Academicians as they pursue excellence in practice,
teaching and research") and its activities, such as conferences.
Membership information is available as well.
# http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Faculty/Kantar/MissB1.html
10.3.19 Business History Conference
This organization deals with the history of business. At their site
you can find information on their annual conference and membership
information. There is also information from "Business and Economic
History" (BEH), which is the proceedings from their annual
conference. This site is operated under EH.net rubric.
10.3.20 Canadian Economic History Server
At this site, you will find a membership list, notices on
conferences, grants, fellowships and jobs. It will soon expand into
datasets and bibliographies.
# http://www.arts.ubc.ca/cliocan/clionet.html
10.3.21 Canadian Economics Association (CEA)
This site offers a list of Canadian economics departments and
economists, a membership directory and application, the CEA
Newsletter, a list of officials, and links to Canadian resources
(including grants awarded to economists by the SSHRC). There is also
a link to the Canadian Journal of Economics.
10.3.22 Canadian Law and Economics Association
This site has information on the next conference, and where to write
to obtain a membership.
# http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/ecolaw/clea/clea.html
+ 10.3.23 Chinese Economists Society (CES)
+
+ This international association, formerly named "The Chinese Young
+ Economists Society," promotes economic reforms and an open-door
+ policy for China, encourages academic exchanges, and aids modern
+ economic education in China. The Society has over 500 members, most
+ of which are from mainland China. Of particular interest is the
+ number of members who return to China to play a role in the
+ continuation of modernization once their studies are complete. This
+ site provides information on past and future conference;
+ publications, bulletins, and newsletters (including English language
+ journal "The China Economic Review"); and a mailing list.
+
+ # http://china-ces.org/
10.3.24 Cliometric Society
This society focuses on quantitative economic history. Here they
offer abstracts of work of economic historians, many book reviews,
economic history databases, a searchable database of members (along
with the Economic History Association and the Economic History
Society), calendar of events in the field (conferences, calls for
papers, deadlines, and the like). They also offer syllabi from many
economic history courses, and information on mailing lists in the
field. In an innovative gesture, they offer "Ask a Professor," where
those interested in economic history can e-mail questions to economic
historians. This site is operated under EH.net rubric.
10.3.25 Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(CSWEP)
At this site for this committee of the American Economic Association,
you can read their newsletters, upcoming events, membership
information, and annual report. You can also find a list of board and
regular members.
# http://webby.cc.denison.edu/economics/cswep/
10.3.26 Eastern Economic Association (EEA)
This organization offers information about itself, including its
journal, the "Eastern Economic Journal," membership information, and
material about upcoming conferences.
# http://www.iona.edu/academic/arts_sci/orgs/eea/eea.htm
10.3.27 Econometric Society
This site tells about the officers and councils (which cover various
regions of the world), material about Econometrica (including a
searchable table of contents, recently accepted papers, the editorial
board and instructions for authors), and information on meetings
(both past and future).
# http://gemini.econ.yale.edu/es/
10.3.28 Economic History Association
Founded in 1940, this association's goals are "to encourage and
promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of
economic history, broadly defined, and to encourage and assist in the
preservation and administration of the materials for research in
economic history." Located here you will find a directory of members
(along with the Cliometric Society, and the Economic History
Society), membership details, information on its journal, the
"Journal of Economic History," and details on its conference. This
site is operated under EH.net rubric.
10.3.29 Economic Science Association (ESA)
The ESA "is a professional organization whose members focus on
developing economics as an observational science. Research in the
area employs controlled experiments as a means of understanding
economic behavior." Currently, this site has information about the
organization's next meeting, a directory of members, and links to
other experimental sites on the net.
# http://www.econlab.arizona.edu/esa/
+ 10.3.30 Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR)
+
+ This organization provides a forum "for intellectual exchange among
+ economists concerned with issues related to peace, conflict
+ resolution, international security, arms control, conversion,
+ military technology, and national military budgets." They contend
+ that the direct and indirect cost of war to human lives, as well as
+ our military-dependent economy will only fuel conflicts. This site
+ provides information on conferences, membership, members and
+ affiliates, annual reports, newsletters, and publications.
+
+ # http://www.ecaar.org
10.3.31 European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
This association, the second largest for economists in Europe (with
over 700 members), focuses on the development of realistic approaches
to socio-economic theory and economic policy problems. This site
provides membership information, conference dates, overviews, and
papers. It also includes current research topics, publications
information, competition and prize information, access to the
discussion list EAEPE.DIALOGUE, and information on submissions to the
EAEPE Newsletter.
10.3.32 European Association of Law and Economics (EALE)
This site has a description of the association, information on
conferences and publications of the association, and a membership
list. Perhaps the neatest feature is one can resister for the
association or update current membership information on-line.
# http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/ecolaw/eale/eale.html
10.3.33 European Historical Economic Society (EHES)
This relatively new society is "concerned with the advancement of
education in European Economic History through the study of European
economies and economic history." There are annual conferences and
summer schools, while members receive the "European Review of
Economic History." This site is operated under EH.net rubric.
10.3.34 European Economic Association (EEA)
At this site, you can learn about the basic aims of the Society, its
activities, governance, membership, and its journals, the "European
Economic Review" and "Economic Policy."
# http://www.core.ucl.ac.be/eea/
# Information: <e...@core.ucl.ac.be>
10.3.35 Financial Management Association (FMA)
This sites describes this organization in detail: its goals and
mission, its publications, undergraduate programs, and its meetings.
You can also access their placement directory and even join the
organization on-line.
10.3.36 Finnish Society for Economic Research
"The purpose of the Finnish Society for Economic Research is to
encourage economic research, debate and publishing in Finland. The
Society pursues its goal by the arrangement of annual and monthly
meetings, by publishing the Finnish Economic Papers and by
cooperating with other societies in Finland and abroad." At this site
you will find detailed information on the site: general information,
the executive committee, links to various economic sites on the net,
and details on how to contact the organization.
10.3.37 History of Economics Society
This society focuses on the history of our profession. The site
features a monthly guest editorial in the area, sites on the net for
those in this area (including programs in the field, people, allied
associations, and sources for specific themes and individuals), a
listing of seminars and workshops, electronic texts by famous
economists (Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Marshall, Keynes, etc.), links to
working papers, syllabi, and other sites of interest. In all, the
site covers a very wide range of resources.
# # #
+ 10.3.38 International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
+
+ This worldwide organization is for those professionals who have an
+ interest in energy economics. On this site, there is information on
+ upcoming conferences, members, IAEE activities, and events. Also
+ available are current newsletters and an application for membership.
+
+ # http://www.iaee.org/
10.3.39 International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
This organization, devoted to all aspects of feminist economics,
offers a number of activities, of which you can read about here. You
can also find membership information (including a membership form), a
statement of purpose for the organization, contacts for the
organization, very detailed information on their conferences, and
information on their journal, "Feminist Economics." For those
interested in using videos in the classroom they offer a very
extensive list of possibilities.
# http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jshackel/iaffe/
+ 10.3.40 International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES)
+
+ This society, open to all economists worldwide, focuses on global
+ economics and the advancement of future generations of economists. On
+ this site, one will find information on the IAES publications (both
+ "The Atlantic Economic Journal" and "International Advances in
+ Economics Research"). Also on this site is information on upcoming
+ conferences, a membership application, member services and benefits,
+ and officers and staff.
+
+ # http://www.iaes.org/
10.3.41 International Economics and Philosophy Society
This international society, founded in 1994, is devoted to the
intersection of economics and philosophy. At this site you can read
about the society. This includes membership information and the focus
of the society.
# http://www.qut.edu.au/arts/human/ethics/ieps/
+ 10.3.42 International Economic and Finance Society (IEFS)
+
+ This society, with a membership of over 600, specializes in
+ international trade and finance. A copy of the by-laws and a list of
+ officers can be found on this site; it also includes information on
+ the upcoming annual meeting.
+
+ # http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/iefs/
10.3.43 International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
This site offers information about the organization, the 1996 iHEA
Conference Proceedings and information on up-coming conferences, and
an on-line membership application form. Databases include the
Worldwide Directory of Health Economists and the up-coming On-Line
Conference Directory, sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund.
Publications include "iHEA News: The Electronic Newsletter"; "HEAL:
The Print Newsletter;" "Health Economics"; "Journal of Health
Economics;" and "The Electronic Health Economics Letters" (eHEL),
which publishes short, peer-reviewed, papers focusing on many topics
in health economics.
# http://www.healtheconomics.org
10.3.44 International Indian Economic Association (IIEA)
This is a non-partisan association of economists of Indian origin,
which offers economic research focusing on the improvement of the
economic conditions in India. This site provides many of the
objectives of the Association, including the Archival Project,
publications (specifically a policy-oriented, refereed economic
journal set to be released in Spring 2000), career development,
education and outreach, and conferences.
+ 10.3.45 International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET)
+
+ This international institute focuses on many aspects of marine
+ resource issues, including "fisheries economics, marine resource
+ economics, fisheries management, seafood markets throughout the
+ world, aquaculture development and economics, and fisheries
+ development." This site provides information on membership,
+ conferences, and publications of conference proceedings and research
+ papers.
+
+ # http://osu.orst.edu/Dept/IIFET/
10.3.46 International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
This organization "actively encourages the integration of the study
of "nature's household" (ecology) and "humankind's household"
(economy)..." This site offers a discussion of ecological economics,
a list of the board of directors and the officers. There is also a
membership application form.
# http://kabir.umd.edu/ISEE/ISEEhome.html
+ 10.3.47 International Society for Intercommunication of New Ideas
+ (ISINI)
+
+ This international society examines ways to provide policies to
+ address "current economic problems such as economic and financial
+ globalization, economic development, sustainable growth, sovereign
+ debt, adjustment and structural change, monetary policies, poverty,
+ and economic systems in transition." This site provides information
+ on the ISINI publications, including the "International Journal of
+ New Ideas" and the ISINI newsletter; as well as regional and
+ international meetings; and officers. An application for membership
+ is also available.
+
+ # http://serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/siini/
+ 10.3.48 International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE)
+
+ This society provides an empirical emphasis on the worldwide work of
+ scholars focusing on new institutional economics by bringing together
+ those "who are working on transaction costs, contracting, political
+ rules of the game, the rule of law, norms and culture, and so on, and
+ who pursue these interests using standard scientific methods." This
+ site has an invitation and information for membership, a directory of
+ members, a reading list, a link to the European website, and
+ information on past and future conferences.
+
+ # http://www.isnie.org/
+ 10.3.49 International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA)
+
+ This association focuses on the study and research of international
+ trade, investment and finance issues. This site contains information
+ (though not updated since 1996) on membership, conferences, and
+ officers. Also available is information on the IT&FA publication,
+ "The International Trade Journal."
+
+ # http://www.tamiu.edu/itfa/
10.3.50 International Ukrainian Economic Association
This page describes the goals of this association, its activities,
its journal, and whom to contact for more information.
# http://www.brama.com/ukrainecon/
10.3.51 International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG)
As described by its name, this society studies and promotes research
into dynamic games. You can read about their journal, "Annals of
Dynamic Games," information about the society and membership in it,
and their electronic news letter. For the last two, send e-mail to
<is...@hut.fi>.
# http://www.hut.fi/Units/SAL/isdg/
+ 10.3.52 Korea-American Economic Association (KAEA)
+
+ This organization provides a forum for the communication among Korean
+ economists in North America, focusing specifically on the "economic
+ relations between North America and Korea and among the Pacific Rim
+ nations." This site contains a directory of members, recent
+ newsletters, conference and membership information, KAEA publications
+ information, and links to useful sites.
+
+ # http://econ.tamu.edu/kaea/
+ 10.3.53 Latin American Economic Association (LAEA)
+
+ This organization of over 400 members explores the economies of Latin
+ America and the Caribbean. Information on membership, conferences,
+ and seminars and workshops is available, as well as a directory of
+ members.
+
+ # http://www.lacea.org
+ 10.3.54 Middle East Economic Association (MEEA)
+
+ The MEEA is dedicated to the study of economics in the Middle East.
+ This site contains information about the annual meetings and the
+ officers, as well as access to the online journal "Topics in Middle
+ Eastern and North African Economies."
+
+ # http://www.luc.edu/depts/economics/meea.htm
10.3.55 National Association of Business Economists (NABE)
This organization of business economists offers a variety of material
for those interested in this field. It includes information about the
organization, careers for business economists, conferences of the
organization, information about local chapters, membership and their
publications, top Internet sites, and a policy survey which describes
members' views on a number of current policy issues. They also offer
some economic trivia (in a question and answer format), and a special
area for members. This includes information on jobs in the field, the
NABE Industry Survey, and the NABE Outlook.
10.3.56 National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE)
This association's mission is obvious from their title. At their
site, you can read about the organization (including their bylaws,
officers, even minutes of meetings, etc.), information on their
September 1996 conference in Hawaii, and the Economics America
Directory (i.e. the State Councils on Economic Education).
# http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/naee.htm
10.3.57 National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE)
With a membership of over 800 economists, attorneys, vocational
experts, and accountants, this non-profit Association focuses its
research on forensic economics, and is of particular interest to
those involved in personal injury, wrongful death, antitrust, and
commercial litigation; as well as business valuation and employment
discrimination. The site provides information about the Association,
its members, membership, and publications. Two journals are
published by the Association: "Journal of Forensic Economics" and
"Litigation Economics Digest." Subscription and other general
information about these journals is available on this site. The NAFE
Newsletter is available online.
# http://cei.haag.umkc.edu/nafe/home.html
+ 10.3.58 National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
+
+ This organization has a mission "to help all students develop
+ economic ways of thinking and problem solving that they can use in
+ their lives as consumers, savers, members of the workforce,
+ responsible citizens, and effective participants in the global
+ economy." The NCEE sponsors EconomicsAmerica which provides
+ resources and professional development for teachers and assists in
+ the development of economic curricula standards for American schools.
+ Annual conference information, a catalog of publications, and the
+ Campaign for Economic Literacy are available at this site.
+ EconomicsInternational, another available program, provides "economic
+ education for democratic transformation" in emerging market
+ economies.
+
+ # http://www.nationalcouncil.org/
10.3.59 National Economic Association
This organization is "dedicated to increasing the number of black
economists and improving opportunities for career growth." Here you
will find information on important events (such as the annual meeting
and other conferences), and employment and fellowship opportunities.
# http://www.ncat.edu/~neconasc/
10.3.60 National Economists Club
This organization, located in Washington DC, "is a nonpartisan,
non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization founded to promote
meaningful discussion and exchange of views on a wide range of issues
in economics, finance, and public policy." There are some 700
members, and one of their major activities is holding luncheons with
speakers on various economic topics. They also offer written
summaries from these luncheons, speakers for embassies, and
networking opportunities for its members.
# http://www.national-economists.org/main.htm
+ 10.3.61 National Tax Association
+
+ This organization, founded in 1907, "is the leading association of
+ tax professionals dedicated to advancing understanding of the theory
+ and practice of public finance." The association focuses on the
+ debate of public finance issues, theory testing and research. The
+ site provides information on membership to the NTA, the index to the
+ National Tax Journal from 1948-98, plus a host of links to other
+ tax-related websites.
+
+ # http://ntanet.org/
+ 10.3.62 Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE)
+
+ This large academic honor society for students, with 566 chapters
+ worldwide, focuses on the recognition of high achievements in
+ economics, as well as the fostering of relationships between students
+ and faculty and among universities. This site is divided into
+ visitor, student, and faculty sections. You can get information on
+ the history of ODE, eligibility requirements, benefits of membership,
+ an application, chapter listings and requirements for starting a new
+ chapter, officers, events, conferences, and newsletter information
+ from various chapters.
+
+ # http://www.cba.ua.edu/~ode/
+ 10.3.63 Peace Science Society (International) (PSSI)
+
+ With an emphasis on the "development of peace analysis and conflict
+ management," this society uses the works of both the social and
+ natural sciences. Membership and conference information is available
+ here, as well as abstracts to the Society's journal, "Conflict
+ Management and Peace Science." The "Journal of Conflict Resolution"
+ is also published under the auspices of PSSI. The PSSI distributes
+ selected data sets which may be of use to researchers. Currently
+ available data sets are: Interstate System Membership, 1816-1997;
+ Militarized Interstate Dispute; Territorial Changes Data, 1816-1996;
+ and International Trade Data.
+
+ # http://pss.la.psu.edu/
10.3.64 Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN)
This organization is composed of researchers doing work in the area
of productivity analysis. This site contains information on the
organization, a membership list, a newsletter, and links to related
sites.
# http://www.busieco.ou.dk/parn/
10.3.65 Progressive Economics Forum (PEF)
This organization seeks to promote a more progressive perspective of
Canadian economics in response to the present conservative,
free-market perspective. This site provides information about the
organization and its steering committee, conference participation,
membership, and the PEF Newsletter.
10.3.66 Public Choice Society
This society describes itself as follows: "Its goal is to facilitate
the exchange of work, and ideas, at the intersection between
economics, political science, and sociology. It started when scholars
from all three of these groups became interested in the application
of essentially economic methods to problems normally dealt with by
political theorists." At this site you can read about the journal
they are loosely associate with, "Public Choice," their annual
meeting, and their current and past presidents.
# http://www.pubchoicesoc.org/
10.3.67 Royal Economic Society
This British society is one of the oldest economic societies in the
world. Here, they offer information about membership, their journals,
the "Economic Journal" (which includes an index to it) and the
"Econometric Journal," their annual conference, grants and
fellowships, UK-JOE (jobs for economists in the U.K.) and information
about the society.
10.3.68 Regional Science Association (RSA)
This organization maintains a gopher with information on its
different sections from different parts of the world. This
information include membership directories, information on
conferences, and links to affiliated organizations.
# gopher://olymp.wu-wien.ac.at:70/11/.inst/.iir/.rsa
10.3.69 Societa Italiana degli Storici dell'Economia
This site offers a broad range of resources and information on
history and economics. It is organized into the following categories:
societies and associations, universities and institutes, museums,
publishers, journals, hypertext papers, collections of papers,
sources and data archives, software archives, reviews of resources,
on-line searches, and "various."
Sites are available in both the U.S. and Italy.
# http://www.unifi.it/centri/sise/welcome.htm
10.3.70 Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE)
This Society encourages the use of the social sciences (psychology,
sociology, history, political science, biology, and others) as a
basis for economic analysis. The SABE Newsletter is available
on-line, and plans are being made to include past newsletters on the
web site. The site also provides information on the history of SABE,
upcoming conferences and sessions, members, and membership.
# http://www.usask.ca/economics/SABE/
10.3.71 Society for Computational Economics (SCE)
This site lists information on conferences (past and future),
information on the Society's two journals, material on teaching this
subject, resources in the area, and information for members,
information about a graduate student paper contest (prizes of
$1,000), and a list of members.
# http://wuecon.wustl.edu/sce/
10.3.72 Society for Economic Dynamics
This site contains subscription and dues information for the Society
(formerly the Society for Economic Dynamics and Control), a letter
from the Society's president, and a call for papers for the 1999
Annual Meeting. The site also links to the Society's official
journal, "Review of Economic Dynamics."
10.3.73 Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)
This new organization describes many of its activities on this site.
It includes a demo of their new electronic journal, offered through
MIT (described here in the section titled "ON-LINE JOURNALS"),
information on their advisory board, organizing committee, goals of
the society, mailing list (Economic Nonlinear Dynamics List), and
interesting Internet resources in this field.
# http://www-snde.rutgers.edu/SNDE/society/snde.html
10.3.74 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: UK Chapter
(SASE)
This relatively new society looks at economics as part of a larger
social system. In effect, economics should not be studied in
isolation. This site has a directory of members, information on the
society, and contacts for those interested in further information.
# http://www.bath.ac.uk/Centres/BUCEP/SASE/
10.3.75 Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE)
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics seeks to
advance the ideas of Menger, Mises, and Hayek, as well as other
economists of the Austrian school through development from within and
examination of other related approaches to economics. The site
provides information about the Society, conferences, and job
openings. Full-text working papers are available online, as is
information about the Society's journal "The Review of Austrian
Economics."
+ 10.3.76 Society of Government Economists (SGE)
+
+ This non-profit society is open to professionals who share an
+ interest in applying economic analysis to public policy issues. This
+ website provides information about the SGE, newsletter highlights,
+ past and present conferences, and other events (including monthly
+ luncheons in Washington). A membership application and update and
+ renewal forms for current members can be found here.
+
+ # http://sge-econ.org/
10.3.77 Southwestern Social Science Association
This organization is perhaps the oldest regional association. Here
you can find information on its annual conference, its subsets
(including economics), its officers, membership information, its
constitution, and committee, and information on "Social Science
Quarterly," the journal of the association.
# http://www.sfasu.edu/soc/sssa/
10.3.78 Southwestern Society of Economists
This society draws many of it members from the southwestern part of
the U.S. Here you can find information on their officers, the annual
meeting, and the membership directory.
# http://acct.tamu.edu/smith/swse/swse.htm
10.3.79 Southern Appalachian Committee on Resource and Environmental
Economics (SAPPCREE)
Their server lists the members and officers of this organization,
activities, and links to related servers.
# http://www.davidson.edu/academic/economics/martin/sappcree.html
10.3.80 Southern Economic Association (SEA)
At this site, you can read about basic information on the Association
and material on the Southern Economic Journal. You can even fill out
an on-line application to the SEA.
# http://www.okstate.edu/economics/journal/south1.html
+ 10.3.81 Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
+
+ "URPE presents a continuing critique of the capitalist system and all
+ forms of exploitation and oppression while helping to construct a
+ progressive social policy and create socialist alternatives." This
+ site provides information on publications, including "The Review of
+ Radical Political Economics" and the URPE newsletter, as well as
+ upcoming conferences.
+
+ # http://www.urpe.org/
10.3.82 The Vietnamese Economics Network (VECON)
This organization is open to any person who expresses a "real"
interest in research on the economics of Vietnam. It includes an
online subscription form; a list of references on Vietnamese
economics; VECON terminology lists of economic terms, names, and
acronyms; fellowship and grant information; job openings; conference
listings; and a student corner are available.
# http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~vecon/index.html
10.3.83 Western Economic Association International (WEA)
This site offers information on their conferences, membership, and
their journals.
Bill Goffe
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see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
10.2.0 Non-Academic Research and Policy Organizations
10.2.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC)
In all, EDIRC lists more than 4,000 sites of interest to economists.
Many of course are in this category.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/index.html
10.2.2 Policy.Com: Think Tanks
This section of Policy.com has an extensive index of think thanks and
related organizations.
# http://www.policy.com/community/ttank.html
10.2.3 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
This well-known think tank "is dedicated to preserving and
strengthening the foundations of freedom-limited government, private
enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong
foreign policy and national defense-through scholarly research, open
debate, and publications." They have some 50 resident scholars, and
some 100 affiliated scholars at universities. At this site, they
offer a weekly "What's New" section on topical issues, their monthly
newsletter, their annual report (which details their studies in
various areas), and biographies of their scholars. To find out more
about their work, see the "Research Highlights," and "Current
Commentary." There is also information on their magazine "The
American Enterprise," a catalog of their many books, and information
on the organization.
10.2.4 Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution "functions as an independent analyst and
critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of
the public. In its conferences and activities, it serves as a bridge
between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the
attention of decision makers and affording scholars a better insight
into public policy issues." Their work is divided into three main
areas: Economic Studies, Foreign Policy Studies, and Governmental
Studies (they offer breakdowns of their work in each of these areas).
They also offer extensive information on their scholars (handily
arranged by areas of expertise), topical areas of interest in "Hot
Topics," and their publications (including "Brookings Papers on
Economic Activity"). Finally, they offer information about themselves
and related organizations.
10.2.5 Cato Institute
This organization describes itself as "20 years of promoting public
policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets,
and peace." Here you can find information on the Institute, its
staff, and operations. They offer information on current features,
its 14 research areas, speeches and Congressional testimony, and its
publications library (with many reports on-line, and the rest,
including books and t-shirts, can be ordered on-line). In an
interesting innovation, their conferences (both live and archived)
are available via RealAudio and RealVideo.
10.2.6 Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
This organization "is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks
to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous
and fair economy." Much of their work involves labor and work issues.
They offer commentary on recent CPI, GDP, and unemployment releases.
In addition, they have many analyses of current issues, briefing
papers, and press releases. Their "Reading Between the Lines"
analyzes economic articles in the popular press. Their "Data Zone"
offers detailed data on "Wage and Compensation Trends," "Family
Earnings and Income Trends," and "Prices" (many take some work to
find elsewhere). The data is available in spreadsheet format.
10.2.7 Employee Benefit Research Institute
"Established in 1978, the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to original
public policy research and education on economic security and
employee benefits." This site offers information about the Institute,
its membership, its publications and educational activities, its
fellows program, its Lillywhite Award, and links to related areas.
10.2.8 Employment Policies Institute
This organization "focuses on issues that affect entry level
employment." Thus, there is considerable discussion on the minimum
wage and living wage proposals. They sponsor independent academic
research, and those reports are available here.
10.2.9 Employment Policy Foundation
This organization provides "policymakers and the public with the
highest quality economic analysis and commentary on U.S. employment
policies affecting the competitive goals of American industry and the
people it employs." Its numerous reports include its policy papers
(they can be ordered on-line), its newsletters (freely available),
its annual publication "The American Workplace" (which offers an
overview of the workplace), press releases, "E-Mail Trends" (on
topical issues, which can be received via e-mail) and a database of
related data. Finally, it offers information on itself.
10.2.10 EPA Economy and Environment Program
This section of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is devoted
to carrying "out research and analyses of the interactions and
relationships between the economy and environmental pollution control
as well as other aspects of environmental economics." A number of
reports are available on many different topics, as well as a number
of well-organized links to similar sites.
# http://www.epa.gov/docs/oppe/eaed/eedhmpg.htm
10.2.11 Group of 30
This private, non-profit, international group is comprised of very
senior members of both the private and public sectors, as well as
academia. The goal of the Group of 30, as outlined on this site, is
to strengthen the understanding of international economics and
financial issues, to examine the effects of decisions in both
sectors, and explore choices available to practitioners and
policymakers. This site lists information about the group, members,
publications from 1980 to the present, and a call for papers for a
conference.
10.2.12 Heritage Foundation
This site offers information on various public policy issues, only
some of which are economic in nature. Several of their books are
on-line, and they have on-line discussion forums. In addition, copies
of their "Policy Review" are available here. Finally, there are many
links to similar organizations.
10.2.13 Independent Institute
This organization "sponsors comprehensive studies on the political
economy of critical public issues." At this site, they offer
information on their publications (including their journal "The
Independent Review") and their various public policy programs.
10.2.14 Institute for International Economics
This Washington-based think tank is quite influential in trade and
related issues. You can read about their authors and staff, their
books (including ordering information), and read their press
releases.
10.2.15 Institute for Policy Innovation
This conservative-leaning organization offers many of their position
papers and other documents on current policy issues here.
10.2.16 Mathematica Policy Research
This employee-owned firm is said to be a leader in the areas of the
evaluation of public programs and demonstrations. Of particular
interest to economists is their work on labor, microsimulation, data
collection, survey methods, and welfare issues. Here you can read
about the firm and its work.
# http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/
10.2.17 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
NBER working papers are available on-line here; this includes all
papers submitted since September, 1994. This service is freely
available to subscribers of the hard copy series. It is also freely
available to computers in non-OPEC or non-OECD countries (this is
determined by the "top-level-domain" of the computer, and "reverse
name-lookup" must be functioning).
On this site you can also read about the NBER and staff, find
detailed information on their books, working papers (including a
keyword search), and their publications the "Digest" and the "NBER
Reporter." There are datasets that many will find most useful. For
macro data, these include the Penn-World Tables, Mark 5.6 (comparable
data for many countries from 1950), the NBER Macro History Database
(3,500 time series generally pre-WW II), and the NBER Official
Business Cycle Dates. Industry data include the Bartelsman and Gray
Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database, Productivity Panel from
Bronwyn Hall, and imports and exports by SIC category 1958-1992.
"Individual Data" includes Consumer Expenditure Survey Extracts by
John Sabelhaus of the CBO (it is in a much more convenient form than
the standard CES), and the Thordike-Hagen Survey (a sample of Air
Force Veterans). "Other Data" includes Segregation Data (Cutler,
Glaeser and Vigdor of NBER Working Paper no. 5163 and forthcoming in
the QJE) and data from the 1997 "Economic Report of the President,
1997" in .WK1 format.
For the Penn World tables, an extensive set of macros for the Excel
spreadsheet program can be found in pub/pwt55.spreadsheet. For more
information on this set of macros, contact the author, Sailesh Tanna
<s...@le.ac.uk>.
10.2.18 National Center for Policy Analysis
This think thank, which "seeks innovative private-sector solutions to
public policy problems," organizes its information here in multiple
ways. This includes "Policy Issues" on many different topics, their
"Policy Digest" (from a variety of sources, and updated daily), its
"Executive Alert," material for high school debaters, and issues
before Congress, and a special section on global warming.
10.2.19 Policy.com
This organization covers a large number of issues in the policy
arena. Of particular interest are their lists of think tanks,
advocacy organizations, university affiliated organizations,
associations, government organizations (state, federal, and outside
the U.S.). In addition, they offer an extensive issues directory for
researchers.
10.2.20 Rand
This site describes the many activities of RAND. Of particular
interest to many is the selected list of publications. One can search
for papers, read abstracts, and even order them.
10.2.21 Resources for the Future (RFF)
"Resources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research
organization that aims to help people make better decisions about the
conservation and use of their natural resources and the environment."
One can read press releases, details about their seminar series,
extensive information about the RFF, excerpts from several books,
Congressional testimony, working papers and studies, and selected
articles by the RFF at this site.
10.2.22 Santa Fe Institute Economics Program
This subset of the Santa Fe Institute offers information on its
researchers, workshops (including graduate ones), and working papers.
# http://www.santafe.edu/~leb/econ.html
10.2.23 Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
"The W.E. Upjohn Institute is an independent, nonprofit research
organization devoted to finding, evaluating, and promoting solutions
to employment-related problems." To achieve this, it has three
objectives: scholarship, linking scholarship to practical issues, and
communication of these findings. This site offers a wide variety of
information about their projects and programs. It includes
information on their publications, newsletter, working papers, and
technical reports. They also offer information on their grant
program, dissertation awards, and the local western Michigan economy.
10.2.24 Urban Institute
Founded in 1968, the Urban Institute's "staff investigates the social
and economic problems confronting the nation and government policies
and public and private programs designed to alleviate them." Just
about every facet of the Institute's work can be found here. One is
"Hot Topics," where they list their research by some 20 different
areas. The also provide extensive information on their "Research
Centers:" "Education Policy," "Health Policy," "Human Resources
Policy," "Income and Benefits Policy," "International Activities,"
"Nonprofits and Philanthropy," "National Center for Charitable
Statistics," "Population Studies," "Metropolitan Housing and
Communities Policy Center," and "State Policy." One of their major
new project is "Assessing the New Federalism," which studies the
shift of responsibility to the states. Their periodicals are
available here as well; they include "Policy and Research Report,"
"Update and Policy Bites;" various policy briefs are here too.
Finally, you can search their print publications database.
10.2.25 International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG)
This organization mission statement states that they work "to enhance
the capacity of indigenous policy research institutes in developing
and transitional countries to foster the policies and institutions of
a market economy." They have affiliate organizations in more than 100
countries. At this site they offer their working papers, newsletters
(which can be subscribed to for e-mail delivery), information on
their projects, funding possibilities in this area, and on-line
discussions.
10.2.26 Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)
This organization "is Australia's largest applied economic commodity
research agency." Their activities include economic research,
commodity forecasting, funded research, and surveys. Besides reading
about their activities, you can also read about their publications
organized by different areas. There is also an extensive bibliography
on contingent valuation.
10.2.27 Fraser Institute
This institute, located in Vancouver, is "The source of market
solutions for public policy problems." It has a full-time staff of
25, 2,600 supporters, and its researchers have produced more than 120
books and thousands of articles. Besides information about the
institute, you can read about upcoming events, their press releases,
and information about all their publications. Many complete essays
and articles are available. They also offer a section for students.
# http://www.fraserinstitute.ca
10.2.28 Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
This organization was founded by Hayek and Mises in 1927. "Its goal
is to investigate the conditions and trends of economic performance
and development in Austria and abroad by means of advanced methods,
and to disseminate the results of these investigations so as to
promote the general comprehension of the functioning of the national
and international economy." It has a staff of about 40 economists,
and research covers virtually all areas of economics. WIFO also
organizes conferences and workshops.
WIFO also has the most extensive collection of economic data on the
Austrian economy, some of which comes from international
organizations, and some of which is collected by WIFO. But, the data
is only available internally.
10.2.29 Belgian Federal Planning Bureau
This organization's "main objective is to analyze the parameters
which influence the economic evolution and to evaluate the effects of
economic policy decisions for the purpose of improving rationality
and transparency of the decision-making." It is formally part of the
Belgian government, but operates independently. They forecast the
Belgium economy, perform associated research, and collect statistical
information. You can read about their mission and staff (including
their e-mail addresses), read some of their reports, and obtain some
software they use: IODE (Intigrateur d'Outils de Diveloppement
Economitrique). News and links to related sites are available as
well.
10.2.30 Centre d'etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
(CEPII)
This Centre was founded by Prime Minister Raymond Barre in 1978 as
the main international economics research center of France, with
research focusing on macroeconomic analyses of forecasts, monetary
and financial matters, international trade, and transition and
emerging countries. The site's publication section provides
information on the Centre's two newsletters (a monthly French version
and a bi-annually English version), working papers (some of which are
available in English), the quarterly journal "Economie
internationale," the "CEPII Economica" book series, and annual
reports. Also available on this site is information about the
Centre's Board; Staff; meetings; the CIREM club; and information
about the CHELEM (Harmonized Accounts on Trade and the World Economy)
database, which provides long-term annual data that covers trade and
basic national accounts data for most of the world.
# Info <bag...@cepii.fr>
# http://www.cepii.fr/ANGLAIS/SOMMAIRE.HTM
10.2.31 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
This U.K. organization is a "European economics research network,
established in 1983. Our network comprises over 450 Research Fellows
and Affiliates, based in over 210 institutions in over 20 countries."
Research is generally policy-oriented; they say "Our research ranges
from global financial crises to international trade policy, from the
economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe to European
competition policy."
Besides very extensive information on itself, they offer a wealth of
material -- currently some 75 megabytes. This includes their
publications, which includes their "Bulletin" from 1983 (which is
searchable) and the bi-monthly "European Economic Perspectives" since
1993 (the current issues are available as well). Abstracts from their
"Discussion Papers" are also available (the complete papers should be
available "soon"), and like all their publications, their databases
can be searched. Their "Newsletter" is also available. There is also
extensive information on their meetings where they present their
research to non-specialists -- this is an important part of their
mission; there were some 23 in 1988 in countries around the world.
There is also information on their conferences and workshops (51 in
1998).
10.2.32 Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
This organization "is a non-profit foundation endowed by the ENI
Group, the Italian public energy and chemical company. FEEM has grown
out of the need to extend knowledge of energy and environmental
issues. This goal is achieved in two ways, through conducting
research in these areas and promoting interaction between academic,
industrial and public policy spheres." At this site you can read
their recent newsletters and annual reports, find out about their
staff, read the list of working papers, see a list of seminars and
workshops, read about LIVIA (a "Computer Laboratory for Environmental
Impact Assessment"), and also read about the European Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).
10.2.33 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
"The Institute was established in 1925 to serve the general public
interest by observing and researching economic developments both in
Germany and abroad. It assists governmental, administrative and
industrial decision-making through empirical studies and policy
analysis. This involves research into a wider range of economic
issues, forecasting of short-term economic developments, and
evaluation of long-term economic processes, such as German
reunification, European integration and Germany's growing involvement
in the world economy." At this site you can read about the Institute,
read recent issues of their Economic Bulletin, abstracts of the
papers published in the Institutes Quarterly Journal of Economic
Research, and selected research findings. You can also find out about
the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), a longitudinal study of
Germans with about a sample of about 5,000 households (the data is
available, subject to some restrictions on usage due to privacy
laws). There is also information on the Cooperation Bureau for
Economic Research on Eastern Europe, which is housed at the
Institute.
10.2.34 Infrastructure and Spatial Economics
This Dutch organization "performs policy research on infrastructure
investments, transport and traffic, the spatial structure of the
national economy, and the regional planning of industrial and
commercial areas. It is an initiative of CPB and four Dutch
ministries..." At this site you can read about their past, current,
and future projects. They also have abstracts of their studies, links
to related sites, and information on the CPB.
# http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/M.A.Koning/unit.html
10.2.35 Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
This U.K. organization specializes in studies of fiscal policy. In
addition, it is an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
Centre, and it has played a substantial role in recent public
debates. This site offers a large amount of information on their
activities: staff information, membership information, press
releases, job announcements, information on IFS, conferences (with
on-line registration), on-line summaries of recent work, and a list
of publications (with on-line ordering). Many of their other
publications are on-line.
+ 10.2.36 Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
+
+ The IEA attempts to "improve understanding of the fundamental
+ institutions of a free society with particular reference to the role
+ of markets in solving economic and social problems." This site
+ presents some of the current research issues being addressed by the
+ Institute; publications, including the IEA journal "Economic
+ Affairs"; upcoming conferences and lectures, press releases, a forum
+ for discussing current topics, and a student section. This site also
+ provides information on the activities of the Education Unit, the
+ Environment Unit, the Health and Welfare Unit, and the Trade and
+ Development Unit.
+
+ # http://www.iea.org.uk/
10.2.37 Institute of Public Finance
This institute focuses on research in all aspects of public finance.
The site provides information on the Institute's library; research
projects from 1996, 1997, and 1998; past workshops; and publications,
including their journal "Financijska praksa" ("Financial Practice"),
technical papers, occasional papers, and a report on current monetary
regulations.
10.2.38 Kiel Institute of World Economics
This institute specializes in research on business cycles and many
different facets of economic growth (there are additional areas of
expertise as well). The institute dates from 1914. At their site, you
can read about their focus areas, learn about their organization, see
a list of their publications, and connect to their library. You can
also read about news, meetings, and events.
# http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/IfW/
10.2.39 Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW)
This institute focuses on central and eastern Europe. "The
Institute's special expertise -- detailed personal knowledge of the
countries of the former eastern bloc -- helps assess economic trends,
search for new business opportunities and reduce uncertainty in
entering markets." On the Internet, they offer information about
themselves and their projects. Perhaps the most useful is their
extensive database of economic information for this part of the
world. However, currently, it is accessible only to members of the
Institute. They also offer abstracts of their publications, and an
on-line card catalog of their library.
10.2.40 Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research
This site has all sorts of links to servers on this topic. They
include exchanges, their original research in the area (including
abstracts of past work and notification when current work is
completed), and economic information on countries in this region.
# http://www.netrus.net/users/gmorles/index.html
10.2.41 Economic Planning Agency (Japan)
At this site you can read about the New Economic Plan, a guide to the
Economic Planning Agency, a hypertext version of "The Economic Survey
of Japan," numerous white papers, information on many papers from the
agency's Economic Research Institute, and details on how to order the
"Annual Report on National Accounts, 1995" on either floppies or
CD-ROM. There are also summary plots on the economic performance of
the Japanese economy.
+ 10.2.42 India Policy Institute
+
+ This Institute, which started as an Internet mailing list in 1998 and
+ was registered as a Trust one year later, has three main objectives.
+ The first is to host "The National Debate on System Reform" in order
+ to produce "A People's Manifesto." Second, the Institute would
+ publish the first edition of "A People's Manifesto" by January 1,
+ 2000 and update it annually. Finally, the Institute would network to
+ "determine and influence public policy in India." On this site, one
+ can find an electronic town hall with debates to take India out of
+ its current situation, a "National Search for Honest People" for
+ distribution of the Manifesto; a clearing house for publications on
+ Indian policy; publications of the Institute; future plans; and
+ participating organizations, related organizations, and information
+ on members.
+
+ # http://www.indiapolicy.org
10.2.43 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
This organization's purpose can easily be determined from its title:
the promotion of trade with Japan. The current emphasis is on
assisting exporters to Japan. While the material on this site
describes their history and organization (including contact around
the world), most of the site is devoted to explaining their
activities, which are quite numerous. These include programs to
assist exporters to Japan, cooperation and exchanges with developed
and developing countries, and communication within Japan. Finally,
they have material on their publications, and pointers to economic
information.
Bill Goffe
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see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
9.0 News Media
9.1 Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education)
This electronic version of the Chronicle of Higher Education offers a
subset of the print version (the full print version is available
on-line to paid subscribers). One of the most useful parts might be
the job ads, which are available to non-subscribers.
9.2 Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
This is the electronic version of the British publication The Times
Higher Education Supplement. It includes extensive summary
information from the print version (this appears on the Friday before
publication) as well as all job advertisements (they appear on the
Tuesday before publication). Old advertisements are kept on hand as
well.
9.3 Barron's Online
This on-line version of Barron's offers "every article, every special
report, every column" of the print version. It is available to
readers of the on-line version of the Wall Street Journal. As with
the print version, much of the information is specific to companies
and investing. For instance, they have extensive dossiers on some
20,000 companies. They also have an extensive search capability for
past articles, and information as current as 20 minute delayed stock
quotes.
* 9.4 The Economist
This site offers the entire table of contents of this magazine, as
well as some complete articles for free. The subscription price to
* the on-line version (with all articles) is $48 per year. With this
* subscription there is free, unlimited retrieval of past articles.
One interesting feature is that you can arrange to receive "Politics
This Week" and "Business This Week" summaries via e-mail. There are
also links to other members of the Economist Group.
9.5 The Financial Times
This site offers a version of The Financial Times; currently, while
you have to register, there is no subscription fee. It appears that
much of the newspaper is available on-line. Of particular interest is
the "Economics" section under "Themes and Topics." They have both a
large number of articles and economic data.
9.6 New York Times
This site offers almost the entire New York Times (a few items in
this on-line version are not offered in the print version, and
vice-versa). Currently, for U.S. users, it is free; for non-U.S.
subscribers, it costs $35/month. Their guide to sites on the
Internet is particularly nice. The crossword puzzle requires software
that they supply.
9.7 Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
Besides the entire contents of the print Wall Street Journal, this
site offers the Personal Journal (where you select items of interest,
such as companies, topics, columns, and features for what is, in
effect, your own issue), company briefing books (on more than 9,000
companies), stock, mutual fund, and bond quotes (it can even track a
personal portfolio), a database of the past two week's articles, and
even an expanded sports section. This is now a fee-based service;
for subscribers of the paper edition, the cost is $29/year, and for
those who don't subscribe to the print edition, it costs $49/year.
For faculty and students who subscribe through their educational
subscription program, there is no additional fee.
The "Economy" section, besides current economic news, has two very
useful sections: the "Economic Indicators Archive" (where economic
stories of the past month or so are kept, many of which have links to
their sources) and "Economic Calendars," which list upcoming releases
of economic information. An additional service is their "Publications
Library," which has some 65 million documents from 3,700 newspapers
and magazines (including well-known business publications). This
includes the Wall Street Journal from as many as 13 years ago, which
goes back much further than their regular search engine. Currently,
this is a fee-based service, but the first 10 articles retrieved are
free.
9.8 Bloomberg Online
This is a publically available version of the well-known financial
news service (they claim to track some 3.2 million instruments
world-wide). They offer information in the following categories:
"Markets" (just about all equities, debt, and foreign exchange
markets) "News," (generally business oriented) "Sports," "Analysis,"
(various on-line calculators and lists of Internet resources)
"Products," (of Bloomberg products) and "Lifestyles" (topics such as
weather, real estate, and horoscopes). The above are freely
available; additional features, such as stock and portfolio tracking,
are available on a subscription basis.
+ 9.9 dowjones.com
+
+ This site is run by Dow Jones, the publisher of the "Wall Street
+ Journal." It includes headlines from the "Wall Street Journal," but
+ its most useful features for economists are likely to be the industry
+ section and the macro news section. The former covers 29 industries
+ in a number of ways. It includes both headlines and detailed news,
+ links companies, industry associations, research reports on the
+ industry, and rules and regulation. There are also stories on notable
+ people in the industry, and industry calendars. The "Economy" section
+ typically contains as many as 20 macro stories from the "Wall Street
+ Journal." There are also links to the related sites. Finally, they
+ offer a search engine for business publications.
+
+ # http://dowjones.com
9.10 CNN
At this site you can basically read CNN's Headline News. With its
extensive sound and MPEG (motion picture) files, it illustrates the
increasing convergence of different media. Perhaps its most
interesting feature is its links to the Lexis-Nexis system of related
articles in the popular press.
9.11 CNN-FN
This section of CNN offers very topical news of financial markets.
Under "Quicken.com on FN" you can check a number financial
statistics, such prices on stocks, bonds, mutual funds (as well as
background information on them with the "Lipper Mutual Fund Report"),
and other financial instrument.
+ 9.12 Reuters Moneynet
+
+ This site, run by Reuters, focuses on current events in financial
+ markets. This includes activity in the stock and currency markets.
+ There is also analysis and commentary on these markets, and one can
+ track a portfolio and get stock quotes.
+
+ # http://www.moneynet.com/
9.13 World News Connection (WNC)
This service, an outgrowth of the Foreign Broadcast Information
Service, is offered by the Department of Commerce's National
Technical Information Service (NTIS). It has articles from "thousands
of non-U.S. media sources" in English. They offer a very
sophisticated search engine that allows one to easily search for
information. This is a fee-based service, with several different
levels of service. Subscription prices begin at $65.00 per month.
9.14 Slate
This electronic magazine, or e-zine, supported by Microsoft and
edited by Michael Kinsley, carries a significant economics component.
This includes columns by Herbert Stein (Committee of Correspondence),
Paul Krugman (The Dismal Scientist) and Steven E. Landsburg (Everyday
Economics). In a discussion system called the Frey, Slate readers
lively debate articles. In a bow to "Internet reality," this magazine
is now freely available.
Bill Goffe
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10.0 Organizations & Associations
10.1.0 Academic Research Organizations and Institutes
10.1.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
(EDIRC)
EDIRC, a very useful resource, lists more than 4,000 sites of
interest to economists. Many are of course in this category.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/index.html
10.1.2 Austrian Economics Program at New York Univ.
This site offers information on their program: their research
interests, their teaching emphasis, summer seminars, colloquium and
their publications. There is also information on their faculty and
graduate students.
# http://www.econ.nyu.edu/dept/austrian/
10.1.3 Canadian International Labour Network (CILN)
This organization is devoted to "effects of labour-market laws and
institutions (e.g., labour legislation, unions, unemployment
insurance) on labour-market outcomes (e.g., the distribution of
wages, the level and structure of unemployment, and the distribution
of resources within the family)." It is a joint project of the
Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, (SSHRC),
McMaster University, the Universities of British Columbia and
Toronto, and Human Resources Development Canada. One aim is to
develop large databases for numerous countries in this area. Besides
information on the project, you can read about future conferences.
# http://labour.ciln.mcmaster.ca/
10.1.4 Carolina Population Center
This organization studies population issues in a broad context. In
fact, a minority of the staff is demographers; thus the work is quite
interdisciplinary. Besides reading about the center, information
about some of their projects (sometimes even including data) is
available, as well as some working papers.
10.1.5 Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA)
This center works in three areas: macroeconomic policy, inequality
and poverty, and globalization. Among the available items are their
newsletter, working papers, information on projects, data resources,
and information on their staff.
# http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/
10.1.6 Center for the Study of Population
This Center, affiliated with Florida State University, is wholly
dedicated to teaching, research and service in the field of
demography. The site contains information on the Center's members
and students; the Masters Program and the undergraduate Certificate
Program; abstracts and ordering information for working papers; and
links to the Southern Demographic Association, other Population
Centers, online journals, and working papers.
# http://mailer.fsu.edu/~popctr/
* 10.1.7 Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment
(CREFE)
The CREFE seeks to "shed new light on the dynamic interaction between
the labor market and economic fluctuations." Main research themes
* are: labor market dynamics and fluctuations; financial
* macroeconomics and labor; labor market structure; economic policies
* and practical reforms; and international fluctuations. Material at
this site includes information on its objectives, its members,
research programs and grants, publications, a newsletter (to be
distributed electronically), information on conferences and seminars,
and its downloadable working papers.
# http://ideas.uqam.ca/CREFE/index.html
10.1.8 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona
This site describes the basic idea of experimental economics, working
papers in the area, and provides links to other sites of interest. In
addition, the software area has several packages that would be useful
for both teaching and research in this area.
# http://www.econlab.arizona.edu/
10.1.9 Game Theory Society
The Game Theory Society is an international society dedicated to the
advancement and application of game theory. This site describes the
goals of the society, a list of officers and charter members, an
enrollment form, membership dues, and publications information. The
Society will sponsor two official journals that will be included in
the price of membership: "Games and Economic Behavior" and the
"International Journal of Game Theory."
10.1.10 Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE)
This Institute seeks to provide an improved understanding of the past
and future trajectories of economic development and the many contexts
of economic systems; and assist both public and private sectors of
nations as they attempt to develop policies that promote
sustainability. The site provides information on the Institute and
its members; and publications, research, and policy work, some of
which is available on-line at no cost.
10.1.11 Hoover Institution
This site describes the many activities of this institution. This
includes a broad overview, material from their newsletter, press
releases, their catalog of printed material, and extensive material
on their different programs. It also includes the "Hoover Digest:
Research and Opinion on Public Policy. In addition, they have fairly
extensive biographies of their scholars.
# http://www-Hoover.Stanford.edu/
10.1.12 Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
This Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit research center that
focuses on the issues surrounding social inequality and poverty in
the United States. Current research examines welfare reform and the
development of a new poverty measure. The publications of the IRP are
available for download here, and information on ordering the print
versions is also available. The site also provides information about
the Institute, staff and affiliates, and links to poverty-related
resources.
# http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
10.1.13 Jerome Levy Economics Institute
This institute, independently endowed, is affiliated with Bard
College. Its purpose is described in its bylaws: "To pursue knowledge
of economics that will enable nations to enlarge personal freedom,
promote justice, and maintain stable economies with full employment
and rising standards of living." You can read about their Forecasting
Center (which is in the spirit of Jerome Levy's original work), their
research programs, numerous conferences and events, and their
publications. You can also read about their mission.
10.1.14 Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz
(LEEPS)
This organization is located at UC Santa Cruz. It has been working
with experimental economics since 1986, and is noted for its emphasis
on learning, its use of hundreds of Unix workstations, and its small
scale. Here you can read about the people involved with the
organization, the projects themselves, and information on their
papers.
10.1.15 Ludwig von Mises Institute
This organization, founded in 1982, is located at Auburn University.
At this site, you can read "The Austrian Economics Newsletter," and
back issues of "The Free Market" (their monthly policy newsletter
sent to Institute members) and the table of contents of "The Review
of Austrian Economics" (a Kluwer journal). You can also read about
how to join and support the Institute, about upcoming events, how to
order books from the Institute, and information on a fellowship.
Finally, you can find introductory material about the Austrian
school.
10.1.16 NetEc
NetEc is an umbrella organization for a number of projects that are
useful to academic economists. BibEc is a database on printed working
papers, WoPEc holds data about electronic working papers, CodEc
collects code for Economics and Econometrics, WebEc is an extensive
JEL-based database of of World Wide Web resources in Economics, HoPEc
holds home page papers in Economics and JokEc contains Jokes about
economists and economics. Two associated projects of NetEc are this
guide, and Christian Zimmermann's EDIRC, a list of Economics
Departments, Institutions and Research Centers. All these projects
are available on three sites.
NetEc is a volunteer effort to make available and accessible
materials on the Internet for economists. It performs a number of
very valuable and useful efforts. More volunteers are gladly
accepted. (Thomas Krichel kindly wrote this entry.)
# http://netec.wustl.edu/NetEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NetEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/NetEc.html
10.1.17 West Virginia Regional Research Institute
This site provides a variety of material for those interested in
regional science. It includes vitaes on the senior researchers in the
Institute, overviews of research projects, information on
publications, substantial information on "The International Regional
Science Review (including abstracts of back and forthcoming issues),"
and the same for the "Journal of Appalachian Studies." information on
their mailing lists, and connections to related gophers.
# http://www.wvu.edu/~regional/index.htm
10.1.18 Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)
This site contains a substantial amount of information for those
interested in water as a resource. It include the Water Resources
Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the U.S. Geological Survey,
a directory of water resources experts, an extensive calendar of
"water" events, and information on the National Institutes for Water
Resources (NIWR), information on other water organizations, water
databases and archives, and links to other water organizations.
# http://www.uwin.siu.edu/
# gopher://uwin.c-wr.siu.edu:70/1/
10.1.19 Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE)
"Rather than modeling man as an ideally rational, optimizing agent in
the style of neoclassical economics, the Centre pursues a programme
of pure and applied research directed at the manner in which real
people adjust their behavior over time as their circumstances change.
The overall objective is to promote the study of models of
interactive learning with a view to providing a new foundational
basis for modeling in economics and related social sciences. We see
game theory as a largely unexploited focus for such study." At this
site you'll find an introduction to the Centre (including their staff
and divisions), working papers, forthcoming events, and information
on how to reach them.
10.1.20 Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
This organization at the London School of Economics "is
inter-disciplinary, with researchers from economics, industrial
relations, psychology, sociology and management. The research
produced focuses on a wide range of areas, notably labour markets,
unemployment, wages, human resources, international trade and the
transition economies." More specifically, "The CEP ... primarily aims
to examine: firstly, why some firms persistently succeed while others
do not; and secondly, at the level of the nation, why some countries'
economies work better than others." The director is Richard Layard.
Available material includes information on their publications,
working papers, schedule of events, information on conferences,
lectures and seminars, extensive material on their research programs,
and databases.
10.1.21 Centre for Economic Forecasting
This organization at the London Business School operates a
forecasting model of the U.K. and other major OECD countries, and
also engages more generally in economic research. Besides information
on their activities, they also provide information on their recent
discussion papers, their quarterly "Economic Outlook," and their
forecasts.
# http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/cef/
10.1.22 Centre for Policy Modelling
This Centre focuses on "decision-making in environments which are too
complex to be analyzed by models based on standard economic and
related analytical techniques. This has been made possible by the
design and implementation of a computer-based modeling language
called SDML (Strictly Declarative Modelling Language)." At this site
you can find background material on SDML, details on several projects
that use it, and their discussion papers.
10.1.23 ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau (U.K.)
This organization studies a number of macro models of the U.K.
economy. To quote, "The main purpose of the Bureau is to improve the
accessibility of macroeconomic models of the UK economy, to promote
general understanding of the properties of these models, and to
undertake its own comparative and methodological research. The
current portfolio comprises six models, two of which are "official"
models (those of the Bank of England and HM Treasury); the other four
are constructed and maintained by independent groups (London Business
School, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Oxford
Economic Forecasting and Strathclyde University). All of these are
implemented on the University's mainframe computer.
Currently, one can learn about the organization, read recent
newsletters, and watch a demonstration of PC-Ready Reckoner, a PC
program which summarizes three of their models. It should be quite
useful as a teaching aid.
# http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/Economics/MMB/
# Information: <mb...@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
10.1.24 National Institute of Economic and Social Research
This organization focus on issues of the U.K. and world economy. They
produce both NiDEM (a UK Model with both short and long term features
with some 400 variables) and NiGEM (a world model with roughly 1,000
variables). They also offer information on their discussion papers,
their annual report, and information about their "Economic Review."
Finally, there is information on the Institute itself, its programs,
and its staff.
10.1.25 Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the Environment
(CESSE)
This center, affiliated with the Universiti Libre de Bruxelles,
studies such topics as environmental economics and sustainable
development. You can read about their various activities and studies,
as well as bibliographical material on some of their papers. They
also offer material about their staff. Finally, they provide a very
extensive set of links to related sites.
# http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/english/cesse.html
10.1.26 Centre for Economic Research (CCSO)
"CCSO is a research group of economists and econometricians of the
Economics Department of the University of Groningen and the
University of Twente. The group works on the field of empirical
general economics and has developed a number of large-scale
macroeconometric models." They offer information about themselves
(including their participants), working papers, a list of their
articles and books, information on upcoming seminars and workshops,
and information about their GUESS package ("for the analysis of
large-scale non-linear macroeconomic models;" it runs on PCs).
# http://www.eco.rug.nl/ccso/homeccso.html
10.1.27 Center for the Study of Law and Economics
This organization, a part of the Universität des Saarlandes, offers
information about its current activities, the people involved with
it, their discussion paper series, and links to related sites.
# http://www.uni-sb.de/rewi/fb2/csle/
10.1.28 Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO)
This organization is a joint project of the University of Economics
and Business Administration (Vienna, Austria), the Slovak Academy of
Sciences (Bratislava, CSFR), and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC). As befitting the changes in that part
of the world, it emphasizes interdisciplinary research. Of interest
to economists is their data on Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria,
Hungary, Poland and Romania (some of the data is of a summary
nature).
# gopher://olymp.wu-wien.ac.at:70/11/.cerro.ind
10.1.29 European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations
(ERCOMER)
This organization studies migration in Europe. At their searchable
site, you can read about their staff, funding, training for
researchers, their meetings and conferences, and material about their
books.
10.1.30 Experimental Economics Laboratory, Univ. of Trento, Italy
This lab is using the web to communicate its results in "economics,
computation and organizational behavior." Currently, it describes
their approach to these issues, along with a list of recent
publications, information on lab members, and their international
collaborators. In the near future, you will be able to play economic
games here.
10.1.31 IKE Group (Aalborg Univ., Denmark)
This organization, whose title roughly translates into English as
"international competitiveness," has been in existence since about
1980. As the title implies, they study economic change in a variety
of ways. Currently, they have some 22 members.
At their web site, you'll find information on this organization (in
terms of their annual reports), and their members' research interests
and publications.
# http://www.business.auc.dk/ike/
10.1.32 Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER)
This Institute is concerned with the process of integrating Greece
into Europe and the effect of such integration on Greek enterprises;
promoting Greek business throughout Europe and the Mediterranean;
analyzing Greek foreign trade; and establishing interest in Greek
exports and foreign investment. This site provides information about
the Institute's aims, their board, past dates and titles of
conferences and seminars, publications lists, and occasional papers.
# http://idec.gr/iier/aims.htm
10.1.33 Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
This research institute was founded by Nobel winner Gunnar Myrdal in
1962 and is affiliated with the Stockholm University, with financial
support from the government of Sweden. This site offers information
on the Institute's current areas of research: macroeconomic analysis
of open economies, foreign trade, and general economic theory and
methodology. This site also includes information on the staff and
visitors to the Institute; job recruitment; seminars and conferences
(recent seminar papers can be downloaded); and the Stockholm
University Graduate Studies in Economics program.
10.1.34 Groningen Growth and Development Centre
"The Groningen Growth and Development Centre is a research group of
economists and economic historians based at the Economics Department
of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The international
group carries out research on comparative analysis of levels of
economic performance and differences in growth rates in the world
economy." The site provides information on the Centre and its
members, research, online versions of their latest newsletter and
working papers, listings of past working papers and researchers
publications, and seminar and conference information. The site also
includes information about the "International Comparisons of Output
and Productivity Project," a research project started in 1983, which
carries out industry of origin comparisons of sectoral output and
productivity across 30 countries in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe,
and North and South America.
# http://www.eco.rug.nl/ggdc/homeggdc.html
10.1.35 Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and
Technology (MERIT)
This institute, which studies technological change, offers a variety
of different services on their web and ftp servers. One can get their
working papers (in PostScript), read about their mission, their PhD
program (run in conjunction with INTECH) and staff. You can also find
out about their upcoming events, and look at aggregate data on trends
on science and technology. They also offer a program for time series
management, MADMAN (Menhir's Arithmetical Database MANager).
# http://meritbbs.rulimburg.nl
# ftp://meritbbs.rulimburg.nl
10.1.36 Nijenrode Forum for Economic Research (NYFER)
This organization, affiliated with Nijenrode University in the
Netherlands, is oriented towards Dutch macro issues that are
difficult to deal with using traditional models. As one would expect,
there is a heavy policy and forecasting emphasis. The information
they offer includes press releases, information on their
publications, ordering information for their offerings, and material
about themselves. Befitting their emphasis, much of the material is
in Dutch.
10.1.37 Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)
This group, located at the University of Kent at Canterbury, works on
health topics. Specifically, "The core of the research is the
examination of equity and efficiency: how resources can be made to
produce the best outcomes, and how needs can be assessed and met." As
you might expect, much of the research involves health-economics.
At this site you can find information on the staff, material on their
books, monographs, journal article, book chapters, and discussion
papers (more than 1,000 of the latter; only available in hardcopy),
their Bulletin, details on their current projects, and upcoming
events and seminars.
# http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/PSSRU/
10.1.38 Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory
This interdisciplinary research center (at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem) focuses, as one would expect, on rational decision making.
An area of particular interest is game theory. Besides the obvious
connections to economics, it has "an important impact on such diverse
areas as evolutionary biology, political science, computer science,
social psychology, law, statistics, philosophy and the foundations of
mathematics." This site offers information about itself (such as
projects, members, visitors, and staff). There is additional
information on its summer school, publications and events.
# http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~ranb/
10.1.39 Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), Univ. of NSW, Sydney
This organization studies a "wide range of social issues" in
Australia. There is some focus on "identifying those individuals and
groups whose needs are especially great." To carry this out, they
undertake a wide range of activities, including publications,
reports, and seminars.
At this site they offer information on themselves, their projects and
research agendas, newsletters, some reports, publications, and title
of publications.
10.1.40 Theoretical Research Institute (Australia) Exchange Rate Target
Zone Database
This site offers an extensive searchable bibliography (with
abstracts) on the literature dealing with exchange rate target zones.
It also has supplementary information on the research output of
Australian economics departments.
10.1.41 New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and
Regulation
This institute, located at Victoria University of Wellington,
conducts research on competition and regulatory issues in New
Zealand, ranging from a "cross-country study of telecommunications
market performance to investigating the economic efficiency of the
privatization of Tranzrail." This site offers information on the
organizations which fund the Institute, people involved in research
projects, research papers, and current and future research topics.
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13.0 Software
13.1.0 Internet Software
13.1.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader
[freely available software to read "PDF" files]
Adobe Acrobat PDF (portable document file) files contain all the
information needed to fully describe a document: fonts, graphics, and
even colors. It is a very useful way to exchange files that have such
features, such as working papers. The IRS even uses PDF files to
distribute tax forms through the Internet. To read PDF files, you
need an Acrobat "reader." Adobe makes readers available freely at
this site (they generate revenue from the software that creates PDF
files). It is easy to configure web browsers to automatically invoke
readers when they encounter PDF files.
13.1.2 Ghostscript, Ghostview, and GSview
[freely available software to read "PostScript" files]
This set of freely available software lets you read PostScript and
PDF documents on your PC, and print them. Ghostscript prints them,
while Ghostview and GSview display them on your PC (Ghostview is for
Unix platforms, and GSview is for Windows platforms; both require
Ghostview). This software is freely available.
# http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
13.1.3 Netscape
[leading browser manufacturer]
Netscape makes the leading browser for the Internet. Its use is now
free for all users, and the source code is available as well for the
next version.
13.1.4 Real Networks
[leading audio-visual software]
This firm provides the leading audio and video software for the
Internet. Some versions of their "player" software are freely
available, and many platforms are available.
13.1.5 uuencode/uudecode
[enables binary files to be e-mailed]
If you don't have access to e-mail "attachments" (which use a
technology known as "MIME"), this pair of programs can let you e-mail
binary programs and data. Uuencode takes a binary file (such as a
word processing file or a program) and converts it to text so that it
can be e-mailed. Uudecode than converts it back to binary. Using this
pair of programs, researchers can collaborate by e-mailing binary
data or word processing files. (If one host is an IBM mainframe, be
sure to use the -x option.)
# ftp://ftp.TeX.ac.UK/ctan/tex-archive/archive-tools/uue/
13.1.6 WinZip
[leading decompression program]
This very useful Windows shareware utility can decompress most any
type of compressed or archived file found on the Internet (this
includes ".tar" and ".gz" files). The $29 price is money well spent.
It also operates as "add-on" for browsers to decompress from files
from the net -- they can thus be downloaded in one step.
# http://www.winzip.com/winzip/
13.1.7 xpdf
[another PDF file viewer]
Derek Noonburg has written a pdf viewer for systems running X Window
as an alternative to Adobe's version. Versions for many Unix systems
can be found here.
# http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
13.2.0 Software Program Libraries
13.2.1 Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS)
[guide to 9,000 numerical routines]
This database contains information on almost 9,000 numerical routines
from about 80 packages. It can be searched interactively in several
different ways and is frequently updated. It is run by the U.S.
National Institute of Standards.
# http://gams.nist.gov/
# telnet://ga...@gams.nist.gov
13.2.2 Netlib
[leading archive for numerical software]
Netlib is a numerical software library with approximately 50
megabytes of code. The routines, mostly in Fortran, are generally of
high quality (many were developed at U.S. national labs or by
professional numerical analysts). The popularity of Netlib is
attested by the number of times it has been contacted -- at last
count, nearly 23 million times.
Packages include Linpack, Eispack, and their successor, Lapack
(including a pre-release version in C), fftpack, the Harwell sparse
matrix routines, Hompack, Lanczos, and Minpack. There are many other
more specialized libraries. There is also code from various texts
(but not Numerical Recipes), and code from the ACM Transactions on
Mathematical Software (more than 500 different routines here alone).
There are also many directories organized not by package, but by
subject (each entry is code by different authors). Finally, there are
various tools for Fortran and C users.
In all, there are nearly 150 directories covering nearly every
imaginable area in numerical computation. Any user of numerical
methods would be well advised to be familiar with it.
Netlib is available via e-mail, ftp, gopher, and the web.
Introductory material on Netlib can be found in the first entries of
the web, ftp, and gopher interfaces. For an e-mail. introduction,
write "send index" in the body of a message addressed to one of the
sites listed below, and in return you will receive general
directions.
You can search the contents of Netlib via e-mail (the method is
explained in the e-mail directions) and via the web interface. The
latter is more flexible, but you must carefully read the directions.
The netlib2 ftp site, web and gopher sites contain uncompressed
files.
# http://www.netlib.org/
# gopher://netlib2.cs.utk.edu:70/1/
# ftp://netlib2.cs.utk.edu
# Mail Site: <net...@ornl.gov>
# ATT Mirror: <net...@research.att.com>
# UK Mirror: <net...@unix.hensa.ac.uk>
# Norway Mirror: <net...@nac.no>
# Australia Mirror: <net...@draci.cs.uow.edu.au>
13.2.3 CodEc: Code for Economics and Econometrics
[general archive]
CodEc, part of the NetEc, contains computer programs of interest to
economists. Different hardware platforms, programming languages, and
application languages are supported. They include C and C++, DOS and
Windows executables, Fortran, Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, Rats,
Shazam, and Xlisp-Stat. In all, there are about 20 different programs
and packages, some of which are quite extensive. For instance, it
includes Hal Varian's Mathematica Notebooks for "Microeconomic
Analysis," Matlab routines from Hansen and Sargent's "Recursive
Linear Models of Dynamic Economies," routines from Estima (who
produces Rats), Lin's "GAUSS Programming for Econometricians" (with
routines for least squares, simultaneous least squares, arima models,
and nonlinear optimization),Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager, Rizzo's
GAUSS routines for Tobit and Probit models, King's maximum likelihood
routines for GAUSS, C++ matrix classes by both Chris Birchenhall and
Robert Davies, King's "count+duration" regression software, Haerdle's
"XploRe" for nonparametric regression and data-analysis as well as
other programs. Information on the programs is identified by
"software information" files that identifies the author, a
description, software required, etc. CodEc also provides links to
other code archives as well as links to some companies that offer
programs frequently used by economists.
Dirk Eddelbuettel kindly helped edit this entry.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/CodEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/CodEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/CodEc.html
# Information: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
13.2.4 Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA)
[archives and tests software for economists]
This site at UC Berkeley is partially funded by the NSF. It is
designed to " facilitate the interchange of computational algorithms
that have economic applications. In addition to serving as a central
location for experimental software, we want to work with developers
of algorithms, at Berkeley and elsewhere, to produce standards for
documentation and testing that will facilitate the exchange of new
methodologies and solutions to complex computational problems.
Authors of software that have potential applicability in economics
are encouraged to submit algorithms that conform to our documentation
and testing paradigm."
One unique aspect of ELSA is that where possible, code is tested, so
users have some assurance of quality. Researchers can easily submit
their code to the archive; they have detailed instructions on how to
do so. The archive also includes some data, and they round out their
collection with a section on "Manuals, FAQs, and Working Papers" in
the field.
13.2.5 GAUSS Source Code Archive at American Univ.
[key GAUSS repository]
This library is devoted to GAUSS programs. Be careful to read the
file titled "READ ME FIRST" describing the conditions and terms of
programs in it. In particular, it is for public, non-commercial code,
the code should be clearly attributed, and documented. This file
contains details on how to submit code to the library. Besides
listing code stored here, it also lists many other site with GAUSS
code.
# http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/econ/gaussres/GAUSSIDX.HTM
13.2.6 Statlib
[archive for statistical software]
Statlib is a system similar to Netlib (in fact, it uses roughly the
same e-mail software) for statistical software. Major holding include
algorithms from Applied Statistics, numerous classic datasets
(although few are economic), software for Minitab and S, and a
variety of other software under a heading named "general."
For the e-mail interface, send the phrase "send index" in the body of
your message.
# http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/
# E-Mail <sta...@lib.stat.cmu.edu>
13.2.7 Xlisp-Stat Archive
[commonly used by statisticians]
This archive of programs for this package is divided into several
sections. It includes links to other Xlisp sites, code, contributed
programs, and documentation.
# http://www.stat.ucla.edu/develop/lisp/xlisp/xlisp-stat/
13.2.8 Software for Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)
[archive for this new field]
This new area of research, which includes "complex adaptive systems,"
and is quite computational, has this on-line archive for its
software. Each of the different packages is clearly described.
# http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/acecode.htm
13.3.0 Statistical and Computational Software
13.3.1 AREMOS (WEFA Group)
This software, a product of WEFA Group, is designed to both manage
and analyze time series. It is also is said to feature extensive
presentation facilities. It is available for a number of packages.
# http://www.wefa.com/capabilities/software/aremos.cfm
13.3.2 AUTOBOX
This company offers a sophisticated automatic time series forecasting
engine. At this site, they offer extensive information on their
products. You can even follow an example of solving a problem. Their
products are available for a number of platforms.
13.3.3 BETA (Laissez Faire Software)
This firm produces BETA, a wide ranging econometrics program.
Versions are available for DOS, Windows and OS/2.
# Information: <Lais...@aol.com>
13.3.4 ComLabGames
[on-line strategic and extensive form games]
This site provides software and directions for running strategic and
extensive form games over the Internet. One PC acts as the moderator
that sets the rules of the games, and others can then simultaneously
play. When the game is done, the results can be analyzed. Thus, it is
an excellent teaching device for game theory. Both the software and
extensive directions can be found here.
# http://www.cmu.edu/comlabgames
13.3.5 EPS (DRI/McGraw-Hill)
This product from DRI/McGraw-Hill "...features a broad range of
econometric and statistical functions for the creation and analysis
of time-series and multi-dimensional data. EPS also includes powerful
programming capabilities that simplify data manipulation and
model-building." It also has many features for analyzing financial
markets. In short, it is a completely integrated package for time
series analysis.
# http://www.dri.mcgraw-hill.com/dataprod.htm
13.3.6 EXPO & EXPO/SE (Leading Market Technologies)
This company's products are often used for analysis in the financial
industry. "It's flagship product EXPO has a powerful backbone of
mathematical, statistical, and time series analysis routines, paired
with a highly visual, customizable, easy-access front-end." They also
offer a high speed server. Many of their products can be downloaded
for a free trial. They also offer a free student version. It is a
subset of the regular version in only two ways: it supports only 12
open windows, and it cannot perform realtime analysis.
13.3.7 GAMS
"The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level
modeling system for mathematical programming problems. It consists of
a language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance
solvers. GAMS is tailored for complex, large scale modeling
applications, and allows you build large maintainable models that can
be adapted quickly to new situations." It can run on machines that
vary in size from PC to supercomputers.
At this site you can read about GAMS, including solvers and supported
platforms. They also offer extensive documentation (including FAQs
and an index to their model library), information on contributed
software, and material on workshops and courses.
# http://www.gams.com/
# Information: <ga...@gams.com>
13.3.8 GAUSS (Aptech)
This site offers information on this very popular software package
for econometrics. Specifically, they offer information on GAUSS and
products for it, new features and products, information on where to
buy it, comments from users, and links to related sites.
# http://www.aptech.com/
# Information: <in...@Aptech.com>
# Orders: <sa...@Aptech.com>
# Technical Support: <sup...@Aptech.com>
13.3.9 Ivation (Beyond 20/20)
This company's product, "Beyond 20/20," "... is the multidimensional
software system chosen by information providers and publishers to
organize, manage, and deliver statistical data to their customers."
With it, one can easily view and analyze complex datasets from many
different perspectives in many different ways. It is easy to output
data to other statistical tools. Their customers include many major
statistical agencies.
13.3.10 Limdep
"LIMDEP is the premier program for estimation and analysis of
regression models, and qualitative and limited dependent variables.
No other program offers a greater variety of modeling frameworks,
tools and features for analysis of cross section, panel, and time
series data." The latest version of LIMDEP, 7.0, include a complete
Windows interface (new statistical features are in the mainframe
version as well). You can find extensive details about the program
here (along with details on NLOGIT 2.0), ordering information
(including ordering on-line), a discussion list, contact information,
and an on-line manual.
13.3.11 LINDO
This company specializes in optimization software. This includes
linear and nonlinear programming, as well as spreadsheet plug-ins.
You can find information about their products here.
# http://www.lindo.com/
# Information: <in...@lindo.com>
13.3.12 MLE++ and MLEQuick (Cahill Software)
Cahill Software offers MLE++, a C++ class library for maximum
likelihood estimation. This offers greater flexibility than "canned"
routines. They also offer a menu driven package, MLEQuick, for
"discrete dependent variable models, censored and truncated models,
and survival analysis." Finally, Cahill Software can be hired for
contract programming, with a specialty in "statistical estimation
programs and simulation models."
# http://www.magma.ca/~cahill/
13.3.13 MODLER
This package, which has been in development since its inception in
1968, was originally designed for the econometric analysis of small
or large scale econometric models. It has expanded into other areas,
including data management, general statistical analysis, and
simulations. It also offers close integration with common desktop
applications. It is in use by organizations around the world, and it
is available in different "sizes" (i.e. the maximum number of
equations a version can handle).
13.3.14 Otter Research Ltd. (AD Model Builder & MULTIFAN)
This company offers two products: AD Model Builder and MULTIFAN. The
former "is a tool for the rapid development and implementation of
nonlinear statistical models." It is said to have a number of useful
features: derivatives are calculated without intervention and very
efficiently, the Hessian and covariance matrices are automatically
available, etc. Programs, documentation, and a trial version are
available here. The other product, MULTIFAN, "is used to estimate
growth and mortality for fishes and other species using length
frequency data." An advanced version, MULTIFAN-CL is now available as
well.
# http://www.island.net/~otter/
13.3.15 Maple (Waterloo Maple)
This firm's main product is "Maple," a symbolic algebra program that
also does two and three-dimensional graphics and arbitrary precision
numbers. The offer extensive information and support on the product
here: a library of books on Maple, information for their customers,
and on-line registration.
13.3.16 MathCad & S Plus (Mathsoft)
This company produces two products that might interest economists --
MathCad and S Plus. The former turns your computer into a "live
worksheet" where you can perform numerous types of calculations. The
latter is an object-oriented statistical analysis program. It has a
large following in the statistics community. Extensive information on
both of these programs can be found here.
13.3.17 Mathematica (Wolfram Research)
This web site has a variety of information on their Mathematica
product, including information on customer support, student versions,
product information, technical information, and MathSource, which is
said to be "the largest collection of packages, notebooks, examples,
and programs available." You can also order Mathematica here, and
update your current version.
13.3.18 MATLAB and SIMULINK (MathWorks)
This site offers extensive information about their products. You can
read about the features of MATLAB, SIMULINK, Toolboxes and Blocksets,
extensive support information. You can also retrieve user-contributed
and MathWorks-written software, read about MATLAB books, and also
read material from the many different forums that discuss MATLAB.
# http://www.mathworks.com/
# Sales, Pricing and General Info: <in...@mathworks.com>
# Technical Support: <sup...@mathworks.com>
# Bug Reports: <bu...@mathworks.com>
13.3.19 Microfit
This Windows and DOS program is written by Dr. Hashem Pesaran of the
University of Cambridge and Dr. Bahram Pesaran of Tudor Proprietary
Trading L.L.C. "For the econometric analysis of time series data
Microfit is an unrivaled package. With its extensive choice of data
analysis options, this program is a versatile aid to all those
interested in the evaluation and design of advanced univariate and
multivariate time series models." It is said to be used at a number
or central banks and large financial institutions. Details on pricing
can be found here as well, and a demo version from this site is
available.
# http://www.intecc.co.uk/camfit/
13.3.20 Minitab
This site offers extensive product information (including a student
versions of their software), customer support (including FAQs, papers
on using Minitab in classes, macros, bug fixes, and textbooks that
use Minitab). They also have information on workshops and
conferences, and a "community" section on numerous on-line
statistical resources. There is information on the company as well.
13.3.21 Modeleasy
This statistical modeling software is designed for large models (i.e.
, those with thousands of linear or nonlinear equations). It also has
many estimation and simulation techniques, as well as "extraordinary"
graphical output. Information about its features can be found here.
13.3.22 Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
You can find out about the products of this company, famous for its
Fortran libraries, here. The also have a Fortran 90 repository.
13.3.23 Numerical Recipes
"Numerical Recipes" was originally the title of a book that
implemented numerical algorithms in different computer languages.
They have expanded with a number of books and also offer the
algorithms in different electronic forms: both via diskettes and
on-line. At this site, they offer information and news on themselves,
an on-line store (i.e. you can purchase the routines and books
on-line), instructions for their use, free upgrades and bug reports,
related information on the Internet, and associated information.
# http://nr.harvard.edu/nr/nrhome.html
13.3.24 Ox
This matrix programming language for econometrics is written by
Jurgen A. Doornik of Oxford University. There are a number of
packages and utilities for it for basic and advanced econometric work
(panel data, ARIMA, VAR, cointegration, simultaneous equations, etc.).
It can also import data in a number of formats. Complete
information about the package is available, as is the actual code for
a wide variety of platforms. Doornik also writes PcGive, PcFiml, and
GivWin, which are described in this section.
# http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/Doornik/
13.3.25 Octave
"GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for
numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line
interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and
for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is
mostly compatible with Matlab." It is freely available software, and
is available for most versions of Unix and Windows. Functions are
available for most statistical operations.
# http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/
+ 13.3.26 O-Matrix (Harmonic Software)
+
+ O-Matrix if a full-featured interactive mathematical package for
+ Windows machines. Its list of features include matrix operations,
+ statistics, optimization, calculus, and even wavelets. As one might
+ guess, it includes extensive plotting capabilities, and one can even
+ create a graphical interface with it. A free version is available
+ on-line. O-Matrix is said to be faster than Matlab, and the upcoming
+ version 5 (now in beta testing) can run both Matlab scripts and
+ functions.
+
+ # http://www.omatrix.com/
13.3.27 PcGive, PcFiml, and GiveWin
This set of packages is by Jurgen A. Doornik of Oxford University.
GiveWin is a "front end" where the commands are given and output is
displayed, while PcGive is for single equation modeling, and PcFiml
is for multi-equation work (VARs, cointegration, and simultaneous
equations). A demo of GiveWin and PcGive are available here, while
complete versions are distributed by Timberlake Consultants (the
second URL below).
# http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/Doornik/
# http://www.timberlake.co.uk/
13.3.28 Qplot for Gnuplot
Gnuplot is a commonly used for many plotting duties, but it is
difficult to use for quarterly data that is common in macro. This
page contains and describes a Perl routine "qplot" that adds this
functionality. This page also contains examples of its use.
# http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/qplot/
13.3.29 Quantitative Micro Software
This firm sells MicroTSP and its descendent, EViews. Versions are
available for Macs, MS-DOS, and Windows platforms. Currently, you can
read about their products and obtain support (including updated
software). They also offer the DRI Basic Economics Database (formerly
Citibase).
# http://www.eviews.com/
# General Info and Sales: <sa...@eviews.com>
# Customer Support: <sup...@eviews.com>
13.3.30 RATS (Estima)
On their web site, you can read the latest news from Estima, the
producer of RATS and other related products. You can also read about
general information on their products and about frequently asked
questions on RATS. Finally, they offer a list of procedures and
examples.
# http://www.estima.com/
# Other Support: <est...@estima.com>
13.3.31 SAS
Besides some information on their statistical products, you can also
read about some of their other products and about the company itself.
In addition, you can find out about training classes at their sites,
find extensive information about support (including communicating
with SAS via the web and e-mail) and answers to various common
questions, using a searchable database of more than 10,000 SAS Notes.
There are also routines and sample datasets from the SAS Sample
Library. One can even order their books on-line.
# http://www.sas.com/
# Education: <sas...@vm.sas.com>
# Publications: <pu...@unx.sas.com>
# Software Sales and Marketing: <soft...@sas.sas.com>
13.3.32 SHAZAM
Besides offering support via e-mail, there are a number of additional
services offered over the Internet for SHAZAM. The ftp and gopher
sites listed below contain SHAZAM procedures, command files, issues
of SHAZAM Network News, and data and programs from an edition of
Judge and other sources (not all information is available on both the
ftp and gopher sites).
The web site offers a wealth of information on SHAZAM itself: some
manual chapters (still be modified for this environment), a
description of its features, hardware requirements, lists of
handbooks and disks, and examples and frequently asked questions. You
can even order a copy on-line.
In addition, they offer a very interesting service: one can run
SHAZAM programs remotely on their system. Via e-mail, a program can
be sent to <runs...@shazam.econ.ubc.ca>. It must start with a
SHAZAM comment line (i.e. *), it must contain its own data, and they
ask that you don't abuse this offering with large jobs that tie up
the machine (they monitor usage). One can also use their web page to
run programs. Either allows one to try out SHAZAM, or for old users
to try the most recent version.
# http://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/
# gopher://137.82.185.2/
11ftp%3aSCSI%3apub%3aUBCEconGopher%3aSHAZAM%3a
# ftp://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/pub
# Support: <he...@shazam.econ.ubc.ca>
# Order Information: <in...@shazam.econ.ubc.ca>
# Australia: <sha...@bond.edu.au>
13.3.33 SORITEC
This package, designed for a number of PC platforms, is said to be
very full-featured. At this site you can read about their products,
future plans, and how to obtain support. You can also obtain updates
of their products.
13.3.34 SPSS
At this on-line site, SPSS offers information on their products for
the variety of platforms they support, extensive material on their
training programs, FAQs on their products, a list of their offices
across the world, and information on documentation. They also offer
an on-line version of "Keywords," a magazine for their users.
Finally, they list a limited number of statistical resources on the
Internet.
13.3.35 Stata
This site offers a wealth of information to existing and potential
Stata users. It includes extensive information on their products, and
equally extensive user support. The latter includes FAQs, archives of
their mailing list (described here in the mailing list section),
copies of the Stata Technical Bulletin diskette (not the STB
Journal), which includes bug fixes, user written programs, and new
features. In a nice innovation, they even offer courses over the
Internet. They even offer links to other providers of statistical
software.
+ 13.3.36 Statgraphics (Statistical Graphics Corporation)
+
+ This firm's main product is "Statgraphics," a full-featured
+ statistical package. It includes "exploratory data analysis,
+ histograms, box-and-whisker plots, one sample analysis, two-sample
+ comparisons, regression and multiple regression, analysis of
+ variance, and sample size selection." It can also deal with censored
+ and uncensored data. As one might expect from its name, Statgraphics
+ has very strong graphical features. Besides product information,
+ this site offers a demo version, contact information, and links to
+ statistical sites.
+
+ # http://www.sgcorp.com/
13.3.37 STATISTICA
This general-purpose statistical program is said to receive quite
good reviews. While it does not seem to offer many economic or
econometric-specific features, it does offer a large range of
statistical procedures, including very extensive graphing,
explanatory analysis, and data mining.
13.3.38 TSP International
Currently, this site has extensive information on their products,
including details on its capabilities. Pricing and ordering
information is available as well.
Note: this firm sells TSP; another firm, Quantitative Micro Software,
sells MicroTSP 7.0 and EViews.
# http://www.tspintl.com/
# Sales Inquiries: <sa...@tspintl.com>
# Support: Clint Cummins <cl...@leland.Stanford.edu>
13.3.39 VORSIM
This product is an Excel spreadsheet add-on that can perform a number
of useful functions and operations: "time series models with lags,
static partial equilibrium economic models, engineering process
models, business plan projections," etc. The details here include a
sample you can download.
# http://members.aol.com/vorecon/vorsim.html
13.3.40 Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
[links to 300 sites]
This resource points to more than 300 sites that perform interactive
statistical calculations. Besides the obvious of plotting and
calculating cumulative values of distributions, it also provides
links that offer advice and support on virtually the entire gamut of
statistics: choosing the appropriate test, descriptive statistics,
random numbers, and innumerable types of tests. It can be used for
both teaching and research.
# http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
13.3.41 Xlisp-Stat
According to Hal Varian, a number of statisticians are using this
freely available package. Versions are available for Unix (both
character based and X Window), Macs, Amiga, and Microsoft Windows. It
is quite extensible and flexible, and produces a variety of graphical
outputs.
For additional information, one might want to look at the author's
(Luke Tierney) book: "Lisp Stat : An Object Oriented Environment for
Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics, 1991, Wiley, ISBN:
0471509167.
In addition, an archive for this package is located at UCLA.
Information on it is described in the "Software Program Libraries"
section.
# ftp://umnstat.stat.umn.edu/pub/xlispstat
# Information: Luke Tierney <lu...@umnstat.stat.umn.edu>
13.3.42 XTREMES
This package is used for extreme value analysis. The companion book
is "Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values," R.D. Reiss and M.
Thomas. At this site, you can learn about the package, download
programs, and even download a sample copy of the software.
# http://www.xtremes.math.uni-siegen.de/
13.4.0 Word Processing
13.4.1 Creating Quality Adobe PDF Files from TeX with DVIPS
[generating nice PDF with TeX can be tricky]
This document describes how to change the fonts in TeX and LaTeX to
generate fonts that work well with PDF, a very common document system
on the Internet. Some of the default fonts for TeX and LaTeX do not
work well with PDF. I understand an easier method on some systems is
to use the "times" package (with the "usepackage" command in the
header).
# http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/SOLUTIONS/543e.htm
13.4.2 MT and MTs
[make tables for word processors from Stata or SAS output]
This set of programs, by Jonah Gelbach, takes Stata (MT) or SAS (MTs)
output and generates tables. Specifically, it takes Stata log files,
or SAS .lst files, and generates tables in either LaTeX or ASCII
(which of course can be imported into any word processor). An
advanced version is in the works.
13.4.3 TeX and LaTeX References
[where to start with TeX & LaTeX]
TeX is a typesetting system that was developed by the computer
scientist Donald Knuth of Stanford. To make it easier to use, a very
extensive set of TeX macros, known as LaTeX, have been developed.
Versions of it are used widely, if not exclusively, for word
processing in math and physics. In part, this stems from the ease in
which one can type equations. In addition, LaTeX has an interesting
philosophy: you design the logical structure of the document, and
LaTex handles the physical output. This makes a number of things
easier. For instance, if you wish to add a section, you don't have to
retype all the other section numbers; LaTeX handles this
automatically. Or, if you decide to change the presentation style of
equations, you can make the change in one place, rather than equation
by equation.
For TeX, let me cite two references. The first one is the classic,
while the second one contains information on the huge number of
macros and ancillary programs for TeX.
The TeXbook, Donald Knuth, Addison Wesley, 1984, ISBN 0-201-13447-0,
paperback 0-201-13448-9
Making TeX Work, Norman Walsh, O'Reilly and Associates, 1994, ISBN
1-56592-051-1.
For LaTex, let me also give two references. The first is the second
edition of the classic LaTeX reference. It covers the new version of
LaTeX, LaTeX2e. To be honest, I often find its technical appendix to
be of more use than the chapters. The second reference is designed as
a very detailed companion for the first.
LaTeX, a Document Preparation System, 2nd ed., Leslie Lamport,
Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-52983-1
The LaTeX Companion, Michel Gossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander
Samarin, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-54199-8.
Finally, the following URL is for the "TeX Users Group" (TUG), which
offers a wealth of information on TeX and LaTeX.
13.4.4 TeX Macros for Economics and TeX/LaTeX Sources
[generate TeX in styles for different journals]
Since I am not a TeX user, let me defer to George Greenwade <bed_
g...@SHSU.edu>, who is. In fact, he is an expert. This section was
written by George and I simply copied, with a bit of editing, from
his posting to the Usenet newsgroup sci.econ.research as archived by
Forrest Smith.
The TeX macros written by Hal Varian, known as "VerTeX" (for
Visualize Economic Reports in TeX; release 1.0 of August, 1987) are
available for ftp retrieval from this site:
Also, the command: "SENDME VERTEX" in the body of a mail message to
FILE...@SHSU.edu will retrieve the set of 19 files via e-mail.
I have to stress that these are NOT LaTeX styles; they are TeX
macros. VerTeX's syntax differs somewhat from the more standard
LaTeX-type commands; however, the syntax used in VerTeX is consistent
throughout VerTeX (and, as an occasional user, I feel comfortable in
saying they are relatively easy to follow, understand, and use). The
file set is pretty well documented and demonstrated. Varian has very
roughly hinted that he might have an interest at some later date in
rewriting these to use LaTeX and BibTeX (probably after the release
of LaTeX3 -- since I am quite involved in that project, I feel safe
in telling you not to hold your breath on LaTeX3; I'll be surprised
if it's out before 1996).
The present Visualize Economic Reports in TeX styles include:
# jpe.sty --- Journal of Polemical Economy
# jep.sty --- Journal of Economic Perspectives
# jet.sty --- Journal of Economic Theorems
# aer.sty --- Armenian Economic Review
# ecnmet.sty --- Economagica
# restud.sty --- Review for Economic Students
# qje.sty --- Quartered Journal of Economics
I'll assume that you can figure out which of these look like what
"real" journals. When you use one of these styles, VerTeX will
automatically adjust the style of the document and the style of the
references to be more-or-less consistent with the journal style. Some
fine tuning may be needed, but the output generally looks pretty
good.
As the US coordinator of the CTAN (a collection now in excess of a
gigabyte), if you have any TeX-related files which you would like to
have included, please contact me.
# ftp://ftp.TeX.ac.UK/ctan/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
13.4.5 T3, Scientific Word and WorkPlace (TCI Software)
[commercial TeX and Maple products]
This company has three products: T3, Scientific Word, which generates
LaTeX, and Scientific WorkPlace 2.0, which integrates Scientific Word
with the Maple symbolic computation system. At this site you can read
about this company and their products, and order and obtain support
(including program updates).
13.4.6 Using Xdvi for Presentations
[generate presentations with freely available software]
This page, by Allin Cottrell of Wake Forrest University, describes
how one can use TeX or LaTeX and xdvi to create computer
presentations. The results offer roughly the same functionality as
PowerPoint: incremental display of material, embedded graphics, and
even movies.
Bill Goffe
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
11.0 Other Internet Guides
11.1.0 General Internet Resources
11.1.1 EFF's Guide to the Internet
For a comprehensive on-line guide, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation's "EFF's Guide to the Internet" is excellent.
# http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eegttitop.html
11.1.2 ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
This on-line dictionary of common and not-so-common Internet terms is
sponsored by "Internet Literacy Consultants." It is a good place to
look for terms that new users might find confusing.
# http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
11.1.3 Internet Web Index
This index by John December covers just about anything one would want
to know about the Internet -- it ranges from an orientation to the
Internet to guides to searching for information to connecting to
people.
# http://www.december.com/web/text/index.html
11.1.4 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained
This site offers rebuttals about commonly held views on copyright and
the Internet. Some readers might find copyright law surprising, and
thus useful to know.
# http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
11.1.5 Beginner's Guide to URLs
This file offers a nice short introduction to Uniform Resource
Locators (URLs), which are an essential part to using the Internet
with web browsers.
# http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html
11.1.6 SYSTRAN Translation Software
[translate human languages in web sites]
Also known as "babelfish," this service, run by AltaVista, translates
both text you enter and Internet sites. While the translations are
not perfect, they can often give you a sense of a site if it is
written in a language you don't read.
# http://babelfish.altavista.com/
11.1.7 Internet Cookies
[understand this sometimes controversial technique]
This information bulletin from the U.S. Department of Energy's
Computer Incident Advisory Capability describes this technology in
considerable detail. In short, some people worry far too much about
cookies, but they do bring out some identification issues that might
concern some Internet users.
# http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-034.shtml
11.1.8 Argus Clearinghouse
"The Argus Clearinghouse provides a central access point for
value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate
Internet-based information resources." It developed from a project at
the University of Michigan. If you're looking for information
available on the Internet, this is a good place to look. This guide
is located here.
# http://www.clearinghouse.net/
11.1.9 Net-Direct Index (NDI)
This site is designed for those "who thrive on quick and easy access
to a substantial body of news and practical reference information..."
It does a fine job of just this, and is much easier than looking
through a large index or search engine. Of particular use is their
Reference Desk and Virtual Library.
# http://www.globaldialog.com/~morse/ija/
11.1.10 WWW Virtual Library
This organization provides information on a vast number of topics.
This guide is located there.
11.1.11 Usenet FAQs
FAQs are Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) from the Usenet
discussion system (not how the term has come into the lexicon -- this
is where it started). They cover a very wide variety of topics; a
quick check of recent FAQs found them on the following topics: drum
corps, medical image formats, culture in Canada, European Union
basics, pool and billiards, computer research, linear programming,
hockey, finding craft suppliers, SCSI computer peripherals, reggae
music, locksmithing, DESKview, FoxPro, cats, and electrical wiring.
This document is the FAQ for the newsgroup sci.econ.research. In all,
nearly 1000 different newsgroups have such documents. While some can
be very useful, be sure to remember the adage: "they're worth what
you pay for them." The html links are to various sites that generates
html versions of the FAQ on rtfm, the ultimate site for FAQs.
# http://www.faqs.org/faqs/
# http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
# http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
# ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group
11.1.12 Yahoo!
This a very extensive directory to interesting Internet resources. Of
all the different indices to the net, this one is the most used. It
offers both hierarchical listings and search function of its
database. It is a fine place from which to start to search the
Internet.
+ 11.1.13 dmoz -- Open Directory Project
+
+ Like Yahoo, and unlike search engines, the Open Directory Project
+ uses human editors to categorize the Internet. Unlike Yahoo, it uses
+ volunteer editors for its different sections (at last count, there
+ were more than 13,000). Thus, its coverage is much smaller than
+ search engines, but with the benefit of better organization and
+ greater relevance.
+
+ # http://dmoz.org/
11.1.14 AltaVista
This search engine is generally thought to have the most powerful set
of options for searching its index of web pages. Of some interest is
the ability to search for links to a page -- thus you can check who
links to you. The syntax is "link:URL", where the quotes are not used
and URL is the address in question. In addition, it offers a
translation service -- it will translate a web page to and from
various languages. While the translation is rough, it generally
produces a translation that is sensible. They also provide a useful
index to the Internet. Note that search engines hardly cover all the
Internet, so it often makes sense to search more than one (I saw one
case where a search on different engines turned up nearly orthogonal
results).
+ 11.1.15 Google!
+
+ This search engine, started in mid-1999, is attracting considerable
+ attention for the accuracy of it search results (a quick test on my
+ part bore this out). It uses fairly sophisticated algorithms to rank
+ the importance of a site based on the links to it. It is said that
+ for each search it solves a very large system of simultaneous
+ equations on multiple computers.
+
+ # http://google.com/
11.1.16 HotBot
This search engine has options nearly as powerful as AltaVista, and
it is easier to use. It has recently received some excellent reviews.
Note that search engines hardly cover all the Internet, so it often
makes sense to use more than one.
* 11.1.17 Lycos
This service also indexes the web, and you can access it through a
* sophisticated search engine. In addition, they provide a
* "directory" to the Internet like Yahoo based on the "Open Directory
* Project. Note that search engines hardly cover all the Internet, so
it often makes sense to use more than one.
+ 11.1.18 Northern Light
+
+ According to a recent study, this search engine has the largest
+ coverage of the Internet (at what might be a surprisingly small 38%
+ of all web sites). It features the "Special Collection" of more than
+ 5,000 "full-text journals, books, magazines, newswires, and reference
+ sources" (these are part of a fee-based service, and include various
+ reports from the business press; it also includes reports from WEFA).
+ It also offers investment research and current news. To help you
+ search, there are "custom folders" for search results -- search
+ results are organized into ten or so categories, so one can more
+ quickly reach the desired information.
+
+ # http://www.northernlight.com/
11.1.19 DejaNews
[search Usenet newsgroups]
This site specializes in searches of Usenet newsgroups. The current
database is some 180 gigabytes with 138 million articles, and you can
search for information from posts up to a year old. It also offers a
listing of newsgroups.
11.1.20 Dow Jones Business Directory
[nice listing of industry data]
Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of "The Wall Street Journal,"
provides this site for business research. Of most interest to
academic economists is their listings of resources on industries.
This listing is fairly unique.
11.1.21 LISZT: Directory of E-Mail Discussion Groups
[find mailing lists]
This is a very large compilation of mailing lists on the Internet --
at last count, some 90,000 lists.
11.1.22 Reference.com
[search Usenet and mailing lists]
This site offers searchable archives of both Usenet (as does
DejaNews) and apparently unlike any other search engine, some mailing
lists. They list information on some 100,000 mailing lists, and
messages from many can be searched here (but few seem to be in
economics).
11.1.23 Yahoo People Search
This site (which used to be Four11) offers what seems to be an
unusually large listing of e-mail addresses. I was able to find a
number of people I know here, which in my experience, is somewhat
unusual with such databases.
11.1.24 WhoWhere?
This database of e-mail and regular addresses has an extensive
listing of e-mail addresses. It is said to be award-winning, and is
owned by the Lycos search engine company.
# http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
11.1.25 internet @ddress.finder
This database of e-mail addresses is said to be particularly strong
for those in universities.
11.2.0 Multiple Subject Sites
11.2.1 AEAweb
[American Economic Association]
This American Economic Association site is intended to be an Internet
portal to information for economists, particularly to Internet
resources provided by the AEA. You'll find links to its journals
and publications (with extensive information on the JEL and its
on-line activities, including e-JEL), the AEA's on-line directory of
members, information about the Association (including how to join),
and this guide.
* 11.2.2 Inomics
[economics search engine]
This site, sponsored by Thorsten Wichmann of Berlecon Inc., is a
search engine of sites of interest to economists. That is, it
retrieves information from the site and puts them in a database that
users can query. The queries can be quite complex, which should help
* focus the search on exactly what is requested. This search engine
* now features downloadable working papers. Besides the search
engine, Inomics also lists job openings for economists and calls for
* conferences free of charge. By entering your e-mail address at
* http://www.inomics.com/query/alert/ you can receive a new list of job
* openings and conference announcements suited to your individual
* needs.
11.2.3 Internet Resources for Economists
[directory with hundreds of links]
This site is run by John Kane of SUNY-Oswego. It breaks material of
interest to economists into a number of different items, directories,
and subdirectories. In all, hundreds of resources listed.
# http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/econweb.htm
11.2.4 Scout Report: Business and Economics
[scouts new sites]
The Scout Report is an excellent source of new material on the
Internet. In late 1996, they started a special section devoted to
business and economics -- here, each of these items is listed. One
can also subscribe to the mailing list, which is probably the best
way to experience this resource. The mailing list is described in
that section "Scout Report for Business & Economics (srbusecon)" .
# http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/bus-econ/current/index.html
11.2.5 Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
[British focused directory]
This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) and is based at the University of Bristol. It catalogs many
different social science resources on the Internet. Overall, there
are sixteen different categories, including economics. That part
lists some 200 different resources with something of a British
emphasis.
# http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/
11.2.6 WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics
[directory with hundreds of links (mostly by JEL categories)]
This site is part of the NetEc project, which makes available and
accessible materials on the Internet for economists. This is just one
of its very valuable and useful efforts. This site is a very
comprehensive, if not the most comprehensive, web sites of economic
information. For one looking for web resources in economics, or
economic resources in general, this is a fine place to start. Among
its many unique features is its interactive "Event Calendar" -- you
can enter various economic events on-line so others can learn about
them. The web resources are arranged and searchable according to the
Journal of Economic Literature Classification System. (Lasse Saarinen
is the maintainer of WebEc, and he kindly contributed to this
description.)
# http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/WebEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WebEc/WebEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/WebEc/WebEc.html
# http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/
11.3.0 Single Subject Sites
11.3.1 Adam Smith Page
This page, developed by Edward J. Harpham of the University of Texas
at Dallas, promotes the study of the ideas of Adam Smith. The site
provides a biography on Smith, recent articles on Smith, a
bibliography, collected works, recent books on Smith, and general
information on Smith. The site will be updated bi-monthly.
# http://www.utdallas.edu/~harpham/adam.htm
11.3.2 Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)
This new field of study "is roughly characterized as the
computational study of economies modeled as evolving decentralized
systems of autonomous interacting agents. A central concern of ACE
researchers is to understand the apparently spontaneous appearance of
global regularities in economic processes, such as the unplanned
coordination of trade in decentralized market economies that
economists associate with Adam Smith's invisible hand." This site
offers introductory and detailed surveys, a list of readings,
software, links to other ACE sites and resources, conferences, and
news notes.
# http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm
11.3.3 Agricultural Economics Virtual Library
This page lists a very large number of sites for agricultural
economists. They are grouped in the following categories: "Mega
Resources" (i.e. each resource covers many areas in the field),
"Academic Departments," "Usenet News," "Mailing Lists," "Journals and
Research," "Markets," "Policy," "Trade," "Associations," "Software,"
"Other 'Index' Pages," "Extension," and "Data on the Web." Since each
category lists a large number of resources, agricultural economists
will find a large amount of useful material here.
# http://www.aeco.ttu.edu/aecovl/index.htm
# Information: Jason Beddow <jbe...@vt.edu>
11.3.4 Resources for Agricultural Economists
This site also offers a large number of sites of interest to
agricultural economists. They are categorized in the following
sections: institutes, departments and extension services, GATT and
NAFTA, general agriculture, international institutions and
organizations, internet resources, subdisciplines in the field,
statistical data sites, and U.S. government agencies and departments.
# http://kierkegaard.ifas.ufl.edu/
11.3.5 Antitrust Case Summary Browser
This site "provides a collection of U. S. Supreme Court case
summaries dealing with violations of antitrust statutes." The
material is organized in a number of different ways. Links are
provided to other sites in this field as well.
# http://www.stolaf.edu/people/becker/antitrust/antitrust.html
11.3.6 Supreme Court Antitrust Debates
This site examines seventy-two Supreme Court antitrust cases from
1895 to 1993 with extensive excerpts. The cases are organized in
several different ways: economic content; the justice responsible
for authoring the opinion, and chronologically. There are also "case
guides" for many of the cases, which give information about laws,
opinions, questions, and references which are related to the case.
# http://www.ripon.edu/Faculty/bowenj/antitrust/INTRO.htm
# Info <Bow...@acad.Ripon.edu>
11.3.7 Antitrust Policy: research, policy and cases
"This web page is designed to solve three problems: the alienation of
antitrust academics from practitioners, the alienation of law,
economics, and public policy from each another, and the difficulty
that everyone has in keeping up with recent developments." Under the
editorship of Prof. Luke Froeb, they offer the following areas:
Merger Simulation, Mergers, Price Fixing, Vertical Restraints, Other
Information, and an area for interactive discussion. Looked at
another way, they offer antitrust case documents (complaints,
opinions, and expert testimony), enforcement guidelines and speeches,
economic bibliographies, and current events.
11.3.8 Asymmetry of Economic Time Series
This very extensive literature review is by Mike Stannett. It covers
this literature from its very early days (1825!) to 1993. It includes
very rare items from the Cambridge University Library.
# http://noisefactory.co.uk/research/sci-econ/Asymmetries.html
11.3.9 Banking on the WWW
Material on this site is devoted to banking. It is broken up into the
following categories: Guides and General Information, Banks of the
World, Supervising and Deposit Insurance, Academic Research on
Banking, Banking and Finance in Electronic Media, Law and Banking,
and Miscellaneous. However, perhaps the most useful categories are
the first two, which have a large number of links to banks.
# http://www.wiso.gwdg.de/ifbg/banking.html
11.3.10 Business Forecasting
This site provides links to other business forecasting sites in an
attempt to share information and tools to enable business researchers
to forecast more accurately. Information on the International
Institute of Forecasters can be found here, as well as forecasting
conferences, print resources, frequently asked forecasting questions,
the IIF discussion list, forecasting research and courses, companies
specializing in forecasting software, time series data sources, and
other related forecasting organizations. M3-Competition,
M2-Competition, and M-Competition Data is also available on this
site.
# http://forecasting.cwru.edu/
11.3.11 The Capitalism Site
The purpose of this site "is to promote capitalism as the ideal
social system." Based on Ayn Rand's principle of "objectivism," this
site leads viewers through the popular multimedia visual tour of
capitalism. Also featured on this site are capitalism questions and
answers; the monthly "Capitalism Magazine," which examines current
events and news from a capitalist perspective; a capitalism
discussion group; and other capitalism resources.
+ 11.3.12 Center for Advanced Macroeconomic Policy -- Challenges to
+ Mainstream Economics
+
+ This site, by Neil Buchanan of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
+ came out of posts of his to several mailing lists. He wrote, "I am
+ starting to assemble a list of articles that bemoan the current state
+ of economics (and/or its recent theoretical and methodological
+ trends). This would include such classics as 'The Poverty of
+ Economics' and 'Let's Take the "Con" out of Econometrics.'" This site
+ is the result of the responses he received. Material is split up into
+ books and book chapters, newspaper articles, popular periodicals, and
+ journals. There is also information on Center, and its mission, which
+ is "committed to transforming the debate about how best to achieve a
+ sustainable and equitable economic system."
+
+ # http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CAMP/stateofecon.html
11.3.13 Clearing and Settlement System Research
This page, run by Jim Moser, details various issues the in clearing
and settlement of financial instruments. It includes both a
bibliography and research papers.
# http://shoga.wwa.com/~mosers/
11.3.14 Communications for a Sustainable Future
This site contains several entries that will be of interest:
"International Political Economy," "Post-Keynesian Thought" (PKT),
"The Economics of Climate Variability and Global Change" (Clim-Econ),
"Debt," "Ecol-Econ" (ecological economics), "Sustainable Economics,"
and "LongWaves" (long waves of economic growth). The last two are
archives of mailing lists of the same name; the last also contains
related links.
"International Political Economy" contains a variety of material in
this field, such as material about many different parts of the world,
various treaties, and newsletters. It also has publications from the
German Development Institute. In general, the material is quite
extensive. PKT contains a variety of material from that field, along
with archives of the mailing lists PKT and PEN-L. Clim-Econ and Debt
carry similar material.
11.3.15 Computational Economic Modeling
This site lists places with resources for computational economics.
Categories include announcements, graduate workshops, some working
papers, and a catch-all category of interesting links.
# http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/index.html
11.3.16 Econometric Links
This site at the Econometric Institute at Erasmus University, has
several categories of interest to econometricians. First is
information on how to find econometricians. Second is pointers to
papers, and next is links to software and newsgroups. Following that
is a very extensive set of links to conferences in the discipline,
books, and journals. Finally, there is information on mailing lists.
It is a fine site for those in this area.
# http://www.eur.nl/few/ei/links/
11.3.17 Econometric Resources on the Internet
This site offers a wealth of information on econometric and general
economic available on the net, and it is a supplement to the
forthcoming textbook "Econometrics: An Applied Approach." For "pure"
econometrics, there is information on data and software. There is
additional information on economic associations, economic
institutions and research organizations, a very nice list of economic
journals, working papers, federal and international organizations,
and mailing lists and newsgroups.
# http://www.oswego.edu/~kane/econometrics/
+ 11.3.18 Econometrics World
+
+ This site, run by Gilbert Lui, lists a number of resources for
+ econometricians. These include journals in this field (including
+ those on-line), departments and colleges, publishers, and a very
+ extensive list of software. Perhaps the most unique part is the set
+ of links to econometricians and statisticians.
+
+ # http://home4u.hongkong.com/education/university/csglui/main.htm
11.3.19 Economic Development Resource Page
This site specializes in "international economic development and
relief." It lists a numerous organizations that deal with these
issues around the world organized by region. Note that ads pop up on
separate windows when you visit this site.
# http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/8715/
11.3.20 Economic Growth Resources
This site has a number of useful resources for those interested in
this topic. It includes datasets, a list of general developmental
resources, information on the "Journal of Economic Growth," extensive
reading lists (key references, and literature surveys), an area for
the latest research, information on the mailing list
"economic-growth," working papers, information on the World Bank
Economic Growth Project, and other links of interest.
# http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/Growth/
11.3.21 Economic History Services (EH.Net)
"EH.Net operates the Economic History Services fileserver and several
electronic discussion lists to provide resources and promote
communication among scholars in economic history and related fields."
It is closely involved with several organizations, including the
Business History Conference, the Cliometric Society, the Economic
History Association, the European Historical Economic Society, the
International Economic History Association, the History of Economics
Society, and the Economic History Society of Australia and New
Zealand. There is information on the members of several of these
organizations, information on databases in this field, book reviews,
numerous course syllabi, a very extensive list of Internet sites of
interest to economic historians, and "Ask the Professor," where
professors answer questions.
11.3.22 Economy in Latin America
This resource, at the University of Texas, specializes in Latin
American economic issues. It lists research centers, macro data (both
by country and the region), news and magazines, and finally other
news sources.
# http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/economy/
11.3.23 European Research Papers Archive (ERPA)
This site provides a hub for the online working papers of the five
members of the European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) Network that
deal with the topic of European Integration. The four founding
members of the Network are the Robert Schuman Centre Academy of
European Law at the European University Institute; the Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne; Harvard Law School;
and ECSA-Austria. The Advanced Research on the Europeanization of
the Nation-State, Oslo, was added in November 1998. Two search forms
are available. The short form allows participants to get a quick
update on recently published papers (within the last six months), as
well author and title searches. The advanced form allows one to do
keyword, full-text, and publication date searches.
# http://olymp.wu-wien.ac.at/erpa/
11.3.24 Friedrich Hayek Scholar's Page
This site, run by Greg Rransom of Mira Costa College, presents a
great deal of information on Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek. The site
provides quotes on Hayek, a link to the bibliographies of works by
and about Hayek, biographical information, and the Hayek Scholar
Bookstore (with information on books by and about Hayek). Also
available on this site: a discussion list with subscription
information, audio and video clips of a series of discussions taped
in 1978, and research resources.
# http://members.aol.com/gregransom/hayekpage.htm
11.3.25 EmuNet
This independent, non-profit web site "provides a non-partisan
platform for exchanging best practice on the macroeconomics, public
policy and business implications of Emu." Instant access to the
latest news, texts, information, commentary and analysis of Europe's
single currency is a key feature of this site. Conference and
seminar information is also available.
11.3.26 Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
"The Global Trade Analysis Project provides data, a standard model
and software, and training for multi-country CGE analysis." The
version III model has 37 sectors and 30 regions. Support for this
work is provided by a number of different organizations around the
world. The model, the data, and extensive information on it are
available here.
# http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/gtap/index.htm
# Information: <con...@agecon.purdue.edu>
11.3.27 Health Economics - Places to Go
This site, administered by Ansgar Hebborn, offers a very wide
collection of resources on the Internet in health economics. The
topics are divide into several areas: "Health Economics, Evaluation
of Health Care Technologies, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical and
Biomedical Information, Public Health, Managed Care, Medical
Resources, and Jobs, and Miscellaneous." Each area lists a number of
different resources.
# http://www.medecon.de/hec.htm
11.3.28 History of Economics Internet References
This site lists references to sites that deal with the history of
economics (not economic history). The subjects include general
references, Marxism, neoclassical economics, Keynesianism, classical
political economy, and specific topics. There is also material on
related organizations, future conferences, and interdisciplinary
issues.
# http://cfec.vub.ac.be/cfec/hope.htm
11.3.29 History of European Integration Site
This site contains links to other sites that are concerned with the
analyses, documentation, and statistics of European Integration
within an historical dimensions, and is therefore, not concerned with
recent materials. Rates sites on their proportion of historical
content. Categories include historical documents, cold war sites,
EU-institutions, non-EU multilateral organizations, statistical
sources and other links, and book reviews.
# http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/rtg/res1/index.htm
11.3.30 The Information Economy
The general theme of this site is the information economy. You'll
find a great amount of material on the economic analysis of computer
networks and broadly related areas such as commerce on the Internet,
the government's role, publishing, etc. In sum, it is a very good
place to visit. Specifically, the subject headings are "Accounting &
Measuring Traffic, Announcements, Background and Reference, Commerce,
Electronic Publishing, Government Resources, Intellectual Property,
International, Intranets, Miscellaneous, Resources, Network
Economics, Policy and Law, Pricing, Security, Privacy and Encryption.
"
# http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon
# Suggestions: <info...@sims.berkeley.edu>
11.3.31 Informational Cascades and Rational Herding: An Annotated
Bibliography and Resource Reference
This page, authored by Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and
Ivo Welch, deals with the concept of "informational cascades."
Briefly, this literate describes how rational agents can "herd" when
they have incomplete information. More formally, "An informational
cascades is a situation in which every subsequent actor, based on the
observations of others, makes the same choice independent of his/her
private signal." Thus, you can have a number of agents acting in the
same way even when individually they wouldn't act in this manner.
This site describes these models, reviews the literature, examines
applications, and looks at empirical work, descriptions in the press,
and books. It also looks at the idea informally -- it gives one
casual example of when one person looks up in the sky, many others
will likely follow. Readers can interactively add comments and
citations to this document.
# http://linux.agsm.ucla.edu/cascades/
11.3.32 Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
This Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit research center that
focuses on the issues surrounding social inequality and poverty in
the United States. Current research examines welfare reform and the
development of a new poverty measure. The publications of the IRP are
available for download here, and information on ordering the print
versions is also available. The site also provides information about
the Institute, staff and affiliates, and links to poverty-related
resources.
# http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
11.3.33 International Trade & Business WWW Reference Pages
This offering, run by Werner Antweiler the Policy Analysis Division,
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of
British Columbia (and named PACIFIC for Policy Analysis Computing &
and Information Facility in Computing) offers a number of Internet
resources in this area. First are resources they provide: Dictionary
of International Trade and Business (with some 2,000 entries),
extensive exchange rate information (see "PACIFIC Exchange Rate
Service Retrieval Interface" ), the GATT agreement, SITC categories,
SIC categories for international trade, the Vancouver World Tables,
and the Harmonized Commodity Description And Coding System. They also
provide links to a number of other Internet sites dealing with
international trade.
# http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/trade/
11.3.34 International Trade Data
This site is designed for those doing work in empirical international
trade. One major focus is a "comprehensive set of industry
concordances." There are also pointers to significant international
datasets. This site is maintained by Jon Haveman of Purdue
University.
# http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/Trade.html
11.3.35 Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and Applications (CITG)
This site includes a number of resources in game theory. They include
the abstracts of the International Journal of Game Theory, past and
current issues of the POOL (the listing service in game theory), past
and current issues of the ISDG (The International Society of Dynamic
Games) Newsletter, information on meetings and seminars, the
newsletter of this centre, a bibliography (in Italian), and a mirror
of the game theory section of the Working Paper Archive.
# http://fismat.dima.unige.it/citg/citg.htm
11.3.36 Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS)
This organization at the University of London studies the British
Commonwealth. The research covers many disciplines, but does not
include much economics.
# http://www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/ics/
11.3.37 Institutional and Behavioral Economics
This site, devoted to institutional economics, has material on
working papers, reviews, and course outlines pertaining to the field.
There is also an area for announcements, such as meetings, and links
to related sites.
# http://www.msu.edu/user/schmid/instecon.htm
11.3.38 Law and Economics
This site has pointers to numerous law and economics resources on the
net. They include associations, on-line working papers,
bibliographies, mailing lists, and a variety of other material in
both these fields. It also includes the indices of the Journal of Law
and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies.
# http://www.findlaw.com/lawecon/
11.3.39 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page
At this site you can read David Levine's working papers (many are
with Drew Fudenberg), as well as general interest and class material.
The papers are in Microsoft Word format, but there is a link to
Microsoft, where you can download a free viewer for such documents.
There is a link here to Drew Fudenberg's page, where you can read the
abstracts of these papers.
# http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/
11.3.40 Stan Liebowitz on Path Dependence and Network Externalities
Here you can read about Stan Liebowitz and Steve Margolis' work in
this area, which has attracted a considerable amount of recent
interest. Papers are also available.
# http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/
11.3.41 MacLean's Economic Policy Page: Progressive Canadian Policies
This site, run by Brian K. MacLean, Director of INORD, acts as a
forum for those interested in progressive Canadian economic policy by
providing research and opinions, as well as links to other internet
sources. The Canadian Economic Policy Forum section focuses on
papers on Canadian economic topics, while the International Economic
Policy Forum specializes on global and non-Canadian issues. The
Policy Watchers' Calendar provides three months worth of events and
statistical release dates for those interested in Canadian economic
policy; and for the latest policy developments, there is a link to
the Policy Watcher's Launchpad. There are also links to the Annual
Economic Policy Conference series, research tools, personal finance
advice and data, and people involved in Canadian economic issues.
# http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/8691/
11.3.42 Macro Economic Models
On this page you will find sections on macroeconometric models, as
described by Gotz Uebe. One sections lists them by country (perhaps
the most useful part), another reviews the literature, and another
contains a glossary. For those interested in this topic, this is a
fine resource.
# http://www.unibw-hamburg.de/WWEB/math/uebe/zuhause.engl.html
11.3.43 Marshall Studies Bulletin
This is the on-line version of the University of Florence's annual
publication on Alfred Marshall. It also has material on the the
history of economic thought in Britain in the last two centuries. It
has the current and back issues, some electronic text by Marshall,
and information on newsletters and meetings.
# http://www.cce.unifi.it/rivista/welcome.htm
11.3.44 Microcredit Virtual Library
This site offers a number of resources on informal credit,
microcredit, etc. Sections include a bibliography, documents and case
studies in the area, libraries, Internet resources, and mailing
lists.
# http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/icm/
* 11.3.45 Microsoft Legal Battle
This page, by Nick Economides of the Stern School, offers analysis
and news coverage on this legal battle, including proposed remedies.
* An interview with Jeremy Irons on about.com offers updated
* assessments at the beginning of the trial's second part.
# http://raven.stern.nyu.edu/networks/ms/
11.3.46 Model User Group International (CGE Modeling)
This organization is devoted to computational general equilibrium
modeling. You can read about their most recent conference, job
announcements, course outlines, and links to related modeling sites.
# http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~mug/index.html
11.3.47 Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics
This site, from the Nobel Foundation itself, lists information on all
winners of the "Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences." For each year
there is an extensive press release, and some listings include
further detailed information and links.
# http://www.nobel.se/prize/memorial.html
+ 11.3.48 Online Glossary of Research Economics
+
+ [research terms explained]
+
+ This interactive glossary is written by Peter Meyer, a grad student
+ at Northwestern University. As he describes it, "The guiding
+ principle is that any term used in any English-language economics
+ research journal that is neither defined there, nor common vocabulary
+ among the mathematically literate belongs here." Links are given to
+ the relevant citations (which are also available as one file), and
+ all told it contains more than 1,000 entries. Grad students and
+ researchers working in new areas are likely to find it useful.
+
+ # http://econterms.com/
11.3.49 Principles of Forecasting Project
This project aims to review forecasting techniques in many areas
(management, operations research and the social sciences) to serve as
a base for future research. The project is being run by J. Scott
Armstrong of the Wharton School, and and all 34 papers by 46 authors
have been peer-reviewed. This site provides a current report of
progress with much information and many links on the project. The
material will be published as a companion handbook in 1999 by Kluwer.
# http://www-marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/forecast/
11.3.50 Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page
This site is organized by Christian Zimmermann and is a very nice
example of what one person can do on the web to make information
available to the profession (in addition, it has a clever bit of
humor). In just a short while, it has added an extensive amount of
very useful information to people in this field. I would think that
everyone in this area will find something of interest here. There are
directories and home pages of people in this field; one can even add
your name to the database on-line. There are also lists of centers in
this field, RBC papers on-line, recent books, relevant journals,
data, computer code, and calls for papers. One very useful resource
is a frequently updated bibliography of the field. It is in html, and
has more than 600 entries. This is a nice illustration of how the net
can be used to support research -- it is much more current than any
paper publication can possibly be. There is also a message board for
discussion in the area. Finally, it has a very complete listing of
other single subject sites in economics.
It also has a section on macro jobs. Besides links to JOE, etc., it
also lists positions advertised on the web and has a section for
listing vitaes.
# http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14160/rbc/
11.3.51 REESweb : Russian and East European Studies
This section, devoted to "Business, Economics, and Law Resources,"
site contains a substantial variety of material from many disciplines
on Russia, Central, and Eastern Europe. The actual reference given
here is to their listing of economic material in this part of the
world (you can click back to their main page from there, however).
Besides material of interest to academic economists, there is general
business material as well.
# http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html
11.3.52 RESECON: Land and Resource Economics Network
This server is for those "with an interest in the economics of land
and other natural resources. It is primarily an association serving
the academic and professional economics community..." The primary
method of discourse is the RESECON mailing list (described in the
mailing list section). Past postings are archived, and other material
is available as well, and is expected to grow. Perhaps the most
useful is material on submission policies of different journals in
the field.
# http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/rmporter/nre/natural_resource_economics.
html
11.3.53 RISKWeb
This service is the web counterpart of RISKNet, a mailing list
devoted to risk and insurance issues. Besides considerable material
on the mailing list, one can search "the Journal of Risk and
Insurance Article Abstracts (1986-present), Journal of Risk and
Uncertainty Article Abstracts (with by permission from Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Inc.), the RMI-WPA (Risk and Insurance Working
Paper Archive, Insurance Fraud Research Register and the RISKNet
biographical information database." There are also links to working
paper and teaching archives, announcements, and a job center, all in
this area. Finally, there are also links to other Internet sites in
this area.
11.3.54 Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page
This site contains much more than just the usual pointers to other
related material and a scattering of related information. At this
site, one can learn a fair amount about game theory, experimental
economics, and their intersection.
# http://www.pitt.edu/~alroth/alroth.html
11.3.55 A Selected Bibliography on Electronic Purses
Created by Leo Van Hove at the Free University of Brussels, this site
lists links, references, and projects focusing on electronic purses
(basically a "smart" debit card) and other related issues. The site
is divided into a recent additions, general information, purses, and
country sections.
# http://cfec.vub.ac.be/cfec/purses.htm
11.3.56 StatServ
This site serves as a general interest site for all things
statistical. It includes links to jobs, software, publications, and
data mining. There is also information on meetings, consulting,
on-line resources (courses, datasets, textbooks, reports and the
like), institutions, departments, and information about StatServ
itself.
11.3.57 Studies using Applied General Equilibrium models (SAGE)
"SAGE is a database of studies using applied general equilibrium
models. It was created to disseminate studies AGE models built
throughout the world and provide students, researchers, professors
and civil servants with a quick and powerful tool for accessing
references to AGEs according to the country studied, the subject of
analysis and the specific approaches used." Currently, the database
has bibliographical information on over 600 studies (both published
and unpublished), and can be searched by the authors' name and
keywords.
It is run by John Cockburn, Luc Savard, Pierre Couillard and Bernard
Decaluwi, all of Department of Economics, University Laval, Quebec.
# http://www.sage.ecn.ulaval.ca/
11.3.58 Survey of Regional Economics
This site, by James Follain and Vivien Huang of Syracuse University,
surveys much of the field of regional economics. There is extensive
information on data sets, institutions, journals, key questions in
this field, and several literature surveys.
# http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/~jfollain/regional/regional2.htm
+ 11.3.59 Sustainable Earth Exchange Link Information for Educators
+ (SEELIFE)
+
+ This site is a collection of "internet resources for persons studying
+ sustainable systems management." The site covers the following
+ subjects: agriculture, air, cities and communities, development,
+ economics, energy, fish, forests, minerals, population, species,
+ sustainability, technology, transportation, waste, water, wetlands,
+ and wilderness. Each subject provides links to bibliographies, data
+ and maps, education and research institutions, government and related
+ programs, organizations and non-profit groups, and papers and
+ reports.
+
+ # http://www.class.csupomona.edu/earth.html
11.3.60 Telecom Information Resources on the Internet
This server, run by Jeff MacKie-Mason, "contains references to
information sources relating to the technical, economic, public
policy, and social aspects of telecommunications. All forms of
telecommunication, including voice, data, video, wired, wireless,
cable TV, and satellite, are included." Most of the document is a set
of some 5,000 links that deal with this information in detail. There
is a very substantial amount of information here, and much of it
would be of interest to economists in this area.
# http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.html
+ 11.3.61 Victorian Economics: An Overview
+
+ This site looks at economics of the Victorian era from many different
+ perspectives. One section has some data and looks at institutional
+ arrangements of the time (such as how the Bank of England operated
+ and the gold standard). Another section is devoted to the classical
+ economists and their opponents. A third looks at literature and the
+ arts, and the last section looks at related topics, such as Chartism,
+ the Corn Laws, and the the role of social classes.
+
+ # http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/
+ economics/econo v.html
11.3.62 Walrasian General Equilibrium Theory
This site presents an analysis of the limitations and uses of
Walrasian Economic theory in an extensive historical essay by Goncalo
L. Fonseca, a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University. "A
time-line of Walrasian Thought, definitions, mathematical notes and
models, and discussions of related theories are given." It also
presents modern views of Walras's work.
# http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/fonseca/get/get.htm
11.3.63 WWW Pages With EU Information and Pointers Into the Web
This site covers numerous issues of European integration, which of
course includes numerous economic issues. Many of the entries are
relatively "high" level, so a great amount of information can be
reached from here. The key covered areas are papers, institutions,
research institutes, documentation centers, teaching, databases,
discussion lists and newsgroups, sites with EU documents, Eastern
Europe, organizations, Eurosceptic sites, and related sites.
Bill Goffe
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This guide, sponsored by the American Economic Association, lists
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files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
14.0 Teaching Resources
14.1 AmosWorld
[student guide with a glossary and on-line tests]
This site, run by Orley Amos at Oklahoma State, lists a large number
of economically oriented web sites with a focus on educational
materials for undergrads. One useful feature is the AmosWorld
Encyclopedia Glossary -- you can search this site for economic terms
and definitions with keywords of your choice. In addition, the site
tries to be jargon-free, so students should find it friendly. New
features include the AmosWorld Testing System (a stress-free way for
students to test their economic knowledge) and the AmosWorld Reading
Room, which is a short-cut to free on-line economic instructional
books available in AmosWorld.
# http://amos.bus.okstate.edu/
14.2 ECONlinks
[general guide for students]
This site, run by Scott Simkins, is a very useful place for
undergraduate students to look for data and other material for their
finance and economics classes. With more and more information on the
Internet for those interested in these areas, this site is a useful
subset of those resources for teaching.
# http://www.ncat.edu/~simkinss/econlinks.html
+ 14.3 Economic-Indicators.com
+
+ [links to data and current numbers]
+
+ information about Mark Rogers and the book are available here.
+
+ # http://www.Economic-Indicators.Com/
+ 14.4 Economicsearch.com
+
+ [many links (including textbook sites)]
+
+ This site, designed for both economists and economics students,
+ provides an array of educational-oriented services. The research
+ section consists of a search engine and links to the following
+ categories: education and academics, data and statistics, analysis,
+ news, banking and finance, government, organizations, meetings and
+ papers, and other resources. Each of these is quite extensive, and
+ the total number of links must be in the hundreds. Perhaps its most
+ unique resources is its list of textbook sites and their associated
+ study aids. There are also links to instructor's pages for the
+ different textbooks.
+
+ # http://www.economicsearch.com/
+ 14.5 Online Glossary of Research Economics
+
+ [research terms explained]
+
+ This interactive glossary is written by Peter Meyer, a grad student
+ at Northwestern University. As he describes it, "The guiding
+ principle is that any term used in any English-language economics
+ research journal that is neither defined there, nor common vocabulary
+ among the mathematically literate belongs here." Links are given to
+ the relevant citations (which are also available as one file), and
+ all told it contains more than 1,000 entries. Grad students and
+ researchers working in new areas are likely to find it useful.
+
+ # http://econterms.com/
14.6 CTI Centre for Economics
[U.K. organization]
This U.K. organization is devoted to those doing work in using
computers in the teaching of economics. For instance, it has an
extensive catalog of economics software, information on workshops and
seminars, and details on various electronic forums for those
interested in this subject. In addition, there is an almost complete
Windows package for principles courses. This group also publishes a
"paper" journal "Computers in Higher Education Economics Review."
This journal is also available on Internet. A catalog of on-line
teaching material for economics is now available, with links to
actual teaching material, not just course syllabi or lecture notes.
Most of this information is freely available. This catalog would be
of interest to those creating multimedia courseware or interactive
web sites, lecturers, or anyone learning or revising introductory
economics. The catalog is divided into three main sections, covering
macroeconomics, microeconomics, and statistics, as well as other
miscellaneous topics, online tests, glossaries, pointers to other
examples.
# http://www.sosig.ac.uk/cticce/
# http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ctiecon/siteplan.htm
14.7 EcEd Web
[leading site for college and K-12]
Besides a large amount of instructional material at all levels (i.e.
both K-12 and college), this organization offers a directory to the
Internet for instructors and students. One entry of particular note
is the Virtual Economics Companion, which is based on a CD-ROM
developed by the National Council on Economic Education for K-12 use.
It has a number of resources for all ages in the K-12 area. In
addition, there are many links to what economists are doing with the
Internet in the classroom. There is also information on economic
education in Nebraska and the University of Nebraska at Omaha Center
for Economic Education.
14.8 Economic Education Station
[active learning and tutorials]
This site provides a number of teaching resources. The tutorials
sections provides links to many useful economic models, questions,
practice exams, and interactive sites, covering a variety of
economics-related topics. This section also provides reviews of some
tutorial sites as well as purchasing information. The site also has
an "active learning" area, with links to sites designed to produce
lasting knowledge by allowing students to become part of the learning
process. Games are outlined for a number of economic topics. Also
available on this site are downloadable visual aids, links to
economic data available online, people in economics (past and
present), reading material, material on scarcity topics, fun stuff,
and inspiration for success in economic education.
# http://web.centre.edu/~econed/
14.9 Economics and Business Education Association (EBEA)
[U.K. organization]
This U.K. organization is "the professional subject association for
teachers and lecturers of economics and business studies." This web
site contains information on their events, conferences
(international, annual and branch), workshops, and projects. Regular
updates on the association's activities can be found here.
# http://www.bized.ac.uk/ebea/
+ 14.10 Foundation for Teaching Economics
+
+ ["K-12 emphasis"]
+
+ This non-profit foundation was founded in 1975 with a mission to
+ "promote excellence in economic education by helping economics
+ teachers become more effective educators" and "to introduce young
+ individuals, selected for their leadership potential, to an economic
+ way of thinking about national and international issues." The site
+ provides over fifty lesson plans; profiles of workshops, internships
+ and training sessions; annual awards given by the Foundation for
+ Teaching Economics; and a resource area for both students and
+ teachers, including national standards on economic education,
+ teaching economics on the internet, an alumni bulletin board,
+ consumer price indexes, and current issues in economics.
+
+ # http://www.fte.org/
+ 14.11 Journal of Economic Education
+
+ [leading journal in this area; article on-line]
+
+ This journal "offers original articles on innovations in and
+ evaluations of teaching techniques, materials, and programs in
+ economics." Abstracts are available as far back as 1984 and articles
+ are freely available since Winter, 1998. An online-only section
+ attempts "to identify exemplary material for teaching and learning
+ economics that is interactive or otherwise not conducive to
+ traditional printed-page format." This section provides submission
+ guidelines and links to recently published, archived, and forthcoming
+ web sites.
+
+ # http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/
14.12 National Center for Research in Economic Education
[research; large database on econ-ed articles]
This center, located at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and
headed by Bill Walstad, works in many facets of economic education.
This includes developing tests used to judge economic knowledge and
understanding for the K-12 population (in conjunction with the
National Council on Economic Education), research in economic
education, contributions to a series of books on economic education,
reviews of software for economic education, and the Research in
Economic Education Database (REED). The software reviews, titled
"Economic Software Reviews," cover many different pieces of
educational software. REED contains detailed information (including
the purpose and conclusions) on more than 1,000 different economic
education articles.
# http://www.cba.unl.edu/additional/econed/ncree.html
14.13 National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
[K-12 emphasis]
This organization is "the premier source of teacher training and
materials used to instill an understanding of economic principles for
grades kindergarten through twelve." Their work is supported by
university-based centers across the U.S. Here, they offer information
about their curriculum standards, their catalog of publications,
their annual meeting, their work with emerging market economies, and
some on-line sample economics lessons.
# http://www.nationalcouncil.org/
14.14 Resources for University Teachers of Economics
[Australian emphasis]
As part of its mission, the economics department at the University of
Melbourne offers various resources for teaching. They include a small
input-output model of the Australian economy and data from Barro's
1991 QJE article on economic growth. In addition, there are many
pointers to other resources on the teaching of economics.
# http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/ecowww/uniteachers.html
14.15 Iowa Electronic Markets
[well-known for political markets]
This service is run by the College of Business Administration Faculty
of the University of Iowa. Since 1988, it has been used in more than
100 classes around the world to teach about markets. IEM has approval
from the CFTC to operate this market that uses "real" money. At last
count, there are more than 5,000 investors. There are two general
types of markets: those based on financial or business markets, and
those based on political markets. Currently, in the former, there
are markets for the computer industry, Microsoft, and movie box
office receipts, while in the latter there were markets on the U.S.
1998 Congressional elections and membership in the EMU (doubtless
there will be more political markets in the future). Anyone can trade
in the political markets; in the other markets, you must be have an
academic affiliation.
The liquidation value of all contracts is determined by the value of
the underlying fundamental on a set date, and trading takes place
interactively through a Telnet connection.
While the purpose is education and research, trades require actual
money (from $5 to $500 may be invested). The developers feel that by
using real money for trades, there is an increased motivation to
learn about the underlying fundamentals. There are no commissions or
fees and trading is continuous. Trading takes place in English,
German, Austrian, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The web site contains complete information on the IEM. Trading itself
takes place via a telnet session, and here are four telnet
interfaces: iem for for most terminal types, iem2 and iem3 for vt100
and ANSI terminal types, and iemi for Irwin/McGraw-Hill traders.
# http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
# telnet://iem.biz.uiowa.edu
# telnet://iem2.biz.uiowa.edu
# telnet://iem3.biz.uiowa.edu
# telnet://iemi.biz.uiowa.edu
# Trader's Manual (automatically sent): <i...@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu>
14.16 Univ. of British Columbia Election Stock Market (UBC-ESM)
[markets for Canadian elections (currently closed)]
Like the Iowa Electronic Markets, this market, used for education, is
based on an elections. Currently, owing to the lack of Canadian
elections, the market is closed. An election forecasting section has
been added for the 2001/02 elections. This site is operated by the
Policy Analysis Division of the Faculty of Commerce and Business
Administration at the University of British Columbia.
14.17 Classroom Expernomics
This is a newsletter detailing classroom experiments in college
economics classes. The newsletter comes out twice a year, and each
issue contains several well described classroom experiments to
illustrate economic principles. The current and back issues can be
found here.
# http://www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom.html
14.18 "Experiments with Economic Principles" (Bergstrom and Miller)
This site provides information on this book by Ted Bergstrom and John
Miller. This book is designed for teaching principles via classroom
experiments. This site offers information on the book, such as how to
obtain sample copies, a free sample chapter, getting a customized
version, use of the text in different situations, on-line article
newspaper articles that connect to various chapters, data, and the
like.
# http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/miller/eep/eep.html
14.19 Academic Assistance Access
[on-line tutoring]
Academic Assistance Access offers free tutoring services through a
mailing list environment which is divided by subject matter. The
site provides a list of available subjects for the secondary and
post-secondary level, a list of tutors, subscription information, and
information on becoming a tutor.
14.20 Click & Learn Regression
[intuitive approach to regression]
This software is designed to teach regression analysis to "lay"
persons. With its visual interface, the intuition behind regression
analysis is easily learned. Besides individual copies, site licenses
are available as well.
14.21 Coin Flipping Page
[flip coins for stat classes on-line]
This page, by Ken White, let's you demonstrate a coin flip or flips
in class, if you don't have one handy. You can also find records of
past flips by others. You can even watch them flip, rather than just
seeing the results.
# http://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/flip/
14.22 ComLabGames
[on-line strategic and extensive form games]
This site provides software and directions for running strategic and
extensive form games over the Internet. One PC acts as the moderator
that sets the rules of the games, and others can then simultaneously
play. When the game is done, the results can be analyzed. Thus, it is
an excellent teaching device for game theory. Both the software and
extensive directions can be found here.
# http://www.cmu.edu/comlabgames
14.23 Edward Flaherty's Page on Economic Myths
[debunks common economic myths]
This site, run by Edward Flaherty at the College of Charleston,
serves to recognize and debunk often-repeated questions or myths
about economics. Along with the debunking of economic myths,
Flaherty addresses the national debt hysteria, Federal Reserve
conspiracy myths, and FAQ's on the Fed and money. Current working
papers and links to other economic data are also available at this
site.
# http://www.cofc.edu/~flaherty/index.html
14.24 Election Calculator
[examine the impact of the economy on presidential elections]
This site, run by John Irons, uses some well-known econometric work
by Ray Fair and others to predict presidential election outcomes
based upon macroeconomic data. One can enter data for this election
or you can study past elections.
# http://www.mit.edu/people/irons/myjava/ecalc.html
14.25 eur macro tutor
[European macro tutorial]
This site, which supports "A Primer in European Macroeconomics,"
supports an interactive macroeconomic tutor called "eur macro tutor."
With it, you can manipulate the typical parts of the standard macro
model with a significant international aspect. Some parts are even
animated. There are links to key definitions and key graphs.
# http://www.fgn.unisg.ch/eumacro/
14.26 FAIRMODEL
[well-known domestic and international model]
This well-known macroeconometric model is now available on the
Internet. Virtually all the features of the stand-alone package are
now accessible to any user free of charge. This includes the ability
to "forecast, do policy analysis, and examine historical episodes."
Data and forecasts can be both graphed and put into tables (which can
be downloaded). It appears the model itself can be downloaded, and
thus adapted for your own use. Both Fortran and EViews versions are
available.
The U.S. version of the model is rather complex (131 equations in
all; 101 identities and 30 stochastic equations), it is highly
recommended that users read the manual before using it. Extensive
documentation (in fact, much material similar to "Testing
Macroeconometric Models," Ray Fair, Harvard University Press, 1994)
is available. One can also read about the latest forecasts of the
model. To use FAIRMODEL, you must have a browser that supports Java
and frames.
In addition, the multicountry (MC) model is available as well. It
covers the U.S. and 32 other countries. In all, there are some 4,000
variables, not counting the trade share variables (which can be
downloaded). It is thought to be "one of the largest computational
problems that has so far been offered on the Internet."
# http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/
14.27 Learning Skills on the Internet
[for new college students]
This site, for students making the transition to college, has
pointers to a number of sites with material which may help one
improve learning skills. Some are quite broad (they cover topics
such as dealing with procrastination, writing skills, and test taking
skills), some are economic specific, while others are math and
statistics specific. Finally, there is a section for international
students.
# http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/ecowww/study.html
14.28 National Budget Simulator
[play with the 1995 budget]
With this on-line simulation, from 1995, you can examine the
tradeoffs in current fiscal policy (but, it does seem a bit dated
given the current fiscal environment; maybe it should cover what to
do with a surplus?). The simulation can be run in both an overview
and detail modes, and has a graphical output.
# http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget.html
14.29 Problems in Microeconomics
[Excel-based tools for students]
This site, by Byron Brown of Michigan State, uses Excel 5.0 or higher
as a teaching device for micro courses (generally for principles
students). The 25 exercises come in two modes: "practice" and "test"
(in the latter, each student faces a different set of numbers in the
problems). Each set of exercises comes with instructions, and the
code for the spreadsheets is encrypted.
# http://www.bus.msu.edu/econ/brown/pim
+ 14.30 Tutor2u
+
+ [U.K. emphasis]
+
+ Billed as "a tutor at your fingertips," this U.K.-based economics
+ site provides an economics news ticker, the latest U.K. economic
+ data, and current economic analysis. The Common Room provides the
+ latest case studies added to the site, as well as a discussion group
+ and study plan. The Study Room "is the home for the study notes
+ within the Tutor2u web site" for A-level economic students. The
+ Revision Room stresses "preparation, planning, and performance." The
+ Data Room "provides supplementary information on key U.K. economic
+ trends" in both HTML and Excel forms. It also contains U.K. economic
+ press releases, case studies, links to the economics departments of
+ many U.K. universities and links for teachers.
+
+ # http://www.tutor2u.com
14.31 Virtual Economy (U.K.)
[U.K. emphasis]
This site brings together HM Treasury's macroeconomic model and a
version of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Tax and Benefit model for
student simulation of the U.K. economy. A number of policy parameters
can be adjusted, and the effects on different groups in the economy
can be analyzed. There are also case studies, and a library for
background information.
14.32 Walras Law and Macroeconomics
This site covers Walras Law and its application in macro. The
emphasis is on material of interest to students. The author of this
site points out that this subject is little covered in principles or
intermediate texts, so this site makes a fine supplement.
# http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/ecowww/rdixon/wlaw.html
14.33 Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
[links to 300 sites]
This resource points to more than 300 sites that perform interactive
statistical calculations. Besides the obvious of plotting and
calculating cumulative values of distributions, it also provides
links that offer advice and support on virtually the entire gamut of
statistics: choosing the appropriate test, descriptive statistics,
random numbers, and innumerable types of tests. It can be used for
both teaching and research.
# http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
14.34 Economics Textbook Information
This site, by Al DeCook, offers help for those with the unenviable
task of selecting a text for economics courses. The links are
organized several different ways: by publisher, by type of course
(principles, intermediate macro and micro, money and banking, and
econometrics). Of course, this is also useful for linking to a
text's web site.
# http://www.bus.miami.edu/~fdecook/textbook.html
14.35 Online Economics Textbooks
This site, by John Kane of SUNY-Oswego, lists on-line economic
textbooks. Currently, they are organized into five different areas:
introductory economics, introductory macroeconomics, intermediate
macroeconomics, intermediate microeconomics, and game theory.
# http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm
14.36 Publishers of Economic Textbooks
This site, by John Kane of SUNY-Oswego, lists publishers of economic
textbooks from A to Z.
# http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/publishers.htm
14.37 EconWeb
[micro and macro text or supplement]
This organization offers both micro and macro on-line principles
texts (they can be used as supplements or as complete texts). John
Gross is the director of the project, and along with a number of
others, he helped write the micro text. The macro text was written by
Tim Yeager. Both texts offer on-line quizzes to aid understanding.
The cost to students is $5 (for a six-month period) for either text,
and for an additional $5, they can e-mail questions about micro text
to the staff. Site licenses are available.
14.38 "oo...Micro!" (Joe Daniel)
[Java-based intermediate micro simulation]
This site, by Joe Daniel of the University of Delaware, aptly
demonstrates how Java can be used to support teaching. It has a
series of lessons that illustrate topics for an intermediate micro
course. Much of the material is interactive and animated. I was
surprised at how well this helps illustrate economic concepts.
# http://medusa.be.udel.edu/WWW_Sites/oo_Micro.html
+ 14.39 Archipelago Economics Courses
+
+ [on-line and CD-ROM courses by Harcourt]
+
+ Archipelago is a division of the textbook publisher Harcourt, and
+ they have begun to expand into on-line and CD-ROM based courses. They
+ currently offer both micro and macro principles. Here they carefully
+ describe these courses: their contents and features, their
+ contributors (a large number of college faculty aided them), and
+ information on how to request a demo.
+
+ # http://www.archipelago.com/courses/econ/index.html
14.40 World Lecture Hall: Economics
"The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by
faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials."
For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture
notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc. They cover
many subject areas, and this one is for economics.
# http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/eco/
14.41 Syllabits:Economics
This listing of course syllabi is arranged by subjects in economics.
Obviously, much of the material is more than just the typical
syllabi.
# http://nsns.com/Syllabits/econ/
+ 14.42 Electronic Collaboration: A Practical Guide for Educators
+
+ [guide to on-line collaborations]
+
+ This wide-ranging guide covers many different aspects of how teachers
+ can use on-line collaboration tools. It ranges from definitions, to
+ activities, to design, and to choosing a technology. While much of
+ the discussion is for K-12, it is sufficiently general that higher
+ levels should benefit. There are also links to similar resources.
+
+ # http://www.lab.brown.edu/public/ocsc/collaboration.guide/
+ 14.43 Globewide Network Academy (GNA)
+
+ [lists thousands of distance learning resources]
+
+ This site covers a number of resources (some 17,000) related to
+ distance learning. Among courses themselves, it lists more than 100
+ economics that are offered this way. Other resources include a
+ "bookstore" with suggested titles, a way to add your distance
+ courses, a list of freely available software, resources to aid
+ instructors, and related material. It appears that to find most
+ material, one must use their search facility.
+
+ # http://www.gnacademy.org/
+ 14.44 RealSlideshow
+
+ [add narration to on-line lectures]
+
+ This freely available product of Real.com allows one to add sound (i.
+ e. a lecture) to images. Thus, one could add voice to on-line
+ lectures with this technology.
+
+ # http://proforma.real.com/mario/tools/slideshow.html
14.45 TeleCampus
[list of online courses]
This resource provides thousands of courses that can be taken over
the Internet, with over 160 economics courses available. The
TeleCampus Online Course Database provides the course title, minimum
course level requirement, and the institution that is offering the
course. Tools are available for both the student and developer of
online learning.
14.46 Census Data and Exercises for College Classes
This organization, the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN),
located at the Population Studies Center at the University of
Michigan, and supported by the NSF and the Department of Education,
is devoted to using "real" datasets in social science classes
(specifically low-level ones). The datasets are quite varied, so
students should find them interesting. They are designed to be used
with the "StudentCHIP" software (which is quite inexpensive and said
to be quite easy to use), but they can be used with other types of
software as well. When one registers, they will send you
documentation on the datasets, and classroom exercises for their use.
Besides the data, they also offer workshops in using them, and
classroom resources.
# http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/SSDAN/
14.47 Cents Financial Journal
[commentary from many Wall Street economists]
This electronic journal features commentary from some of the "finest"
analysts of the financial industry. Most of the commentary focuses
on various economic issues, and most is written by economists. The
breadth is surprising and information is updated daily. While many
will find it useful, it is designed for students.
# http://www.lp-llc.com/cents/
14.48 Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
[clear copyrights on-line]
This non-profit organization clears copyright permissions. They
operate as a broker between the rights-holder and the user of the
copyrighted material. Perhaps their most useful service for teaching
is their "Academic Permissions Service," which clears copyrights for
course packets and classroom use (in many cases, CCC already has
permission). They currently represent many thousands of publishers
and house 1.75 million titles. The entire approval transaction can
be done on-line.
14.49 Copyright Management Services (CMS)
[clear copyrights]
This relatively new company assists educators in creating customized
coursepacks that comply with all copyright regulations. Educators can
create an original "master copy" of selections and provide CMS with
information on the course, preferred retailer and preferences for the
appearance of the coursepack. CMS will arrange to have the originals
picked-up, and a Coursepack Counselor will be assigned to contact the
client with any "trouble spots" and give a cost-per-student estimate.
Materials are put through the "E-Master" process, which will
electronically clean-up the originals, appropriate copyright
clearances are obtained, and the coursepacks are printed. Adoption
forms are then sent to the campus bookstore and delivery is set.
# http://professor.coursepack.com/coursepack/
14.50 DIA Agency Inc.
[general equilibrium models]
This firms specializes in general equilibrium models. They offer two
versions of a U.S. GEModel that can be downloaded from their site
(further, the model is not U.S. specific). They also offer a number
of support and educational materials, a list of fees, and information
about their consulting services.
# http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DiaAgency/diaagenc.htm
14.51 Economics Club at the Univ. of Michigan-Flint
[economists' trading cards]
This club is rather famous for offering "Economics Trading Cards" of
famous economists. Two sets of 29 each are available for $6.00 each.
"The purpose is three fold: to be informed, to have fun while
learning and to raise funds for our club. The proceeds are used to
establish a scholarship fund and to provide funds for lectures from
economists, trips to economic events, and other relevant activities."
Ordering information can be found on this site.
# http://montego.umcc.umich.edu/~sham/econclub.html
+ 14.52 Griesinger Films
+
+ [ecological economics instructional videos]
+
+ This firm offers four educational films dealing with ecological
+ economics. The focus is on sustainable economics.
+
+ # http://www.griesingerfilms.com/
14.53 Idea Channel
[instructional videos]
This site sells videos for educational use. Their economic section
has nearly 100 videos, which are in discussion format. The
interviewed include Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, Allan Meltzer,
James Buchanan, Friedrich von Hayek, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase,
and many others. Future plans include live on-line discussions with
the opportunity to question participants.
+ 14.54 Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1800 to the Present
+
+ [calculate inflation's impact]
+
+ Students might find the site useful in understanding the impact of
+ inflation. It gives conversion factors for the U.S. so prices in one
+ year can be converted to another year's prices. These factors can be
+ downloaded, and there are also charts of the price level. There are
+ also links to a variety of macro data sites.
+
+ # http://www.orst.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sahr.htm
14.55 Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics
This site, from the Nobel Foundation itself, lists information on all
winners of the "Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences." For each year
there is an extensive press release, and some listings include
further detailed information and links.
# http://www.nobel.se/prize/memorial.html
14.56 Resampling Stats
[different approach to teaching statistics]
This site is devoted to a different method of teaching introductory
statistics. Briefly, it is similar to the bootstrap in that samples
are repeatedly resampled to generate distributions for testing. This
site offers descriptions of this method from several different
angles, has information on their software and books, and has links to
other statistical sites on the net.
14.57 Net Benefits: The Revolution Linking Statistics & ICT
[links statistics and information technologies]
This site provides links to modified versions of articles written by
Mike Fuller of the University of Kent, Canterbury, for the journal
"Teaching Statistics." This site emphasizes the "creative
possibilities generated by the revolution in Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT)" in the world of statistics. A
section about Internet use and the wide range of statistical data
found on the Internet is included, focusing on why teachers of
statistics use the Internet; the use of e-mail and newsgroups;
electronic journals; the provision of WWW to facilitate graphics,
sound, video, and access to raw materials for applied statistics
projects; and other statistical software information. It also
provides a link to "Mailbase" e-mail electronic discussion lists.
# http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/hpda/mff/netres/net_ben1.html
14.58 World Bank EDI Economic Policy Forums
[various topics for classroom use]
Presents on-line case studies on macroeconomic topics. Current
topics are:
# Unemployment in Eastern and Central Europe
# The Mexican Economic Crisis
# Economic Growth in East Asia
# Enterprise Restructuring in the FSU
# Credibility of Economic Policy
# Inflation and the Economies in Transition
# http://www.worldbank.org/html/edi/edimp/home.html
+ 14.59 World Game of Economics
+
+ [game support with many international info]
+
+ This is the Internet support site for a game that teaches students
+ macro principles. While the game is not on-line, extensive supporting
+ material is. Much of this material will be of interest to those who
+ are not using the game. This includes a summary of the current
+ performance of many economies, "World Game News," which contains
+ numerous international economic news stories, and information on a
+ student scholarship contest. Of course, there is extensive
+ information on their CD-ROM based game as well.
+
+ # http://www.worldgameofeconomics.com/
Bill Goffe
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15.0 Neat Stuff
15.1 JokEc: Jokes About Economists and Economics
This page, by Pasi Kuoppamakki and part of NetEc, lists a number of
jokes about our profession. As some appear to be relatively uncommon
(at least in my experience), I thought others might be interested. I
am sure that the author would like additional ones.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/JokEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/JokEc.html
# Information: Pasi Kuoppamakki <p...@etla.fi>
15.2 One Line Economics
This page, by Hiroyuki Kawakatsu, is full of on-liners on scholarly
research, economics, and econometrics that are frequently trenchant.
# http://aris.ss.uci.edu/econ/personnel/kawa/aphorism.html
15.3 Apache Web Server Project
[market leading web-server software (freely available)]
According to one survey, this web server (i.e. the software that web
browsers like Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
connect to) has more than a majority market share -- this is more
than Microsoft and Netscape's products put together. Interestingly,
this software is freely available and put together by volunteers, and
IBM now sells it and contributes to the project.
15.4 Ask-A-Geologist
[ask specific questions about geology]
This service, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, allows the
general public to ask geologists questions about geology. I've found
it to be a very useful service -- I frequently use it after trips to
ask about geological features I've come across.
# http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html
15.5 Center For Responsive Politics' "Open Secrets"
[data on political contributions]
This organization offers numerous databases in the political arena.
It includes contributions to political campaigns, lobbyists, etc.
15.6 Center for Economic Studies Video Lecture Service
[on-line video talks by famous economists]
The Center for Economic Studies, in Munich, has a number of famous
speakers give talks. They have kindly put these talks on-line.
Currently, their talks include ones by James Buchanan and Richard
Musgrave, Rüdiger Dornbusch, Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe, and
Jeremy Edwards. One can easily imagine this becoming a much more
common communication method.
# http://www.ces.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/cesvideo/default.htm
15.7 Cyberian Outpost
[international computer sales]
While there are a number of computer retailers on the net, this one
appears to be unique in that they market and will ship most anywhere
in the world. Currently, this site offers navigation and takes orders
in 12 languages. As computer prices are often higher outside the U.S.
, they should do well.
15.8 EDSAC Simulator
[simulation of the first modern computer]
EDSAC was the first stored-memory computer (the more famous ENIAC had
to be physically programmed by re-plugging wires). EDSAC, at
Cambridge University, ran its first program on May 6, 1949. At this
site, you can download a simulator of this ancestor of the computers
we use today. Doubtless the simulator is at least several orders of
magnitude faster than the original machine.
# http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
15.9 Galileo Solid State Imaging Full Data Releases
[data archive in another field]
This site illustrates how another profession, space science, uses the
Internet to distribute data. In this case, data is images from NASA's
Galileo mission to Jupiter and its Galilean moons. The findings from
this mission have led to planning for a mission to Jupiter's moon
Europa, which appears to have ice floating on a liquid or slushy
ocean. There is speculation that there might be life in this ocean.
# http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/fulldata.html
15.10 Interactive Marine Observations
[want to know the current weather in the middle of the Pacific?]
This site offers real-time and near real-time weather observations
from buoys around the world. If you want to know the current weather
in the middle of the Pacific, this is the place to go.
# http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy/
15.11 Mapquest
[need a map?]
Besides generating maps of most anywhere in the U.S., it can also
operate as an adjustable sized atlas (i.e. you can start with a map
of anywhere in the world, and then zoom in). It also has a database
of places useful for travelers and it can give driving directions.
15.12 Mission Statement Generator
[need a mission statement?]
This site, part of the "Dilbert Zone" for the popular comic strip,
will automatically generate a mission statement. These seem quite
popular in business schools these days; perhaps this could save them
some time.
# http://umweb1.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/career/bin/ms2.cgi
15.13 Microsoft TerraServer
[view places on the Earth from space]
This site is sponsored by Microsoft to demonstrate its database
technologies. Here you can find pictures orbital pictures of many
spots on the Earth (I found my home). It is an interesting way to
waste valuable time...
# http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/
15.14 Photo Collection of Famous Economists
[pictures of famous economists]
This page, run by Hak Choi of Chinese University of Hong Kong, offers
"Photo collection of Great Classical Economists" and "Photo
collection of Great Economists After Keynes." If you've ever wondered
what some of these people looked like, now you can find out.
# http://logic.csc.cuhk.edu.hk/~b024765/
15.15 Travel with Bicycles (Air/Rail/Other)
[the Internet brings together people of varied interests]
While much is made of the commercial possibilities of the Internet
today, it also lets people of common interests gather together and
exchange information they find important. This site offers
information on how to travel with your bicycle -- there is
information on navigation airports, airlines, trains, etc.
Bill Goffe
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Part 17 of 20
This guide, sponsored by the American Economic Association, lists
more than 1,000 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and
practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all
resources are also described.
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of the American Economic Association (the "AEA"). Permission to make
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For distribution via Usenet, this FAQ is split into 20 parts as large
files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.
12.0 Scholarly Communication
12.1.0 Bibliographical Databases and Information
12.1.1 Introduction
This section describes various bibliographical tools that economists
might find useful. Note that to some degree it overlaps with the
"Working Papers" section.
12.1.2 BibEc: Hardcopy Working Papers in Economics
[indexes some 50,000 hard copy papers]
BibEc is a very large dataset of hard copy working papers in
economics; at last count, it had more than 50,000 entries of
bibliographical information from well more than 400 different hard
copy working papers series (including such series as the NBER, the
Federal Reserve, and the CEPR). These series include those major
universities and research institutions. Coverage goes back to 1986,
with scanty coverage earlier coverage. The bulk of the data is
collected by Fethy Mili, a librarian at the Universite de Montreal.
New BibEc entries are distributed via announcement the "Corryfee
(corryfee)" mailing list. Like other parts of NetEc, the entries go
into the RePEc database.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/BibEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BibEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/BibEc.html
# BibEc Information: Fethy Mili <mi...@ere.umontreal.ca>
# FIP Information: Diane Rosenberger <frbs...@class.org>
12.1.3 CARL's UnCover
[covers far more than economics]
This system, run by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
(CARL), now owned by Knight-Ridder, offers a large searchable
database of periodicals (claimed to be the world's largest, with more
than 4,000 citations added each day). They have about 500 serials
with "economics" in the title. Coverage dates back to 1988; if a
serial was added since then, coverage begins at the date in which it
was added. Perhaps more importantly, the articles can be ordered and
delivered via fax, and for some publications, directly to your
computer. Credit card payment is accepted (payments include copyright
fees). Thus, this could be very useful for those with poor libraries.
It appears that most articles cost from $10 to $15. Searches are
free, however.
If you are using the telnet interface, after logging onto the system
move to "1. UnCover (Article Access and Delivery)."
# http://uncweb.carl.org/
# telnet://database.carl.org
# Information: <he...@carl.org>
12.1.4 IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)
["consumer" implementation of RePEc (info on 57,000+ papers)]
This service takes bibliographic information from BibEc, WoPEc,
EconWPA, and many other working paper series in economics, including
the "Fed in Print," NBER, and CEPR through RePEc. In all, information
on more than 57,000 papers and some 60 journals is available. The
resulting database is searchable, and many of the papers are indexed
by JEL category. This service also includes software written by
economists.
* 12.1.5 Journal of Economic Literature and EconLit (JEL)
[info on this essential database]
This site, while it does not offer this essential database, does tell
everything you might need to know about it. This includes a list of
exactly what it indexes (including the list of journals), the JEL
classification system, the dates of coverage, search hints, and how
to access EconLit (both on-line and via CD-ROM, with a special price
for AEA members).
Note that EconLit is available through many library card catalogs
* through offerings from various third party vendors. These include
* Dialog, EBSCO, OCLC, OVID, and SilverPlatter.
12.1.6 JEL Subject Descriptors
[lists JEL codes]
This site for the "Journal of Economic Literature" and "EconLit"
provides these well-known "subject descriptors."
# http://www.econlit.org/elhomsub.htm
12.1.7 Univ. of Minn. Econ. Library Discussion Paper Collection
[not as large as other databases; said to be more timely]
While this database of working papers is not as large as others,
(they receive an average of 250 papers a month) new material is said
to be entered into it much more quickly. Entries are arranged for
entire years (the files are large), and for months in each year
(smaller, but more difficult to search).
# http://www.econ.umn.edu/~econlib/disc397.html
12.1.8 Working Papers in Economics and Management
[info on 25,000 papers (fee-based)]
This database of working papers in both economics and management is
quite extensive. As of early 1996, it contained some 25,000 items
from some 400 institutions, with 8,000 new items per year. One can
search it over a number of different parameters. It is a subscription
based service.
# http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~lyabd/
12.2.0 Working Papers
12.2.1 Introduction
Since more than 800 hundred organizations and individuals have put
their economic working on the Internet, it is no longer practical to
list each site here. Rather, you should check with the the sites
listed here that specialize in working papers. The first, WoPEc, is a
database of some 11,000 working papers on the Internet. Thus, it
simply collects bibliographical material on working papers at
different sites, and users can query it to locate papers. The second
is EconWPA, which puts up papers for those who don't wish to run a
site. It is the largest single collection of working papers in
economics. The third is HoPEc, which specializes in working papers on
personal web sites. The very-well established NBER working papers are
now available on-line. RePEc contains bibliographical material from
all of the above, and then some; currently, it has information on
57,000 papers and articles. However, RePEc is not designed for
end-users, but IDEAS takes the RePEc data and makes it searchable for
end-users.
12.2.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)
[largest single electronic archive]
This electronic archive of working papers in economics is run by Bob
Parks and Larry Blume, with support from the Economics Department of
Washington University in St. Louis. It uses software developed at Los
Alamos National Laboratory, where literally thousands of working
papers in physics are stored. This archive is best accessed through
the web (though e-mail, gopher, and ftp access is available as well).
Papers are grouped in 26 subject areas, and different methods of
searching for papers are available (including via the material in the
papers' abstracts). In addition, there are areas for datasets and
computer programs. Information on new papers and abstracts (see
below) is distributed over mailing lists.
The easiest way to submit papers to it is via the web interface
(e-mail and ftp submission is available too). Papers may be
submitted in any format, and the copyright stays with the author or
authors.
If you have a properly configured web client, you can read most of
the papers fully formatted on-line (both PostScript and Adobe Acrobat
formats are available). The web server also has entries for other
papers which are available on the Net.
This site works closely with WoPEc. Papers submitted here will also
be in NetEc's WoPEc system, and thus in RePEc.
This site has branched out into the abstract and announcement
"business." Announcements and abstracts are distributed over the
mailing lists that also list working papers, and they can be searched
for here as well. In addition, newly announced hard copy working
papers from BibEc are distributed over the announcements section of
EconWPA. With this feature, you can keep up to date on hardcopy
working papers.
# http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpawelcome.html
# gopher://econwpa.wustl.edu:70/1/
# telnet://gop...@econwpa.wustl.edu
# General Information (with "help" as subject): <econ-wp@econwpa.
wustl.edu>
# Abstract Information (with "help_abs" as subject):
<eco...@econwpa.wustl.edu>
# Subscribing to Lists Information (with "get help_lists" as
subject): <eco...@econwpa.wustl.edu>
12.2.3 HoPEc: Home Page Papers in Economics
[material from 430 individual home pages]
This part of NetEc specializes in cataloging working papers on
individuals' home pages. It tries to keep up with this volatile part
of our profession. At last count, it had material from nearly 430
authors. The material is organized by JEL categories.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/HoPEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/HoPEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/HoPEc.html
12.2.4 IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)
["consumer" implementation of RePEc (info on 57,000+ papers)]
This service takes bibliographic information from BibEc, WoPEc,
EconWPA, and many other working paper series in economics, including
the "Fed in Print," NBER, and CEPR through RePEc. In all, information
on more than 57,000 papers and some 60 journals is available. The
resulting database is searchable, and many of the papers are indexed
by JEL category. This service also includes software written by
economists.
12.2.5 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers
[the largest "traditional" archive now on-line]
NBER working papers are available on-line here; this includes all
papers submitted since September, 1994. This service is freely
available to subscribers of the hard copy series. It is also freely
available to computers in non-OPEC or non-OECD countries (this is
determined by the "top-level-domain" of the computer, and "reverse
name-lookup" must be functioning). The entire "National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER)" is described elsewhere in this guide.
12.2.6 RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
[an overall database of working papers]
This organization "is a group working on on the provision of
electronic working papers. We are concerned that the uncoordinated
provision of archives is inefficient. We believe that joining forces
is a good thing because we can learn from each other how to do things
better and promote our work together." There are some 75 members
currently, and they include the NBER, the Federal Reserve, the CEPR,
BibEc, WoPEc, and EconWPA are all members of RePEc, so any paper
listed on a RePEc archive is available to the other providers of
information. In all, RePEc contains information on some 57,000 papers
and some 60 journals. Currently, "IDEAS (Internet Documents in
Economics Access Service)" allows end-users to search the RePEc
database, and "New Economics Papers (NEP)" lists new entries.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/RePEc/
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/RePEc/
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/RePEc/
# Information:Thomas Krichel <T.Kr...@surrey.ac.uk>
12.2.7 WoPEc (Working Papers in Economics)
[lists more than 10,000 on-line papers]
WoPEc, part of NetEc, is a database of on-line economic working
papers. It has links to more than 11,000 papers at different sites on
the Internet. Thus, one can search this site, and then click to the
location with the actual working paper, and then read or retrieve it.
WoPEc is now mirrored (along with the rest of NetEc) in the U.S. at
the Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA), and in Japan. Its
collection of data about on-line papers is part of RePEc.
WoPEc is managed by Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz. It has received
financial support from the Electronic Libraries Programme in the
United Kingdom.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/WoPEc.html
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc.html
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/WoPEc.html
# Information: <Wo...@netec.mcc.ac.uk>
12.3.0 Working Paper and Publication Notification Services
12.3.1 BibEc
[hardcopy working papers]
BibEc, another part of NetEc, lists bibliographical information on
nearly all working papers in economics, and is distributed weekly on
the mailing list Corryfee (described in the mailing list section).
The entire database is available and searchable on-line at "BibEc:
Hardcopy Working Papers in Economics" . New arrivals are distributed
via the notification lists at "Corryfee (corryfee)" . Fethy Mili, of
the University of Montreal, kindly generates this data.
12.3.2 Current Contents Connect (ISI)
[forthcoming publications from many publishers]
The The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), best known among
economists for the "Social Sciences Citation Index," offers this
alert service that operates though the web. It offers extensive
searching options, broad coverage (some 7,000 journals), and complete
abstracts. Unfortunately, a personal subscription costs $1,500.
12.3.3 Economics Research Network (ERN)
[forthcoming publications and working papers]
This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network),
which also has the Financial Economics Network (FEN), Legal
Scholarship Network (LSN), Latin American Network (LAN), Litigation
Support Network (LSN) and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is
directed by Martin Feldstein and Michael Jensen. It "is dedicated to
increasing communication among economics scholars, practitioners, and
policymakers throughout the world." Via electronic mailing lists, ERN
publishes abstracts of working papers and accepted papers in many
fields:
# Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
# Development Economics
# Econometrics
# Economic and Business History
# Environmental Economics
# European Economics
# Health Economics
# Industrial Organization and Regulation
# International Finance
# International Trade
# Labor
# Macroeconomics
# Microeconomics Theory
# Monetary Economics
# Organizations & Markets
# Public Economics
# Transition Economics
In addition, they have Announcements and Job Openings lists (both are
publically available).
At this site, you can enter information about your paper with a web
form. However, they do require that they have a copy of the paper in
electronic or paper form before the abstract is distributed. They
have arrangements with a number of publishers permitting use of
publication abstracts. You can also search both their lists and a
large number of papers archived on their site. While this is a
fee-based service, you can subscribe on-line.
12.3.4 New Economics Papers (NEP)
[announces RePEc papers]
This fairly new program lists new papers from the "RePEc (Research
Papers in Economics)" database, which has information on more than
57,000 working papers and other works in economics from more than 900
different organizations. NEP offers offers subject-specific
announcements via mailing list when new material is entered into this
database. Currently, NEP includes these areas:
# All new papers
# NEP Announcements, New Reports
# Collective Decision-Making
# Corporate Finance
# Computational Economics
# Discrete Choice Models
# Dynamic General Equilibrium
# Econometrics
# Econometrics-time series
# Efficiency and Productivity
# Environmental Economics
# European Economics
# Evolutionary Economics
# Experimental Economics
# Financial Markets
# Game Theory
# Health Economics
# Insurance Economics
# International Finance
# Unemployment
# Microeconomics
# Monetary Economics
# Network Economics
# Positive Political Economy
# Post Keynesian Economics
# Public Economics
# Public Finance
# Regional Economics
# Sports and Economics
# Technology and Industry Dynamics
Each of these areas has an editor who reviews the incoming papers.
Note that this service supersedes the WoPEc-Announce mailing list.
# http://netec.wustl.edu/NEP/
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NEP/
# http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/NEP/
# Information: John S. Irons <ir...@mit.edu>
12.3.5 UnCover Reveal (CARL)
[forthcoming publications from many publishers]
The UnCover database, part of the CARL organization, consists of some
17,000 scholarly journals. With this service, for a fee of $25 a
year, you can receive via e-mail the tables of contents from up to 50
of those journals every week. You can also set up as many as 25
different "search strategies" for all articles appearing in the
UnCover database; successful "hits" are e-mailed as well.
Institutional subscriptions are available too. You can arrange (via
fax or e-mail) for articles of interest to be faxed to you.
# http://uncweb.carl.org/reveal/
12.3.6 Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)
[electronic working papers from the largest archive]
This archive of working papers has the ability to notify interested
people when a submission is made in a given area or all areas. The
"Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)" . for this archive in the
section on working papers gives instructions on how to obtain
instruction for this service.
12.3.7 Financial Economics Network (FEN)
[forthcoming publications and working papers in finance]
This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network),
which also has the Economics Research Network (ERN), Legal
Scholarship Network (LSN), and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is
directed by Michael Jensen.
Via electronic mailing lists, FEN publishes abstracts of working
papers and accepted papers in many fields:
# Course Abstracting Journal
# Corporate Finance and Organizations
# Banking and Financial Institutions
# Capital Markets
# Derivatives
# Real Estate
# Finance Teaching and Case
They also offer other information: job listings and professional
announcements (both are publically available).
They have arrangements with a number of publishers permitting use of
publication abstracts. You can also search both their lists and a
large number of papers archived on their site. While this is a
fee-based service, you can subscribe on-line.
12.3.8 International Journal of Game Theory Abstracts
This mailing list contains abstracts of papers in future issues of
this journal, as well as abstracts of papers accepted for
publication.
The details of this list are described in the "International Journal
of Game Theory Abstracts (Ijgt-Abstracts)" section of this guide.
12.3.9 Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)
This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network),
which also has the Economics Research Network (ERN), Financial
Economics Network (FEN), Litigation Support Network (LitNet), Latin
American Network (LAN), and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is
directed by Ronald J. Gilson and A. Mitchell Polinsky. "The goal of
LSN is to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information
related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars and
practitioners throughout the world."
Via electronic mailing lists, FEN publishes abstracts of working
papers and accepted papers in many fields:
# Administrative Law
# Antitrust and Regulation (forthcoming)
# Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Creditors' Rights
# Constitutional Law
# Corporate, Securities, and Finance Law
# Criminal Law and Procedure
# Cyberspace Law
# Employment and Labor Law
# Environmental Law and Policy
# General Law (forthcoming)
# Intellectual Property
# International Law (forthcoming)
# Law and Economics
# Law, Humanities, and Culture
# Litigation, Procedure, and Dispute Resolution
# Tax Law and Policy
# Tort and Product Liability (forthcoming)
They also offer Professional Announcements and Professional Job
Openings lists (both are publically available).
They have arrangements with a number of publishers permitting use of
publication abstracts. You can also search both their lists and a
large number of papers archived on their site. While this is a
fee-based service, you can subscribe on-line.
12.3.10 Latin American Network (LAN)
This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network),
which also has the Economics Research Network (ERN), Financial
Economics Network (FEN), Litigation Support Network (LitNet), Legal
Scholarship Network (LSN), and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is
directed by Denise Dimon, Sebastian Edwards and Ricardo Leal. It
deals with all aspect of Latin American economics and business.
Currently, "Latin American Economic Abstracts" is running, and "Latin
American Business Abstracts" is forthcoming. There are also lists for
jobs and announcements (both are publically available).
They have arrangements with a number of publishers permitting use of
publication abstracts. You can also search both their lists and a
large number of papers archived on their site. While this is a
fee-based service, you can subscribe on-line.
12.3.11 North-Holland
North-Holland offers a notification service for all of its economics
journals. In addition, one can search for recent articles among their
journals. The section "Elsevier/North-Holland "Contents Alert
Economics" (econbase-e)" on North-Holland in the section on mailing
lists describes how to use this service. They also offer a slightly
more sophisticated "ContentsDirect" (the URLs are below; the first is
the U.S., the second is for Europe, and the third for Japan).
# http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ContentsDirect
# http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ContentsDirect
# http://www.elsevier.co.jp/locate/ContentsDirect
12.3.12 Pool Listing Service in Game Theory
This mailing list, which lists working papers in game theory, is run
by Dr. Fioravante Patrone, Dipartimento di Matematica, Genova, Italy.
He can be reached at the address given below. The list, including
past issues, can be retrieved via ftp and the web.
# http://fismat.dima.unige.it/citg/citg.htm
# Information: <pat...@dima.unige.it>
12.3.13 Springer's LINK ALERT
This service by Springer e-mails the current contents of their
economics journals. It replaces the previous service called "Springer
Journals Preview Service (SVJPS)."
# http://link.springer.de/alert/
# Information: <help...@link.springer.de>
12.3.14 sci.finance.abstracts
This Usenet newsgroup is "especially for authors of and readers
interested in unpublished scientific research papers in financial
economics. Authors can post the abstracts of their papers along with
instructions for readers to obtain the full paper." Anyone with
access to Usenet (and since the latest versions of web browsers come
with a Usenet newsreader, this means anyone with a direct connection
to the Internet) can access this newsgroup. Unlike commercial
services, no fees are involved, so the potential readership is not
limited to those who pay subscriptions. This service is in fact a
fine example of how the Internet can reduce the costs of distributing
academic information. At the site mentioned below, information about
this newsgroup and an archive of past postings can be found. To
access the newsgroup itself, you only need enter "sci.finance.
abstracts" in your Usenet newsreader.
# http://www.public.iastate.edu/~arnie/sci-finance-abstracts.htm
# Information: Arnold R. Cowan <ar...@iastate.edu>
12.3.15 USDA Economics and Statistics System
Through this system you can receive reports from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture. They are sent within three hours of their
publication; of course network delays might delay their delivery
somewhat further. In all, nearly 70 reports are available.
To receive a list of available reports, send e-mail to
<usda-r...@usda.mannlib.cornell.edu>, and put "lists" (without the
quotes) in the body of the message. You will also receive information
on how to subscribe. For a complete catalog (which describes each
report, send e-mail to the same address, but instead use the command
"send catalog".
These reports are also available at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Economic Research Service, described here in "USDA
Agriculture Economic Research Service" .
12.4.0 Indices to Journals
12.4.1 Economic Journals on the Web
This site, by John Kane of SUNY-Oswego, lists economic journals on
the Internet. Sometimes the links only offer information about a
journal, but sometimes the complete journal is available.
# http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/journals.htm
12.4.2 Journals Indexed in the EconLit
This site lists all journals in EconLit (currently some 600), along
with their web sites, if available. Currently, more than 460 have web
sites.
# http://www.econlit.org/econlit/ellistjn.html
12.4.3 WebEc - Economics Journals on The Internet
Lauri Saarinen of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business
Administration maintains this page with extensive information about
journals. It includes both material about journals and on-line
journals.
# http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/journals.html
12.5.0 On-Line Journals
+ 12.5.1 EBSCO Information Services
+
+ EBSCO offers a wide range of services for libraries. For end-users
+ for participating institutions, this includes access to some 2,000
+ on-line journals.
+
+ # http://www.ebsco.com/ess/services/online.stm
+ 12.5.2 Journal Storage Project (JSTOR)
+
+ This organization is not a publisher per-se, but a project to put
+ back issues of key journals in various fields on-line for easy
+ access. All of these journals are available with a "moving wall" of
+ 5 years (that is, all issues from the founding of the journal to 5
+ years ago are available).
+
+ In economics, the journals are
+
+ # American Economic Review <http://www.jstor.org/journals/00028282.
+ html>
+
+ # Econometrica <http://www.jstor.org/journals/00129682.html>
+
+ # Economic Journal <http://www.jstor.org/journals/00130133.html>
+
+ # Journal of Applied Econometrics <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 08837252.html>
+
+ # Journal of Economic History <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 00220507.html>
+
+ # Journal of Economic Literature <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 00220515.html>
+
+ # Journal of Economic Perspectives <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 08953309.html>
+
+ # Journal of Industrial Economics <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 00221821.html>
+
+ # Journal of Money, Credit and Banking <http://www.jstor.org/
+ journals/00222879.html>
+
+ # Journal of Political Economy <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 00223808.html>
+
+ # Quarterly Journal of Economics <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 00335533.html>
+
+ # Review of Economic Studies <http://www.jstor.org/journals/00346527.
+ html>
+
+ # Review of Economics and Statistics <http://www.jstor.org/journals/
+ 00346535.html>
+
+ Site licenses for JSTOR are available for universities and other
+ organization (there are some 500 participants now around the world),
+ and a method for individual subscriptions is in testing.
+
+ # http://www.jstor.org/
+ 12.5.3 OCLC Electronic Collections Online
+
+ This organization offer a very wide range of services for libraries.
+ For end-users for participating institutions, this includes access to
+ some 1,800 on-line journals.
+
+ # http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/eco.htm
+ 12.5.4 UMI
+
+ # http://wwwlib.umi.com/
12.5.5 Agribusiness
# http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0742-4477/
12.5.6 Agriculture and Human Values
# http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0889-048X
12.5.7 American Political Science Review
# http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~apsr/
12.5.8 American Prospect
# http://epn.org/prospect.html
12.5.9 Annales d'Economie et de Statistique
# http://www.ensae.fr/annalesEnglish/frame1.html
12.5.10 Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=13704788
12.5.11 Annals of Regional Science
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00168/index.htm
12.5.12 Applied Economics
# http://journals.routledge.com/ae.html
12.5.13 Applied Economics Letters
# http://journals.routledge.com/ael.html
12.5.14 Applied Financial Economics
# http://journals.routledge.com/afe.html
12.5.15 ASEAN Economic Bulletin
# http://202.0.149.14/journals/aeb.html
12.5.16 Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
# http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1387-2834
12.5.17 Asian Economic Journal
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=13513958
12.5.18 Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=08189935
12.5.19 Australian Economic History Review
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00048992
12.5.20 Australian Economic Papers
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0004900x
12.5.21 Australian Economic Review
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00049018
12.5.22 Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=1364985x
12.5.23 Australian Journal of Management
# http://www.agsm.unsw.edu.au/~eajm/
12.5.24 Banco de Espana Economic Bulletin
# http://www.bde.es/servicio/publica/publide.htm
12.5.25 Bank of Japan Monetary and Economic Studies
# http://www.imes.boj.or.jp/japanese/mes.html
12.5.26 British Journal of Industrial Relations
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00071080
12.5.27 Bulletin of Economic Research
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=03073378
12.5.28 Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
# http://www.nrc.ca/aic-journals/economics/instcjae.html
12.5.29 Cato Journal
# http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cato_journal.html
12.5.30 Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research
# http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscape.html
12.5.31 Development
# http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0152.html
12.5.32 Development and Change
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0012155x
12.5.33 Economia Politica
# http://www.spbo.unibo.it/econpol
12.5.34 Economic and Industrial Democracy
# http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0017.html
12.5.35 Economic Journal
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00130133
12.5.36 Economic Policy: A European Forum
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=02664658
12.5.37 Economic Theory
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00199/index.htm
12.5.38 Economics and Politics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=09541985
12.5.39 Economics Letters
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/ecolet/
12.5.40 Environment and Development Economics
# http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/scripts/webjrn1.asp?Mnemonic=ede
12.5.41 European Economic Review
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/eer/
12.5.42 Explorations in Economic History
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/eh.htm
12.5.43 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review
# http://www.frbatlanta.org/publica/eco-rev/index.html
12.5.44 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives
# http://www.frbchi.org/pubs-speech/publications/periodicals/ep/
welcome.h ml
12.5.45 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Review
# http://www.clev.frb.org/research/index.htm#review
12.5.46 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Review
12.5.47 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review
# http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/ermain.htm
12.5.48 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review
# http://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/qr/
12.5.49 Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review
# http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/1998.htm
12.5.50 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review
# http://www.phil.frb.org/econ/br/brja98in.html
12.5.51 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Review
# http://www.rich.frb.org/eq/index.html
12.5.52 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Review
# http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/econrev/index.html
12.5.53 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
# http://www.stls.frb.org/publications/review/index.html
12.5.54 Federal Reserve Bulletin
# http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/pubs/bulletin/default.htm
12.5.55 Feminist Economics
# http://journals.routledge.com/fe.html
12.5.56 Finance and Development
12.5.57 Finance and Stochastics
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00780/index.htm
12.5.58 Financial Industry Studies
12.5.59 Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=09638008
12.5.60 Games and Economic Behavior
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/ga.htm
12.5.61 Growth and Change
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00174815
12.5.62 Housing Studies
# http://www.carfax.co.uk/hos-ad.htm
12.5.63 Human Resource Development Quarterly
# http://www.jbp.com/JBJournals/hrdq.html
12.5.64 Independent Review
# http://www.independent.org/review.html
12.5.65 Industrial Relations
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00198676
12.5.66 International Economic Journal
# http://iias.snu.ac.kr/wthong/IEJ/
12.5.67 International Journal of the Economics of Business
# http://www.carfax.co.uk/ijb-ad.htm
12.5.68 International Journal of Industrial Organization
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/indor/
12.5.69 International Journal of Manpower
# http://www.mcb.co.uk/cgi-bin/journal1/ijm
12.5.70 International Journal of Social Economics
# http://www.mcb.co.uk/cgi-bin/journal1/ijse
12.5.71 International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance
# http://www.wspc.com.sg/journals/journals.html
12.5.72 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=03091317
12.5.73 International Organization
# http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=00208183
12.5.74 International Social Science Journal
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00208701
12.5.75 Investigaciones Economicas
# http://www.funep.es/invecon/
12.5.76 Japan Research Quarterly
# http://www.jri.co.jp/JRQ/index.htm
12.5.77 Japanese Economic Review
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=13524739
12.5.78 Journal of Accounting and Economics
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/jae/
12.5.79 Journal of Applied Statistics
# http://www.carfax.co.uk/jas-ad.htm
12.5.80 Journal of Banking and Finance
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/jbf/
12.5.81 Journal of Common Market Studies
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00219886
12.5.82 Journal of Comparative Economics
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/je.htm
12.5.83 Journal of Conflict Resolution
# http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0058.html
12.5.84 Journal of Econometrics
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/econom/
12.5.85 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/jebo/
12.5.86 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/dyncon/
12.5.87 Journal of Economic Education
# http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/
12.5.88 Journal of Economic Surveys
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=09500804
12.5.89 Journal of Economic Theory
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/et.htm
12.5.90 Journal of Economics and Finance
# http://www.mtsu.edu/~jeandf/
12.5.91 Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
# http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=10586407
12.5.92 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/ee.htm
12.5.93 Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
# http://www.carfax.co.uk/jep-ad.htm
12.5.94 Journal of Evolutionary Economics
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00191/index.htm
12.5.95 Journal of Finance
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00221082
12.5.96 Journal of Financial Economics
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/finec/
12.5.97 Journal of Financial Intermediation
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/jf.htm
12.5.98 Journal of Housing Economics
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/he.htm
12.5.99 Journal of Monetary Economics
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/monec/
12.5.100 Journal of Peace Research
# http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0168.html
12.5.101 Journal of Population Economics
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00148/index.htm
12.5.102 Journal of Public Economics
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/pubec/
12.5.103 Journal of Public and International Affairs
# http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~jpia/index.html
12.5.104 Journal of Regional Science
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00224146
12.5.105 Journal of Risk and Insurance
12.5.106 Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/jj.htm
12.5.107 Journal of Urban Economics
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/ue.htm
12.5.108 Kyklos
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00235962
12.5.109 Labor History
# http://www.carfax.co.uk/lah-ad.htm
12.5.110 Labour
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=11217081
12.5.111 Law and Contemporary Problems
# http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/
12.5.112 Liiketaloudellinen Aikakauskirja
12.5.113 Macroeconomic Dynamics
# http://www.cup.org/journals/jnlscat/mdy/mdy.html
12.5.114 Manchester School
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00252034
12.5.115 Mathematical Finance
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=09601627
12.5.116 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00186/index.htm
12.5.117 Metrika
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00184/index.htm
12.5.118 Metroeconomica
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00261386
12.5.119 Monthly Labor Review
# http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm
12.5.120 Netnomics
# http://www.baltzer.nl/netnomics/netnomics.html
12.5.121 New Economy
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=10703535
12.5.122 New England Economic Review
# http://www.std.com/frbbos/economic/neer/neer.htm
12.5.123 Nonprofit Management and Leadership
# http://www.jbp.com/JBJournals/nml.html
12.5.124 Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=03059049
12.5.125 Oxford Review of Economic Policy
# http://www.oup.co.uk/ecopol/
12.5.126 Pacific Economic Review
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=1361374x
12.5.127 Policy Analysis
# http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/policyanalysis.html
12.5.128 Policy Review
# http://www.policyreview.com/
12.5.129 Public Finance Review
# http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0055.html
12.5.130 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
12.5.131 Quarterly Journal of Economics
# http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=00335533
12.5.132 RAND Journal of Economics
12.5.133 Regional Science and Urban Economics
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/regec/
12.5.134 Regulation
# http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regultn-arch.html
12.5.135 Research in Economics (Ricerche Economiche)
# http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/journals/re/
12.5.136 Review of Austrian Economics
12.5.137 Review of Development Economics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=13636669
12.5.138 Review of Economic Design
# http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10058/index.htm
12.5.139 Review of Economic Dynamics
# http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/rd.htm
12.5.140 Review of Economics and Statistics
# http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=00346535
12.5.141 Review of Financial Studies
# http://www.oup.co.uk/revfin/
12.5.142 Review of International Economics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=09657576
12.5.143 Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=09170553
12.5.144 Scandinavian Journal of Economics
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=03470520
12.5.145 Scottish Journal of Political Economy
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00369292
12.5.146 Survey of Current Business
# http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/pubs.htm
12.5.147 Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
# http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/SNDE/
12.5.148 Transportation Research: Part E: Logistics and Transportation
Review
# http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/0/0/2/4/4/index.
htt
12.5.149 Urban Studies
# http://www.carfax.co.uk/urs-ad.htm
12.5.150 World Economy
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=03785920
12.6.0 Student On-Line Journals
12.6.1 Opus
+ 12.6.2 SOAS Economic Digest (SED)(Web Version)
+
+ # http://www.soas.ac.uk/sed/
12.6.3 Student Economic Review
# http://www.economics.tcd.ie/SER/
12.6.4 University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics (UAUJE)
# http://www.econ.ilstu.edu/Econ_Web_Pages/EconJournal/Splash.html
+ 12.6.5 The Visible Hand
+
+ # http://www.rso.cornell.edu:8000/economics/
+ 12.6.6 Wits Student Journal of Economics
+
+ # http://www.wits.ac.za/economics/Journal/
12.7.0 Academic Publishers
12.7.1 Association American University Presses
This organization of academic publishers has 110 members, including
eleven non-U.S. members. Information on the publications from these
publishers is now being added to this server in an integrated
database. Currently, it lists some 75,00 books from over 60 presses.
It can be searched in many different ways. Serials are listed as
well. In addition, this site has a number of links to servers of
academic publishers.
# http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu/
12.7.2 Academic Press
This publisher offers a number of features at this site. This include
on-line ordering, a catalog of their books, information about
themselves (including exhibits they will be attending), and even have
an on-line drawing.
IDEAL is their on-line system; it is an acronym for International
Digital Electronic Access Library. Access to the complete journals
is allowed to universities (now some 600) with site licenses.
Non-members can read tables of contents and abstracts. Their economic
offerings include Explorations in Economic History, Games and
Economic Behavior, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of
Economic Theory, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,
Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of the Japanese and
International Economies, Journal of Urban Economics, and Research in
Economics (Ricerche Economiche).
+ 12.7.3 University of Alabama Press
+
+ # http://www.uapress.ua.edu
12.7.4 Ashgate
This British publisher, the former Avebury, offers its catalog (both
searchable and via a directory) and extensive additional information
here. The latter includes special offers, information for potential
authors, information on how to receive news on new books
electronically, and news releases. Finally, books may be ordered
on-line.
+ 12.7.5 Asia Pacific Press
+
+ # http://ncdsnet.anu.edu.au/AsiaPPress/appress.htm
+ 12.7.6 Asian Development Bank
+
+ 12.7.7 University Press of America
+
+ 12.7.8 Australian National University
+
+ 12.7.9 Basic Books
+
+ # http://www.basicbooks.com/
+ 12.7.10 Bernan Press
+
+ # http://www.bernan.com/BernanPress.asp
12.7.11 Blackwell Publishers
This site currently lists extensive information on Blackwell books,
textbooks, and journals, as well other material from and about this
publisher. Some material overlaps with the "Blackwell Economics
Articles Index."
# http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk
+ 12.7.12 University of British Columbia Press
+
+ # http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/
+ 12.7.13 Brookings Instittution Press
+
+ 12.7.14 C. D. Howe Institute
+
+ 12.7.15 University of Calgary Press
+
+ # http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/index.html
+ 12.7.16 University of California Press
+
+ 12.7.17 Cambridge University Press
+
+ 12.7.18 CATO Institute
+
+ 12.7.19 Centre for Economic Policy Research
+
+ # http://www.cepr.org
12.7.20 University of Chicago Press
This site contains an electronic catalog of their books in print,
subject area catalogs (including economics), and other material. In
addition, it has links to catalogs of other university and academic
publishers as part of the Association of American University Presses
(AAUP) Combined Catalog Project.
# http://www.press.uchicago.edu/
+ 12.7.21 Copenhagen Business School Press
+
+ # http://www.cbspress.dk/home.shtml
+ 12.7.22 Cornell University Press
+
+ # http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
+ 12.7.23 Duke University Press
+
+ # http://www.duke.edu/web/dupress/
12.7.24 Edward Elgar Publishing
This publisher specializes in economics and other related social
science areas. Here they offer their catalog, information on how to
contact them, a list of conferences they will be attending, and
information on how to order.
12.7.25 Elsevier/North-Holland
Elsevier/North-Holland offers several services on the Internet for
economists as an adjunct to their paper publishing. The first is an
"alert" service on forthcoming publications. "Contents Alert
Economics," is a mailing list concerning forthcoming articles in 36
of their economic and finance journals. For each forthcoming
article, it has the full title, authors, authors' affiliation, key
words and JEL codes when available, volume/issue/page numbers, the
dates for receipt and acceptance of the forthcoming article, and the
publication date of the issue. Contents Alert Economics comes out at
approximately weekly intervals. Subscription information is below. A
more sophisticated version is "ContentsDirect" (the URLs are below).
The second service, ECONbase, is a searchable database that allows
you to search for current information on articles in the 38 Elsevier/
North-Holland journals. It contains information on articles published
after January 1, 1994, and each year some 2,000 articles are added.
For each article, ECONbase provides the same information as "Contents
Alert Economics."
Another service is information on their Handbooks in Economics
Series. This includes the tables of contents, chapter summaries,
introductory chapters, and a search facility (which returns the
chapter which matches the request).
Some of their journals are now on-line. This includes
# Economics Letters
# European Economic Review
# International Journal of Industrial Organization
# Journal of Accounting & Economics
# Journal of Banking and Finance
# Journal of Econometrics
# Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization
# Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
# Journal of Financial Economics
# Journal of International Economics
# Journal of Monetary Economics
# Journal of Public Economics
# Regional Science and Urban Economics
Access to them through the "Subscribers Section" of each journal. It
is available to "for users at institutes with a fully paid
subscription to the print journal."
For the Contents Alert Mailing List, send e-mail to
<econb...@elsevier.nl>, and in the subject line of the message,
write "subscribe casecon-c".
For help, send e-mail to <econb...@elsevier.nl>, and in the new
subject line of the message, write "help".
For comments or questions, send e-mail to <econb...@elsevier.nl>,
and in the new subject line of the message, write "Message".
The first two URLs below are for ECONbase (the first in the U.S., and
the second in Europe). The next three URLs are for ContentsDirect
(the first URL is in the U.S. the second is in Europe, and the third
is in Japan).
# http://www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase
# http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/econbase
# http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ContentsDirect
# http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ContentsDirect
# http://www.elsevier.co.jp/locate/ContentsDirect
+ 12.7.26 Bank of Finland
+
+ 12.7.27 Greenwood Publishing Group
12.7.28 Grove's Dictionaries
Grove Dictionaries provide references for an array of topics. In the
economics and finance section, they publish both "The New Palgrave:
A Dictionary of Economics" and "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money
and Finance." The first is considered a leader in English-language
resources on economic theory, with some 1,300 subject entries on a
broad spectrum of topics, and 700 biographical entries on important
figures in economics. The price for this four-volume set is $750
($200 for the paperback version). The second presents over 1,000
short essays focusing on all aspects of money and finance. The price
is $495 for three volumes. Both can be ordered on-line.
# http://www.grovereference.com
+ 12.7.29 HarperCollins Publishers
+
+ # http://www.harpercollins.com/
+ 12.7.30 Harvard Business School Publishing
+
+ # http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/home.html
+ 12.7.31 Harvard University Press
+
+ # http://www.hup.harvard.edu/
+ 12.7.32 Haworth Press
+
+ # http://www.haworthpressinc.com
+ 12.7.33 Institute for Fiscal Studies
+
+ 12.7.34 International Food Policy Research Institute
+
+ # http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/
+ 12.7.35 JAI Press
+
+ 12.7.36 John Wiley & Sons
+
+ 12.7.37 Johns Hopkins University Press
+
+ # http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/
12.7.38 Kluwer Academic Publishers
This site has their catalog and extensive information on their
journals (including tables of contents and even include LaTeX style
sheets). In addition, there is ordering information for customers.
They expect to have their journals on-line soon.
+ 12.7.39 Manchester University Press
+
+ # http://www.man.ac.uk/mup/welcome.htm
+ 12.7.40 McGraw-Hill
+
+ # http://www.mcgraw-hill.com
+ 12.7.41 Macmillan Press
+
+ # http://www.macmillan-press.co.uk/
+ 12.7.42 University of Michigan Press
+
+ # http://www.press.umich.edu/
+ 12.7.43 MIT Press
+
+ # http://www-mitpress.mit.edu
+ 12.7.44 Mohr Siebeck
+
+ # http://www.mohr.de/index.html
+ 12.7.45 National Centre for Development Studies
+
+ # http://ncdsnet.anu.edu.au/
+ 12.7.46 New York University Press
+
+ # http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/
+ 12.7.47 State University of New York Press
+
+ 12.7.48 University of North Carolina Press
+
+ # http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/
+ 12.7.49 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
+
+ 12.7.50 Pickering and Chatto Publishers
+
+ # http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.html
+ 12.7.51 Princeton University Press
+
+ 12.7.52 Resources for the Future
+
+ 12.7.53 Routledge
+
+ This publisher provides information about itself, special offers for
+ online readers, new titles, and valuable teaching resources. The
+ academic section gives a complete list of journals published by
+ Routledge, as well as a calendar of conferences where books are
+ available, featured texts, and readings. The site also provides the
+ capability for one to search for material by subject.
+
+ # http://www.routledge.com
+ 12.7.54 Rowman and Littlefield
+
+ # http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/
+ 12.7.55 Russell Sage Foundation
+
+ 12.7.56 Sage Publications
+
+ 12.7.57 Sharpe
+
+ # http://www.mesharpe.com/
12.7.58 Springer
Springer is one of the largest academic publishers, and is well more
than 100 years old. Here you can search their catalog, request
textbook examination copies and sample journals, subscribe to mailing
lists that describe their offerings, read about new journals, and
read about their "LINK" service that give on-line access journals.
+ 12.7.59 University of Texas Press
+
+ # http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/
+ 12.7.60 University of Toronto Press
+
+ # http://www.utoronto.ca/encyukr/utpp.html
+ 12.7.61 United National Publications
+
+ # http://www.un.org/Pubs/sales.htm
+ 12.7.62 W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
+
+ # http://www.upjohninst.org/
+ 12.7.63 World Bank
+
+ 12.7.64 Yale University Press
+
+ 12.7.65 Zed Books
+
+ # http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk/index.htm
12.7.66 Camden Books
This bookstore, which is located in Bath, England, specializes in
both "antiquarian and scholarly books." The books that are
economics-related are broken into 3 sections: Political Economy &
Political Thought, Modern Economic Thought, and Economic History.
Some of the works are originals of classics.
12.8.0 Book Support Sites
12.8.1 "Foundations of International Macroeconomics" (Obstfeld and
Rogoff)
This site supports this book, a new treatise on international
finance. The site offers features that are impossible in a book given
that technology. Besides describing the rationale for the book and
summary information (such as the table of contents) you can find the
solution manual, transparencies with the equations in large print,
and a notation guide.
# http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ObstfeldRogoffBook.html
12.8.2 "Handbooks in Economics" (North-Holland/Elsevier)
This site has information on each of these well-known volumes by
North-Holland. This includes the tables of contents, chapter
summaries, introductory chapters, and a search facility (which
returns the chapter which matches the request). The first URL is the
U.S. site, and the second is in Europe.
# http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/browse.htt?key=B1HE
# http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/browse.htt?key=B1HE
12.8.3 "Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy" (Taylor)
This site supports the book "Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy"
by John Taylor. In fact, it contains the entire book, with an updated
rational expectations multi-country model along with background
material on the update. The site also contains the programs for the
model, a manual for its use (by John Williams), and the data for
estimating the model. Finally, there are links to publications that
use the tools of the book.
# http://www.stanford.edu/~johntayl/MacroPolicyWorld.htm
12.9.0 Collected Works
12.9.1 Collected Works of Ray Fair
This site provides the complete texts of the collected works of Ray
Fair. The works are listed by both subject matter and by the date
published. Each entry lists the title and references for that work,
as well as providing "intro" and "pdf file" links. The "intro" link
displays the abstract and recent comments made by Fair pertaining to
that work.
# http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/rayfair/intro.htm
12.10.0 Libraries and Classification Systems
12.10.1 Library of Congress
[what to say?]
The Library of Congress has a wealth of information, including their
card catalog and a number of other institutions through a "Z.39.50"
gateway as one of their "Library Services." They also offer an
extensive set of links to other resources (the economics-oriented
ones are generally described elsewhere here) and substantial
information on the U.S. Government, including Congress. It appears
one can use their photocopy service long distance.
12.10.2 Libweb
[directory of libraries on the Internet]
From this site, "Library Information Servers via WWW," you can
connect to a number of libraries that have set up Internet sites.
Besides academic libraries, they offer useful additional information:
web sites of library resources that are not libraries (Nexis, OCLC,
Dialog, Silver Platter, etc.).
# http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
12.10.3 COPAC
[on-line catalog of many British and Irish libraries]
"OPAC gives access to the online catalogues of some of the largest
university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Most COPAC
records represent books and periodicals (but not periodical
contents)." It also contains links to the Web pages of each of the
contributing libraries, including those who contribute now and those
that will contribute in the future. Detailed search instructions are
provided.
12.10.4 JEL Subject Descriptors
[lists JEL codes]
This site for the "Journal of Economic Literature" and "EconLit"
provides these well-known "subject descriptors."
# http://www.econlit.org/elhomsub.htm
12.10.5 Nomenclatures: Documentation on Economic Classifications
[lists numerous classification systems]
This service describes the myriad different classification systems
that an economist may run across. Major categories include economic
activity, occupations, products, geographical zones and countries,
national accounts, the Journal of Economic Literature classification
system, EU acronyms, and a translation between Dutch and French.
# http://www.econ.ucl.ac.be/nomenclatures.html
+ 12.10.6 Online Glossary of Research Economics
+
+ [research terms explained]
+
+ This interactive glossary is written by Peter Meyer, a grad student
+ at Northwestern University. As he describes it, "The guiding
+ principle is that any term used in any English-language economics
+ research journal that is neither defined there, nor common vocabulary
+ among the mathematically literate belongs here." Links are given to
+ the relevant citations (which are also available as one file), and
+ all told it contains more than 1,000 entries. Grad students and
+ researchers working in new areas are likely to find it useful.
+
+ # http://econterms.com/
12.11.0 Newsletters
12.11.1 American Agricultural Economics Association Newsletter
The newsletter for this association can be found here. It includes
many topics of interest to those with an interest in this field.
# http://www.aaea.org/deadlines.html
12.11.2 Economic History Newsletter
For this newsletter, send e-mail to <mail...@mailbase.ac.uk> with
the line "join history-econ your name" in the body of the e-mail.
12.11.3 electronic Health Economics Analysis Letters (eHEAL)
This newsletter, from International Health Economics Association
(iHEA), typically lists jobs, conferences, and forthcoming articles.
Subscriptions are only available to members of iHEA. For information
on membership, contact Thomas Getzen <get...@astro.ocis.temple.edu>.
12.11.4 European Economic Association Student Newsletter
This newsletter covers many aspects of interest to the student
members of this association. It includes calls for papers,
conferences, the job market, etc.
# http://www.iue.it/NL/EEA/Welcome.html
12.11.5 International Economics and Finance Society
For subscriptions to this monthly newsletter, contact Henry Thompson,
<htho...@business.auburn.edu>.
12.11.6 International Society of Dynamic Games - ISDG
For this society's electronic newsletter, contact <is...@hut.fi>.
12.12.0 Style Guides
12.12.1 Citing Sources from the World Wide Web: MLA Handbook
This section of the on-line version of the "MLA Handbook" describes
how to cite on-line resources. With the rise of Internet resources,
standards here are sorely needed.
# http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm
+ 12.12.2 The Economist Style Guide
+
+ This style guide, used by the "Economist" magazine, covers all
+ aspects of writing. This includes everything from commas to
+ unnecessary words, to hyphens. You can buy an expanded hardcopy
+ version on-line here as well.
+
+ # http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/library/styleguide/
12.12.3 Electronic Sources: APA Style of Citation
This page describes the American Psychological Association's style
for citing on-line resources. With the rise of Internet resources,
standards here are sorely needed.