Economists' Resources on the Internet
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Last-modified 1995/6/30
Version: vol. 1 no. 10
RESOURCES FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE INTERNET
ISSN 1081-4248
Vol. 1, No. 10
June, 1995
Bill Goffe
Dept. of Economics and International Business
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
bgo...@whale.st.usm.edu
(601) 266-4484 (office)
(601) 266-4920 (fax)
This document lists the many resources on the Internet of interest
to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in
economics. In selecting these resources, I exercise some editorial
judgment and selected those items that either offer a substantial
amount of information, or are specialized to a specific area. For
more broadly defined resources, I list several guides in the
sections titled "SERVERS THAT POINT TO NON-ECONOMIC RESOURCES" and
"USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET."
1 COPYRIGHT
2 ANNOUNCEMENT
3 WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE
4 INTRODUCTION
5 CONVENTIONS USED HERE
6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
7 NEW IN THIS VERSION
8 SHORTCUT TO ALL RESOURCES
9 U.S. MACRO AND REGIONAL DATA
9.1 Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)
* 9.2 EBB at the Commerce Department
9.3 Dept. of Commerce Economic Data (Umich)
9.4 EconData
9.5 Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT)
9.6 Federal Reserve
9.7 New England Electronic Economic Data Center (NEEEDc)
9.8 Economic Report of the President
* 9.9 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
9.10 Missouri State Census Data Center
9.11 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
9.12 Federal Reserve Bank of New York
9.13 Regional Economic Information System
9.14 STAT-USA (U.S. Department of Commerce)
+ 9.15 Bureau of Economic Analysis
+ 9.16 Business Cycle Indicators from Media Logic
10 OTHER U.S. DATA
10.1 National Archives Center for Electronic Records
10.2 Social Security Administration (OSS-IS)
10.3 FedWorld
10.4 Census Data
10.5 U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service
10.6 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
10.7 U.S. Census Bureau
10.8 National Trade Data Bank
10.9 Thomas Publishing - FOMC Minutes and Beige Book
10.10 Panel Study on Income Dynamics
+ 10.11 U.S. Department of the Treasury
11 WORLD AND NON-U.S. DATA
11.1 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
* 11.2 World Bank
+ 11.3 World Bank Social Indicators of Development
+ 11.4 World Bank Social Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE)
+ 11.5 Economic Growth Project (World Bank)
11.6 Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices for 1992
* 11.7 Statistics Canada
11.8 Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services (MIDAS)
11.9 Israel Information Service Gopher
11.10 Russian and East European Studies Home Pages
11.11 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
11.12 UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
11.13 The Global Network Navigator/Koblas Currency Converter
11.14 Statistics Canada CANSIM
11.15 The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
11.16 Penn World Tables at the EPAS Computing Facility at the
University of Toronto
11.17 Summary Information on the Dutch Economy at Rabobank
11.18 H.M. Treasury (U.K.)
+ 11.19 New Zealand Treasury
12 FINANCIAL MARKET DATA
12.1 Other Sources
12.2 misc.invest FAQ
12.3 Kiwi Club Web Server
+ 12.4 Financial Data Finder at Ohio State
* 12.5 EDGAR (SEC)
* 12.6 Martin Wong's and George Holt's Market Report
12.7 Vienna Stock Market
12.8 Public Domain Financial Data
12.9 Polish Stock Market
12.10 QuoteCom Data Service
12.11 Security APL QuoteServer
12.12 JP Morgan's RiskMetrics
12.13 Student Investment Club at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
12.14 Olsen & Associates High Frequency Foreign Exchange Data
12.15 InTechTra's Hong Kong Stocks Reports
12.16 McCulloch/Kwon US Term Structure Data Base
+ 12.17 Fidelity Investment
13 DATA ARCHIVES
13.1 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR)
13.2 ESRC Data Archive
14 WORKING PAPERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICES
* 14.1 NetEc (BibEc, WoPEc, & CodEc)
* 14.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (WPA)
14.3 Feminist Economists Discussion Group Archive
14.4 Bank Structure Conference Papers
14.5 Economic Literature Index
14.6 CARL's UnCover
14.7 Economic Growth Mailing List Archive
14.8 University of Toronto Department of Economics and the
Institute for Policy Analysis Working Paper Archive
+ 14.9 Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis
15 INTERNET STYLE "PAPERS"
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Economics of Networks, Nicholas Economides
16 WORKING PAPER AND PUBLICATIONS NOTIFICATION SERVICES
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (econ-wp)
16.3 North-Holland
16.4 Financial Economists Network (FEN)
16.5 Listing Service in Game Theory
16.6 BibEc
17 PUBLISHERS
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Elsevier/North-Holland
17.3 University of Chicago Press
* 17.4 Blackwell Economics Articles Index
17.5 Association American University Presses Gopher
17.6 MIT Press
17.7 Presses on the Web
17.8 Springer
18 ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS
18.1 DowVision on the Internet
18.2 Academe This Week
18.3 Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
+ 18.4 Times Fax from the pages of the New York Times
+ 19 INFORMATION ABOUT MEETINGS
+ 19.1 Econometric Society 7th World Congress, August 22-29, Tokyo
+ 20 POINTER TO JOURNAL INFORMATION
21 INFORMATION ABOUT JOURNALS
21.1 Computational Economics Gopher
21.2 International Journal of Forecasting
21.3 Rand Journal of Economics WWW Page
21.4 Review of Economic Studies
+ 21.5 International Review of Economics and Finance
+ 21.6 Journal of Economic Education
+ 21.7 Quarterly Journal of Economics
22 JOURNAL DATA AND PROGRAM ARCHIVES
22.1 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Archive
22.2 Journal of Applied Econometrics
23 ON-LINE JOURNALS
23.1 Cyberchronicle of Political Economy (COPE)
23.2 Student Economic Review
23.3 Journal of Economics and Finance
23.4 Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
23.5 JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
+ 23.6 Applied Economics Letters
24 ECONOMIC SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS
24.1 Economic History Server operated by the Cliometric Society
24.2 Society of Computational Economics Gopher
+ 24.3 Society of Computational Economics Web Site
24.4 Regional Science Association (RSA)
* 24.5 Italiana Storici dell'Economia - Society of Italian
Economic Historians (SISE)
24.6 Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
24.7 The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
24.8 The Canadian Economic History Server
24.9 Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN)
+ 24.10 American Law and Economics Association (ALEA)
+ 24.11 The European Association of Law and Economics (EALE)
+ 24.12 Canadian Law and Economics Association
+ 24.13 Southern Economic Association
25 ACADEMIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTES
* 25.1 Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)
25.2 Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO)
25.3 Regional Research Institute (West Virginia University)
25.4 ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau (U.K.)
25.5 IKE Group (Aalborg University, Denmark)
25.6 Centre for Economic Forecasting (London Business School)
25.7 Center for the Study of Population at Florida State University
25.8 Experimental Economics Laboratory, Univ. of Trento, Italy
+ 25.9 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona
+ 25.10 Theoretical Research Institute (Australia) Exchange Rate
Target Zone Database
+ 25.11 Centre for Policy Modelling
+ 25.12 Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and
Technology (MERIT)
26 NON-ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY ORGANIZATIONS
26.1 National Bureau of Economic Research
26.2 RAND
26.3 The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
+ 26.4 Institute for Policy Innovation
+ 26.5 International Monetary Fund
+ 26.6 Resources for the Future
+ 26.7 Economic Planning Agency (Japan)
+ 26.8 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
27 DEPARTMENTAL AND COLLEGE SERVERS
28 DIRECTORY TO ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT SERVERS
29 DIRECTORIES TO BUSINESS SCHOOL SERVERS
29.1 BSCHOOLWeb: Marr's Official Rating Guide to Business School Webs
29.2 Yahoo Directory of Business Schools
30 DIRECTORIES TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVERS
30.1 American Universities Home Pages
30.2 College and University Home Pages
31 SINGLE SUBJECT SERVERS
31.1 Introduction
31.2 Communications for a Sustainable Future
* 31.3 Antitrust Policy, An online resource linking economic research,
policy issues, and cases
31.4 Telecom Information Resources on the Internet
31.5 RISKNet
31.6 University of Michigan Economics Department
+ 31.7 The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page
+ 31.8 Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page
+ 31.9 Health Economics - Places to Go
+ 31.10 Law and Economics
+ 31.11 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page
+ 31.12 Stan Liebowtiz on Path Dependence and Network Externalities
32 SERVERS THAT POINT TO OTHER ECONOMIC RESOURCES
32.1 Introduction
32.2 Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University
32.3 Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept.
32.4 Social Science Information Gateway
32.5 Economics WWW Page at Helsinki
33 SERVERS THAT POINT TO NON-ECONOMIC RESOURCES
33.1 Introduction
33.2 SunSITE
33.3 U.S. Government and Other Gophers
+ 33.4 The Federal Web Locator (from the Villanova Center for
Information Law and Policy)
33.5 Business Sources on the Net (BSN)
34 UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY CARD CATALOGS
34.1 Research Libraries in General
34.2 Library of Congress
34.3 North Carolina State University's "Library Without Walls"
34.4 Libweb (Library Information Servers via WWW)
35 PROGRAM LIBRARIES
35.1 Netlib
35.2 Statlib
35.3 University of Illinois at Chicago Statistical Library (UICSTAT)
35.4 Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS)
+ 35.5 UCLA Xlisp-Stat Archive
35.6 GAUSS Library at American University
+ 35.7 Free C, C++ for Numerical Computation
36 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
* 36.1 Iowa Electronic Markets
* 36.2 CTI Centre for Economics
36.3 Economic Education Web from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Center for Economic Education
36.4 The Economics and Business Education Association (EBEA)
+ 36.5 ECOnet
+ 36.6 National Federal Budget Simulator
36.7 University of Melbourne Dept. of Economics "Resources for
University Teachers of Economics"
+ 36.8 CMU Intermediate Macroeconomics Home Page
+ 36.9 Portland State University's Applied Economics and
Econometrics Lab
37 USENET NEWSGROUPS
38 MAILING LISTS
38.1 Introduction
* 38.2 Listserv Mailing Lists
* 38.3 Listproc Mailing Lists
* 38.4 Majordomo Mailing Lists
38.5 Mailserv Mailing Lists
* 38.6 Mailbase Mailing Lists
* 38.7 Internet Style Mailing Lists
* 38.8 Other Mailing Lists
* 38.9 Financial Economists Network (FEN)
39 INFORMATION ABOUT THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION
39.1 Graduate Programs
39.2 Directory of Economists on the Internet (Sam Houston State)
39.3 American Economics Association Directory of Members
39.4 Job Openings for Economists (JOE)
39.5 Economist Jokes Page
39.6 JEL Classifications
39.7 Job Openings for Economists (Europe)
40 INFORMATION ABOUT THE FINANCE PROFESSION
40.1 Financial Economics Network (FEN)
41 WORD PROCESSING
41.1 TeX and LaTeX References
41.2 TeX Macros for Economics and TeX/LaTeX Sources
42 ECONOMICS RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR THE INTERNET
42.1 BCI Data Manager Version 2.0
* 42.2 Xlisp-Stat
43 CONTACTS FOR AND INFORMATION FROM SOFTWARE VENDORS
43.1 Aptech (GAUSS)
43.2 TSP International
43.3 Stata
43.4 Estima (RATS)
43.5 SHAZAM
43.6 Wolfram Research, Inc. (Mathematica)
43.7 GAMS
43.8 LINDO
43.9 The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd (NAG)
+ 43.10 Minitab
44 USEFUL BOOKS AND SOFTWARE ABOUT THE INTERNET
44.1 Books
44.2 uuencode/uudecode
44.3 gzip
44.4 Eudora
+ 44.5 WinZip
44.6 Web Clients
45 USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET
45.1 On-Line Guide: "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet"
(formerly "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet")
45.2 Scott Yanoff's "Internet Services List"
45.3 John December's "Information Sources: the Internet and
Computer-Mediated Communication"
45.4 File Compression, Archiving, and Text<->Binary Formats
* 45.5 Usenet FAQs
45.6 Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
45.7 EINet Galaxy
* 45.8 Yahoo
+ 45.9 Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap
46 NON-INTERNET RESOURCES
46.1 Introduction
46.2 Federal Reserve Bank Bulletin Boards
46.3 On-Line Refereed Economics Journal
46.4 National Association of Business Economists (NABE) Bulletin Board
1 COPYRIGHT
This guide is Copyright 1995 by William L. Goffe <bgo...@whale.st.usm.edu>.
It may be freely redistributed in whole or in part for any purpose. If
distributed in part, it must include this copyright notice. It may not be
sold, or placed in something else for sale, without the permission of the
author. This guide is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty.
2 ANNOUNCEMENT
I, Bob Parks <bpa...@wuecona.wustl.edu>, and George Greenwade
<bed...@shsu.edu>, are available for visits and talks on the Internet.
Please contact any of us if you are interested.
3 WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE
This guide can be found in a number of places. They include:
FTP: Via anonymous ftp, connect to rtfm.mit.edu, change to the
/pub/usenet/sci.econ.research directory, and retrieve the file
econ-resources-faq. It also has the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/sci.econ.research/econ-resources-faq.
GOPHER: Two main gophers are the Economics Gopher at Sam Houston
State University and at the Economics Working Paper Archive at
Washington University at St. Louis (at this site, one can also
read the guide by sections and it can be searched). These are
their addresses in several formats:
# Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University
# URL: gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu:70/11gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
# direct: niord.shsu.edu/Economics
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/Economics
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Economics (SHSU Network Access
Initiative Project) Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu Port=70
# Economics Working Paper Archive at Washington University at St. Louis:
# URL: gopher://econwpa.wustl.edu:70/1/
# direct: econwpa.wustl.edu
# indirect: USA/Missouri/Washington University - St. Louis/
Washington University in St. Louis Departmental Gopher
Servers/Economics Department/Economics Working Paper Archive
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: econwpa.wustl.edu
Host=econwpa.wustl.edu Port=70
HTML (World Wide Web)
The first site contains a searchable index for the entire guide.
# http://econwpa.wustl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Missouri)
# http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Michigan)
# http://COBA.SHSU.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Texas)
# http://riskweb.bus.utexas.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Texas)
# http://www.wabash.edu/pages/depart/economic/econFAQ/econFAQ.html
(Indiana)
# http://www.inform.umd.edu/Educational_Resources/
AcademicResourcesByTopic/EconomicsResources/
EconData/.www/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Maryland)
# http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Finland)
# http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Goffe/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (U.K.)
# http://www.econ3.uni-bonn.de/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Germany)
# http://www.uwa.edu.au/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Australia)
# http://www.elsevier.nl/econbase/othergophers/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html
(Netherlands)
EMAIL: Write SENDME ECONOMICS.INTERNET-RESOURCES in the body of an
email message sent to FILE...@SHSU.edu, or write to
eco...@econwpa.wustl.edu with GET ECON.FAQ in the subject line.
Finally, I'd be happy to send it out via email to all who request
it. However, I don't maintain a mailing list for its distribution;
rather, I 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.
4 INTRODUCTION
Updated issues of this guide, distributed at the end of the quarter,
are available on a number of places on the Internet. The section
titled "WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE" describes the various places it
can be found.
This document lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to
academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
In selecting these resources, I exercise some editorial judgment and
selected those items that either offer a substantial amount of
information, or are specialized to a specific area. For more broadly
defined resources, I list several guides in the sections titled
"SERVERS THAT POINT TO NON-ECONOMIC RESOURCES" and "USEFUL RESOURCES
ABOUT THE INTERNET."
This is my tenth stab at this guide. I am very interested in any
corrections, suggestions, omissions, and hints anyone might have.
Some of the information is not as complete as I would wish. Further,
some of the resources I have not investigated thoroughly and I cannot
vouch for them. While I catalog many mailing lists, I have little
information about the volume and types of discussions.
Most of the resources I was able to find deal with the United States.
Leads on information on other countries would be most appreciated.
If you are new to the Internet, see the sections titled "USEFUL BOOKS
AND SOFTWARE ABOUT THE INTERNET" and "USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE
INTERNET."
5 CONVENTIONS USED HERE
In the last issue, I slightly changed the numbering scheme for each
issue. Rather than just a number, I now use a volume and an issue.
However, to be somewhat consistent, the volume numbers continue from
before. Thus, this one is volume 1, number 10.
I give the location of all items as URLs (Uniform Resource
Locators). In general, they are of the form method://host/location,
where method is telnet, gopher, ftp (anonymous unless otherwise
stated), and http (for World Wide Web resources). Host refers to the
computer that is the server for the data; for instance, I currently
use whale.st.usm.edu. Finally, the location denotes the directory or
directories and the file name. For telnet, there may be additional
material for a password and userid. In that case, the URL is
telnet://userid:password@host/location. Finally, some URLs require
the "port" number on the server. This will follow the host with a
colon preceding it.
Note that many resources can be accessed in a variety of ways.
Generally, World Wide Web (often called "www" or the "web") and
gopher are the easiest to use. In fact, web clients, such as Mosaic,
Cello, and Lynx, can access any resource denoted by a URL (i.e.
telnet, gopher, ftp and the web). Thus, if you're new to the
Internet, you should seriously consider such client software as your
primary tool.
Some client software can use URLs directly; in fact, URLs basically
came from work on the web. However, many gopher clients cannot use
URLs, so I have given gopher directions in a variety of ways to suit
different levels of expertise and clients. The first I call direct,
where I give the gopher server and any directories you might need to
move to the desired area. For many users, this might be the easiest
method. The second is indirect; on most gopher menus, there is an
entry for something like "Other Gophers" from which one can navigate
gopherspace by geographical regions. The indirect method shows how
to move through these regions. Finally, I list bookmark information,
which many gopher clients can use (if the path is not given, then the
desired material is in the root directory). Since material on gophers
and web servers often moves, if you can't find it, try starting from
the top.
However, if you're completely new to the Internet, I'd suggest that
rather than just going by the above description, you also take a look
at the sections titled "USEFUL BOOKS AND SOFTWARE ABOUT THE INTERNET"
and "USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET" and consult local guides.
Items in " " are typed directly as commands, or denote directories
and files. The context should make this clear.
Most of the gopher and web sites devoted to economics are
interconnected; no mention is made of this below since it would take
a lot of space to say who is connected to whom. The gophers and web
servers described in the section "SERVERS THAT POINT TO OTHER
ECONOMIC RESOURCES are especially strong in this regard.
Information about compressed files, converting binary files to text
so they can be emailed and converted back to binary, and locations
web software can be found in the sections titled "USEFUL BOOKS AND
SOFTWARE ABOUT THE INTERNET" and "USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE
INTERNET."
6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to acknowledge many who have commented and made
suggestions on 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, I would like to thank
Forrest Smith for suggesting I undertake this project, Hal Varian for
suggesting the web version, and Thomas Krichel, George D. Greenwade,
Lauri Saarinen, and Bob Parks for constant suggestions. Finally,
Debbie Sharp provided valuable research assistance during the 1994-5
academic year.
More generally, I have received assistance from Darrin Abernathy,
Ken Alexander, Mona Andersen, Werner Antweiler, Dave Barrett,
Brenda Bailey, Jim Barbour, Owen Barder, Kit Baum, Cary Bean, Kai
Becker, Joyce Berg, Kurt Beron, Ted Bilek, Larry Blume, Chris
Birchenhall, Lech Borkowski, Ted Bos, Jean Bourdon, Eric
Branckaert, Harker Brautighan, Bob Bressan, Francis Buckley,
Robert Bunge, Christian Burks, Brent Burmester, Sergio Cagol,
Nauro Campos, Arie ten Cate, Catrina F. Catus, David Chester,
Edward Cheung, Keith Church, T. Matthew Ciolek, Fred Collopy,
Chris Cooper, Carmel Cregg, Clint Cummins, Alex Deacon, Mark
Dickie, Robert Dixon, Sean Dunne, Judy Eargle, Bill Easterly,
Nicholas Economides, Jared Enzler, Mike Emslie, Mathew Englander,
Guido Erreygers, Karen Ewens, Ned Farrington, Daniel Feenberg,
Nicky Ferguson, Peter Ferguson, Gary Ferrier, Luis Fierro, Matthew
Flynn, Bob Forsythe, Stephen D. Franklin, Robert O. Frasca, Joe
Friedman, James H. Freeman, Luke Froeb, Drew Fudenberg, James R.
Garven, Maurice Garneau, Paul Gilbert, David Giles, Bill Greene,
Stuart Greenfield, Gerhard Gonter, Seth Greenblatt, Seth Grimes,
Bruce Guthrie, Leslie M. Haas, Jamie M. Hall, Bob Hammond, David
M. Hammond, Dave Hartland, Markus Hatterscheid, Christian
Helmenstein, Doug Henwood, Joe Hirschburg, Brad Humphreys, Prue
Hyman, Todd Irwin, Alan G. Isaac, Moldovan Istvan, Peter M.
Joftis, Nicholas Karatjas, Grace Katagiri, Bill Kelly, Ray Kiddy,
Lorrie A. Knight, Ruud H. Koning, Lukasz Konopielko, Michael Kosz,
Marc Krawatsky, Tony Ku, Pasi Kuoppamaki, Kevin Lacobie, Nicole
Ladewig, Gary F. Langer, In Ho Lee, S. L. Lee, Michael Levi,
Denise Lievesley, Tom Lindley, Kuan-Pin Lin, Ron Linssen, Peter
Ljungman, Wendy P. Lougee, Richard MacMinn, Hugh Madden, Jeffrey
K. MacKie-Mason, James G. MacKinnon, Wayne Marr, Thomas
Martinovsky, Clive Massey, Douglas S. Meade, Sherry Melecki, Jorg
Meyer-Stamer, Fethy Mili, Ken Miller, Ty B. Mitchell, Peter
Mitter, Bruce Mizrach, Mathias Moersch, Keith Morgan, Scott Moss,
Raleigh Muns, Robert Myers, Jeroen Nas, Peter Nolan, Dennis
O'Conner, Henry Ohlsson, Yuji Onuki, Tim Opler, Ron Overman, Lisa
Pargas, Tim Parker, Tom Parris, Valery P. Pavlov, Cem Payaslioglu,
Lucio Picci, Richard Porter, Karl B. Radov, Shyamala Raman, Laura
Randall, Eric Rasmusen, Terry Rephann, Rob Raisch, Sam Rea, Al
Roth, Fernando Rizzo, Phil Roan, Ken Robb, Wolfgang Roeckelein,
Ken Rogers, Larry Rosenburg, Colin Rose, David R. Ross, Robert
Rycroft, Vittorio Santaniello, William Savino, Edwin Schalk, Frank
Scholtens, Terry Schroepfer, Glen Segell, Ray Seyfarth, Milt
Shapiro, Ajay Shaw, Ross Shaw, Glen Segell, Yuko Shimamoto, Jack
Siler, Scott Simkins, George Slotsve, Timothy Smeeding, Una Smith,
Jennifer Soller, Kim Sosin, Bruce Speyer, Timothy Stanley, Graham
Stark, Gianluca Stefani, Melissa Stockton, Johannes Strasser,
George Tauchen, Sailesh Tanna, Michael Thoen, Russ Thibeault,
Vasily Trenev, Frank Urbanowski, Amaury de la Vaissiere, Hylke
Vandenbussche, Patrick Vanhoudt, Erik Van Aert, Lilian van der
Vardt, Patrick VanHoudt, Michelangelo Vasta, Bart Verspagen,
Edward Vielmetti, Rob Vienneau, Bill Vilberg, Larry W. Virden,
Peiling Wang, Yasutora Watanabe, Daniel Weinberg, Larry Weiser,
Ken White, Thorsten Wichmann, Pete Wilcoxen, David Wildasin, Sam
Williamson, Joachim Winter, Nancy Wulwick, Michael Yaffey, Stephen
Yeo, Richard Young, Edith Wu, Grace York, Jan Zauha, Christian
Zimmerman, and Stan Zin.
7 NEW IN THIS VERSION
New resources in this issue are denoted with a + in the first
column of the title or mailing list, while significant changes to
resources mentioned previously are denoted with a * in the title
of that resource and this sort of type denotes the actual changes
in that section (for mailing lists, sometimes the change only
involves a change in the type of software used).
Major new items include Business Cycle Indicators from Media
Logic, (where you can view and obtain a number of U.S. macro time
series), the World Bank's Social Indicators of Development and
Social Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE), additional on-line
journals and another on-line journal (Applied Economics Letters),
a larger number of associations, and additional material about the
Internet. In addition, there is a greatly expanded section on the
Bureau of Economic Analysis very extensive site.
The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page,
organized by Christian Zimmermann, is a very nice example of what
one person can quickly do on the web to make information available
to the profession.
There are two new sections: "INFORMATION ABOUT MEETINGS" (it
currently just lists the Econometric Society's 7th World Congress
in Tokyo) and "POINTER TO JOURNAL INFORMATION." In addition,
several sections have been expanded, renamed, and rearranged to
make resources easier to find.
Finally, in a more evolutionary note, NetEc and WoPEc now work
closely together and they either have, or have links to, more than
700 electronic working papers in economics.
8 SHORTCUT TO ALL RESOURCES
This single section provides clickable links to all non-email
resources listed in this guide. Thus, rather than having to click
through several layers, you can quickly select any resource on
this page. This page will keep the same name, so you might want to
put it in your hot-list. If the resource can be accessed by more
than one method, http was used, and if it wasn't available, gopher
was used.
9 U.S. MACRO AND REGIONAL DATA
9.1 Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)
This service is an outgrowth of a dial-up bulletin board offered
by the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains about 4,500 files
from the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Energy, and Treasury, the
White House, the Federal Reserve (including the New York Fed), and
other agencies.
The EBB is currently offered on the Internet in two places. The
first is a telnet interface to the EBB at the Department of
Commerce, and the second is at a library gopher at the University
of Michigan. There are a few more files (about 4,500 to 3,500) at
the Commerce Department, but Michigan does have the vast bulk of
the Commerce Department files of interest to academic economists.
Most of the differences consist of agricultural, budget and trade
files (the latter two are available on other places on the
Internet). In addition, some of the files at the Commerce
Department are only kept in binary archive files at Michigan.
* 9.2 EBB at the Commerce Department
Charges for Internet telnet access are as follows.
Timed Charges:
Annual subscription fee $45
Credit for connect charges $20
8AM - noon (Eastern) $24/hour
noon - 6PM $18/hour
6PM - 8AM (& holidays, $6/hour
weekends)
The current telnet interface is basically that used for the dial-up
bulletin board. Thus, one must capture the information from the screen
or use a bulletin board type download (such as Kermit). I have not
tried the latter and can offer no advice. To capture all screen data
on a Unix system, one can do "telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov | tee ebb.data"
where tee takes the screen data and places it in the file "ebb.data"
as well as on the screen with a plain ASCII download.
Limited guest accounts for the telnet interface are available; use
"guest" as the password. You are limited to 20 minutes of connection
time (but you can connect back immediately), and not all files are
available.
* A web interface is available as well. It does not offer all the data
* that the telnet interface offers. This interface costs $24.95 for the
* first three months, or $100 per year.
Most information is in six areas: the bulletin system (which describes
how to use the system), the file system (which contains files), the
trade promotion system, the presidential system, the news system (on
files and news flashes), and the utilities system (which sets
passwords, terminal types, etc.). Once in the system, basic
information on it can be found in the bulletin system (entered by
typing "B"). A listing of files can be found by typing "F".
Data come in several formats. Some comes in DOS self-extracting files,
some in ASCII .PRN-delimited files (so they can be used in
spreadsheets or database packages), and some in a specialized format.
Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager, described below, is a Windows 3.1
program that lets you manage the BCI and Current Business Statistics
(BSDC) parts of this database.
# telnet://ebb.stat-usa.gov
# http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/Services/ebbhome.html
9.3 Dept. of Commerce Economic Data (Umich)
The University manually downloads files daily from the EBB. As
described above, it contains almost all of the Commerce Department
material of interest to economists. General information about the
system can be found in the directory "IMPORTANT!! README!!".
Information on file formats and the system in general can be found
under in the directories "Current Business Statistics" and "General
Information Files". As with the Commerce Department location, data
comes in several different forms. One can also search for files by
their names in their first entry.
One good educational use of this gopher is recent press releases
concerning economic statistics. I frequently use it just before my
macro class to check the most recent numbers.
The directory directly above EBB at the University of Michigan
contains a variety of useful information.
Again, Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager, described below, is a Windows
3.1 program that lets you manage data from this database.
Note that Current Business Statistics Files are not updated after
April 1, 1994.
Finally, be aware that the Commerce Department does not offer support
for uses of this system.
# telnet://gop...@una.hh.lib.umich.edu/Social Science
Resources/Economics/Dept. of Commerce Economic Data (Umich)
# gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/11/ebb
# Gopher:
# direct: una.hh.lib.umich.edu/socsci/ebb
# indirect: USA/Michigan/University of Michigan
Libraries/Social Science Resources/Economics/Dept. of
Commerce Economic Data (Umich)
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=ebb Path=1/ebb
Host=una.hh.lib.umich.edu Port=70 Admin=Ulibrary Admin
<tim...@umich.edu> ModDate=Fri Mar 3 11:03:26 1995
<19950303110326> URL: gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/1/1/ebb
9.4 EconData
This database, collected by INFORUM, a project building an
inter-industry model of the U.S. economy, processes a wide variety of
macro data and places it in a common format. Data includes the
National Income and Product Accounts, balance of payments, flow of
funds, monthly employment surveys, CPI, PPI, Business Conditions
Indicators, blue pages from the Survey of Current Business, industrial
production, the Penn World Tables, and state and local data including
employment, earnings, GSP and state personal income. International
data from the IMF and World Bank is available, but permission must be
obtained from them. One hopes, that with time, this will change.
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.
For introductory information, a brief overview is in "readme.doc",
while more detailed information is in "Instruction/contents.doc" and
"Instructions/guide.doc".
The program that retrieves data (PDG) is relatively straightforward,
but let me add my own experiences. First, you may need to change the
path to the help files in the "g.cfg" file. Assuming that you're in a
directory with one of the unzipped data files, start the program by
typing "pdg". Then, a return will allow you to start normally. The
command "look" allows one to survey the data in that file (additional
commands are found on the bottom of the screen that allow you to print
the data to the screen or graph it). One leaves the look command with
an escape. To print the data to an external file in columns, use the
"matty" command. After typing "matty" and the full file name you
choose, you'll be prompted for the series names that can be obtained
with "look". Don't separate series names with commas and be sure to
end the command with a semicolon. The output of matty lists dates in
the first column, but you'll need to modify the fractions used to
denote months and quarters. Finally, you can easily plot data to the
screen to get an approximate idea of what it looks like.
# telnet://gop...@info.umd.edu Educational Resources/Academic
Resources By Topic/Economics Resources/EconData
# http://www.inform.umd.edu/Educational_Resources/AcademicResourcesBy
Topic/EconomicsResources/EconData/.www/econdata.html
# ftp://info.umd.edu/inforM/EdRes/Topic/Economics/EconData
# gopher://info.umd.edu:901/11/inforM/Educational_Resources/
AcademicResourcesByTopic/EconomicsResources/EconData
# Gopher:
# direct: info.umd.edu/Educational Resources/Academic Resources
By Topic/Economics Resources/EconData
# indirect: USA/Maryland/University of Maryland/Educational
Resources/Academic Resources By Topic/Economics
Resources/EconData
# bookmark:Type=1+ Name=EconData
Path=1/EdRes/Topic/Economics/EconData
Host=gopher.inform.umd.edu Port=70 Admin=inforM Editor
<inform...@umail.umd.edu> ModDate=Wed Nov 30 19:07:39
1994 <19941130190739> URL:
gopher://gopher.inform.umd.edu:70/11/EdRes/Topic/Economics/Ec
onData
9.5 Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT)
This site offers very detailed data in a number of areas. Quoting from
their documentation, they include:
Average Price Data
Collective Bargaining-State & Local Gov't
Collective Bargaining-Private Sector
Consumer Price Index-All Urban Consumers
Consumer Price Index-Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
Employee Benefits Survey
Employment Cost Index
Employment, Hours, & Earnings-National
International Price Index
Special Export Comparison Index
Employment Projections by Industry
Geographic Profile
Occupational Injury & Illness Rates
International Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Department Store Inventory Price Index
Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Index
Producer Price Index Revision-Current Series
Producer Price Index Revision-Discontinued Series
Federal Government Productivity Index
Industry Labor Productivity Index
Major Sector Productivity & Costs Index
State & Area Employment, Hours, & Earnings
Occupational Injury and Illness Rates
Producer Price Index
Work Stoppage Data
Data is generally quite disaggregated; overall, there are many
megabytes of files. Besides historical data, recent press releases are
available.
For ftp access, all data is in the "pub" directory, which contains
three directories: "doc", "news.release", and "time.series". For a
short introduction, read the "README" file in the "pub" directory.
Information on how the files are stored is located in the
"overview.doc" file in the "doc" directory.
In general, the news releases in the "news.releases" directory are
quite useful for tracking current events, while the great amount of
detail in the actual time series will be quite useful for many
researchers.
For gopher and web access, the basic structure is the same, but the
names of the files and directories are slightly different.
# http://stats.bls.gov/blshome.html
# ftp://stats.bls.gov
# gopher://stats.bls.gov:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: stats.bls.gov
# indirect: USA/Washington DC/US Bureau of Labor Statistics
(LABSTAT)
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Bureau of Labor Statistics Path=
Host=stats.bls.gov Port=70 URL: gopher://stats.bls.gov:70/1/
# Information (on Internet access): labstat....@bls.gov
# Information (on data issues): see the contact.doc in /pub/doc
9.6 Federal Reserve
To paraphrase from the "README" file for this information, this data
is from PC disks made available by the Board of Governors and placed
on the Internet by the Internet Multicasting Service (which, among
other things, helps run EDGAR and the Internet's own "radio" show,
"Geek of the Week.").
In general, the data is quite extensive and detailed. Most dates back
a number of years. All is in ASCII form, but some of the columns
widths are more than 80 characters and some of the names are less than
intuitive. As always, be sure to read all the information provided in
the various help files.
All data is in the "fed" directory. Quoting from the "README" file in
that directory, the data is in the following directories:
flow Flow of funds tables
g_17 Industrial production and capacity utilization
g_17_his Industrial production and capacity utilization
h_3 Reserves of depository institutions
h_4_2 Weekly series on assets and liabilities of
large commercial banks
h_15 Selected interest rates
money Money stock measures and components
others Other Federal Reserve data tables
Each directory contains many files and some even contain other
directories of data. In each, there are several compressed files in
different formats (denoted with different filename suffixes) with that
directory's files. Each directory also contains a file with
information on the data in that directory (the names of these files
vary).
# ftp://town.hall.org/other/fed
# gopher://town.hall.org:70/11/other/fed
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.town.hall.org/Federal Reserve Board
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Federal Reserve Board Path=1/other/fed
Host=town.hall.org Port=70
9.7 New England Electronic Economic Data Center (NEEEDc)
This database, the bulletin board of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston, specializes in data on the New England economy. It carries all
historical data published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's New
England Economic Indicators (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. Most of the data is in .PRN
format (some is in .WK1), so it can be read directly by Lotus or
Quattro. In addition, some is compressed in .ZIP files.
# ftp://neeedc.umesbs.maine.edu/access
# gopher://ftp.shsu.edu/11/Economics/FRB-Boston
# Gopher:
# direct: niord.shsu.edu/Economics/Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston Data (SHSU mirror)
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/Economics
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Data (SHSU mirror)
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Data
(SHSU mirror) Path=1/ftp/economics/FRB-Boston/
Host=pip.shsu.edu Port=70 URL:
gopher://pip.shsu.edu:70/1/1/ftp/economics/FRB-Boston/
# Information: Jim Breece <bre...@maine.maine.edu>
9.8 Economic Report of the President
This electronic version of the Economic Report of the President is
from the U.S Department of Commerce's quarterly CD-ROM product, the
National, Economic, Social, & Environmental Data Bank (NESE DB), which
is distributed to all Government Depository Libraries. Like most U.S.
government information, it is not copyrighted, therefore it may be
copied for further distribution. In this case, the Univ. of Missouri
at St. Louis has placed this information on their gopher.
Besides the text of the document, it also contains graphics files of
the graphs and Lotus spreadsheet files of the very useful data in this
document. Apparently, a few of the spreadsheet files are corrupted,
but this appears to stem from problems with the original CD-ROM, not
problems with transferring the data from the CD-ROM to this gopher
site.
Currently, this site contains the reports from 1992, 1993, and 1994.
# gopher://UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU:70/11/LIBRARY/GOVDOCS/ERPS
# Gopher:
# direct: umslvma.umsl.edu/The Library/Government Information
/Economic Reports of the President
# indirect: USA/Missouri/University of Missouri - St. Louis
/The Library/Government Information/Economic Reports of the
President
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=1992 Economic Report of the President
(Analysis) Path=1/LIBRARY/GOVDOCS/ERPS Host=UMSLVMA. UMSL.EDU
Port=70
# Information: goph...@umslvma.umsl.edu
* 9.9 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
This site offers regional information, including the Beige Book for
the area this Bank covers (the Third Federal Reserve District),
* abstracts from newsletters and the Business Review, abstracts of
working papers by staff economists, their publication "Fed in Print"
* and the Livingston Survey.
# http://compstat.wharton.upenn.edu:8001/~siler/fedpage.html
9.10 Missouri State Census Data Center
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 available. Specifically, they have "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.
# gopher://gopher.coin.missouri.edu:70/11/reference/census/us
# Gopher:
# direct: bigcat.missouri.edu/Reference and Information
Center/Census Information (USA and Missouri)/United States
Census Data
# indirect: USA/Missouri/COIN - Columbia, MO Online Information
Network/Reference and Information Center/Census Information
(USA and Missouri)/United States Census Data
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=United States Census Data
Path=1/reference/census/us Host=bigcat.missouri.edu Port=70
URL: gopher://bigcat.missouri.edu:70/11/reference/census/us
9.11 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Besides a number of guides to the Fed and financial markets, this site
offers data on the 7th Federal Reserve District (including bank data
and portions of the Beige Book), and macro data since (some dates from
1946, some from 1990). While the number of series is limited, it is in
a particularly easy to use format. One looking for long CPI, GDP and
similar series would do well to look here. Most importantly, it
contains time series of daily exchange and interest rate data that is
updated weekly.
# gopher://gopher.great-lakes.net:2200/11/partners/ChicagoFed
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.great-lakes.net/The Great Lakes Information
Network/Economy/Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago data
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago data
Path=1/partners/ChicagoFed Host=gopher.great-lakes.net
Port=2200 URL:
gopher://gopher.great-lakes.net:2200/11/partners/ChicagoFed
9.12 Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Rather than an actual Federal Reserve site, this is a pointer to
information from the New York Fed on the Economic Bulletin Board at
the University of Michigan. Since information can be a bit hard to
find there, this link provides a valuable service.
It contains current daily exchange rate data, recent summary exchange
rate data, and extensive monetary and financial market information.
# gopher://gopher1.uwsa.edu/11/.vpacad/.cie/.currency
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher1.uwsa.edu/Academic Affairs/Council on
International Education (CIE)/FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES
# indirect: USA/Wisconsin/University of Wisconsin - System
Administration/Academic Affairs/Council on International
Education (CIE)/FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Foreign Currency Exchange Rates
Path=1/.vpacad/.cie/.currency Host=gopher1.uwsa.edu Port=70
URL: gopher://gopher1.uwsa.edu:70/11/.vpacad/.cie/.currency
9.13 Regional Economic Information System
This system is sponsored by the University of Virginia's Social
Sciences Data Center and Gis Lab. Its very easy to use interface is a
true advance. It has a very extensive collection of employment and
earnings variables collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BEA) from 1969 to 1992 for (i) U.S. regions, (ii) U.S. states and
counties, and (iii) U.S. MSAs. In sum, most any regional economist
will find it quite useful.
# http://ptolemy.gis.virginia.edu:1080/reis1.html
# Information: Rick Holt <fm...@virginia.edu>
9.14 STAT-USA (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Through this location, Commerce makes available the National Trade
Data Bank (NTDB), described elsewhere in this guide, the National
Economic, Social and Environmental Data Bank (NESE-DB), which contains
a surprisingly small amount of economic information (such as
quotations on some U.S. Government securities, information on the
fixed wealth of the U.S. (also by industry), industry profiles,
options for reducing the deficit, the U.S. Global Trade Outlook, and
some data from the Regional Economic Information System). Another part
of this guide describes the extensive offerings of the Bureau of
Economic Analysis.
To access this information via the web you must register and pay a
fee. Unlimited access costs $24.95 per quarter, or $100 per year. Site
licenses for class C networks are available at an annual rate of $360.
One very useful item is extensive information on the federal budget
(it includes both historical and forecasted data). It is freely
available.
# http://www.stat-usa.gov
# gopher://gopher.stat-usa.gov
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher://gopher.stat-usa.gov
# indirect: USA/Washington, DC/U.S. Commerce Department's
Economics and Statistics Administration Gopher
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=U.S. Commerce Department's Economics
and Statistics Administration Gopher Path=
Host=gopher.stat-usa.gov Port=70 Admin= ModDate= URL:
gopher://gopher.stat-usa.gov:70/1/
+ 9.15 Bureau of Economic Analysis
+
+ This service is offered as part of the Commerce Department's STAT-USA
+ site, but given its importance, it merits a separate listing. The
+ fees for this service are described in the STAT-USA section.
+ Offerings include complete news releases and the Survey of Current
+ Business (in Adobe Acrobat pdf format). National Income and Product
+ Accounts (NIPA; i.e. GDP and related material) are available in great
+ detail (the data is in ASCII and WK1 formats); this entry is labeled
+ "National Programs." It also includes Business Cycle Indicators
+ (BCI), some 270 variables listed in the "C" pages of the Survey of
+ Current Business. There are extensive reports here, dealing with such
+ topics as capital stock, wealth, gross product by industry, and
+ benchmark input-output tables.
+
+ "Regional Programs" covers personal income for states and other local
+ areas; Gross State Product; and regional projections (due in late 1995).
+
+ "International Programs" includes data about the U.S. Balance of
+ Payments, and reports on investment outside the U.S. and
+ international trade in services.
+
+ Finally, information on reviews of the BEA programs is also
+ available.
+
+ # http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/Services/beahome.html
+ 9.16 Business Cycle Indicators from Media Logic
+
+ Media Logic sells a Windows program with a variety of U.S. aggregate
+ data (specifically, all 256 series from the BEA's Survey of Current
+ Business), and to demonstrate the program, they have made these
+ series available in both graphical and numerical form. The graphical
+ form is from their program, and the numerical form is in .wks files.
+ Information on their software can be found here as well. NetLink also
+ contributes to this experiment.
+
+ # http://www.cris.com/~netlink/bci/
10 OTHER U.S. DATA
10.1 National Archives Center for Electronic Records
The National Archives has a branch devoted to the storage of
electronic records from many federal entities. 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. While the records are not available over the Internet
(at least not yet), detailed information about them, including a
listing of "data files" and ordering information for the data files
(generally available only on 9-track tape reels or 3480 tape
cartridges) are available. Currently, some 8,000 data files out of
more than 18,000 available are listed in a rapidly growing list. Some
of the data files are old, while some are relatively recent. Some
entities have only a small selection of data, while for others, the
listings are more complete. Unfortunately, the tapes are relatively
expensive at either $80.75 or $90.00 (depending upon the medium), with
additional tapes at $24.50. One can hope that a less expensive on-line
database is not too far in the future. Since a comprehensive list of
files here is impossible, the interested researcher should examine
them. Much more information about this service can be found in the
directory listed below.
# ftp://ftp.cu.nih.gov/NARA_ELECTRONIC (press the return key for the
password)
10.2 Social Security Administration (OSS-IS)
This site offers a variety of material. Besides extensive information
for beneficiaries, there is substantial statistical material,
basically annual and current operating tables. Since these tables are
in different formats, be sure to read the appropriate descriptions of
them. For ftp access, see the file "pub/statistics/README.FIRST". For
gopher access, in the "K-Statistical Data and Abstracts" directory,
read the file "A-ORS Master Index (Please Read First)".
# ftp://ftp.ssa.gov
# http://www.ssa.gov/
# gopher://gopher.ssa.gov
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.ssa.gov
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Social Security Administration Path=
Host=oss968.ssa.gov Port=70 URL:
gopher://oss968.ssa.gov:70/1/
# Information: Bruce Carter <bwca...@ssa.gov>
10.3 FedWorld
This site is an entry-way to many U.S. Federal Government Internet
sites and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that one usually contacts via a
phone and modem at (703) 321-8020. While there is relatively little
material directly related to economics that cannot be obtained more
directly, it is still useful.
# telnet://fedworld.gov
# http://www.fedworld.gov
# ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov
10.4 Census Data
A common site for U.S. and some Canadian Census information is located
at this gopher. This gopher provides links to other gophers that
actually contain the data. The material is not coordinated, so some
searching may be in order. I was particularly impressed with the
collection at the University of Missouri - they have data for all U.S.
counties and cities.
# gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu:70/11/Subject/Census
# Gopher:
# direct: riceinfo.rice.edu/Information by Subject Area/Census
# indirect: USA/Texas/RiceInfo/Information by Subject
Area/Census
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Census Path=1/Subject/Census
Host=riceinfo.rice.edu Port=70
10.5 U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service
This project is jointly sponsored by the Mann Library at Cornell
University and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. It contains more than 140 data sets, and more are due to
be added. These data sets cover a very wide range of agricultural
topics, and even include international and climate data. They are
frequently quite detailed, and are mostly in Lotus 1-2-3 .WK1 format
(thus, if you transfer them with ftp, be sure to use the binary mode).
Gopher is the preferred connection method (files cannot be transferred
with telnet unless your telnet client can call ftp).
# telnet://us...@usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
# ftp//:usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda
# gopher://oldal.mannlib.cornell.edu:70/11/
# Gopher:
# direct: usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
# indirect: USA/New York/Cornell University, Albert R. Mann
University Library
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server:
usda.mannlib.cornell.edu Host=usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
Port=70
# Information: Oya Y. Rieger <oy...@cornell.edu>
10.6 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
This site contains extensive statistical information on the banking
system in the U.S., as well as some information for consumers on
deposit insurance and dealing with bank failures. In addition, there
is information for librarians and researchers on all statistical
publications by the FDIC.
Statistical information is from "The Statistics on Banking." There are
issues for 1934-1992, for 1991, 1992 1993 and 1994. Most data is in
Lotus 123 .WK1 format. There are numerous help files that explain the
holdings.
# ftp://nic.sura.net/pub/fdic
# gopher://fdic.sura.net:71/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: fdic.sura.net
# indirect: USA/Washington DC/Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: fdic.sura.net
Host=fdic.sura.net Port=70
10.7 U.S. Census Bureau
This official site of the Census Bureau currently offers a wealth of
information. Not only does it include considerable information about
the Census Bureau, press releases, and links to other Census sites on
the Internet through its gopher, it also has the Statistical Abstract
of the United States, papers from the Center for Economic Studies, the
Surveys-On-Call system, formerly the Data Extraction System,
(described below), the 1990 Census Lookup (via Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratories (also described below)), financial data for state and
local governments, and population estimates and projections.
The Surveys-On-Call system, formerly the Data Extraction System, DES,
allows one to make extractions from large surveys. Currently, these
include both the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of
Income and Program Participation (SIPP). In the future it may expand
to the American Housing Survey and Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES).
Output from the extractions can come in several different formats
(ASCII, Ingress, and several SAS formats) in several different
methods, including email and ftp.
To access the Surveys-On-Call system, one can telnet to
gateway.census.gov, log on with the username of "desuser", and simply
presses the return key when prompted for the password (it can also
reached via a dial-in facility at (301) 457-2341). The system is
fairly easy to navigate, with the possible exception that one moves
back up a menu by pressing the Q key (for quit). This system is also
available on their web and gopher servers. With the web server, first
move to "Main Data Bank," then to "Data Access Tools."
One very useful resource located here is the Statistical Abstract of
the United States. It is organized in different ways that make
searching for information easy. On the web server, it is found in
"Main Data Bank."
Another very useful resource is the 1990 Census Lookup. With it, one
can search for very detailed information from the 1990 Census Summary
Tape Files. Its coverage and detail is quite impressive. Its use
requires a forms capable web client. According to Karl Radov, who has
taken a careful look at this system, one first needs to know which
Census Summary Tape file and geographical area you need. Next, be sure
to read the documentation off-line, as this system is complex.
Finally, it would be wise to experiment with this system first with a
small dataset. This system is found in the same section as the
Surveys-On-Call system.
One can subscribe to their news releases by sending email to
"p...@census.gov" with "subscribe press-release" in the body of the
message.
Note that Statistical Briefs and papers from the Center for Economic
Studies are in PostScript.
Press releases and statistical briefs from many parts of the Bureau
are available via gopher and the web sites.
In December of 1994, the Census won an award from the Vice President
for this site. It was in honor using the Internet to "distribute
Census Bureau data and dramatically increase public access to Bureau
information."..."The Census Bureau envisions a day in the not too
distant future when most census data will be disseminated
electronically."
# ftp://ftp.census.gov
# http://www.census.gov
# gopher://gopher.census.gov:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.census.gov
# indirect: USA/Washington DC/U.S. Dept. Bureau of the Census
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: gopher.census.gov
Host=gopher.census.gov Port=70
# Information Overview: acc...@census.gov (no subject or message
needed)
# Information: p...@census.gov
10.8 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. 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.
# ftp://ftp.stat-usa.gov:/pub/NTDB
# http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/Topics/TradePromo.html
# gopher://sunny.stat-usa.gov:70/11/NTDB
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.stat-usa.gov/National Trade Data Bank
# indirect: USA/Washington D.C./U.S. Commerce Department's
Economics and Statistics Administration Gopher
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=National Trade Data Bank Path=1/NTDB
Host=sunny.stat-usa.gov Port=70
10.9 Thomas Publishing - FOMC Minutes and Beige Book
This company distributes via email the minutes of FOMC meetings, and
the Fed's Beige Book Summary, when they become public. The service
costs $49 for six months, and $86 for one year (with a subscription,
you also receive an overview of the Fed). Most of the buyers are
financial market participants.
# Information: Jim Thomas <76072...@compuserve.com>
10.10 Panel Study on Income Dynamics
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 study emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and
demographic behavior, but it contains a wide range of measures,
including sociological and psychological ones. Between 1968 and 1988,
the PSID collected information regarding approximately 37,500
individuals and spanning as much as 21 years of their lives."
"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).
The entry "PSID Dataset Information" contains the main PSID files.
There are individual "family files" from 1968 to 1991, 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) Marriage and Birth
History Supplements, (ii) Parent Health Supplement, (iii) Telephone
Health Questionnaire Supplement, and (iv) Self Administered
Questionnaire Supplement.
# http://www.umich.edu/~psid
+ 10.11 U.S. Department of the Treasury
+
+ While this site has little economic data, it is a useful overview of
+ the Department, its function, and its leaders. For some, the most
+ useful part might be its collection of IRS forms (you may never have
+ to search or stand in line again).
+
+ # http://www.ustreas.gov/
11 WORLD AND NON-U.S. DATA
11.1 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
This project brings together 66 household surveys from new 22
countries (surveys from five 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. The average survey has approximately 9,000 households
with more than 20,000 members. 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 nearly 100
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.
The datasets are well documented, and workshops and newsletters help
the researcher to use this complex database.
In a switch of operating systems, planned for 1995, LIS will add SAS
to their set of statistical packages.
# Information: Tim Smeeding <smee...@suvm.bitnet> or Caroline de
Tombeur <epl...@luxcep11.bitnet> or Nicole Ladewig
<LI...@maxwell.syr.edu>
* 11.2 World Bank
* The World Bank offers a wide variety of material on their operations.
* It includes information on current events (such as press releases and
* issues of the World Bank News), country and project information. In
* this section, the Public Information Center offers Staff Appraisal
* Reports (SARs), Country Economic and Sector Work (CESW) reports,
* Sectoral Policy Papers, Environmental Data Sheets, National
* Environmental Action Plans (EAPs), evaluation reports from the
* Operations Evaluation Department Project Information Documents, IFC
* Environmental Documents, IDA10 Reviews, and Global Environmental
* Facility Project Documents). There is also sectorial information,
* which includes the Vice Presidency for Financial and Private Sector
* Development (FPD), the Vice Presidency for Human Resources
* Development and Operations Policy (HRO) and the Global Environmental
Facility (GEF). Another section is devoted to information on World
Bank Publications (including ordering information).
* There is also substantial information on the research projects of
* the bank. These include the Economic Growth Project (described
* elsewhere in this guide), and the Living Standard Measurement Study
* (LSMS) which offers some on-line data from this project and
* information on how to obtain it off-line. There is also the Commodity
* Policy and Analysis Unit, which maintains an on-line version of the
* "Pink Sheet" on commodity prices, and the Information Bank on African
* Development Studies (IBADS), which has a number of newsletters and
* other material. There is also material from the International Trade
* Division, the Electronic Media Center, the CGIAR Secretariat, and the
* Economic Development Institute (EDI).
One can find email address of Bank employees by sending mail to
serv...@worldbank.org with "Directory Whois Lastname" or "Directory
Whois FirstName Lastname" in the body of the email.
* Working with CIESIN (the Consortium for International Earth Science
* Information Network) the World Bank's Social Indicators of
* Development and Social Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE) have
* been made available. They are described separately, as is their World
* Growth Project, which has a substantial amount of international data.
# http://www.worldbank.org/
# gopher://gopher.worldbank.org:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.worldbank.org
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server:
gopher.worldbank.org Host=gopher.worldbank.org Port=70
+ 11.3 World Bank Social Indicators of Development
+
+ The World Bank and CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science
+ Information Network) have placed this material (along with Social
+ Trends in Developing Economies) on the Internet as part of an
+ experiment. This searchable data set spans 170 different economies
+ with as many as 94 indicators covering a very wide variety of health,
+ demographic, and economic information. Its annual data ranges from
+ 1965 to 1994. The search mechanism makes very nice use of the web.
+ The only vaguely tricky part is finding the entry to it on their page.
+
+ # http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/sid-home.html
+ 11.4 World Bank Social Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE)
+
+ The World Bank and CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science
+ Information Network) have placed this material (along with Social
+ Indicators of Development) on the Internet as part of an experiment.
+ This database contains brief reports on the World Bank's borrowing
+ countries. Data is from other World Bank publications, such as the
+ World Tables and World Debt Tables, or the IMF's International
+ Financial Statistics and Balance of Payments Statistics.
+
+ To access this database, look for the entry to search it via the web
+ interface. To read the entire report for a given country, select the
+ country, set the Topic to "No Specific Topic" (the default) and leave
+ the Free Text Search area empty (again, the default).
+
+ # http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html
+ 11.5 Economic Growth Project (World Bank)
+
+ 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 a
+ special issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics (Dec. 1993) on
+ this subject), and abstracts on World Bank working papers on the same
+ subject.
+
+ # http://www.worldbank.org/html/research/prdmg/grthweb/growth_top.html
11.6 Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices for 1992
This report, from the U.S. Department of State, gives a fairly brief
synopsis of economic information on a number of countries. Besides
recent aggregate data, it also contains textual information on that
country's economic policies and structure. Special emphasis is made on
issues that influence trade with the U.S.
This information is placed on the Internet by the Univ. of Missouri at
St. Louis by the same mechanism used for the Economic Report of the
President.
# gopher://UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU:70/11/LIBRARY/GOVDOCS/CRPT
# Gopher:
# direct: umslvma.umsl.edu/The Library/Government Information
/Country Reports-Economic Policy and Trade Practices
# indirect: USA/Missouri/University of Missouri - St. Louis
/The Library/Government Information/Country Reports- Economic
Policy and Trade Practices
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Country Reports-Economic Policy & Trade
Practices NTDB Path=1/LIBRARY/GOVDOCS/CRPT
Host=UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU Port=70
# Information: goph...@umslvma.umsl.edu
* 11.7 Statistics Canada
Currently, Statistics Canada, the Canadian national statistical
agency, provides information from their daily report, the Daily, on
this site. It also contains information on ordering their
publications, lists of offices, their classification systems,
subscription information on their listserv, and ordering information
on their CD-ROM database, CANSIM (which has some 520,000 time series
on Canada).
The last two weeks of material from the Daily is on the gopher and web
* servers. The web interface is particularly nice with well designed
* hypertext and integrated graphics. The last year of the Daily is
* kept on the ftp site which can be searched with either the gopher or
* web interfaces.
Another section of this guide deals with Statistics Canada CANSIM, a
fee-based collection of Canadian statistical data.
* # http://www.statcan.ca/
# ftp://talon.statcan.ca
# gopher://talon.statcan.ca:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: talon.statcan.ca
# indirect: Canada/Statistics Canada "Talon" service
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: talon.statcan.ca
Host=talon.statcan.ca Port=70
# Information: Michael Thoen <tho...@statcan.ca>
11.8 Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services (MIDAS)
This site, formerly the Manchester Computing Centre - National Dataset
Service offers a variety of services for U.K., and perhaps other,
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 (52,000 time series from 140 countries), Direction
of Trade Statistics (61,000 time series from 160 countries), and
Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (36,000 time series from 135
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; the Central
Statistical Office (CSO) Macro-Economic Time Series Data Bank (with
12,000 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.
It does not appear that non-U.K. users can register for this service.
# http://midas.ac.uk/
# ftp://midas.ac.uk
# gopher://midas.ac.uk:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: midas.ac.uk
# indirect: United Kingdom/University of Manchester & UMIST
Information Server, (UK)/Manchester Computing Centre/MCC
National Services/MIDAS - Manchester Information Datasets and
Associated Services
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=MIDAS Datasets Service Path=1/midas
Host=cs6400.mcc.ac.uk Port=70 Admin=CS6400 Gopher Admin
<gophe...@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk> ModDate=Wed Feb 15 12:12:33
1995 <19950215121233> URL:
gopher://cs6400.mcc.ac.uk:70/11/midas
11.9 Israel Information Service Gopher
This gopher provides a variety of information on the state of Israel.
Of likely interest to economists are the sections titled "Basic
Statistics on Israel" and "The Economy in Israel". Both contain
various sorts of summary material on Israel's economy.
# gopher://israel-info.gov.il:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: israel-info.gov.il:70/1/
# indirect: Middle East/Israel Information Service
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: israel-info.gov.il
Host=israel-info.gov.il Port=70
11.10 Russian and East European Studies Home Pages
This web site contains a substantial variety of material from many
disciplines on Russia and Eastern Europe. There is some economic
material.
# http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html
11.11 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Currently, the Centre offers their "Diary of Forthcoming Events" and
"Abstracts of Recent Discussion Papers," on several mailing lists,
including CORRYFEE, and by request to the address given below.
Plans are in the works for a gopher and web server.
# Information: Stephen Yeo <ubt...@ccs.bbk.ac.uk>
11.12 UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
This site has a substantial amount of material on issues concerning
sustainable development.
# gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/ecosocdocs/csd
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.undp.org/United Nations Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC)/Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
# indirect: International Organizations/United Nations
/United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
/Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD) Path=1/ecosocdocs/csd Host=gopher.undp.org Port=70
Admin=UNDP Gopher Administrator, Malcolm Chapman, UNDP/DAIS,
212-906-6585 <ro...@undp.org> ModDate=Tue Oct 11 12:26:56 1994
<19941011122656> URL:
gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/ecosocdocs/csd
11.13 The Global Network Navigator/Koblas Currency Converter
This service is part of O'Reilly's (a major computer book publisher)
Global Network Navigator. With it, one can check a number of exchange
rates that are updated weekly. In a neat twist, one can easily
calculate one currency relative to any other currency.
Daily exchange rates, for a smaller number of exchange rates and in a
slightly less useful format, can be found at the EBB. In addition, I
Holt's Market Report carries exchange rates.
# http://www.ora.com/cgi-bin/ora/currency
11.14 Statistics Canada CANSIM
This extremely extensive database (it has some 550,000 time series and
occupies about a gigabyte of disk space) 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. For
academic users, the database costs $995, though discounts are possible
in some situations.
# Information: Bill Graham, Statistics Canada <gra...@statcan.ca>
or Chris Leowski, University of Toronto <ch...@epas.utoronto.ca>
11.15 The 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.
# http://www.etla.fi
11.16 Penn World Tables at the EPAS Computing Facility at the University
of Toronto
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 a "forms" capable web
browser, you can very easily select and retrieve individual or
multiple series from this database, or even can plot them
interactively. One hopes that others who offer economic data on the
Internet will soon follow their lead.
# http://cansim.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/pwt/pwt.html
11.17 Summary Information on the Dutch Economy at Rabobank
This site, run by the large Dutch bank Rabobank, offers some current
summary information on the Dutch economy. It also offers information
on Rabobank itself.
# http://rabobank.info.nl/engels/default.htm
11.18 H.M. Treasury (U.K.)
While this site does not contain data, it does contain a considerable
amount of information on the workings of H.M. Treasury. It includes a
number of press releases, speeches by ministers, the "Minutes of
Monthly Monetary Meetings," "Reports of the Panel of Independent
Forecasters," information on the budget, and even a statement on the
demise of Barings soon after its collapse.
Two mailing lists (one on press releases, the other on new Internet
offering by the H.M. Treasury) are described in the section titled
"Other Mailing Lists."
Files are also available via ftpmail; for information, send email to
ftp...@hm-treasury.gov.uk with "HELP" in the body of the message.
They plan to offer expanded services in the future.
# http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
# ftp.hm-treasury.gov.uk
# Information: in...@hm-treasury.gov.uk
# Suggestions: edi...@hm-treasury.gov.uk
+ 11.19 New Zealand Treasury
+
+ Currently, this site offers material on recent budgets (more detail
+ is promised in the future) and speeches by the Minister of Finance.
+
+ # http://www.govt.nz/ps/min/tsy
12 FINANCIAL MARKET DATA
* 12.1 Other Sources
* There are three good places to search for this type of data (I have
only placed some of the many resources I've come across here). The
first is to turn to the Internet document that specializes in it, the
misc.invest FAQ (i.e. the Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) of
the Usenet newsgroup misc.invest). Besides detailing the many ways you
can obtain financial data on the Internet, it also covers many topics
of interest to investors.
Another excellent starting point is the Kiwi Club Web Server. It
contains links to just about every imaginable financial resource on
the Internet.
* Finally, the Financial Data Finder at Ohio State provides a very
* extensive list of financial data sources, both on and off the
* Internet.
12.2 misc.invest FAQ
# ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/investment-faq/general
12.3 Kiwi Club Web Server
This site, run by Richard D. MacMinn of the University of Texas,
offers a very large number of links to financial resources on the
Internet. It is one part of a two part project; the other part is to
make MacMinn's lectures and course material available on the web with
links to relevant sources; this project is now picking up steam.
This server is a very good place to start for anyone interested in
tracking down financial information on the Internet.
# http://kiwiclub.bus.utexas.edu/finance/kiwiserver/kiwiserver.html
+ 12.4 Financial Data Finder at Ohio State
+
+ 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
* 12.5 EDGAR (SEC)
This database opened in January of 1994. It covers filings by U.S.
public companies made to the SEC from that data. It covers such things
as 10K, 10Q, annual, quarterly reports, and many other items. In all,
the SEC receives 10 million pages a year of such data. As of the
* summer of 1995, more than 10,000 large corporations are required to
* file electronically (and thus into EDGAR), and it should total nearly
* 15,000 in May, 1996, when all are required to file electronically.
Previously, this database was available only through Mead Data in
either inconvenient locations or at very considerable expense. In an
experiment, it is now available at no cost over the Internet. This
service is provided and funded by the NSF, the NYU Stern School of
Business, and the Internet Multicasting Service, run by Carl Malamud,
who I understand is (was?) an economist at the Board of Governors.
This database only covers filings made in 1994 and later for public
consumption, when made electronically by the filing company. Thus, it
does not cover earlier years, current paper fillings, or non-public
ones.
As the experiment progresses, there will be many changes in the design
of the database. Be sure to read the appropriate files for the latest
information.
The gopher and the web interfaces make searching for information much,
much easier. For ftp access, the files "form.idx" and "company.idx" in
the main directory list the filings. The first is ordered by the type
of form, and the second by the company (both contain the same
information, just in different order). Entries in both of these files
list the file in the "data1" directory with the relevant filing.
* 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.
# ftp://town.hall.org/edgar
# http://www.town.hall.org/edgar/edgar.html
# gopher://town.hall.org:70/11/edgar
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.town.hall.org/SEC EDGAR
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=SEC EDGAR Path=1/edgar
Host=town.hall.org Port=70
# email: ma...@town.hall.org (send HELP in the body to receive info)
# Information: edgar-i...@town.hall.org (mailing list on EDGAR;
to subscribe to it, send email to: edgar-interest-request
@town.hall.org)
* 12.6 Martin Wong's and George Holt's Market Report
This report briefly describes the day's activities in various
financial markets. It first starts out with a short summary by Martin
Wong, then more detailed information is provided by George Holt. The
former includes the day's major activities in financial markets and
releases of key economic data, while the latter has an extensive
report on many markets (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, foreign markets, interest
rates, foreign exchange, etc.). The latter is also available from the
mailing list EINVEST.
Current and back issues can be found on the gopher at the Washington
University at St. Louis (described in the section titled "SERVERS THAT
POINT TO OTHER ECONOMIC RESOURCES."
# telnet://gu...@a2i.rahul.net/n/Current System Information/Market
Report
* # http://turnpike.net/metro/holt/index.html
12.7 Vienna Stock Market
Data from the Vienna Stock market is available via telnet. I
understand that it includes same day prices and volumes and retains
this data for a couple of months. The language is German.
# telnet://BOE...@fiivs01.tu-graz.ac.at
12.8 Public Domain Financial Data
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 and a list of the extensive set of files at this
site can be found in the file named "ls-Lr".
# ftp://dg-rtp.dg.com:/pub/misc.invest
12.9 Polish Stock Market
This site offers data on shares, bonds, financial results, and data
from previous sessions. Information on shares is found in the "PGPW -
rynek ascji" directory, for bonds in the "WGPW - ryneck obligacji"
directory, and for financial results, in the "WGPW - walory"
directory. Obviously, the language is Polish.
# http://info.ippt.gov.pl/spdsmp/gielda/gielda.html
# ftp://plearn.edu.pl/tessa.192 (look for sesja*.lst)
# gopher://plearn.edu.pl:71/11/roznosci/ekonomia/WGPW
# Gopher:
# direct: plearn.edu.pl/Teksty, dokum., opisy, listy dysk.,
gielda, ..., itd../Ekonomia - gielda/WGPW-WARSZAWSKA GIELDA
PAPIEROW WARTOSCIOWYCH
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=WGPW-WARSZAWSKA GIELDA PAPIEROW
WARTOSCIOWYCH Path=1/roznosci/ekonomia/WGPW
Host=plearn.edu.pl Port=71
# Information: K. Chomac <CHO...@plearn.edu.pl>
12.10 QuoteCom Data Service
This service offers a variety of data on the U.S. financial markets,
four London exchanges, five European exchanges, and Canadian
exchanges. Data ranges from 15 minute old prices to historical prices.
In addition, portfolios can be tracked and trading-oriented business
news can be followed. For no charge, one can receive five quotes per
day, along with basic balance sheet information from most any sort of
financial market. Additional services are fee-based (educational and
site licenses are available). For instance, daily data from about
9,000 U.S. stocks since 1988, and daily data from U.S. commodity
futures, foreign stocks and commodities contracts for the last few
months, are available for a list price of $1.95 list per time series.
Output can be retrieved in a number of ways, including email, ftp and
the web. All users must be registered.
# ftp://ftp.quote.com
# http://www.quote.com/
# email: serv...@quote.com ("help" in the body of the note)
12.11 Security APL QuoteServer
This service offers free quotes of current stock and bond prices
(along with some summary information) from the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ.
It also has links to EDGAR, lets one look up the ticker symbol of a
security, and also offers summary information on the stock market as a
whole. In addition, there is a portfolio simulation game.
It is designed for non-professional use. This company also offers an
extensive array of professional products.
# http://www.secapl.com/cgi-bin/qs
12.12 JP Morgan's RiskMetrics
With the increasing importance of financial fluctuations on firms'
earning and balance sheets, JP Morgan is offering a system and data to
help manage the resulting volatility. They forecast the market risk in
more than 300 financial time series. Currently, this includes items in
the bond markets, money markets, swaps, foreign exchange, and equity
indices; in 1995, it will include commodities, spread products, and
new markets. Their market risk forecast is based upon an exponential
moving average of volatility to rapidly capture periods of increased
volatility. Not only does it include volatility in a series, it also
includes cross correlations of the all series. However, they stress
even with this data, sophisticated judgement is still required to
correctly access risks. To that end, this data can be integrated with
a number of third party risk management products.
Each day, machine readable daily volatility and correlations are
released, as are monthly figures.
To access the web version, one must use a graphical web browser.
# http://www.jpmorgan.com/RiskMetrics/RiskMetrics.html
# ftp://ftp.jpmorgan.com/pub/RiskMetrics
# Information: Jacques Longerstaey <longer...@jpmorgan.com>
12.13 Student Investment Club at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
This site offers a number of links to financial markets, including the
German stock market and other European markets. There is also
information on capital markets in general.
# http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/AG/JWGI/
12.14 Olsen & Associates High Frequency Foreign Exchange Data
Olsen & Associates of Zurich, a small company devoted to research in
applied economics, is making available to researchers some high
frequency foreign exchange data they have collected. The dataset,
called HFDF93, was originally made available for their "High Frequency
Data in Finance" conference, to be held in 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.
# Information on HFDF93: hf...@olsen.ch
# Information on papers and other data: in...@olsen.ch
* 12.15 InTechTra's Hong Kong Stocks Reports
This site offers daily summary information on the Hong Kong Stock
Market, and for a fee, a variety of additional information is
available.
* # http://www.ganet.net/~ITTI/index.html
# Information: sl...@infinet.com
12.16 McCulloch/Kwon US Term Structure Data Base
This data set offers U.S. Treasury term structure data for the period
1947-1991. It is an extension of the data in The Handbook of Monetary
Economics (McCulloch, 1990), and also provides greater detail. In all,
there are about 2 megabytes of data. Be sure to see the "readme" file
for additional information. This dataset is also described in "U.S.
Term Structure Data, 1947-1991," J. Huston McCulloch and Heon-Chul
Kwon, March, 1993, Ohio State University Working Paper # 93-6.
# ftp://ecolan.sbs.ohio-state.edu:/pub/termstruc
+ 12.17 Fidelity Investment
+
+ Not only does Fidelity offer information about investing, they also
+ offer fairly detailed information on their products. One can even
+ check their performance, including their Lipper rankings. You can
+ also have prospecti mailed to you.
+
+ # http://www.fid-inv.com/
13 DATA ARCHIVES
13.1 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
This organization offers a substantial amount of social science data
in machine readable form to its 370 member colleges and universities.
Currently, most data is available on 9-track tape, but an increasing
amount is available on other media (CD-ROM, tape cartridges,
diskettes, and ftp). For economists, an especially useful collection
of data is Class V, which contains data funded by the NSF's Economics
Division. They plan to put this data up for public access; in the
meantime, they will supply copies on media you send them. Other data
of possible interest 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.
In the main gopher menu, you can search their holdings in the
directory "Archival Holdings of the ICPSR."
To obtain data from ICPSR, you generally must contact your local
representative, assuming that your university or college is a member
of the ICPSR. Data is also available to individuals whose institutions
are not members of the ICPSR.
# http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
# ftp://ftp.icpsr.umich.edu:70/1/
# gopher://gopher.icpsr.umich.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.icpsr.umich.edu
# indirect: USA/Michigan/Inter-university Consortium for
Political & Social Research
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server:
gopher.icpsr.umich.edu Host=gopher.icpsr.umich.edu Port=70
# Information: ICPSR_...@um.cc.umich.edu
13.2 ESRC Data Archive
This UK archive, funded by the University of Essex and the Economic
and Social Research Council, is the largest such archive in the United
Kingdom. It holds nearly 4,000 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 online (other formats include CD-ROMs and tapes,
diskette, and DAT)
To search ESRC's holdings, one can easily search their database,
BIRON, via telnet. If an item of interest is found, further
information on how to obtain the data can be found via email.
# telnet://biron:no...@biron.essex.ac.uk
# email: arc...@essex.ac.uk
14 WORKING PAPERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICES
* 14.1 NetEc (BibEc, WoPEc, & CodEc)
This site has three parts: BibEc, a bibliography of working papers, in
economics, WoPEc, an electronic collection of working papers, and
CodEc, a collection of programs for economists. BibEc includes some
35,000 entries from about 250 different working papers series. These
series include those major universities and research institutions,
including the Fed in Print database of the U.S. Federal Reserve
System. In BibEc it corresponds to the print publication of the same
title published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It
indexes major publications of all the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks.
Coverage goes back to 1986, with scanty coverage earlier than that. As
of April 1994 it contains approximately 6,000 records. Updates are
mounted semi-annually. In BibEc, FIP is found under the "U.S. Federal
Reserve."
Coverage of NetEc dates from 1988, with the exception of NBER working
papers (all are covered), UCSD from 1981, and the Centre for Economic
Policy Research in London (all are covered). Searches can be made by
keywords.
This is one of the most valuable resources for economists on the
Internet. Fethy Mili <mi...@ere.umontreal.ca>, a librarian at the
Universite de Montreal, maintains an extensive collection of working
paper series. He is to be commended for entering the data. The data is
made available at the Manchester Computing Centre. Other institutions
provided further contributions. NetEc welcomes the participation of
all working paper producers.
WoPEc contains a collection of working papers, which can be retrieved
electronically. All are Unix compressed PostScript files. WoPEc is
* edited by Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz, and has links to more than 700
* papers. It is now mirrored (along with the rest of NetEc) in the U.S.
* at the Economics Working Paper Archive, and all papers submitted
* there are included in WoPEc. New additions to WoPEc are mailed to the
* list <wopec-a...@glider.econ3.uni-bonn.de>.
CodEc contains programs of interest to economists. For instance,
Estima (who produces Rats), uses it to distribute its routines. It
also contains Lin's "GAUSS Programming for Econometricians" (it has
GAUSS routines for least squares, simultaneous least squares, arima
models, and nonlinear optimization), Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager,
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 is maintained by Dirk
Eddelbuettel <e...@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr>.
Finally, the ftp site has the Backus and Kohoe data from the AER, '92
(see the "pub/NetEc/DatEc" directory). More data could be kept here;
if you have a suggestion, please send email to ne...@netec.mcc.ac.uk.
# ftp://netec.mcc.ac.uk/pub/NetEc
# http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NetEc.html
# gopher://netec.mcc.ac.uk:70/11/NetEc
# Gopher:
# direct: netec.mcc.ac.uk
# indirect: Europe/United Kingdom/University of Manchester/
Economics - NetEc
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Economics - NetEc Path=1/NetEc
Host=cs6400.mcc.ac.uk Port=70
# Information: ne...@netec.mcc.ac.uk
# Information about FIP: frbs...@class.org (Diane Rosenberger at
the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
# Information about CodEc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr>
# Information about WoPEc: Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz
<ne...@mozart.econom.uv.es>
* 14.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (WPA)
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, although email, gopher, and ftp access is possible as well.
Papers are grouped in 22 subject areas with abstracts and different
methods of searching for papers are available. In addition, there are
areas for datasets and computer programs. Papers may be submitted in
any format via email and binary files can be submitted via ftp. If you
have a properly configured web client (such as Mosaic) or even a
properly configured gopher (such as Hgopher for Windows), most of the
papers can be viewed fully formatted online. Both PostScript and Adobe
Acrobat formats are available. The web server also has entries for
other PostScript papers which are available on the Net.
The parent gopher, the gopher of the Economics Department of
Washington University at St. Louis, contains a wealth of interesting
material. It is the next to last entry on econ-wp's menu.
* This site now works closely with the NetEc project. Papers submitted
* here will also be in NetEc's WoPEc system, and this site mirrors
* NetEc for speedier access in North America.
# telnet://gop...@econwpa.wustl.edu
# http://econwpa.wustl.edu/Welcome.html
# gopher://econwpa.wustl.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: econwpa.wustl.edu
# indirect: USA/Missouri/Washington University - St. Louis/
Washington University in St. Louis Departmental Gopher
Servers/Economics Department/Economics Working Paper Archive
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: econwpa.wustl.edu
Host=econwpa.wustl.edu Port=70
# email: eco...@econwpa.wustl.edu (in the subject of the letter,
"help" will return introductory information)
14.3 Feminist Economists Discussion Group Archive
The mailing list of this group, described below, has an archive of
working papers, bibliographies and old discussions. It is reached only
via email. For an index of material, send email to the site listed
below with "index femecon-l" in the body of the letter, while "get
femecon-l guide", sent the same way, will list the services available.
Finally, "help" will cause a general guide to using listserv to be
sent to you.
# email: list...@bucknell.edu
14.4 Bank Structure Conference Papers
More than half the papers for this year's Bank Structure Conference
are available through ftp. See the "read.me" file for details on the
papers. Papers are in both WordPerfect and PostScript formats.
# ftp://test.frbchi.org/pub/bsc
# Information: Jim Moser <jmo...@frbchi.org>
14.5 Economic Literature Index
This is a bit of a stretch, but this electronic index of
bibliographical entries from the Journal of Economic Literature is now
available indirectly through the Internet. First, one must have an
account with CompuServe (call 1-800-848-8990 for information in the
U.S.) for this relatively low-cost method. One can log onto CompuServe
by telneting to compuserve.com (enter "CIS" for the "Host Name").
After entering account information and communication speed (I'd never
done telnet at 300 bps before), move to "Reference", then to
"Knowledge Index", which is a joint project of CompuServe and Dialog
(it is a means for Dialog to discriminate among its customers).
Knowledge Index is available only after business hours (6:00 PM -
5:00AM Monday - Thursday and 6:00 PM Friday - 5:00 AM Monday local
time; closed 2:00 - 10:00 AM Sunday, Pacific Time). The Economic
Literature Index (known as ECON1, the only database in the Economics
Section) is one of approximately 100 databases in Knowledge Index. In
Knowledge Index, first go to the "Business Information" section, then
"General Business Information". It costs $24/hour, which doesn't seem
to be very low in price, until you look at Dialog.
I originally had some trouble connecting to Knowledge Index - the
characters were garbled. This was solved by using the Kermit version
of telnet. I understand that Knowledge Index requires 8 data bits and
1 stop bit, and it appears that not all telnets can do this (including
the three I have ready access to). Kermit appears to do this by
default. Kermit for many platforms can be obtained at this address.
# ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit
14.6 CARL's UnCover
This system, run by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
(CARL), offers a useful service: 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. 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.
After logging onto the system move to "1. UnCover (Article Access and
Delivery)."
# telnet://database.carl.org
# Information: he...@carl.org
14.7 Economic Growth Mailing List Archive
This Economic Growth mailing list (described in the mailing list
section) also has an archive for related works such as working papers,
abstracts, and data. Contributions should be placed in the first URL,
then email should be sent to ccs.da...@alpha.ufsia.ac.be, and it
will be moved to the second URL.
# ftp://dns.ufsia.ac.be/incoming/economic-growth
# ftp://dns.ufsia.ac.be/pub/economic-growth
14.8 University of Toronto Department of Economics and the Institute for
Policy Analysis Working Paper Archive
This archive contains papers from both these organizations. With a
PostScript viewer, they can be read fully formatted on-line. Further,
one can easily search for papers in several different ways. It will
soon tie in with the Economics Working Paper Archive.
# http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/wpa/wpa.html
+ 14.9 Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
+
+ Papers, along with indices, are available from the Bank's Quarterly
+ Review, Staff Reports, Working Papers, and Discussion Papers from the
+ Institute of Empirical Macroeconomics. Most papers are in PostScript,
+ but some are in TeX.
+
+ # http://res.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/res.html
15 INTERNET STYLE "PAPERS"
15.1 Introduction
This section contains "papers" on economic subjects, or "papers" that
use economic analysis, with various features common to the Internet
(such as hypertext) in their presentation. Hopefully with time, they
will be included in existing archives, like the Economics Working
Paper Archive.
15.2 Economics of Networks, Nicholas Economides
This paper discusses many economic aspects of networks, including the
Internet. Besides hypertext, it makes nice use of imbedded graphics.
# http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/networks/
16 WORKING PAPER AND PUBLICATIONS NOTIFICATION SERVICES
16.1 Introduction
This section deals with various services that announce working papers
and forthcoming publications. As such, it repeats some other parts of
this guide, but since this is a very useful service, it makes sense to
be a bit redundant.
16.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (econ-wp)
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
entry for this archive in the section on working papers gives
instructions on how to obtain instruction for this service.
16.3 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 entry on North-Holland in the section on publishers
describes how to use this service.
16.4 Financial Economists Network (FEN)
This organization lists both working papers and forthcoming papers in
finance. For more on it, see its entry in the section on mailing
lists.
16.5 Listing Service in Game Theory
This mailing list from the Institute of Mathematical Economics at the
Universitaet Bielefeld contains bibliographical information on working
papers in game theory.
# Information: i...@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
16.6 BibEc
BibEc, which lists bibliographical information on nearly all working
papers in economics, is distributed weekly on the mailing list
Corryfee (described in the mailing list section). The entire database
is available and searchable on-line at NetEc. Fethy Mili, of the
University of Montreal, kindly generates this data.
17 PUBLISHERS
17.1 Introduction
In this section, I list several prominent economics publishers. If
you're looking for a publisher not listed here, take a look at
University of Chicago Press where you can search over a number of
publishers, and the Association American University Presses Gopher,
which is even more general than the searching ability at the
University of Chicago Press.
17.2 Elsevier/North-Holland
Elsevier/North-Holland offers two services on the Internet for
economists as an adjunct to their paper publishing. The first,
"Contents Alert Economics," is a mailing list concerning forthcoming
articles in all 32 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.
The second service, ECONbase, is a searchable database that allows you
to search for current information on articles in the 32
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." All can freely access the table of
contents, while other information is available only in the Subscriber
Section, which has controlled access.
Free access to the Subscriber Section is available to academics (i)
who have a personal subscription to a North-Holland economics journal,
(ii) who have a member subscription to one of the journals in
ECONbase, (iii) whose institution has a subscription to three of the
journals covered by ECONbase, or (iv) who are an editor or editorial
board member of one of North-Holland's economics journals. If you meet
one of these qualifications, you may subscribe by entering the section
titled "Getting Access to the Subscriber Section," which is available
on both their web and gopher servers (on the web server, it is one of
the items on the main page, (near the bottom) and on the gopher
server, it is after the "Miscellaneous" entry). Erik Van Aert kindly
supplied this information.
Instructions:
Contents Alert Mailing List:
send email to econb...@elsevier.nl
In the subject line of the body of the message, write
subscribe casecon-c
Help:
send email to econb...@elsevier.nl
In the new subject line of the body of the message, write
help
Comments or questions:
send email to econb...@elsevier.nl
In the new subject line of the body of the message, write
Message
# http://www.elsevier.nl/econbase/Menu.html
# gopher://gopher.elsevier.nl/1/econbase
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher://gopher.elsevier.nl/Economics
Electronic/ECONBASE MAIN MENU
# indirect: Europe/Netherlands/All registered information
servers in the Netherlands/Elsevier Science/Economics
Electronic/ECONBASE MAIN MENU
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=ECONBASE MAIN MENU Path=/econbase
Host=gopher.elsevier.nl Port=70 URL:
gopher://gopher.elsevier.nl:70/1//econbase
17.3 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. In addition, it has one very useful feature: a Jughead
search of a number of university press catalogs. That is, at this
site, one can search the online catalogs from a number of university
presses. From the main menu, it is found in "Catalogs from other
presses/University Press catalogs."
# gopher://press-gopher.uchicago.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: press-gopher.uchicago.edu
# indirect: USA/Illinois/University of Chicago Press
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server:
press-gopher.uchicago.edu Host=press-gopher.uchicago.edu
Port=70
* 17.4 Blackwell Economics Articles Index
This site, part of the CTI Centre for Economics, lists articles in
Blackwell journals from the start of 1993. The journals include Asian
Economic Journal, Bulletin of Economic Research, Development & Change,
Development Policy Review, Economic History Review, The Economic
Journal, Economica, Economics and Politics,International Economic
Outlook, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Industrial Economics,
LABOUR (Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations),The
Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, Metroeconomica,
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic
Studies, Review of International Economics, Scandinavian Journal of
Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, and The World
Economy.
Papers in these journals are organized by their JEL classification.
* Note that the Software Reviews section of the Economic Journal are
* available here at <http://savage.ecn.bris.ac.uk/cticce/ej_rev.htm>.
# http://savage.ecn.bris.ac.uk/cticce/blackeai.htm
17.5 Association American University Presses Gopher
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. It promises to be a very useful way to search for offerings
from academic publishers. In addition, this site has a number of links
to servers of academic publishers.
# http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu
# gopher://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: aaup.pupress.princeton.edu
# indirect: USA/New Jersey/Princeton University Press/Combined
AAUP Online Catalog/Bookstore Project
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Combined AAUP Online Catalog/Bookstore
Project Path= Host=aaup.pupress.princeton.edu Port=70 URL:
gopher://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu:70/1/
17.6 MIT Press
This server appears to list all the material in their current catalog.
One can even order books online with your credit card if you have a
web browser that supports "forms" (currently, not all browsers have
this capability).
# http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/
17.7 Presses on the Web
Cambridge University Press kindly provides this site that has a number
of presses (both university and commercial) on the web.
# http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/Connections/External.html
17.8 Springer
Through both their gopher and email services, one can check on new
publications by Springer. For the email service, send your email to
svs...@vax.ntp.springer.de. On the first line of the message, write
"HELP", and on the second, write "DIR/SPRINGER-NEWS".
# ftp://trick.ntp.springer.de/pub/springer-news/wir
# gopher://trick.ntp.springer.de:70/11/springer-news/wir
# Gopher:
# direct: trick.ntp.springer.de/Springer New Publications/New
Publications in Economics
# indirect: Germany/Information Servers in Germany/Weitere
Infosysteme (nicht hochschulgebunden)/Springer-Verlag
Heidelberg/Springer New Publications/New Publications in
Economics
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=New Publications in Economics
Path=1/springer-news/wir Host=trick.ntp.springer.de Port=70
Admin=Ammar Braik <br...@vax.ntp.springer.de> ModDate=Wed Mar
8 17:46:52 1995 <19950308174652> URL:
gopher://trick.ntp.springer.de:70/11/springer-news/wir
18 ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS
18.1 DowVision on the Internet
According to "Dow Jones to Offer News Over Internet by Mid-'94," Wall
Street Journal, 1/27/94, p. B6, the Wall Street Journal was to be
available over the Internet by the middle of 1994. To quote: "The
service, to be called DowVision on the Internet, will include the full
text of the Wall Street Journal, and same-day text of the Yew York
Times News Service, the Dow Jones News Service, Dow Jones
International News Service and press-release services.... Dow Jones
said it will charge a flat monthly fee, still to be determined."
In "Curtain's Rising on a Third Generation of On-Line Services," John
Markoff, New York Times, 1/30/94, p. 10 (Business), more is reported
on this service. It says that wais, gopher and web interfaces will be
used for this experiment, which is offered in a joint venture between
Dow Jones and Wais, Inc. The New York Times News Service will be
offered next year.
To follow up on above material, "DowVision on the Internet" is now in
beta testing, and one must register to test it.
# http://dowvision.wais.net
# email: dowvision...@dowvision.wais.net
18.2 Academe This Week
This electronic version of the Chronicle of Higher Education is
available via gopher and the web. Perhaps the most useful item is the
full listings of all job advertisements from the Chronicle (which is
searchable), but it also summarizes the articles in the print version,
and contains various miscellaneous items.
# http://chronicle.merit.edu/
# gopher://chronicle.merit.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: chronicle.merit.edu
# indirect: USA/General/ACADEME THIS WEEK (also directly on
more than 100 university gophers)
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: chronicle.merit.edu
Host=chronicle.merit.edu Port=70
18.3 Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
This is the electronic version of the British publication The Times
Higher Education Supplement. It includes summary information, as well
as all job adds (they even appear the Friday before publication on
Sunday).
# http://www.timeshigher.newsint.co.uk/
+ 18.4 Times Fax from the pages of the New York Times
+
+ This somewhat oddly named service offers a daily 8 page summary of
+ the New York Times (it even has the crossword puzzle). To maintain a
+ newspaper look-and-feel, an Adobe Acrobat reader is required.
+
+ # http://nytimesfax.com/
+ 19 INFORMATION ABOUT MEETINGS
+ 19.1 Econometric Society 7th World Congress, August 22-29, Tokyo
+
+ Information about this World Congress, including the organizing
+ committee, the schedule of main events, a program outline,
+ registration information, numerous travel tips, and pointers for
+ additional information, can be found here.
+
+ # http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/es7wc/index.html
+ 20 POINTER TO JOURNAL INFORMATION
+
+ Pekka Lauri at the Department of Economics, Helsinki, maintains a
+ page with extensive information about journals. It includes both
+ material about journals and on-line journals.
+
+ # http://www.hkkk.fi/~tormaleh/journals.html
21 INFORMATION ABOUT JOURNALS
21.1 Computational Economics Gopher
This gopher is affiliated with the journal Computational Economics. It
contains connections to other economics gophers, and information on a
few books and some working papers. It also contains information on
submitting papers electronically to the journal.
# gopher://gopher.sara.nl:70/11/ecogopher
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.sara.nl:/Computational Economics
# indirect: Europe/Netherlands/SARA/Computational Economics
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Computational Economics
Path=1/ecogopher Host=gopher.sara.nl Port=70
21.2 International Journal of Forecasting
This site offers material about this journal. It includes information
on the scope of the journal, its editors, subscription information,
and instructions to authors. Soon, it will include abstracts and
indices to the journal.
# http://nexxus.som.cwru.edu:70/0/wbc/ijf.html
21.3 Rand Journal of Economics WWW Page
This site offers complete information on this journal. One can
subscribe, renew, and claim missing issues, all interactively. You can
also read about the editors and referees, and submission information.
Also, the style guide is available. Finally, every issues' table of
contents (with abstracts) are available, and there is a sophisticated,
yet simple, search engine for them.
# http://www.rand.org/misc/rje
21.4 Review of Economic Studies
Information on the Review of Economic Studies can be found here. This
includes material on the editorial board, subscription information,
information on submission of manuscripts, and contents of recent
issues (titles and authors) from 1991.
# http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/Restud/revstud.htm
+ 21.5 International Review of Economics and Finance
+
+ Information about this journals editorial board and directions for
+ manuscript preparation can be found here. In addition, it contains
+ recent indices of the journal.
+
+ # http://www.udayton.edu/sba/iref.htm
+ 21.6 Journal of Economic Education
+
+ This site offers information on the editorial board of the journal
+ (many with biographical information), abstracts (which can be
+ searched), tables of contents with abstracts (including future,
+ tentative ones), ordering information, and directions to authors. It
+ even includes nicely presented annual reports. Finally, you will find
+ previously unpublished reports to the AEA and the National Council on
+ Economic Education. William E. Becker kindly provided this
+ information.
+
+ # http://www.indiana.edu/~econed
+ 21.7 Quarterly Journal of Economics
+
+ MIT Press makes "publishes" the abstracts of recent papers here. In
+ addition, you can read about subscription information.
+
+ # http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/jrnls-catalog/quart-econ.html
22 JOURNAL DATA AND PROGRAM ARCHIVES
22.1 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Archive
Programs and data from publications in this journal can found here.
Current authors are expected to place their data and program here.
# ftp://raphael.acpub.duke.edu/jbes
# Information: jbes...@acpub.duke.edu
22.2 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>
23 ON-LINE JOURNALS
23.1 Cyberchronicle of Political Economy (COPE)
This journal is the first refereed electronic economics journal on the
Internet. To quote from the introductory material, "COPE features
brief articles, book reviews, comments and replies regarding
previously published materials, and brief abstracts of articles
published elsewhere." Since all work is electronic, one very nice
feature of this journal is rapid turnaround: it is expected to be 6
months from submission to publication.
Publication is to be bimonthly, and papers will be distributed via
email. LaTeX will be used since it offers many advantages for
technical papers.
# gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu:70/11gopher_root:[_DATA.FILESERV.COPE]
# Gopher:
# direct: niord.shsu.edu/Economics/The Cyberchronicle of
Political Economy (COPE)
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/Economics/
The Cyberchronicle of Political Economy (COPE)
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=The Cyberchronicle of Political Economy
(COPE) Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.FILESERV.COPE]
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu Port=70
# Inquiries: COPE...@SHSU.edu
# Submissions: COPE...@SHSU.edu
23.2 Student Economic Review
This journal, edited and written by students from the Department of
Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, is fully accessible on the web.
Versions of each article are available in both html ("hypertext markup
language," the web standard) and rtf ("rich text format," from
Microsoft Word). The latter is more suitable for complex text, but the
former is more common (to read an rtf document interactively, you have
to set up an rtf viewer as a helper application in your web browser).
It is impressive that a student journal is one of the first fully
accessible economic journals on the Internet.
The students wish to thank Dr. Paddy Waldron of Trinity College for
his help in this project. Peter Nolan, the Deputy Production Editor,
played a large role in bringing it to the web.
The second URL lists a backup site.
# http://www.bess.tcd.ie/ser.html
# http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/econrev/ser.html
# Information: eco...@vax1.tcd.ie>
23.3 Journal of Economics and Finance
This journal, published under the auspices of the Midsouth Academy of
Economics and Finance, is available over the Internet. The first
accessible issue is vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 1994. Individual issues are
available in different directories on this site, and the papers
themselves are in WordPerfect 5.1 format (PostScript is planned for
the future). The table of contents and abstracts are available in
ASCII.
# ftp://ftp.cba.usm.edu/pub/jef
23.4 Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
This journal, sponsored by MIT Press, will commence publication in the
fiscal year ending June 1996. It will be run like any other journal,
except in its method of distribution: over the Internet through the
web. Subscriptions for individuals are $40, and $130 for institutions.
A call for papers will go out soon.
The URL listed below contains a demo of the journal, and additional
information on it.
# http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/SNDE/WWW/journal/demo.html
# Information (subscriptions): <journa...@mit.edu>
# Information (papers): Bruce Mizrach <miz...@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
23.5 JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
This project will "develop, deploy, and evaluate a digital library
capable of supporting the needs of humanities and social science
disciplines." The following economics journals, dating from their
inception to 1990, will be digitized: journals to be digitized are:
The American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political
Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics
and Statistics. For the first year trial, this collection will be
available at the University of Michigan, Denison University, Bryn
Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, and Williams College. One hopes that it
will quickly be expanded.
This project is being run by the University of Michigan's School of
Information and Library Studies, College of Engineering, and the
University Libraries and the Information Technology Division, with
funding from the Mellon Foundation. It is also a being run in
conjunction with a grant the University of Michigan has received from
the NSF for work on digital libraries, and the University of Michigan
Digital Libraries (UMDL) project, which includes a number of private
industry partners.
+ 23.6 Applied Economics Letters
+
+ The entire contents of this journal are available. Non-subscribers
+ can read and search abstracts, and subscribers can obtain the papers
+ in Adobe Acrobat format.
+
+ # http://hermes.chaphall.co.uk/al.html
+ # Subscriptions (U.S. and Canada): sm...@chaphall.com
+ # Subscriptions (elsewhere): ch...@itps.co.uk
24 ECONOMIC SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS
24.1 Economic History Server operated by the Cliometric Society
Sponsored by the Cliometric Society, this gopher contains information
of interest to economic historians. It features an electronic
directory of the memberships of the Cliometric Society and the
Economic History Association. It also contains a collection of more
than 50 course syllabi from economic history courses, abstracts from
Cliometric sessions at ASSA meetings, a list of papers presented at
Cliometrics Conferences (1961-1993), and a growing set of historical
data series. (Sam Williamson, who helped start this gopher, kindly
provided this description.)
# telnet://gop...@cs.muohio.edu
# http://cs.muohio.edu/
# gopher://cs.muohio.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: cs.muohio.edu
# indirect: USA/Ohio/Miami University Libraries' Gopher/Miami
Root: Miami University's Campus
Information/Servers/Cliometric Society Economic History
Server
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: cs.muohio.edu
Host=cs.muohio.edu Port=70
# Information: admini...@cs.muohio.edu
24.2 Society of Computational Economics Gopher
This new society, dealing with the intersection of computation and
economics, is now being formed. This site has a list of members. A web
site and a mailing list are described below.
# gopher://gopher.sara.nl:70/11/ecogopher/sce
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.sara.nl/Computational Economics/Society of
Computational Economics
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Society of Computational Economics
Path=1/ecogopher/sce Host=gopher.sara.nl Port=70
# Mailing List: sce-...@vm1.sara.nl (run by listserv; see the
mailing list section for directions)
# Information: Ken Judd (for USA) <Ju...@Hoover.Stanford.edu> and
Chris Birchenhall (for Europe) <c.r.bir...@man.ac.uk>
+ 24.3 Society of Computational Economics Web Site
+
+ This site also lists the members of the organization, has information
+ on meetings of the organization, and also contains an NSF report on
+ research opportunities in this field.
+
+ # http://www.unige.ch/ce
24.4 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
# Gopher:
# direct: olymp.wu-wien.ac.at/Information in English/WU
information services/Vienna Information Services in Regional
Sciences/RSA: Regional Science Association
# indirect: Europe/Austria/University of Economics, Vienna,
(AT)/Information in English/WU information services/Vienna
Information Services in Regional Sciences/RSA: Regional
Science Association
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=RSA: Regional Science Association
Path=1/.inst/.iir/.rsa Host=olymp.wu-wien.ac.at Port=70
* 24.5 Italiana Storici dell'Economia - Society of Italian Economic
Historians (SISE)
This site contains all back issues of the journal of this society,
* list of members, and other material. Obviously, the web site is much
* easier to use. The first http URL is for the U.S. and the second is
* for Europe.
# http://Italia.hum.utah.edu
# http://www.unifi.it/gruppi/sise/welcome.htm
# ftp://cesit1.unifi.it
24.6 Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
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.interactive.net:80/~mizrach/SNDE/snde.html
24.7 The 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 their mailing list, AERE-L.
# gopher://UKCC.uky.edu/1menu%20AERE-G%21191/AERE.INFO
# Gopher:
# direct: UKCC.uky.edu/NaviGATE.......Internet Navigator/
SubTrees.......Network Resources by Subject/
Economics......Economics Gateway/AERE
# indirect: USA/Kentucky/University of Kentucky/
NaviGATE.......Internet Navigator/SubTrees.......Network
Resources by Subject/Economics......Economics Gateway/AERE
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=AERE...........Association of
Environmental & Resource Economists Path=menu
AERE-G!191/AERE.INFO Host=UKCC.uky.edu Port=70 URL:
gopher://UKCC.uky.edu/1menu%20AERE-G%21191/AERE.INFO
24.8 The 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://edziza.arts.ubc.ca/0c:/cliocan/clionet.htm|
24.9 Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN)
This organization is composed of researchers doing work in the area of
productivity analysis. Data is maintained at two sites: BYU
University, and European Concise site in the U.K. The former offers a
standard ftp site, and the latter uses a nonstandard interface
accessed through telnet or through email. Both sites contain
information on the organization, a membership list, guides, and a
newsletter.
# telnet://concise:con...@concise.level-7.co.uk/networks/parn
# ftp://ipm.byu.edu/parn
# email: con...@concise.level-7.co.uk (for automatic information,
send the following on separate lines: "start" "goto
networks/parn/conc-guide" "info")
# Information: Mona Andersen <m...@busieco.ou.dk>
+ 24.10 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://www.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/alea/alea.html
+ 24.11 The 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:5680/eale/eale.html
+ 24.12 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:5680/clea/clea.html
+ 24.13 Southern Economic Association
+
+ 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 (but you have to send in a check
+ via regular mail).
+
+ # http://www.okstate.edu/economics/sea.html
25 ACADEMIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTES
* 25.1 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/
# Gopher:
# direct: uwin.c-wr.siu.edu
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: uwin.c-wr.siu.edu
Host=uwin.c-wr.siu.edu Port=70
25.2 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
# Gopher:
# direct: olymp.wu-wien.ac.at/Information in English/WU
information services/Vienna Information Services in Regional
Sciences/CERRO: the Central European Regional Research
Organization
# indirect: Europe/Austria/University of Economics, Vienna,
(AT)/Information in English/WU information services/Vienna
Information Services in Regional Sciences/CERRO: the Central
European Regional Research Organization
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=CERRO: the Central European Regional
Research Organization Path=1/.cerro.ind
Host=olymp.wu-wien.ac.at Port=70
25.3 Regional Research Institute (West Virginia University)
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),
information on their mailing lists, and connections to related
gophers.
# gopher://wvnvm.wvnet.edu:70/11/wc/wvu/uri
# Gopher:
# direct: wvnvm.wvnet.edu/West Virginia State Colleges and
Universities/West Virginia University/Regional Research
Institute
# indirect: USA/West Virginia/West Virginia Network for
Educational Telecomputing/West Virginia State Colleges and
Universities/West Virginia University/Regional Research
Institute
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Regional Research Institute, West
Virginia University, WV, USA Path=1/wc/wvu/uri
Host=wvnvm.wvnet.edu Port=70
25.4 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 being
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.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~mbras/
# Information: mb...@csv.warwick.ac.uk
25.5 IKE Group (Aalborg University, 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 15 members.
At their web site, you'll find information on this organization (in
terms of their annual reports) and their member's research interests
and publications.
# http://www.business.auc.dk/ike/ike.html
25.6 Centre for Economic Forecasting (London Business School)
This organization operates a forecasting model of the U.K. and 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.
# http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/cef/cef.htm
25.7 Center for the Study of Population at Florida State University
This site offers a variety of services for demographers. Not only is
information from this Center covered, but this site has many links to
similar sites on the Internet. It has details on abstracts of working
papers in the field (including ordering information), extensive links
to data sources, software, professional announcements, and the
Electronic Employment Exchange for demographers (which covers both the
supply and demand sides of the market).
# gopher://gopher.fsu.edu:70/11/FSU/Popctr
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.fsu.edu/Information from Units at Florida
State University/FSU Population Center
# indirect: USA/Florida/Florida State University/Information
from Units at Florida State University/FSU Population Center
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=FSU Population Center
Path=1/FSU/Popctr Host=gopher.fsu.edu Port=70
# Information: Carl Schmertmann <schme...@fsu.edu>
25.8 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.
# http://black.cs.unitn.it/
+ 25.9 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona
+
+ This site is under construction, but plans to offer a substantial
+ amount of material in the future. Currently, the software area has
+ several packages that would be useful for both teaching and research
+ in this area.
+
+ # http://fido.econlab.arizona.edu/
+ 25.10 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.
+
+ # http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/tri/
+ 25.11 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 modelling language
+ called SDML (Strictly Declarative Modelling Language)." At this site
+ you can find background material on SMDL, details on several projects
+ it is being used on, and discussion papers.
+
+ # http://www.fmb.mmu.ac.uk/cpm/
+ 25.12 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 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
26 NON-ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY ORGANIZATIONS
26.1 National Bureau of Economic Research
Currently, this gopher contains several things of interest: the Penn
World Tables (versions 5, 5.5, and 5.6), the Survey of Consumer
Finance (which will fit on three floppies), trade and immigration data
from Abowd and Freeman, and a list of NBER working papers and reprints
(which must first be uudecoded then uncompressed; the ultimate size is
some 2.5 megabytes). The latter is also available at BibEc. Note that
not all data is available with both the ftp and gopher methods; in
particular, of the data, only the Penn World Tables are available on
the gopher site.
Details on the Penn World Tables can be found in Summers, R. and A.
Heston, 1991. "The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of
International Comparisons, 1950-1988.", Quarterly Journal of
Economics, pp. 327-68.
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>.
Bob Parks has kindly made the Penn World Tables available, in raw,
Excel, and MicroTSP files, at the Washington University at St. Louis
Economics Department gopher (described elsewhere in this guide). Be
sure to read his documentation.
The EPAS Computing Facility at the University of Toronto also makes
this data available to those who have a "forms" capable web browser.
Its interface is easy to use, and one can retrieve individual or
multiple series, or one can plot them interactively. This site is
further described in its own entry in this guide.
One can only hope that someday NBER working papers will be available
here or on another working paper archive.
# telnet://gop...@nber.harvard.edu
# ftp://nber.harvard.edu/pub/nber
# gopher://nber.harvard.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: nber.harvard.edu
# indirect: USA/Massachusetts/Harvard University Home Gopher/
Harvard University Gophers/National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER)
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: nber.harvard.edu
Host=nber.harvard.edu Port=70
26.2 RAND
This sites describes the many activities of RAND. Of particular
interest to many is the selected list of publications (starting in
1992). One can search for papers, read abstracts, and even order them.
# http://www.rand.org/
26.3 The 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).
# http://www1.ifs.org.uk/
+ 26.4 Institute for Policy Innovation
+
+ This conservative leaning organization offers many of their position
+ papers and other documents on current policy issues here. Most are in
+ Adobe Acrobat format, so if you have one of Adobe's freely available
+ viewers, you can read the entire, fully-formatted document on-line.
+
+ # http://www.metronet.com/ipi/index.html
+ 26.5 International Monetary Fund
+
+ While this site does not offer data, it does offer some information
+ about the IMF. Besides introductory information on the IMF, it has
+ information on Staff Country Reports, Working Papers, and Papers on
+ Policy Analysis, complete press releases, News Briefs, and speeches.
+
+ # gopher://gopher.imf.org
+ # Gopher:
+ # direct: gopher.imf.org
+ # indirect: International Organizations/International Monetary
+ Fund
+ # bookmark: Type=1+ Name=International Monetary Fund Path=
+ Host=imfaix3s.imf.org Port=70 Admin=Bunthoeurn Mo +1 (202)
+ 623-4964 <b...@imf.org> ModDate=
+ <URL:gopher://gopher.imf.org:70/1>
+ 26.6 Resources for the Future
+
+ One can read press releases, details about their seminar series,
+ extensive information about the RFF, excerpts from several books,
+ Congressional testimony and selected articles by the RFF at this site.
+
+ # http://www.rff.org/
+ 26.7 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.
+
+ # http://www.govt.nz/ps/min/tsy
+ 26.8 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
+
+ You can read detailed information on the both the OECD's publications
+ and data products here.
+
+ # http://www.oecd.org
27 DEPARTMENTAL AND COLLEGE SERVERS
I no longer list the many different servers here (at last count, the
number of department servers was approaching 100). For links to these
machines, see the following sections.
28 DIRECTORY TO ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT SERVERS
The Department of Economics, University of Victoria, British Columbia,
lists "home pages" (that is, web sites) of different departments and
colleges of economics. This site is run by Lief Bluck and David Giles
of this department.
# http://sol.uvic.ca/1/econ/depts.html
29 DIRECTORIES TO BUSINESS SCHOOL SERVERS
29.1 BSCHOOLWeb: Marr's Official Rating Guide to Business School Webs
Wayne Marr of the Finance Department of Clemson University (also
involved with the Financial Economists Network, or FEN), has put
together this very useful guide to business school sites on the web.
He clearly has done a lot of work in putting it together.
# http://www.clemson.edu/~marrm/bus.html
+ 29.2 Yahoo Directory of Business Schools
+
+ This portion of Yahoo lists numerous business schools.
+
+ # http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Business_Schools/
30 DIRECTORIES TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVERS
30.1 American Universities Home Pages
This site maintains a very current list of U.S. university home pages.
It is organized by Mike Conlon.
# http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
30.2 College and University Home Pages
This site contains a very current list of colleges and universities
home pages around the world. The list is arranged both alphabetically
and geographically. It is organized by Christina DeMello.
# http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
31 SINGLE SUBJECT SERVERS
31.1 Introduction
This section lists sites that are primarily oriented towards one
specific subject and are not directly affiliated with an organization
or association.
31.2 Communications for a Sustainable Future
This gopher contains two directories that might be of interest:
"Post-Keynesian Thought" and "Economic Forum." The former contains
material of interest to researchers in that field and the latter is
more general, but in the general theme of this gopher.
An additional directory that might be of interest is "International
Political Economy." It 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.
# http://csf.colorado.edu/
# gopher://csf.colorado.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: csf.colorado.edu
# indirect: USA/Colorado/Communications for a Sustainable
Future
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: csf.colorado.edu
Host=csf.colorado.edu Port=70
* 31.3 Antitrust Policy, An online resource linking economic research,
policy issues, and cases
This site, organized by Luke Froeb of Vanderbilt University, along
with a varied editorial board, deals with merger and antitrust policy
from the perspectives of law, public policy, and economics. There are
* four types of information: antitrust documents, enforcement
* guidelines and speeches, economic bibliographical material, and
* antitrust issues in the news. These types of information are found in
* four different areas: mergers, price fixing, vertical restraints. In
* addition, there is a discussion area.
# http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Owen/froeb/antitrust/antitrust.html
31.4 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 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://www.ipps.lsa.umich.edu/telecom-info.html
31.5 RISKNet
RISKNet encompasses a mailing list (described below), and gopher and
web servers devoted to the discussion and dissemination of scholarly
information concerning risk and insurance issues. The RISKNet mailing
list is devoted to promoting online "no holds barred" discussions of
risk and insurance issues. The RISKNet gopher (RISKGopher) and RISKNet
WWW (RISKWeb) servers publish calls for papers, databases, research
papers and abstracts, and teaching materials for academics and
practitioners interested in this field. It also includes financial
information on the 100 largest insurance companies.
On both RISKGopher and RISKWeb, keyword search capabilities are now
available for the following: Insurance Fraud Research Register
Database (Edited by Dr. Richard A. Derrig), Journal of Risk and
Insurance Abstracts (Sept. 1986 - Current Issue), Risk Management and
Insurance Working Paper Archive (RMI-WPA), RISKNet Mailing List
Archive, Biographical Information about RISKNet Subscribers. If you
are a gopher user, once you have connected to RISKGopher, select the
"Tools for Searching Risk and Insurance Resources" menu item. If you
use the web, select the item entitled "Risk and Insurance Database
Search Engines" (the URL for this item is
http://riskweb.bus.utexas.edu/rmisearch.html). (Jim Garven, who runs
this site, kindly provided this information).
# http://riskweb.bus.utexas.edu/riskweb.html
# gopher://riskgopher.bus.utexas.edu:70/11/RISKGopher
# Gopher:
# direct: riskgopher.bus.utexas.edu/RISKGopher - The RISKNet
(Risk and Insurance) Gopher
# indirect: USA/Texas/University of Texas Austin, Economics
Department/Other Gophers/UT Austin/UT Business
School/Department Information/Finance/Welcome to FINGopher,
the UT-Austin Department of Finance Gopher Server
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=RISKGopher - The RISKNet(Risk and
Insurance) Gopher Path=1/RISKGopher Host=128.83.218.12
Port=70
31.6 University of Michigan Economics Department
This site is run by Hal Varian. One section contains information about
the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. But the
most interesting section contains a wealth of information on the
"Economics and the Internet". It contains a wealth of information on
the union of the Internet and economics, very broadly defined. There
are topics on digital commerce, congestion pricing of networks,
digital cash, etc. (Most of the information is on the WWW page; the
gopher will probably be phased out in the future.) (Hal Varian kindly
supplied most of this information.)
# http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu
# gopher://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu
# indirect: USA/Michigan/University of Michigan Libraries/
Other Gophers/University of Michigan/Economics Department
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server:
gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu Host=gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu
Port=70
+ 31.7 The 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 quickly do on the web to make
+ information available to the profession (in addition, it has a clever
+ bit of humor). There is a directory of people in this field (complete
+ with their home pages); one can even add your name to the database
+ on-line. There are also lists of RBC papers on-line, a bibliography
+ of the field, recent books, relevant journals, data, computer code,
+ and calls for papers.
+
+ # http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14160/rbc/
+ 31.8 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
+ 31.9 Health Economics - Places to Go
+
+ This site 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, Pharmaceutical and
+ Biomedical Information, Public Health and Epidemiology, Managed
+ Care/Health Care Industry, Medical Resources, and Miscellaneous. Each
+ area lists a number of different resources.
+
+ # http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/vwliv/hec.html
+ 31.10 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.
+
+ # http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~tstanley/lawecon.html
+ 31.11 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page
+
+ At this site you can read David Levine's working papers (many are
+ with Drew Fudenberg). 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
+ 31.12 Stan Liebowtiz on Path Dependence and Network Externalities
+
+ Here you can read about Stan Liebowtiz and Steve Margolis' work in
+ this area, that has attracted a considerable amount of recent
+ interest. Papers are also available.
+
+ # http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/
32 SERVERS THAT POINT TO OTHER ECONOMIC RESOURCES
32.1 Introduction
This section lists sites that provide links to the many different
economic resources on the Internet. Some also provide different sorts
of information.
32.2 Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University
This gopher contains a variety of material that might be useful for
teaching, such as summaries of the 1990 Census, the proposed U.S.
budget, 4-digit SIC codes, the CIA World Factbook, the GATT and NAFTA
agreements, calls for papers, meeting announcements and notices. It
is, an absolute wealth of useful information. Further, it contains an
extensive set of connections to data sources and in particular to all
other known economics gophers. It is also a "mirror" of key material
such as LABSTAT, EconData, NEEEDc, NetEc, and the NBER. As a result,
it is THE gopher one should search first. It also includes a list of
economists and their email addresses. Finally, it has a very extensive
collection of TeX/LaTeX information.
# gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu:70/11gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
# Gopher:
# direct: niord.shsu.edu/Economics
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/Economics
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Economics (SHSU Network Access
Initiative Project) Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu Port=70
32.3 Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept.
This gopher is closely tied to the Economics Working Paper Archive at
Washington University. It contains a number of links to other useful
gophers, both economic and of interest to economists, such as the
Federal Register, archives of mailing lists on SAS and statistics,
access to the UIC Stat archives (described elsewhere), and many
Internet resources.
# gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: wuecon.wustl.edu port 671
# indirect: USA/Missouri/Washington University - St. Louis/
Washington University in St. Louis Departmental Gopher
Servers/Economics Department/Economics
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Washington University Economics Gopher
Host=wuecon.wustl.edu Port=671
32.4 Social Science Information Gateway
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
eighteen different categories, including economics. This part lists
many useful resources. For many, you must be registered.
# http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/
32.5 Economics WWW Page at Helsinki
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.
# http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/econ.html
33 SERVERS THAT POINT TO NON-ECONOMIC RESOURCES
33.1 Introduction
This section lists gophers and world wide web sites that contain
pointers to areas related to, but broader than, economics.
33.2 SunSITE
This site (sponsored in part by Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems)
contains current government documents that might be useful for policy
analysis. Examples include information on NAFTA, White House
information, reinventing government, and the proposed federal budget.
# telnet://gop...@sunsite.oit.unc.edu
# http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/
# gopher://sunsite.oit.unc.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: sunsite.oit.unc.edu
# indirect: USA/North Carolina/University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (Ogphre/SUNsite archives)
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: sunsite.oit.unc.edu
Host=sunsite.oit.unc.edu Port=70
33.3 U.S. Government and Other Gophers
This site at the University of California at Irvine actively maintains
links to all known U.S. Government gophers. Note that they define this
term broadly, so you'll see gophers from many quasi-governmental
agencies as well.
This site also maintains links to many other sorts of gophers as well.
# gopher://peg.cwis.uci.edu:7000/11/gopher.welcome/peg/GOPHERS/gov
# Gopher:
# direct: peg.cwis.uci.edu/Virtual Reference
Desk/GOPHERS/United States GOVERNMENT Gophers
# indirect: USA/California/University of California - Irvine/
/Virtual Reference Desk/GOPHERS/United States GOVERNMENT
Gophers
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=U.S. Government Gophers
Path=1/gopher.welcome/peg/GOPHERS/gov Host=peg.cwis.uci.edu
Port=7000
+ 33.4 The Federal Web Locator (from the Villanova Center for Information
+ Law and Policy)
+
+ This site is designed to be the "one stop shopping point for federal
+ government information on the World Wide Web. The number of links is
+ quite extensive and detailed.
+
+ # http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html
33.5 Business Sources on the Net (BSN)
This project of the Kent State University Libraries and Media Services
lists business resources on the Internet by categories. By title, they
include General Business Internet Sources, Economics, Foreign
Statistics, Economic Trends and International Management, Corporate
Finance and Banking, Human Resources and Personnel Management,
Management Science, Statistical Methods and Productions/Operations
Management, Accounting and Taxation, Management and the Management of
Public and Nonprofit, Organizations, Computer Science (as it relates
to business), Information on Companies, Organizations and Individuals,
Investment Resources, and Business in America. Development in other
areas is underway.
# ftp://ksuvxa.kent.edu/library
# gopher://refmac.kent.edu:70/1/D-1:2577:Business
# Gopher:
# direct: refmac.kent.edu/Business Sources on the Net
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Business Sources on the Net (Special
Project) Path=D-1:2577:Business Host=refmac.kent.edu Port=70
Admin=Diane K. Kovacs and Paul Fehrmann ModDate=Fri, Oct 21,
1994 3:19:11 PM <19941021151911> URL:
gopher://refmac.kent.edu:70/1/D-1:2577:Business
34 UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY CARD CATALOGS
34.1 Research Libraries in General
The most current list of research libraries accessible over the
Internet is maintained by Billy Barron (who started it),
Marie-Christine Mahe, Lou Rosenfeld and Barry Bouwsma. It lists
roughly 710 such libraries.
Note that many libraries can also be reached via gopher (typically
under a title like "Libraries"). The following files describe how the
libraries can be reached via telnet and the type of indexing software
they use.
Via the gopher listed below, one can directly connect to the libraries
listed in the ftp files. In the ftp reference, there are many files of
interest in this directory.
# ftp://ftp.utdallas.edu/pub/staff/billy/libguide
# gopher://gopher.utdallas.edu:70/11/Libraries
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.utdallas.edu/Library On-Line Catalogs
# indirect: USA/Texas/University of Texas - Dallas
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Library On-Line Catalogs
Path=1/Libraries Host=gopher.utdallas.edu Port=70
34.2 Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has set up a gopher that includes a wealth of
information, including their card catalog. 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.
# telnet://gop...@marvel.loc.gov
# ftp://ftp.loc.gov
# gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: marvel.loc.gov
# indirect: USA/Washington DC/Library of Congress
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: marvel.loc.gov
Host=marvel.loc.gov Port=70
34.3 North Carolina State University's "Library Without Walls"
This library is a forerunner of libraries of the future. It contains a
"Reference Desk" which has dictionaries, directories, indices, and
subject guides to literature and the Internet. It also has "Study
Carrels" which are devoted to different subject areas and "Electronic
Texts." The web version is much more flexible and easier to use.
# http://www.lib.ncsu.edu
# gopher://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu:70/11/library
# Gopher:
# direct: dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/NCSU's "Library Without Walls"
# indirect: USA/North Carolina/North Carolina State University
Library gopher/NCSU's "Library Without Walls"
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=NCSU's "Library Without Walls"
Path=1/library Host=dewey.lib.ncsu.edu Port=70
34.4 Libweb (Library Information Servers via WWW)
From this site, you can connect to a number of libraries that have set
up web sites. While the Billy Barron et al. list is more extensive,
this site does offer useful additional information: web sites of
library resources that are not libraries (Nexis, OCLC, Dialog, Silver
Platter, etc.).
# http://www.lib.washington.edu/~tdowling/libweb.html
35 PROGRAM LIBRARIES
35.1 Netlib
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 five
millions 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 email, 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 email. 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 email (the method is
explained in the email 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.
# ftp://netlib2.cs.utk.edu
# ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib
# ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/netlib
# ftp://draci.cs.uow.edu.au/netlib
# gopher://netlib2.cs.utk.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: netlib2.cs.utk.edu
# indirect: USA/Tennessee/Netlib at UTK/ORNL (Knoxville
Tennessee) (also available at the Sam Houston and Wash. Univ.
at St. Louis gophers)
# email:
net...@ornl.gov
net...@research.att.com
net...@unix.hensa.ac.uk
net...@nac.no
net...@draci.cs.uow.edu.au
35.2 Statlib
Statlib is a system similar to Netlib (in fact, it uses roughly the
same email 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 labeled "general."
For the email interface, send the phrase "send index" in the body of
your message.
# ftp://lib.stat.cmu.edu
# gopher://lib.stat.cmu.edu:70/1/
# Gopher:
# direct: lib.stat.cmu.edu
# indirect: USA/Pennsylvania/Statlib
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Root gopher server: lib.stat.cmu.edu
Host=lib.stat.cmu.edu Port=70
# email: sta...@lib.stat.cmu.edu
35.3 University of Illinois at Chicago Statistical Library (UICSTAT)
This statistics library contains a variety of software (much of it in
SAS), An index can be reached at the Washington Univ. Economics Gopher
(described above) under the heading "UIC Stat Archive" and files can
be transferred from there as well.
# ftp://uicvm.cc.uic.edu/uicvm (you must do a "cd" to uicstat before
a directory listing is shown)
# gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/11/uicstat
# Gopher:
# direct: wuecon.wustl.edu port 671/UIC Stat Archive
# indirect: unknown
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=UIC Stat Archive (mirrored from wubios.
wustl.edu) Path=1/uicstat Host=wuecon.wustl.edu Port=671
# Information: Barry Grau <u42...@uicvm.cc.uic.edu>
35.4 Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS)
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.
# telnet://ga...@gams.nist.gov
# http://gams.nist.gov
+ 35.5 UCLA Xlisp-Stat Archive
+
+ This archive of programs for this package is divided into several
+ sections. The most important, of course, is "Statistics," which is
+ further divided into subsections.
+
+ Information on Xlisp-Stat can be found in the section titled
+ "ECONOMICS RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAMS."
+
+ # http://www.stat.ucla.edu/code/
35.6 GAUSS Library at American University
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.
Even though it is new, code in this library already contains a
substantial amount of material.
# gopher://gopher.american.edu:70/11/academic.depts/cas/econ/software
/gauss
# Gopher:
# direct: gopher.american.edu/About Academic
Departments/College of Arts & Sciences/Department of
Economics/Software/GAUSS/
# indirect: USA/Washington DC/American University/About
Academic Departments/College of Arts & Sciences/Department of
Economics/Software/GAUSS
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=GAUSS
Path=1/academic.depts/cas/econ/software/gauss
Host=gopher.american.edu Port=70 URL:
gopher://gopher.american.edu:70/11/academic.depts/cas/econ/so
ftware/gauss
# Information: Barry Grau <u42...@uicvm.cc.uic.edu>
+ 35.7 Free C, C++ for Numerical Computation
+
+ Ajay Shah <ajay...@cmie.ernet.in> writes this guide to C and C++
+ numerical software that is freely available on the Internet.
+
+ # ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/sci.math.num-analysis/
36 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
* 36.1 Iowa Electronic Markets
This service is run by the Accounting and Economics Departments of the
University of Iowa. There are two general types of markets: those
based on financial markets, and those based on political markets.
* Currently, in the former, there are none (doubtless due to the summer
* vacation). In the latter, there is the 1996 Presidential election
and the 1996 Republican Convention outcome.
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.
In the past, these departments ran the well known 1992 Iowa Political
Stock Market, which traded contracts based on the outcome of the 1992
Presidential Election.
This excellent teaching tool is open only to university and college
staff, faculty and students. 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, and Swedish.
The file named "trman.txt" is the "Trader's Manual," and the file
q&.txt is a "Short Introduction."
Extensive information on the IEM and a link into the IEM can also be
found on the web site.
There are two telnet interfaces: iem2 for vt100 type terminals, and
iem for other terminal types.
# telnet://iem.biz.uiowa.edu
# telnet://iem2.biz.uiowa.edu
# http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/index.html
# ftp://umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu/pub/iem/trman.txt
# ftp://umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu/pub/iem/q&.txt
# email: i...@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu (mail addressed here will cause
the Trader's Manual to be sent to you)
* 36.2 CTI Centre for Economics
This web server is devoted to those doing work in using computers in
the teaching of economics. For instance, it has a 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. Finally, this group also publishes a "paper" journal
* "Computers in Higher Education Economics Review." This journal is
* also available on the web.
# http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/CTICE/home.htm
36.3 Economic Education Web from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Center for Economic Education
Besides a substantial amount of instructional material (including the
Virtual Economics Library), there are a number of links to other web
sites in education (many not in economics). Further, many of the links
deal with K-12. There is also information on funding organizations and
methods.
Some of the files are in Adobe's pdf format, which requires Adobe
Acrobat to read. This site kindly provides a link to Adobe so you can
retrieve this freely available software.
# http://unicron.unomaha.edu/dept/econ/econed.htm
36.4 The Economics and Business Education Association (EBEA)
This U.K. organization with 3,300 members is "the professional subject
association for teachers and lecturers of economics." This web site
contains information on their events, conferences (international,
annual and branch), workshops, and projects. Of particular interest is
the monthly news bulletins on the association's activities.
The first URL is for dates prior to April 18, 1994, and the second is
for dates after that.
# http://savage.ecn.bris.ac.uk/ebea/welcome.htm
# http//savage.ecn.bris.ac.uk/ebea/Welcome.html
+ 36.5 ECOnet
+
+ 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://www2.uncg.edu/~simkins/econres.html
+ 36.6 National Federal Budget Simulator
+
+ With this on-line simulation, you can examine the tradeoffs in
+ current fiscal policy. The simulation is only for the current year,
+ but they point out that looking at these issues over a long time span
+ only introduces additional complications. 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
36.7 University of Melbourne Dept. of Economics "Resources for University
Teachers of Economics"
At this department's web site, you can also obtain resources used by
this department 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/home.html
+ 36.8 CMU Intermediate Macroeconomics Home Page
+
+ This site is a very nice demonstration of how the web can be used for
+ teaching. In summary, it contains all necessary information for the
+ course: all the material from the syllabus, on-line assignments, and
+ lectures. While not all its features are accessible to outside users,
+ enough is available to show its main features.
+
+ # http://bobbyorr.gsia.cmu.edu/macro
+ 36.9 Portland State University's Applied Economics and Econometrics Lab
+
+ This lab is devoted to "provide facilities for quality applied
+ economics education, to support applied social science research
+ projects, and to serve as the information resource about the national
+ and local economy." It offers a set of GAUSS programs and annual data
+ from the Economic Report of the President in a package known as eDATA
+ (it has additional data and also features a number of data
+ manipulation features). A more full featured version may be
+ purchased.
+
+ # telnet://eclab.ch.pdx.edu
+ # http://eclab.ch.pdx.edu
37 USENET NEWSGROUPS
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 6,000 subjects in
areas called newsgroups. The estimated number of readers ranges in the
low millions and traffic each day is approaching 50 megabytes. Some
mailing lists "mirror" Usenet newsgroups and vice-versa.
In many ways, Usenet has its own culture and the new user is wise to
read carefully before posting messages. The newsgroups
news.announce.newusers and news.newusers.questions are for those new
to Usenet. Since it runs on a variety of systems, consult your local
site for information on how to access it.
Newsgroup Topic
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
sci.stat.math Statistics and Math list edstat-l)
sci.stat.consult Statistics and Consulting
sci.math.stat Statistics Discussion
sci.op-research Operations Research
sci.econ.research Research in Economics (Moderated)
All past discussions are indexed and
organized into topic areas by one moderator,
Forrest Smith. They are archived at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/
economics/sci.econ.research or
http://walras.econ.duke.edu
sci.econ Discussions in Economics
(often dominated by current
political economy questions;
a good place for economic
education if you're patient)
38 MAILING LISTS
38.1 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. Thus, to
send mail to all members, you need only write to one address: the list
address.
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 email address. Some mailing systems mangle the information in
the header with your address.
# If you have a response, consider responding directly via email if
you think no one on the list will be interested.
# Watch your temper. Email 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.
# 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 in ALL cases, you subscribe and unsubscribe from a list NOT
by sending email 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 following is a list of email discussion groups. I have organized
the following mailing lists around the type of software (listserv,
listproc, majordomo, mailserv, mailbase, Internet-style, and other)
used to run them so that directions can be put in one place.
In general, I know little about these lists other than the fact that
they exist (in fact, this list is basically an edited version of the
email I received in acknowledgment when I subscribed to the lists).
Traffic varies; in fact, on some, it is very close to zero, on others,
it varies, and on others, it is substantial. Where I do know something
more, I've added it beneath the name of the list and its address.
If you need help on subscribing to a list, most mailing list software
supports the "help" command. Thus, if you're uncertain on how to
subscribe to Pol-Econ, send email to list...@SHSU.edu and type the
word help in the body of your message.
* 38.2 Listserv Mailing Lists
To subscribe to a list run by listserv (which actually covers several
different types of software which share the same name and common core
commands) send an email message to LISTSERV@wherever, NOT to the
list itself. If you send mail to the list itself, it will be sent in
turn to all members of the list. This, obviously, should be reserved
for messages you want all members of the list to read and potentially
respond to.
For example, to subscribe to the list Pol-Econ, you'd send email to
list...@SHSU.edu.
In the body of your email message, if your name is Adam Smith, you
would write the one line message:
subscribe Pol-Econ Adam Smith
Note that your name is typically your first and last name. Be sure to
remove any signature at the bottom of your message to avoid confusing
the mail software.
To cancel a subscription, use
signoff list
where list is the name of the list. Again, email should be sent to
listserv at the site that houses the list. Finally, help on these and
other commands can be obtained by sending a one line message with
"help" in it.
Messages to the list itself should be sent to Pol-...@SHSU.edu, for
example. Any such message will be sent to all members of the list.
Computational Economics
CSEM...@HASARA11.BITNET
Has a number of announcements of meetings and some calls for papers
(see below for the Society of Comp. Econ.)
List of the Faculty of Economics, University of Amsterdam, NL.
CORR...@HASARA11.BITNET
Discussao sobre economia brasileira
ECON...@BRUFSC.BITNET
The Electronic Journal of Finance
FIN...@TEMPLEVM.BITNET (or @VM.TEMPLE.EDU)
With FEN now concentrating on abstracts and working papers, this is
the only list devoted to finance.
Economic Nonlinear Dynamics List
NONL...@NIHLIST.BITNET (or @LIST.NIH.GOV)
Workshop on Information Systems Economics
WI...@UICVM.BITNET (or @UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU)
Eastern Europe Business Network
E-EU...@PUCC.BITNET (or @PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU)
Post-Keynesian Thought
p...@csf.colorado.edu.
International Trade
tr...@csf.colorado.edu.
Community and Rural Economic Development Interests
RURA...@KSUVM.BITNET (or @KSUVM.KSU.EDU)
Economic Problems in Less Developed Countries
ECO...@UOTTAWA.BITNET (or ECO...@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA)
Political Economy
Pol-...@SHSU.edu
Postings from Usenet's moderated newsgroup sci.econ.research are
"gatewayed" to this group, and postings from Pol-Econ are sent to the
sci.econ.research moderator for possible inclusion in that group.
Discussions range over all of economics. Since the traffic is fairly
heavy, you can choose to have all messages sent in one message once a
day in a digest. Rather than subscribing to Pol-Econ, subscribe to
Pol-Econ-Digest. If you'd like to switch from Pol-Econ to
Pol-Econ-Digest, first use the command to unsubscribe from Pol-Econ:
signoff Pol-Econ
Labor Economics
LA...@SHSU.edu
Gophers devoted to Economics
Ego...@SHSU.edu
Business Libraries Discussion List
BUSL...@IDBSU.BITNET
Traffic is said to be heavy.
Regional Science Information Exchange
REG...@WVNVM.BITNET
Feminist Economics Discussion List
feme...@bucknell.edu.
SAS Discussion
SA...@UGA.BITNET (or @UGA.CC.UGA.EDU)
A high volume list that would appear to be quite useful to SAS users.
It is "mirrored" to the Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.sas.
SAS Public Access Consortium (deals with Census data)
SASP...@UMSLVMA.BITNET (or @UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU)
MEMSNET (Mineral Economics and Mgmt. Society)
MEM...@UABDPO.BITNET (or @UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU)
Discussions on the Federal Tax System
FedT...@SHSU.edu
Discussion of the Czech Republic's Economy
ekon...@pub.vse.cz
Information Bank on African Development Studies (IBADS)
list...@tome.worldbank.org
This mailing list is run by the Africa Technical Department at the
World Bank, and its aim is to spread information about development
issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. To quote further from their subscription
message, the IBADS consists of an index and a list of abstracts of
studies undertaken by the Africa Technical Department at the World
Bank. The service will eventually be expanded to include full-text
reports, as well as development studies undertaken by other units in
the World Bank, and other development, academic, and research
organizations worldwide.
Besides the usual listserv subscription method, you must also include
your specialty, organization, address, and subject of interest, when
you subscribe.
Ecological Economics
ecol...@csf.colorado.edu
EINVEST - Electronic Journal of Investing
e_in...@TEMPLEVM.BITNET (or @VM.TEMPLE.EDU)
Statistics Discussion (a digest)
STA...@MCGILL1.BITNET (or @VM1.MCGILL.CA)
Statistics Education Discussion Forum (gatewayed to sci.stat.edu)
edst...@jse.stat.ncsu.edu
Society for Computational Economics
sce-...@vm1.sara.nl
Southern Regional Science Association Mailing List
SRS...@WVNVM.BITNET
Polish Stock Market
gie...@plearn.edu.pl
Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO)
cer...@aearn.BITNET (or @aearn.edvz.univie.ac.at)
Penn World Tables Discussion List
pw...@nber.harvard.edu
HES - History of Economic Thought (History of Economics Society)
h...@babson.edu
AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) List
AER...@ukcc.uky.edu.
GAMS User List
gam...@vm.gmd.de
* AFEEMAIL - Association for Evolutionary Economics
* AFEE...@unl.edu
* AgEcon-L - Teaching and Research in Agricultural and Natural
* Resources AGEC...@umdd.umd.edu
* 38.3 Listproc Mailing Lists
Listproc is roughly the Unix version of listserv. Commands for
subscribing and unsubscribing are identical (see the above directions
for listserv). However, mail containing the commands is sent to
"listproc" rather than to "listserv" (some listprocs masquerade as
listservs, but this distinction is meaningless for simple commands
such as subscribing and unsubscribing).
PEN-L Progressive Economists Network
pe...@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu
RISKNet - Discussion of Risk and Insurance issues
RIS...@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
Econlaw - An economic analysis of law
eco...@gmu.edu
Forensic Economics
forensice...@acc.wuacc.edu
Statistics Canada's Listserver
sta...@statcan.ca
Cliometric Society list on Teaching Economic History
econhis...@cs.muohio.edu Archives of this and all lists by the
Cliometric Society can be found at <http://cs.muohio.edu/>.
Cliometric Society list on Macroeconomic History
econhis...@cs.muohio.edu
Cliometric Society list on Economic History Dimensions of Global
Change
global...@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Economic History News
* eh....@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Economic History Discussion
* eh....@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Economic History Research
* eh....@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Students and Instructors of Economic
* History
* econhist...@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Teaching and Research in Business History
* h-bus...@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Comparative Analysis of Recurrent Phenomena
* quanhist....@cs.muohio.edu
* Cliometric Society list on Design and Management of Historical Databases
* data...@cs.muohio.edu
International Political Economy
i...@csf.colorado.edu
DATABASES - Working with Economic and Historical Databases
data...@cs.muohio.edu
The Economics Of Pensions And Retirement
pension...@cs.muohio.edu
* 38.4 Majordomo Mailing Lists
Majordomo is another program that organizes mailing lists. Commands
for subscribing and unsubscribing are similar to those used with a
listserv except that the name is not given at the end of the
subscription line. Further, rather than sending email to "listserv" at
the site that houses the list, it should be sent to "majordomo"
Local Economic Development
econ...@csn.org
A rather philosophical list with fairly heavy traffic.
Texts prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic
Analyses
ibase-...@ibase.br
Net-Happenings
net-hap...@is.internic.net
While not related to economics, this list is a good description to
what is happening on the Internet. I came across some items on this
list here.
Trade-Library (trade related information)
trade-...@igc.apc.org
Trade-News (information on GATT, Nafta, etc.)
trade...@igc.apc.org
Trade-Strategy (dialog on trade issues)
trade-s...@igc.apc.org
Economic Growth Discussion Group
economi...@ufsia.ac.be
LIMDEP Internet Discussion List
limd...@gsb.su.oz.au
Community and Economic Development
ced...@sfu.ca
Australian-Economics-L electronic forum at ANU
Australian-...@coombs.anu.edu.au
Research in Economic Education
econ...@utdallas.edu
EHENEWS European Historical Economics Society News
ehe...@list.adm.ku.dk
Economic Growth discussion group
economi...@ufsia.ac.be
This ECONOMIC GROWTH discussion group is aimed at all researchers who
are working in the field of economic growth and at those who export
concepts and/or methodology from that field to their own. Everyone
with an interesting suggestion, new approach, problem, abstract of a
paper, relevant data set, announcement or information on conferences,
is invited to submit it to this list. There is also an archive for
working papers, announcements, etc. for this group; it is described in
another part of this guide.
GAUSSIANS - GAUSS Software Package
gaus...@eco.utexas.edu
This mailing list is archived at
gopher://mundo.eco.utexas.edu/1m/mailing/gaussians.archive
* Gender-Economics
* gender-e...@ufsia.ac.be
* Latin-American Economy
* latam...@rcp.net.pe
* EURASIA-l - Discussion on the economies of the former Soviet Union
* EURA...@eskimo.com
* Economia - Lista Latinoamericana de Economia
* econ...@mit.edu
38.5 Mailserv Mailing Lists
When using a mailserv, requests for a subscription or canceling a
subscription should be sent to mailserv@wherever. To subscribe, write
subscribe "list"
in the body of your note where "list" is the name of the list you wish
to subscribe to. To cancel a subscription, use
unsubscribe "list".
Italiana Storici dell'Economia (Society of Italian Economic
Historians)
NEST...@cesit1.unifi.it
Econ-Stat (Reports of Macroeconomic Statistics and Related Discussion)
econ...@pitzer.edu.
* 38.6 Mailbase Mailing Lists
When using a mailbase, send your email to mailbase@wherever and use
join "list" Adam Smith
in the body of the text if your name is Adam Smith to join the list
"list" and use
leave "list"
to cancel a subscription.
CTI Centre for Computing in Economics list for academic economists
cti-...@mailbase.ac.uk
Economic History E-mail Conference
histor...@mailbase.ac.uk
This list publishes the interesting Economic History Newsletter that
covers a variety of topics.
Experimental Economics
economics-e...@mailbase.ac.uk
Discussion on the transition in Eastern Europe & former Soviet Union.
east-west...@mailbase.ac.uk
Discussion of issues related to law and economics
law-ec...@mailbase.ac.uk
Discussion on the economics and management of education
educ...@mailbase.ac.uk
Discussion for those who use quantitative techniques in health econ.
health-ec...@mailbase.ac.uk
Minitab Discussion List
min...@mailbase.ac.uk
Chinese Economic Association (UK) Discussion List
econ-...@mailbase.ac.uk
Economic and Social Development
econ-s...@mailbase.ac.uk
Agricultural Economics
agric...@mailbase.ac.uk
* Time Series
* times...@mailbase.ac.uk
* Economics & Business Educators List
* econ-busine...@mailbase.ac.uk
* 38.7 Internet Style Mailing Lists
With Internet style lists, one sends requests to sign up and leave a
list to the list maintainer. Simply add the suffix "-request" to the
list name and email it.
Teaching of Economics (not research in economic education)
tch-...@vax1.elon.edu
Caribbean Economy
caribbea...@vela.acs.oakland.edu
Academic Discussion of Research in the Chinese Economy
china...@uclink.berkeley.edu
Land & Resources Economics Electronic Conference
res-...@unixg.ubc.ca
Intelligent Systems for Business and Economics Digest (IE-Digest)
IE-...@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Communications Privatization
com-...@psi.com
This list discusses issues concerning the privatization of the
Internet. This is an area in which economists might have a substantial
impact.
* Talk-Econ - List for Principles Students
* talk...@vax1.elon.edu
* This unmoderated and loosely organized list is designed for
* undergraduate students, primarily principles students. All
* subscribers are dropped at the end of the semester; if you wish to
* stay on the list, send email to Jim Barbour <bar...@vax1.elon.edu>.
* To subscribe, send email to talk-eco...@vax1.elon.edu with just
* "subscribe" in the body of the message.
* 38.8 Other Mailing Lists
This category includes all other possible types of mailing lists.
Directions are listed individually.
Land and Resource Economics Electronic Conference (res-econ)
res-...@unixg.ubc.ca
To subscribe, mail to:
res-econ...@unixg.ubc.ca
with the subject as
subscribe to res-econ
and in the body of your letter, type your name.
SUSDEV - Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe
To subscribe, send the following command in the body of your email to
alm...@parti.inforum.org:
SUBSCRIBE SUSDEV
Posting for this list should be sent to
susdev...@parti.inforum.org. All postings should concern
sustainable development in Eastern Europe, be in ASCII, and not exceed
four pages of text.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) List
Contact Alexander "Sasha" Volokh (c...@digex.com) to be placed on this
list, which contains the Institutes's op-ed pieces, and perhaps other
material. According to their documentation, the Institute, "is
committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited
government."
Elsevier/North-Holland "Contents Alert Economics" This mailing list
describes articles in all 32 of their economic and finance journals.
It includes titles, authors, abstracts and estimated dates of future
publication. It comes out at approximately weekly intervals. See the
section titled "PUBLISHERS" for more information on North-Holland's
Internet offerings.
Instructions:
Contents Alert Mailing List
send email to econb...@elsevier.nl
In the subject line of the body of the message, write
subscribe casecon-c
Help
send email to econb...@elsevier.nl
In the new subject line of the body of the message, write
help
Comments
send email to econb...@elsevier.nl
International Trade and Commerce
Send email to info-r...@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca and write
subscribe
in the body of the message.
MUG-L
This list, for the Model User Group, deals with computable general
equilibrium (CGE) economic models. To subscribe, send email to
ngu...@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca with the following information: lastname,
firstname, middlename, affiliation, address, telephone, fax, email
address, position, and research interest.
WallStreet-Direct-List
wallstreet-...@cts.com
Send subscription requests to wallstreet-dire...@cts.com,
and in the body of the note, write
SUB WSD-LIST yourfirstname yourlastname
This list is run by a company of the same name that sells a variety of
reference materials for investors. This list is devoted to discussions
of these types of products.
H.M. Treasury
This ministry offers two mailing lists: PRESS (for press releases) and
WHATSNEW (for descriptions of new Internet services by the Treasury).
For either, send email to mail...@hm-treasury.gov.uk, and in the body
of the email, write
SUBSCRIBE PRESS
or
SUBSCRIBE WHATSNEW
To unsubscribe, write UNSUBSCRIBE WHATSNEW
or
UNSUBSCRIBE PRESS
Finally,
HELP
in the body of the message will generate a help file for you.
AustrianECON - Discussions in Austrian Economics
To subscribe to this list, send email to
AustrianEC...@agoric.com and in the body of the message, write
Subscribe AustrianECON To unsubscribe from the list, send email to the
same address, but write
Unsubscribe AustrianECON
* SMDL (Strictly Declarative Modelling Language) Mailing List
* Contact Steve Wallis <S.Wa...@mmu.ac.uk> to be put on this list.
* NA-NET
* This organization, devoted to numerical methods (it seems to have a
* number of to professional numerical analysts), offers more than just
* a mailing list. They also offer a "whitepages" database of members of
* the list, an email forwarding system between these members, and a
* searchable database of old messages on the list. The list itself is
* moderated, and sent out as a digest approximately weekly.
*
* Send email to <na....@na-net.ornl.gov> to join the list. In the body
* of the note, (the subject does not matter), write the following three
* lines, and fill them in.
* Lastname:
* Firstname:
* Email:
*
* To submit material to the editor for possible inclusion in the
* digest, send your email to <na.d...@na-net.ornl.gov>.
*
* More information about NA-NET can be found by writing to
* <na....@na-net.ornl.gov> (again, the subject does not matter, and in
* this case neither does the body of the message). More about NA-NET
* can also be found at their web site:
* <http://www.netlib.org/na-net/na_home.html>, which also contains a
* searchable database of old digests.
* 38.9 Financial Economists Network (FEN)
This organization has evolved into the Journal of Financial Abstracts
(JFA), which has two main parts: the Accepted Paper Series (APS),
which covers papers that have been accepted for publication, and has
the following parts: Corporate Finance and Organizations (APS-A);
Banking, Economics, and Methodology (APS-B); Capital Markets (APS-C);
and Derivatives (APS-D).
The Working Paper Series (WPS) lists working papers and also has
several parts: Corporate Finance and Organizations (WPS-A); Banking,
Economics, and Methodology (WPS-B); Capital Markets (WPS-C); and
Derivatives (WPS-D). Users can choose which series they wish to
receive.
It also lists other information, such as job listing (FEN-JOB) and
professional announcements (FEN-ANN).
* They are now accepting and posting vitaes of PhDs in the job market
and job openings on their web server.
Besides subscribing to FEN's mailing list, one can search back issues
on their web server, as well as reading the current issue of the JFA
series and APS, and all issues concerning general announcements and
positions available. This material can also be searched at the gopher
at the Washington Univ. Economics Dept. The membership application for
FEN follows.
* Starting on August 31, 1995, FEN will begin charging for for their
* lists. To quote from their announcement, "Because of these
* substantial costs, we are now beginning to ask NEW members to pay the
* nominal fees detailed below (including the membership fees) to help
* ensure that FEN remains a permanent part of our professional
* landscape. In our recent survey, NO MEMBER wanted to see FEN
* discontinue its operations, and we are committed to that.
* Existing members of FEN who have, in effect, been "beta testers of
* FEN," will be provided with a one year free membership (from August
* 31, 1995 to August 31, 1996). However, we ask existing members to pay
* the nominal subscription fee for the journals they wish to continue
* to receive by August 31, 1995. No one will be deleted from receiving
* FEN's journals until September 1, 1995."
* For current subscribers, the fees are as follows for each list:
* student, $5; personal $10; institutional and library, $20. For new
* members, the fees are student, $10; personal $25; institutional, $50;
* and contributing, $100. If you subscribe to four, the fifth is free.
* The job listing and announcements will still be freely available.
* Finally, exceptions may be made for hardship cases.
(cut)=-=-=-=-=-=-=-MEMBERSHIP-APPLICATION-=-=-=-=-=-=-(cut)
(e-mail application to Wayne...@SocSci.Com)
YES! Enter my subscription to FEN.
Full Name:-
Company/University:-
If Student, Major:-
Level (PhD,MBA,BA):-
Postal Mailing Address:-
-
-
-
-
Work Phone:-
Home Phone:-
Fax:-
E-Mail Address:-
Computer (PC,Mac,Other):-
Access to WWW (yes,no):-
(cut)-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=MORE-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-(cut)
39 INFORMATION ABOUT THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION
39.1 Graduate Programs
Forrest Smith, a moderator of the Usenet newsgroup sci.econ.research,
has compiled information on some graduate programs in economics. The
archive site for this group is mentioned below, and this information
can be found in the "FAQ" directory with the names
"grad.programs.descriptive" and "grad.progs.contents".
# ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/economics/sci.econ.research
39.2 Directory of Economists on the Internet (Sam Houston State)
This directory contains a list of economists who use the Internet. It
includes their affiliation, regular and email address, phone and fax
numbers, and research areas. The directory can easily be searched.
Its main site is at the Sam Houston State University Gopher (described
above, where the Economics section is run by George Greenwade), and is
located on many economics gophers. On this gopher, there is an entry
to fill out this information interactively via telnet, or you can fill
in the following template and send it to Gophe...@SHSU.edu. In the
template, each field should begin in column 9.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Name: Lastname, Firstname Middlename-or-initial
Postal: Your postal address
second line (if necessary)
third line (if necessary)
fourth line (if necessary)
City, State, Country ZIP
E-mail: <your-email-address@wherever>
Phone: (Area code) Prefix-Telephone_Number
FAX: (Area code) Prefix-Telephone_Number
Research
Areas: Your areas of research interest, delimited by commas
NOTE: (optional) Any special information you would like to add
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu:70/11gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
# Gopher:
# direct: niord.shsu.edu/Economics University/Economics
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/Economics
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=Economics (SHSU Network Access
Initiative Project) Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu Port=70
39.3 American Economics Association 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, and biographical data from
the most recent survey of members, but no email addresses. 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
(searches are not restricted to one particular field and are not case
sensitive).
# gopher://mundo.eco.utexas.edu:70/11/aea
# Gopher:
# direct: mundo.eco.utexas.edu/Search the AEA directory
# indirect: USA/Texas/University of Texas Austin, Economics
Department/Search the AEA directory
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Search the AEA directory Path=1/aea
Host=mundo.eco.utexas.edu Port=70
# Information: a...@eco.utexas.edu
39.4 Job Openings for Economists (JOE)
This electronic version of JOE 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. This electronic version
is made available at the same time as the printed version. Plans are
for the current version to be kept online, and some older issues may
be available as well.
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.
According to the announcement for it, "Elton Hinshaw of the Vanderbilt
University Department of Economics and the American Economic
Association, Violet Sikes and Mary Winer of the American Economic
Association, and Bill Hays, Omar Siliceo, and Terrie Spetalnick of the
Vanderbilt University Computer Center played crucial roles in bringing
the online version of JOE into existence and the users of the online
JOE will benefit from their generous efforts.
# gopher://vuinfo.vanderbilt.edu:70/11/employment/joe
# Gopher:
# direct: vuinfo.vanderbilt.edu/Employment Opportunities/Job
Openings for Economists (JOE)
# indirect: USA/Tennessee/Vuinfo (Vanderbilt University
Information System)/Employment Opportunities/Job Openings
for Economists (JOE)
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Job Openings for Economists (JOE)
Path=1/employment/joe Host=vuinfo.vanderbilt.edu Port=70
Admin=Vanderbilt Gopher Administration Team (615) 322-2951
<gop...@vanderbilt.edu> ModDate=Wed Nov 2 16:16:42 1994
<19941102161642> URL:
gopher://vuinfo.vanderbilt.edu:70/11/employment/joe
# Information:
Malcolm Getz <ge...@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
George Slotsve <slot...@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
David Wildasin <wild...@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
39.5 Economist Jokes Page
This page, by Pasi Kuoppamoki, 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. Perhaps the author
would like additional ones.
# http://www.etla.fi/pkm/joke.html
# Information: Pasi Kuoppamõki <p...@etla.fi>
39.6 JEL Classifications
The Department of Economics and the Institute for Policy Analysis at
the University of Toronto have kindly made available the complete JEL
classification index.
# http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/wpa/JEL.html
39.7 Job Openings for Economists (Europe)
This site, run by the Technical University of Berlin, lists job
openings for economists in Europe (as well as a link to the on-line
JOE). Both are listed in the directory listed below. Job adds should
be sent to job-...@otto.ww.tu-berlin.de.
# gopher://otto.ww.TU-Berlin.DE:70/11/Economics/jobs
# Gopher:
# direct: otto.ww.TU-Berlin.DE/Economics/Job Openings for
Economists
# indirect: Europe/Germany/Technische Universitaet Berlin,
Informatik, (DE)/Andere Gopher in Berlin - Other Gophers at
Berlin/Technische Universitaet, Wirtschaftswiss./Economics
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Job Openings for Economists
Path=1/Economics/jobs Host=otto.ww.TU-Berlin.DE Port=70
Admin=Thorsten Wichmann, +49 30 314 24142
<gop...@otto.ww.TU-Berlin.DE> ModDate=Mon Feb 20 10:31:41
1995 <19950220103141> URL:
gopher://otto.ww.TU-Berlin.DE:70/1/1/Economics/jobs
40 INFORMATION ABOUT THE FINANCE PROFESSION
40.1 Financial Economics Network (FEN)
This organization, which has Wayne Marr <Wayne...@SocSci.Com> and
Michael Jensen <Michael...@SocSci.Com> as editors, began as a
system of mailing lists and now offers a variety of material of
interest to those in finance (details are described in the mailing
list portion of this guide). On this web server, one can search and
read abstracts of forthcoming publications, working papers, meeting
announcements, job postings, and other announcements in finance from
their mailing list. Early in 1995, there will be an entry for vitaes
of PhDs in the job market.
# http://www.crimson.com/fen/
41 WORD PROCESSING
41.1 TeX and LaTeX References
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 first URL has the FAQ and additional
information on TeX and LaTeX, while the second lists additional
information about TeX and LaTeX.
# ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.text.tex
# http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TeXdoc/TeXdocs.html
41.2 TeX Macros for Economics and TeX/LaTeX Sources
Since I am not a TeX user, let me defer to George Greenwade
<bed...@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 Professor Varian, known as "VerTeX" (for
Visualize Economic Reports in TeX; release 1.0 of August, 1987) are
available for ftp retrieval from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
(CTAN) hosts:
# ftp://SHSU.edu/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
# ftp://TeX.ac.UK/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
# ftp://dante.de/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/vertex/
The first two sites also support gopher access. SHSU's CTAN is also
linked into Niord's gopher in its Economics area, as well as the
economics or TeX areas on a number of other gophers worldwide.
Finally, the command:
SENDME VERTEX
in the body of a mail message to FILE...@SHSU.edu will retrieve the
set of 19 files via email.
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.
42 ECONOMICS RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR THE INTERNET
42.1 BCI Data Manager Version 2.0
For this section, let me quote from a post by the author (Gary F.
Langer), with just a bit of editing:
BCI Data Manager is a Windows 3.1 program that lets you manage the
economic time series contained in the U.S. Commerce Department's
Business Cycle Indicators (BCI) and Current Business Statistics (BSDC)
database files. Together, these data files, updated weekly and
monthly, contain current and historic data on over 2000 data series.
BCI files contain all of the time series included in the "yellow
pages" of the Survey of Current Business, going back to 1945, and
always contain the very latest revisions. Current Business Statistics
files contain all the economic time series found in the "blue pages"
of the Survey of Current Business, going back four years. These files
are available on the Commerce Department's Economics Bulletin Board
(EBB) and on a subscription basis. You can access the EBB via telnet
through ebb.stat-usa.gov, or via modem at (202) 482-3870. BCI and BSDC
files can also be obtained through ftp from the U. of Michigan:
# ftp://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/bin
The main purpose of BCI Data Manager is to extract data from these
data files and save it in a useful format. You can choose to save
extracted data as an ASCII file (CSV format), as a spreadsheet file
(WK1 format), or to the Windows clipboard. (You can also interactively
view the data on-line if you like). Range names are saved in the WK1
files to facilitate importing the data into word- processing documents
and external databases. Graphs of each series extracted can also be
saved in the WK1 file containing the data, at the option of the user.
The program also enables you to keep historic database files
up-to-date with an automated update facility. The Commerce Department
issues weekly and monthly updates of the last two and four years of
data for all of its BCI data series, but unless this data can be
integrated into the historic database files that go back to 1945, it
is of limited usefulness. By essentially clicking on files to be
updated and clicking on the files containing the updated data, the
program will automatically add the updated and revised data to
existing historic data files.
Another feature of the program is its ability to display graphs of all
of the series contained in the database with a single click of the
mouse. With a single tap of the up or down arrow keys you can scroll
through graphs of all of the series on your computer as if you were
turning through the pages of a book. With another mouse click you can
switch the display from that of quarterly or monthly data to that of
annual data. I've found that this feature is excellent for in-class
and seminar slide (or screen) show presentations.
The directory "/pub/NetEc/SoftEc/BCI_Manager" contains two
subdirectories, "/zipped" and "/unzipped". "/zipped" contains a
compressed file named "BCI_V20.ZIP" which contains BCI Data Manager
and all its supporting files (in another compressed file named
"BCI20.ZIP"), along with some instructions. You will need PKUNZIP to
uncompress "BCI_V20.ZIP" and "BCI20.ZIP". "/unzipped" contains all of
the files in "BCI_V20.ZIP" in uncompressed form (to run the program
you need all of the files contained in "/unzipped").
If you use the program and like it, send me email and I will send you
information about later versions of it (I tinker with it endlessly).
(Also send email if you would like me to send you the program on a
floppy diskette via surface mail.)
If you use the following address to retrieve the software, you can
obtain it from either the zipped (using PKZIP) or unzipped directories
(in that case, be sure to get all files).
Since the above was written, Gary Langer sent me the following:
"Probably the neatest thing that Data Manager is now able to do is
serve as a Mosaic viewer. That is, if you are running Mosaic and you
point it at the BCI Data Manager home page
(http://csf.colorado.edu/./econ/bci.html) you will have immediate
access to the BCI files at the U. Mich library. Then, with one click
on a BCI file, BCI Data Manager will automatically load, process the
file, and be ready to display graphs, display the data, or extract
data series to a spreadsheet file. I don't think there's anything else
like it anywhere available."
The program is available at both CodEc, on a gopher at in Colorado,
and the primary site is the web page in Colorado.
# http://csf.colorado.edu/./econ/bci.html
# gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU:70/11/econ/bci
# Gopher:
# direct: csf.colorado.edu/Economics/Business Cycle Indicators
Data Manager
# indirect: USA/Colorado/Communications for a Sustainable
Future (Boulder, Colorado)/Economics/Business Cycle
Indicators Data Manager
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Business Cycle Indicators Data Manager
Path=1/econ/bci Host=csf.Colorado.EDU Port=70 Admin=Studly
Gopher Admin +1 (612) 338-3970 <gop...@turnip.com>
ModDate=Wed Sep 7 20:50:38 1994 <19940907205038> URL:
gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU:70/11/econ/bci
# Information: Gary F. Langer <gary....@syslink.mcs.com>
* 42.2 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 "PROGRAM LIBRARIES" section.
# ftp://umnstat.stat.umn.edu/pub/xlispstat
# Information: Luke Tierney <lu...@umnstat.stat.umn.edu>
43 CONTACTS FOR AND INFORMATION FROM SOFTWARE VENDORS
Don't forget to check the mailing list, Usenet, and program libraries
sections, as software is covered there as well.
43.1 Aptech (GAUSS)
# Information: in...@Aptech.com
# Orders: sa...@Aptech.com
# Technical Support: sup...@Aptech.com
43.2 TSP International
Note: this firm sells TSP; another firm, Quantitative Micro
Software, sells MicroTSP 7.0 and Eviews 1.0.
# Sales Inquiries: tsp...@crl.com
# Support: Clint Cummins <cl...@leland.Stanford.EDU>
43.3 Stata
Computing Resource Center, who publishes Stata, uses this site for its
"Stata's Technical Bulletin." Editions from this site begin with the
13th. Each edition is quite extensive.
# telnet://gop...@info.umd.edu USA/Maryland/University of Maryland/
Educational Resources/Academic Resources/Academic Resources by
Topic/Statistics Resources/Stata
# ftp://info.umd.edu/inforM/Educational_Resources/AcademicResourcesBy
Topics/StatisticsResources/Stata
# gopher://gopher.inform.umd.edu:70/11/Educational_Resources/Academic
ResourcesByTopic/StatisticsResources/Stata
# Gopher:
# direct: info.umd.edu/Educational Resources/Academic
Resources/Academic Resources by Topic/Statistics
Resources/Stata
# indirect: USA/Maryland/University of Maryland/Educational
Resources/Academic Resources/Academic Resources by
Topic/Statistics Resources/Stata
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=Stata
Path=1/Educational_Resources/AcademicResourcesByTopic/
StatisticsResources/Stata Host=gopher.inform.umd.edu Port=70
Admin=inforM Editor <inform...@umail.umd.edu> ModDate=Fri
Oct 14 08:50:01 1994 <19941014085001> URL:
gopher://gopher.inform.umd.edu:70/11/
Educational_Resources/AcademicResourcesByTopic/
StatisticsResources/Stata
43.4 Estima (RATS)
# Support: est...@keynes.acns.nwu.edu
43.5 SHAZAM
Besides offering support via email, 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).
In addition, they offer a very interesting service: one can run SHAZAM
programs remotely on their system via email. The program must 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). This allows one to try out SHAZAM, or for old
users to try the most recent version.
# Support: he...@shazam.econ.ubc.ca
# Order Information: in...@shazam.econ.ubc.ca
# Australia: sha...@bond.edu.au
# ftp://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/pub
# gopher://137.82.185.2/11ftp%3aSCSI%3aGopherTop%3aUBCEconGopher
%3aSHAZAM%3a
# Gopher:
# direct:gopher.econ.ubc.ca/SHAZAM
# indirect: Canada/University of British Columbia/Academic
Units and Information/Department of Economics gopher
server/SHAZAM
# bookmark: Type=1 Name=SHAZAM
Path=1ftp:SCSI:GopherTop:UBCEconGopher:SHAZAM:
Host=137.82.185.2 Port=70 URL:
gopher://137.82.185.2:70/11ftp:SCSI:GopherTop:UBCEconGopher:
SHAZAM:
43.6 Wolfram Research, Inc. (Mathematica)
This web site has a variety of information on their Mathematica
product, including information on support, 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."
# http://www.wri.com
43.7 GAMS
# Information: ga...@gams.com
43.8 LINDO
# Information: li...@delphi.com
43.9 The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd (NAG)
You can find out about the products of this company, famous for its
Fortran libraries, here. The also have a Fortran 90 repository.
# http://www.nag.co.uk/
+ 43.10 Minitab
+
+ This site currently offers patches and macros from the Minitab Users'
+ Group Newsletter. Sales information is available as well.
+
+ # ftp://tigger.jvnc.net/pub/minitab
44 USEFUL BOOKS AND SOFTWARE ABOUT THE INTERNET
44.1 Books
I have taken a fairly careful look at the 16 different books I've seen
on the Internet at national bookstores. However, I regret to say that
with the explosion of books on the subject, and its resulting impact
on my pocketbook, I no longer update this section. However, let me
recommend:
Ed Krol. The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. Second Edition.
O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, California. 1994. ISBN
1-56592-063-5.
Harley Hahn and Rick Stout. The Internet Complete Reference. Osborne
McGraw-Hill, New York. 1994. ISBN 0-07-881980-6.
Daniel P. Dern. The Internet Guide for New Users. McGraw Hill, New
York. 1994. ISBN 0-07-016511-4.
Kent, Peter. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet. Indianapolis:
Alpha Books, 1994. ISBN 1-56761-414-0.
44.2 uuencode/uudecode
This pair of programs are very useful when used in conjunction with
email. Uuencode takes a binary file (such as a word processing file or
a program) and converts it to text so that it can be emailed. Uudecode
than converts it back to binary. Using this pair of programs,
researchers can collaborate by emailing binary data or word processing
files. If one host is an IBM mainframe, be sure to use the -x option.
# ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/archive-tools/uue
# gopher://Pip.SHSU.edu:70/11/ftp/tex-archive/archive-tools/uue
# Gopher:
# direct: pip.shsu.edu/ftp/tex-archive/archive-tools/uue
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/anonymous
ftp archives on ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/archive-tools/uue
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=uue
Path=1/ftp/tex-archive/archive-tools/uue Host=Pip.SHSU.edu
Port=70
44.3 gzip
This program can uncompress many files (note that this is typically
denoted by a .Z or .gz suffix) found on the Internet. More information
on this topic can be found below in the document by David Lemson.
# ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/tools/info-zip
# gopher://Pip.SHSU.edu:70/11/ftp/tex-archive/archive-tools/zip/info-zip
# Gopher:
# direct:
pip.shsu.edu/ftp/tex-archive/archive-tools/zip/info-zip
# indirect: USA/Texas/Sam Houston State University/anonymous
ftp archives on
ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/archive-tools/info-zip
# bookmark: Type=1+ Name=info-zip Path=1/ftp/tex-archive/
archive-tools/zip/info-zip Host=Pip.SHSU.edu Port=70
44.4 Eudora
Eudora, an email program for Macs, Windows (and, it seems, soon for
OS/2) is manufactured by Qualcomm Enterprise Software Technologies. It
seems to be one of the more popular email packages available. Qualcomm
makes both a freeware version a "regular" version one may buy. It
requires a mail server, so be sure to check if you have one at your
site (technically, it requires a POP3 mail server).
# ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com
+ 44.5 WinZip
+
+ This very useful Windows utility can decompress most any type of file
+ found on the Internet. This includes "tar" files.
+
+ # http://www.winzip.com/winzip/
44.6 Web Clients
World Wide Web browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape, are the best
single interface to the Internet. Not only do they allow one to view
data on and interact with web servers, they also let one view data
from ftp, gopher, Usenet, and telnet servers. Thus, combined with an
email package, they're all one needs to access most any portion of the
Internet. It is little wonder than that such browsers are often called
the "killer application" of the Internet.
Somewhat confusingly, web browsers are sometimes generically called
Mosaic, the original graphical web browser, but this is now incorrect
as a number of others are now available, and more are promised for the
future. Below, I list the sites of several that are either freely
available, or available at low cost. All require that your PC either
be on a local area network (LAN) connected to the Internet, or
connected through a "SLIP" or "PPP" serial line (almost always through
a modem or ISDN line) to the Internet, or something that emulates a
direct connection, like TIA (the Internet Adaptor) or SlipKnot.
Netscape (Netscape Communication Corporation)
# http://www.mcom.com/
Mosaic (National Center for Supercomputer Applications)
# ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
# http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/SDGSoftDir.html
AirMosaic (Spry, Inc.)
# http://www.spry.com/
Web Explorer for OS/2 (IBM)
# ftp://ftp01.ny.us.ibm.net/pub/WebExplorer
45 USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET
45.1 On-Line Guide: "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet" (formerly
"Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet")
For a comprehensive on-line guide, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation's "EFF's Guide to the written by Adam Gaffin, is excellent.
While not as detailed as the above books, it is a very useful guide to
the Internet. Plus, it is free. The ftp listing below identifies an
ASCII (or text) version of the second edition; many other formats are
available in the "Other_versions" directory. The guide can also be
read via the web.
# ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/netguide.eff
# http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eegttitop.html
45.2 Scott Yanoff's "Internet Services List"
Scott Yanoff produces a list of interesting resources on the Internet.
While few of them are economics (and those that are covered above)
many are quite interesting and useful. One I find particularly
interesting is the University of Illinois weather gopher - you can
find weather forecasts for any part of the country. Another
interesting resource is books.com, a bookstore on the Internet. For
those that live in rather small towns like me, this is a very valuable
service.
Yanoff's list is well worth looking at for those new to the Internet.
# ftp://ftp.csd.uwm.edu/pub/inet.services.txt
# http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html
45.3 John December's "Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated
Communication"
This document has a broader concept than Yanoff's; rather than listing
just resources, December lists a number of documents as well, such as
electronic guides to the Internet, and software sites. The breadth is
quite remarkable. Like Yanoff's list, those new to the Internet will
find it quite useful. The web version is even broader.
# http://rpinfo.its.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/text.html
# ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt
45.4 File Compression, Archiving, and Text<->Binary Formats
This document, by David Lemson <lem...@uiuc.edu> details the numerous
methods of file compression used on the Internet and elsewhere.
# ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/doc/pcnet/compression
* 45.5 Usenet FAQs
FAQs are Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) from the Usenet
discussion system. 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 link is to a site that generates html
* versions of the FAQ on rtfm.
* # http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/
# ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group
45.6 Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
This joint project of the of the University of Michigan Library and
their School of Information and Library Studies collects Internet
guides for various subjects that are on the Internet. Thus, if you're
looking for information available on the Internet, this is a good
place to look. This guide is located here.
# telnet://gop...@una.hh.lib.umich.edu/What's New and Featured
Resources/Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource
Guides
# ftp://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/inetdirsstacks
# http://www.lib.umich.edu/chhome.html
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45.7 EINet Galaxy
This site offers a very extensive set of hypertext links to a very
wide variety of resources on the Internet. Its breadth is truly
amazing. For one wishing to explore the Internet, it is a fine place
to start.
# http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html
* 45.8 Yahoo
Like EINet Galaxy, this is another very extensive set of links to
interesting Internet resources. Like Galaxy, it is grouped in subject
areas, and is searchable. It is also a fine place to explore the
Internet from.
* # http://www.yahoo.com/
+ 45.9 Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap
+
+ This set of lessons was originally designed for learning about the
+ Internet via email, and it has now been updated to a web site. It
+ offers about 30 distinct lessons on various aspects of the net.
+
+ # http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/Roadmap/Welcome.html
46 NON-INTERNET RESOURCES
46.1 Introduction
While this guide is primarily about resources on the Internet of
interest to economists, there are several resources not on the
Internet that might be of interest. I hasten to add that I have not
tried any of these and am only reporting what I have read elsewhere.
46.2 Federal Reserve Bank Bulletin Boards
Robert Rycroft <rryc...@s850.mwc.edu> was nice enough to contribute
the following information, which greatly expanded upon my previous
work here. I have edited his text slightly. Perhaps, someday, they
will join other government affiliated data providers and place this
material on the Internet.
Dallas (214) 922-5199 Provides national data on employment,
unemployment and labor force from the household survey, prices and
wages, and industrial production and capacity utilization. Also
leading, lagging and coincident indicators. There is a lot of regional
data and material from the Center for Latin American Economies. Other
material is here too.
Minneapolis (612) 340-2489 Provides 59 files worth of national
economic data, abstracts of articles from Review, district and
national economic summaries, FOMC minutes, biographies of Fed
officials, speeches, material on coin and currency, and the gold
standard and other material.
St. Louis (314) 621-1824 This makes available a wide variety of data,
including U.S. financial data, monetary aggregates, interest rates,
reserves, loans, GDP and components, CPI, PPI, employment and
population, and international data. Also there are Fed Statistical
Releases, and it provides the data used in each of the empirical
articles that appear in the St. Louis Review (teachers could make use
of that).
New York (212) 720-2652 It provides daily or weekly data on bankers
acceptances, commercial paper rates, exchange rates, interest rates,
money supply, reserves, and treasury securities. Also a weekly
bulletin, biographies of officials, speeches, and news releases.
46.3 On-Line Refereed Economics Journal
I understand that a bulletin board run by Steven W. Dickey of Eastern
Kentucky University "publishes" refereed articles. He can be contacted
at (606) 622-4987, and the bulletin board is at (606) 624-3934, UARTS
2400, 8-N-1.
46.4 National Association of Business Economists (NABE) Bulletin Board
According to Karl Radov, this organization has a bulletin board that
can be reached at (216) 241-6254. In Bulletin #16, there is a list of
other bulletin boards with economics related material.
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