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Archive-name: econ-resources-faq/part3
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Resources for Economists on the Internet, Vol. 2, No. 2 October, 1996
Bill Goffe <bgo...@whale.st.usm.edu>

Part 3 of 10

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
select items that either offer a substantial amount of information, or
are specialized to a specific area.

This guide is Copyright 1996 by William L. Goffe <bgo...@whale.st.usm.edu>.
It may be freely redistributed in whole or in part for any purpose. If
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The section titled "WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE" lists other methods of
obtaining this guide.

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11 WORLD AND NON-U.S. DATA

11.1 International Economics Gateway

This site, run by Seth Grimes, has a number of links to sites with
non-U.S. data. These links are broken up into two classifications:
international organizations, and national governments. Note that some
of these sites offer very little data.

# http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes/gate.html

11.2 World Economic Window (Bonaparte Inc.)

This site offers a variety of economic data for countries around the
world. As they offer only graphs of the data, it is probably most
appropriate for class and exploratory work. Specifically, they offer
data on Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the EU, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait,
Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the OECD, Portugal,
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the
United Kingdom, and the United States. While not every country has
every series, the series come in the following groups: balance of
payments, business surveys, construction, consumer survey, domestic
trade, foreign exchange, industrial production, inflation and prices,
the labor market, leading indicators, the money market, national
accounts, wages, and commodities.

# http://nmg.clever.net/wew/

11.3 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

This project brings together 66 household surveys from 25 countries
(surveys from four other countries are under negotiation) into a
common database to make studies of international economic comparisons
easier. For instance, it includes Current Population Surveys from the
U.S., French Surveys of Income, and a Hungarian Income Study. 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. Much of this material is
on their ftp site.

# http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/lis_part/lisintro.htm
# ftp://post.ceps.lu
# Information: Tim Smeeding, Overall Project Director
<tmsme...@maxwell.syr.edu>, or Inge O'Connor, Administrative
Assistant (U.S.) <li...@maxwell.syr.edu>, or Caroline de Tombeur,
Administrative Assistant (Europe) <caro...@post.ceps.lu>.

* 11.4 International Monetary Fund

* At this site, you can read about the IMF (including its annual report
* and extensive material on its structure), their fact sheets on a
* number of topics, press releases, news briefs, speeches from the
* managing director, and details from their publications catalog. Among
* data, they offer the "IMF Memorandum," which offers a variety of
* current statistical information. Among publications, they offer the
* "IMF Survey." Finally, their "Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board"
* is available here. To quote, "The Special Standard and its associated
* bulletin board respond to the need for comprehensive and timely
* economic and financial data-with equal and ready access for all
* users-generated by increased global integration and the associated
* substantial expansion of financial flows." For many countries, it
* lists where most any sort of macro data can be obtained (including on
* the Internet) from countries that participate in this program. For
* just the U.S., this is a very useful resources as it says who
* generates various series and how they are collected.

# http://www.imf.org

11.5 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 sectoral 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/

11.6 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

11.7 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

11.8 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 articles,
including 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/prdmg/grthweb/growth_t.htm

11.9 World Bank's Technet: Think Tank Electronic Conferences

In cooperation with Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), the
World Bank is offering this set of electronic conferences devoted to
the role of science and technology in development. Each conference
will last about a month, will have a specific topic, and will involve
some ten to twenty experts from a variety of backgrounds.

# http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/technet/

+ 11.10 World Bank Living Standards Measurement (LSMS
+
+ This section of the World Banks studies poverty in developing
+ countries. The information here includes an overview of LSMS survey
+ and datasets, specific information from several surveys, (including
+ some data), reports that use the data, and information for managers of
+ new surveys.
+
+ # http://www.worldbank.org/html/prdph/lsms/lsmshome.html

11.11 BizEd Net - CSO Data (U.K.)

BizEd (Business Education) Net is designed for students and faculty
members, and others interested in obtaining data. They currently offer
the Penn World Tables, and perhaps more importantly, some data from
the Office for National Statistics of the U.K. This includes some
selected monthly data, as well as some national accounts data. Plans
are for this site to rapidly expand.

# http://bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/home.htm

11.12 World Bank Latin America and Caribbean Region Technical Department

This site contains a wide variety of information on this region. One
can read and retrieve a number of papers and reports in both English
and Spanish. This includes a monthly feature paper by a senior
economist on a topic of current interest. Most papers are available in
both ASCII and Adobe Acrobat pdf formats.

# http://www.worldbank.org/html/lat/

11.13 Asian Development Bank

This site describes all aspects of this bank's work. This not only
included information about themselves, but also includes business
opportunities, news releases, extensive information on their projects,
and their work with law and development. There is also extensive
material on their publications.

# http://www.asiandevbank.org

+ 11.14 Eurostat
+
+ This organization, which covers economic activity for the European
+ Union, currently offers press releases and information about itself at
+ this site. In the future, they plan to offer more data from the E.U.
+
+ # http://europa.eu.int/eurostat.html

11.15 Inter-American Development Bank

This sites describes many aspects of the bank's work. It also has
extensive information on their projects, press releases, information
on their press releases, some information on business opportunities,
information on their private sector projects, and information on the
Inter-American Investment Corporation.

They also have fairly extensive summary statistical data on their
member countries.

# http://www.iadb.org/

11.16 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://gopher.umsl.edu/11/library/govdocs/crpt

11.17 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://datacentre.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/pwt/pwt.html

11.18 The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/GATT (ITC)

This organization, jointly operated by the UN and GATT, deals with
international trade (particularly with developing and transitional
countries). Besides details information on their mission and programs,
they offer considerable data on-line (and even more is available on
their CD-ROM products). Their COMTRADE database is "by far the most
comprehensive source of trade statistics as it covers over 100
reporting countries with time series starting from 1963 (SITC1), 1978
(SITC2) or 1988 (SITC3 correlated to HS codes)." This data is
available on a CD-ROM product. In addition, a subset of this data is
available on-line. To quote, it has "only total imports or exports by
countries for all product groups (3 digits level) of the Standard
International Trade Classification Revision 3."

# http://www.unicc.org/itc/Welcome.html

11.19 UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)

This site has a substantial amount of material on issues concerning
sustainable development.

# gopher://gopher.un.org/11/esc/cn17

11.20 Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN

This organization's mission is well described by its title. Perhaps
most useful to economists is their extensive collection of
agricultural, fisheries, forestry, economics, and nutrition data from
around the world. See the entry for WAICENT, the World Agricultural
Information Center. The agricultural section alone has data from 1961
covering 1500 items in more than 200 countries. Besides data, there
are a number of items of additional interest and links to other sites.

# http://www.fao.org/

11.21 PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service Retrieval Interface

This offering, run by Werner Antweiler the Policy Analysis Division,
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British
Columbia (and named PACIFIC for Policy Analysis Computing & and
Information Faciltiy in Computing) offers two types of exchange rate
data: current and historical. In both cases daily data is available,
and from many countries (48 countries are updated daily, and nearly
200 are updated at least weekly; not all countries have historical
data). The data comes from Xenon Laboratories.

# http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/

11.22 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/
# gopher://midas.ac.uk:70/1/
# ftp://midas.ac.uk

11.23 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 on-line (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

11.24 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/
# gopher://talon.statcan.ca:70/1/
# ftp://talon.statcan.ca
# Information: Michael Thoen <tho...@statcan.ca>

11.25 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>

11.26 Bureau de la Statistique du Quebec

This site offers a fairly extensive amount of statistical material,
both economic and demographic, on Quebec. Much of the material is
available in English.

# http://www.bsq.gouv.qc.ca/bsq/

+ 11.27 Canadian Industry Overviews
+
+ This site offers detailed cross sectional and some time series views
+ of some 230 Canadian industries, wih an emphasis on "production,
+ international trade, and detailed sector level performance." In the
+ near future, information on some 400 service industries will be added.
+ The amount of detail is impressive, you can find out the total
+ salaries and wages in the fish products industry rose 4.64% in
+ 1988-89.
+
+ # http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_ecnmy/sio/homepage.html

11.28 Ministry of Finance (Mexico)

While the data at this site is not very lengthy (it generally covers
just the last few years), it is rather broad. In addition, various
reports and documents on the Mexican economy are available as well.

# http://www.shcp.gob.mx/

11.29 Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780

This database, funded by the by British Economic and Social Research
Council, has data on crop yields, demographic data, price series, wage
series, and weather statistics for the above mentioned dates. Detailed
information on this dataset is on-line here, and is also in AJS Gibson
and TC Smout, "Scottish food, wages and prices, 1550 - 1780,"
Cambridge University Press, 1994. They ask that any users report use
of this database to further the financial support for it, and that
users cite its use.

# http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html

* 11.30 H.M. Treasury (U.K.)

While this site does not contain data, it does contain a large amount
* of information on the workings of H.M. Treasury. Of particular
* interest to economists are the entries "Budget Documentation" (with
* extensive documentation on the budget), "Economic Briefing" (which
* includes various reports), "Monthly Monetary Meetings," and "Reports
* of the Panel of Independent Forecasters." There is also a large amount
* of information about the Treasury itself.

Two mailing lists (one on press releases, the other on new Internet
offering by the H.M. Treasury) are described in the section titled "C
- Mathematical and Quantitative Methods."

They plan to offer expanded services in the future.

# http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
# ftp://ftp.hm-treasury.gov.uk
# Information: in...@hm-treasury.gov.uk
# Suggestions: edi...@hm-treasury.gov.uk

+ 11.31 Praedicta - Israeli Economic Data
+
+ This company specializes in a wide range of data on Israel; in all,
+ more than 50,000 series are available. Of interest to economists is
+ their economic data, which includes demographic information, national
+ accounts, balance of payments, foreign trade, finance and taxes, price
+ indices and exchange rates, the labor market, and many other areas. It
+ is a fee-based service.
+
+ # http://www.praedicta.com

11.32 Israel Information Service Gopher

This gopher provides a variety of information on the state of Israel.
Of likely interest to economists is the sections titled "Israeli
Economic News."

# gopher://israel-info.gov.il:70/1/

11.33 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

11.34 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

11.35 Central Bank of Turkey

This site offers a wealth of economic information on Turkey. Data
includes Outstanding External Debt, Daily Exchange Rates, Interest
Rates on Deposits, Treasury Wholesale Prices, Treasury Istanbul Wage
Earners Index, SIS Wholesale Prices Index, SIS Consumer price Index,
Consolidated Budget, Balance of payments, Weekly Monetary Aggregates,
GNP at Fixed Prices, and SIS Monthly Industrial Production.

Most of the information is via telnet, and the interface is a bit
tricky to learn. Each time you use the system, use the logon of
"tcmb". The first time you will be asked for some information, and
then given a user code. It should be used for subsequent visits
(again, given after logging on with "tcmb").

# gopher://tcmb580.tcmb.gov.tr
# telnet://tcmb:tcmb580.tcmb.gov.tr

11.36 Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Business & Economy Data

Besides various sorts of business and summary economic information,
this site offers a substantial amount of economic data on the Turkish
economy. See the entry titled "Basic Economic Indicators," which has
information both from the last few year and from 1923. Data is
arranged into sections on population, demographic statistics, health,
education and welfare, education and culture, justice, social security
and social aid, agriculture, mining, power, manufacturing industry,
construction, transportation and communication, tourism, domestic
trade and services, foreign trade, prices and indices, money, finance,
and national accounts. Each section contains from a few to as many as
20 or more tables.

# http://www.mfa.gov.tr/GRUPC/GRUPC.HTM

+ 11.37 India Economic Survey 1996 and Budget
+
+ This site has information on the 1996 budget of India, and the
+ Economic Survery, 1996.
+
+ # http://alfa.nic.in/indiabudget/

+ 11.38 Reserve Bank of New Zealand
+
+ This trend setting central bank offers information about itself, its
+ most recent "Monetary Policy Statement," its forecasts, a summary of
+ recent New Zealand economic policy, some of its "Information
+ Pamphlets," and recent press releases and speeches. Finally, they
+ offer information on bank and bank regulation.
+
+ # http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/

11.39 New Zealand Treasury

Currently, this site offers material on recent budgets, and a
substantial amount of information on general fiscal issues and New
Zealand, such as their annual report, an overview of the country's
financial and economic framework, some regulatory issues, etc.

# http://www.treasury.govt.nz/

11.40 Australian Bureau of Statistics

Besides offering fairly detailed summary information on Australia and
its states and territories (in wks format), this server also has
information on the ABS, its catalog, and press releases.

# http://www.statistics.gov.au/

11.41 Japanese Macro Data

This site contains some 20,000 macro series from Nikkei Needs. It has
been reformatted into the ASCII format used by the BCI Data Manager.
When you first use this site, be sure to read the warnings concerning
some oddities in the data and details on how to search for it (the
data are located in this database with a WAIS search).

# econom10.cc.sophia.ac.jp/needs/index.htm

12 FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS

12.1 Other Sources

There are five 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.

FINWeb also is an excellent starting point for those looking for
financial data and information.

The Financial Data Finder at Ohio State provides a very extensive list
of financial data sources, both on and off the Internet.

Finally, the Wall Street Research Net also provides a larger number of
links that will be of interest to investors.

12.2 misc.invest FAQ

# http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/cml/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 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 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 FINWeb

FINWeb, "The primary objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources
providing substantive information concerning economics and
finance-related topics." To this end, resources are broken up into the
following categories: electronic publishing (both journals and working
papers), databases, other servers in finance and economics,
miscellaneous topics, and highly recommended general resources. It is
another good place to look for financial market information.

# http://www.finweb.com/

12.5 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

12.6 Wall Street Research Net

This site is devoted to providing the investor with fundamental
information. One can research a company on-line (including Canadian
companies), read about the current state of the economy from presses
releases and links to the major data generators, read extensive
information about different markets, and read the current news. They
also offer additional material that may be of interest, including
Grant's Interest Rate Observer.

# http://www.wsrn.com/

+ 12.7 Global Financial Data
+
+ To quote from Brian Taylor, who is the Presidnet of this service: " We
+ offer extensive historical financial data. On our site we provide free
+ over 700 years of inflation data, and 200 years of data on exchange
+ rates, interest rates and the stock market. We also provide long-term
+ data on stock market returns and inflation rates for almost 40
+ countries. Our database includes data on over 50 countries and
+ includes monthly data back to the 1690s."
+
+ To quote from their offerings:
+
+ # The Long-term Monthly Database includes over 500 series of monthly
+ data on stock markets back to 1693, exchange rates back to 1624
+ and inflation rates back to 1748. Over 50 countries are included
+ in the database.
+ # The United States Interest Rate Database includes 70 series of
+ weekly interest rate data. Data begin in 1835 on a monthly basis
+ and in 1872 on a weekly basis.
+ # The Foreign Interest Rate Database includes over 400 series of
+ monthly foreign interest rate data from 50 countries. Monthly data
+ begin in 1700 and go back to the 1800s for most major economies.
+ Discount rates, interbank rates, money market rates, government
+ bond yields and treasury bond yields are included.
+ # The United States Daily Stock Market Indices Database includes 75
+ series of daily stock market data. All major United States stock
+ market indices are complete back to their beginning. Daily data
+ begin in 1885.
+ # The Foreign Daily Stock Market Indices Database includes over 200
+ series of daily stock market data from 45 world stock markets.
+ Daily data begin in 1930.
+ # The United States Stock Market Sector Database includes over 350
+ series of weekly sector data back to 1918. Monthly data go back to
+ 1871.
+ # The Foreign Stock Market Sector Database includes over 1300 series
+ of monthly sector data for 25 countries. Data begin in the 1920s
+ or earlier for the world's major stock markets.
+
+ Some of these series, and summary information on the rest, is offered
+ for free, and the rest can be purchased. As appropriate, there are
+ frequent updates.
+
+ # http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/btaylor/globalfd.htm

12.8 Briefing by Charter Media

This organization specializes in intra-day news, data, and analyses of
financial markets. Thus, it is similar to Reuters, Telerate, etc., but
is freely available. Their stock, dollar, and bond tickers are updated
at specific times throughout the day. As needed, they update
information on economic data and individual stocks (you can also get
quotes on individual stocks and bonds). In addition, they offer
information that might influence financial markets such as political
stories, and also offer political, market, and economic forecasts.
Finally, they offer a market brief and calendar.

# http://www.briefing.com

12.9 Bloomberg Personal

Bloomberg is one of the leading suppliers of financial market
information. In this offering, which adds information to their TV
show, you can read about a number of current financial market events.
While this site offers less than their fee-based service (Bloomberg
Terminal), it does supply a substantial amount of information: news,
summary information on markets around the world, etc.

# http://www.bloomberg.com

12.10 EDGAR (SEC)

This database opened in January of 1994. It covers public 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.

Previously, this database was available only through Mead Data in
either inconvenient locations or at very considerable expense. In an
experiment, it was available at no cost over the Internet. The
experiment was deemed a success, and now the SEC itself makes the data
available.

This database only covers filings made from 1994 on, for public
consumption, and when made electronically by the filing company. Thus,
it does not cover earlier years, current paper fillings, or non-public
ones.

There are a number of utilities that make using this large database
easier. Some help you easily search for material, and another formats
EDGAR fillings into WordPerfect format.

# http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
# ftp://ftp.sec.gov/edgar

12.11 Martin Wong's and George Holt's Market Report

This report briefly describes the day's activities in various
financial markets. It 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 "MULTIPLE
SUBJECT ECONOMIC SITES."

# http://turnpike.net/metro/holt/index.html
# telnet://gu...@a2i.rahul.net/n/Current System Information/MarketReport

12.12 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.

# ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/archives/misc.invest

12.13 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://yogi.ippt.gov.pl/gielda/gielda.html

12.14 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 register.

# http://www.quote.com/
# ftp://ftp.quote.com
# email: serv...@quote.com ("help" in the body of the note)

12.15 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

12.16 JP Morgan

Besides general information on JP Morgan, this site has information on
two general items of interest to financial economists. The first is
extensive material on a number of their market indices. These include
commodities, currencies, bonds and mortgages. Historical data is
available as well.

Second is their RiskMetrics program. 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, equity indices, 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
# ftp://ftp.jpmorgan.com

12.17 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/

12.18 New Zealand Investment Center

This site offers summary data on stock prices and other financial
market data of New Zealand. There is also some information on New
Zealand companies, and some government economic data.

# http://www.charm.net/~lordhill/

12.19 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.asiawind.com/pub/hksr/
# Information: sl...@infinet.com

12.20 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. In the late summer of 1996, they plan to
make it possible for 401(k) and 403(b) holders to change their
allocations on-line.

# http://www.fid-inv.com/

12.21 The Vanguard Group, Inc.

Like most other investment companies, Vanguard offers a web site with
extensive information. This one includes a substantial amount of
information for their mutual fund investors such as newsletters,
announcements, retirement planning materials, and current fund prices.
They have a particularly nice navigation graphic of the entire site.

# http://www.vanguard.com/

12.22 NETworth

This free service, funded by the mutual fund industry, offers an
amazing amount of information on financial services for individuals,
such as material on more than 5,000 mutual funds from Morningstar. It
is said to be the best source of data on mutual fund on the Internet.

# http://networth.galt.com/

12.23 Schwab Online

Charles Schwab offers a complete set of information on their many and
extensive products (including equities, fixed income and mutual funds)
at this site. Just about every imaginable detail is covered.

# http://www.schwab.com/

12.24 E*Trade Securities, Inc.

E*Trade is another broker that has set up trading on the Internet. In
addition, they offer free quotes.

# http://www.etrade.com/

12.25 Lombard Institutional Brokerage, Inc.

Lombard is one of a growing number of firms that offer on-line
trading. In addition, to registered users (no fees involved), they
offer a substantial amount of data: quotes, graphs, and research
results. You can also set up an account on-line.

# http://www.lombard.com/

12.26 Banks of the World via the Institute for Finance and Banking at the
University of Gottingen

This site lists a number of banks that have a presence on the
Internet, including those that actually bank on the Internet. It is
organized geographically. They also offer a large number of links to
financial sources and resources.

# http://www.gwdg.de/~ifbg/bank_2.html

12.27 Huang's Weekly Futures Market Report

Paul C. Y. Huang kindly provided this description of the service he
provides: "This weekly document provides profit/loss percentages
relative to initial margin deposit requirements for the major products
of the respective exchanges. The column provides the reader with an
overall perspective of the relative performance of the major products
of the futures market. Since margin requirement is partly determined
by the volatility of the underlying contract, the performance figure
can be interpreted as return per unit of "risk adjusted capital."
According to the author, no similar presentation is readily available
from any other source. Futures performance data is followed by
analysis and comments on selected markets. Recent issues are archived
at the following economic/financial gophers: Babson College in
Massachusetts, Sam Houston University in Texas, Temple University in
Pennsylvania, Washington University in Missouri, Washington & Lee
University in Virginia, and Rice University in Texas."

# gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/11/holt/weekfut

12.28 MoneyLine - Real Time Fixed Income Data

MoneyLine obtains their data for the fixed income market from GovPX,
which is owned by the 38 Primary Dealers in Treasuries and 5 of the 6
brokers who deal with them. Thus, it is the primary source of real
time information in the fixed income market. They list bids, offers,
and transactions among the primary dealers, and they cover the
following markets: "U.S. Treasury bonds, notes, and bills, money
market instruments such as CD's, BA's, Fed Funds Rate, the Prime Rate,
U.S. Agency bonds, zero coupon bonds and strips." In addition, they
also offer "value-added analysis" information (such as bond
calculators, spread analysis, etc., and news on these markets.

While this is obviously a fee-based service, two-week trial accounts
are available, and one can sign up on their web page. The actual
interface is through telnet, where screens are automatically updated
with the latest information as it occurs.

# http://www.moneyline.com

+ 12.29 Market Broadcasting Corporation - Real Time FX, Fixed Income, and Money
+ Market Data
+
+ MBC provides "virtually all" the data from GovPX, which is the primary
+ provider of real time information in the fixed income market. They
+ also provide information on foreign exchange and the money market, as
+ well as news in these markets from around the world.
+
+ # http://www.moneyline.com

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