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Economics & Statistics


Federal Reserve System

Locate FOMC minutes, testimony of FRB officials, speeches of FRB members, the Annual Report and Budget Review, statistical releases, and the Beige Book.
Locate the links under the heading "Library Collection." Find links to the 1994-1996 editions (text version) and the 1986-1996 searchable index.
Click on the district to go to their specific website.

Journals & Scholarly Publications

Locate articles from Blackwell publications for the years 1993 and 1994, organized by the Journal of Economic Literature classification system.
Access a comprehensive list of economics journals available through the web. Locate abstracts and tables of contents.
Click on the FEN link to access sample copies of working papers series and accepted paper series on these topics: Corporate Finance and Organizations, Banking and Financial Institutions, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Real Estate, and Finance Teaching and Case Abstracts. Access to these and other journals is through subscription-only.
Full and partial texts of works by scholarly economists made available by McMaster University of Hamilton, Ontario's Economics Department. Texts are in ASCII format.
Review the classification systems for books and journal articles. Available at the Journal of Economic Literature Classification Web page.

Organizations

This site is basically just a means to keep members informed of upcoming meetings and publications. Other than it is pretty thin.

Statistics

Access national (e.g. NIPA, gross product by industry), international (e.g. balance of payments, exports and imports), and regional (e.g. state personal and per capita income) data.
Documents such as the National Transportation Statistics, Transportation Statistics Annual Report, the Commodity Flow Survey, full-text transportation research and planning information in the SMART Library, and statistics from the Office of Airline Information.
Building Permits (C-40), Housing Starts (C-20), Housing Completions (C-22), New Home Sales (C-25), Value of Construction Put in Place (C-30), Expenditures for Residential Improvements (C-50). Also available is the Census of Construction Industries.
Access the 1993 and 1994 economic profiles.
Timely data on the production, inventories, and orders for 4,400 products. The various data include monthly, quarterly, annual, and biennial reports.
Access the basic monthly survey, data, history and concepts, supplements, punlications, methodology and documentation, and related surveys. Also available is the Annual Demographic Survey.
Access financial data for the largest 50 cities and counties, state finance data by state, and government finance estimates, by type of government and by state.
Access data on housing starts and household data such as income and poverty, labor force, small area income and poverty estimates.
Includes black-owned, hispanic-owned, and women-owned enterprises.
View in HTML table format, frames format, or download into a word processor or database file.
Locate population estimates and projections, social and demographic characteristics, and detailed 1990 census data.
Access statistical time series covering such topics as the consumer price indexes (all urban consumers), employee cost index, and local area unemployment statistics.
Find links to data covering topics such as population, labor force and earnings, money, and interest rates. Also includes links for world statistical data.
Locate data about the people and economy of the United States between 1790 and 1860. Data are available for any county in most states during this time period. Currently, data cannot be downloaded.
Locate Leading Economic Indicators and related indexes, business cycle indicators, and the Index of Consumer Confidence (current and historical).
Listed under "Current Petroleum Prices," this report includes data on no. 2 fuel oil, unleaded gasoline, crude oil, and natural gas. Through this server, you can also access natural gas and crude oil price histories. This server is maintained by the Gas and Oil Technology Exchange and Communication Highway of New Mexico.
Reports from 1995 forward available through GPO Access
Access over 100,000 time series data from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Bureau of the Census, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Also access data from the Bank of Canada and trade associations. You can modify series data and run regressions on-line.
Reports include the Short-Term Energy Outlook, International Petroleum Statistics Report, press releases, Annual Energy Outlook, data covering the topics of petroleum, natural gas, coal, nuclear, renewable, electricity, international, multi-fuel, end-use consumption, and financial information.
The "CPI-U-XG" will cover the CPI for All Urban Consumers. This experimental index will not replace the current "fixed-weight Laspeyres forumla" CPI-U or CPI-W.
Access statistics from the statistics from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
A one-stop shop to locate statistics from more than 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies.
Data provided by 4-digit SIC number, year, CIF (cost including freight) import value, and industry shipments.
Under "Business Groups on the Web," access CreditMetrics(TM) and RiskMetrics(TM).
This Database contains annual production and cost data for 450 manufacturing industries from 1958 to 1994. These data come primarily from the Annual Survey of Manufactures, but we have added some price deflators and real capital stock information.
This database contains 3500 monthly, quarterly, or annual economic time-series. This is a searchable index.
Use the form to retrieve subsets of the Penn World Tables. Access data such as GDP per capita, price level consumption, and residential construction.
Access a number of excellent reports including the Weekly Economic Reports, Monthly Economic Reports, and special economic reports such as the Atlanta Fed Survey, Chicago Purchasing Managers Report, Columbia University Inflation Index, National Association of Purchasing Managers index, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment, and U.S. Treasury Auction Results.
Access data "compiled from tax and information returns filed with the IRS." Data includes individuals, corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, and excise taxes.
Be sure and read all the data on the menu.

Statistics (International)

Working Papers

Under "Economic Studies," access working papers in domestic economics and also discussion papers in international economics.
Financial Economics Web Server lists Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance related topics. You can also access the following databases: Economics Working Paper Archives, National Bureau of Economic Research, and NetEc Archive of Working Papers in Economics (BibEc, WoPEc, and CodEc).
Locate selected papers from the Working Papers series and the Papers on Policy Analysis Assessment.
Search for a list of NBER Working Papers and reprints by keyword(s).
There are three parts to this database: BibEc, a bibliography of working papers in economics, includes some 35,000 entries from about 250 different working papers series. WoPEc contains a collection of working papers, which can be retrieved electronically. CodEc is a collection of computer programmes and computational routines that are useful for economists.
Access working papers, links to Institutes and research centers with a special focus on Quantitative Macroeconomic, books, and journals.
Electronic archive of working papers established by the Economics Department of Washington University in St. Louis. Papers are grouped in subject areas with abstracts and different methods of searching for papers. Documents are available in PostScript and Acrobat formats.
Access Staff Appraisal Reports, Sectoral Policy Papers, Environmental Data Sheets, National Environmental Action Plans, and much more. Note that this site provides very little full-text documents. The user will need to order the documents through the World Bank.

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