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Internet Journals, Indexes & Newspapers in Business &
Economics
"This is one in a series of research guides produced by the Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library...By no means comprehensive..."

IDEAS
"Welcome to the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available on the Internet. Over 200'000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 110'000 can be downloaded in full text! This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc...
Maintained by Christian Zimmermann, Dept. of Economics, University of Connecticut
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AgEcon Search
Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
"A Full Text Library of Agricultural and Applied Economics Scholarly Literature"
"...collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development."
Maintained at the University of Minnesota by Magrath Library and the Department of Applied Economics.

Bank for International Settlements

Berkeley Law & Economics Working Papers
Published by the UC Berkeley School of Law - Program in Law, Economics, and Institutions.


Economy Watch
"EconomyWatch.com is the world's largest independent online economics community. Since 1999 it has been serving over 750k users monthly." Key sections include:
- World Economy
- World Industry
- The Banking Industry
- Economic Statistics Database




Brookings Institution

Budget of the United States Government
Fiscal Year 2004
"...contains the Budget Message of the President and information on the Presidentís budget and management priorities, including assessments of agencies' performance."

Budget of the United States Government
Fiscal Year 2003

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Center for Development Research (ZEF Bonn)
University of Bonn

  • Economic Liberalisation and Employment in South Asia - (dead link) [.pdf]
Changing America
Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin
"This chart book documents current differences in well-being by race and Hispanic origin and describes how such differences have evolved over the past several decades. The book is designed to further one of the goals of the President's Initiative on Race: To educate Americans about the facts surrounding the issue of race in America."
Prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race.

Citizens for Tax Justice - (dead link)

  • Year-by-Year Analysis of the Bush Tax Cuts Shows Growing Tilt to the Very Rich - (dead link) (June 2002)

Economic and Political Weekly (India)

Economic Perspectives
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Dept. of State

Economic Policy Institute

  • Hardship in America: The Real Story of Working Families
    "...is the most comprehensive study of family hardships ever published. It examines the cost of living in every community nationwide and determines separate 'basic family budgets' ñ the amount a family would need to earn to afford food, housing, child care, health insurance, transportation, and utilities ñ for each community."
Economic Report of the President

Economic Sociology Editorial Series
"The editorials posted on the website first appeared on the economic-sociology listserver. New editorials will be posted after they are published on the listserver."

Economics Interactive Lectures
Samuel L. Baker, University of South Carolina

Economics Working Paper Archive (WPA)
"...devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics. There are 22 subject areas, along with a test posting area, a meetings area, an area for programs and an area for data."
Provided by Washington University, Economics Dept.

EcoSim: An Interactive Simulation
Information on how to obtain the free software
"...an interactive simulation in which each student plays the role of a company and a group of people, or a legislator in the government/central bank."

Electronic Journal of Evolutionary Modeling and Economic Dynamics

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Edited by Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest ; Foreword by Richard A. Posner. Published by Edward Elgar and the University of Ghent, 2000.

Environment and Trade: A Handbook
By The United Nations Environment Programme and the International Institute for Sustainable Development

European Integration Online Papers (EloP)

Far Eastern Economic Review

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • Historical Statistics on Banking
    "...provides annual statistical information on the banking industry beginning in 1934. These data can be used to identify and analyze long-term trends and to develop benchmarks to evaluate the current condition of the banking and thrift industries... The HSOB contains aggregated data from individual financial reports filed by FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions. These aggregated data are also available for individual states, U.S. territories and U.S. possessions."
  • Regional Economic Conditions (RECON)
    "...able to drill down to any state, MSA, or county to view standard graphs, tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have changed over time."

Federal Reserve Board

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
"This NBER [National Bureau of Economic Research] project is examining the causes of currency crises in emerging market countries as well as the policies that can reduce the risk of future crises and the adverse effects when such crises occur...This site contains a list of NBER working papers on this subject. Clicking on the paper title below will lead to an abstract of the paper and to a full copy of the paper itself. The papers can be downloaded without any charge by anyone in an emerging market country or in an institution that subscribes to the NBER Working Papers"

FT.com - Financial Times

  • Country & Industry Surveys on FT.com
    "The Financial Times publishes approximately 240 surveys annually which appear with copies of the newspaper most days of the week. Topics include financial markets, global industries, business management and developed and emerging countries."

Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 1998
"This bulletin presents 1998 annual averages from the CPS for census regions and divisions, the 50 States and the District of Columbia, 50 large metropolitan areas, and 17 central cities. Data are provided on the employed and unemployed by selected demographic and economic characteristics."
Bureau of Labor Statistics

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

Glossary of Antitrust Terms

By Charles E. Mueller
Glossary of Political Economy Terms
By Dr. Paul M. Johnson, Auburn University

"Guide to the International Banking Statistics" [.pdf]
Bank for International Settlements

EH.Net
"...to assist economists, historians and related social scientists through the use of electronic communication and information technology. EH.Net currently operate file servers in Economic History and the History of Economics. We also provide several free electronic discussion lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars and students in business history, economic history, the history of economics, and related fields. Server resources and list topics are international in scope, and promote scholarly communication among a large audience of professionals with similar interests."

  • Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
    "...is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited. A distinguished Advisory Board recommends entry topics, assists in the selection of authors, and defines the project's scope."
  • History of Economics
    "...provides online access to resources for teaching, scholarship and research in the history of economics and the history of economic thought."

IDEAS
"Welcome to the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available on the Internet. Over 200'000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 110'000 can be downloaded in full text! This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc...
Maintained by Christian Zimmermann, Dept. of Economics, University of Connecticut

Industry Canada

  • Strategis
    Canada's Business and Consumer Site
    "Strategis makes use of new technologies to offer interactive applications such as customizable benchmarking tools, cost calculators, and online business planning. Many of Industry Canada's services (such as filing an application for patent) can now be completed online through Strategis."
    - Industry Canada
    • Competitive Intelligence E-Monitor - (dead link)

Institute for Development Policy and Management
 University of Manchester

Institute for International Economics - (dead link)

Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconisin

Interactive Index of Economic Freedom
"...is a practical reference guide to the economies of 161 countries, with detailed information about economic policy. This special online version allows you to search the data to find just the information you want."
2001 Edition Co-published with The Wall Street Journal
The Heritage Foundation

International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN)
"...provides data, tools and analysis on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in developing countries, for compassionate, cost-effective responses to the global epidemic."

  • IAEN Library - (dead link) "...is a collection of on-line, full-text materials about the public economics of HIV/AIDS in developing countries. The articles are drawn from a variety of sources, including especially the World Bank and UNAIDS."

International Economic Trends

International Finance Discussion Papers 2000
Federal Reserve Board

International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE)
Lund University

International Labour Organization

  • ILO Databases
    Areas include: Country and Regional Info ; ILO Publications ; Labour Administration ; Labour Statistics ; Legal Info ; Occupational Safety ; Social Security ; Terminology ; Vocational Training and Rehabilitation ; World of Work.
  • Executive Summary: "Your Voice at Work."
     "...the first Global Report to be released under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines trends in relation to respect shown for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights around the globe."
    Released 05/25/00
  • Statistical Information & Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC)
     "SIMPOC aims to assist individual countries in generating comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data on child labour, at the national level..."
  • World Employment Report 2001:
    Life at Work in the Information Economy

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Publications
  • Working Papers
  • General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)
    "The GDDS framework is built around four dimensions - data characteristics, quality, access, and integrity - and is intended to provide guidance for the overall development of economic, financial, and socio-demographic data. The framework takes into account, across the broad range of countries, the diversity of their economies and the developmental requirements of many of their statistical systems."

The Internet Economy Indicators
Reports on the state of the Internet economy

Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission



Market Access Sectoral and Trade Barriers Database
"The Sectoral and Trade Database may be queried by either a Country, a Sector or a Measure."
- The European Union

Microcredit Summit Campaign
"Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005."


National Academy Press (free online versions)

New England Economic Review

Online Economics Textbooks
By John Kane, Dept. of Economics, SUNY-Oswego

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - (dead link)

  • African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2003/2004 - (dead link)
    "...contains a special focus on ÏEnergy Supply and Povertyî, in addition to its analysis of key macroeconomic and structural variables and short-term projections. The publication is based on data for the 22 most significant African economies and serves as a reference for national policy makers, donors, and the private sector."
  • Economics Department Working Papers - (dead link)
  • International Regulations Database - (dead link)
    "The OECD International Regulation Database is a comprehensive and internationally-comparable set of information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries. For each Member country, it contains over 1100 observations, both quantitative and qualitative."

Planning and Markets: An Electronic Journal

Prime-Tass
"...is Russia's leading business news agency. Privately owned, the agency has no political affiliations, and is known for its objective coverage worldwide...produces over 100 news and analysis pieces daily."

Principles of Macroeconomics : RealAudio Lectures

Pro-Poor Tourism: Putting Poverty at the Heart of the Tourism Agenda - (dead link)
This paper examines how tourism affects the livelihoods of the poor and how positive impacts can be enhanced. In doing so, it assesses the relevance of tourism to the poverty agenda, and the factors that encourage or constrain economic participation of the poor in the industry.

The Regional Economist

RePEc
Research Papers in Economics
"...is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in about 25 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components."

Russell Sage Foundation Working Papers

The Russian Economy
Includes full text of their books Fixing Russia's Banks and

From Predation to Prosperity

by Michael S. Bernstam and Alvin Rabushka, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Scientific Institute for Environmental Management - (dead link)
Faculty of Economics & Econometrics, University of Amsterdam

  • Publications - (dead link)

Slavery Era Insurance Registry
"[I]nsurance policies from the slavery era have been discovered in the archives of several insurance companies, documenting insurance coverage for slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves, issued by a predecessor insurance firm. These documents provide the first evidence of ill-gotten profits from slavery, which profits in part capitalized insurers whose successors remain in existence today." SB2199 Sec. 1(a).
Gov. Davis signed the bill into law in September 2000.
"...links to the Departmentís report to the California Legislature describing the information received from insurers in response to this statute, including the database of slave and slaveholder names and identifying information."
- California Dept. of Insurance

SSRN Electronic Library - (dead link) Abstracts and full-text papers from over 25 economics journals
Social Science Research Network

Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics - (dead link)

Survey of Economic Expectations
With data from the University of Wisconsin Survey Center's National Survey
Data and Program Library Service

TRIO
Newsletter of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Tutorial on Optimization Theory and Difference and Differential Equations
"This tutorial is a hypertext version of my lecture notes for a course in optimization theory and difference and differential equations...The tutorial is intended to be a complement for a book rather than a substitute."
By Martin J. Osborne, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto.

UC Atlas of Global Inequality
"The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics...The Atlas explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California. We hope the information may also be of use for researchers and activists worldwide."
Sections include: Health ; Income Inequality ; Economic Globalization ; Inequality & Growth ; Teaching Activities.
- University of California, Santa Cruz.

U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

  • The Least Developed Countries Report 2004
    "...assesses the relationship between international trade and poverty within the LDCs, and identifies national and international policies that can make trade a more effective mechanism for poverty reduction in these countries."

UN Department of Economic and Social Development

  • Statistics Division
    Sections include: Statistical Databases ; Publications ; Methods and Classifications ; Statistical Commission ; Millennium Profiles ; Demographic & Social ; Energy ; Environment ; Industry ; National Accounts ; Trade.

United Nations - Economic Commission for Africa - (dead link)

  • Economic Report on Africa 2004 - (dead link)

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Congressional Budget Office

  • Homeland Security and the Private Sector (December 2004)
    "This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper, prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, examines the role of the private sector in responding to the threat of terrorism in the United States since September 11. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, the paper makes no recommendations."

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Labor

United States General Accounting Office (GAO)

U.S. Trade Internet System
"Featuring United States Exports, Imports and Re-Exports of Agricultural, Fish, Forest, and Textile Products with the World!"
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA

U.S. Trade Representative

University of Oxford Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History
Edited by Liam Brunt, Jane Humphries, Avner Offer, and David Stead.

Wall Street Journal Online
Some sections restricted to subscribers

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

WoPEc : Working Papers in Economics
"...is a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in economics. It contains over 33,000 papers...WoPEc is limited to downloadable (but not necessarily free) documents. WoPEc has a sister project called BibEc that is limited to printed documents. You can search the data from both projects at once."

World Bank Group

World Trade Organization (WTO)

  • [World Trade Organization] Documents Online (English, French, or Spanish)
    "This database provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization, including the legal texts of the WTO agreements. You may retrieve and consult documents online and also download selected documents from the site to your PC, if you so wish. Note: this database does not contain WTO publications...The database contains WTO documentation from 1995 onwards and is updated daily. It also contains selected material for the period 1974-1994, principally Uruguay Round documents and a small number of GATT documents. There are currently over 100,000 documents in the database in the three official languages of the WTO."

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