Economics Websites

Author: Kathy Enger

ArgMax: economics news, data, and analysis
http://www.argmax.com/

B&E Data Links: econ & financial data sources
http://www.econ-datalinks.org/
This site provides links to economical statistics under the categories of macroeconomics, finance, business datasets, and general and labor micro econometrics. Each link is rated for usfulness and the date last modified is provided.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
http://www.federalreserve.gov/

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Full searchable web page providing access to all BLS resources.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.doc.gov/
Great resource for up to date and accurate information concerning economics. Links include, current news, methodologies, and a glossary.

Census Bureau Home Page
Nicely done interface to Census Bureau data.

The Conference Board
http://www.conference-board.org/

EconData.net
http://www.econdata.net/
Countless links to socioeconomic data on the web.

Economist.com: country briefings
http://www.economist.com/countries/
Get the latest economic news from around the world.

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.eclac.cl/default.asp?idioma=IN
Great resource to use for research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Specific links include the government, press releases, statistics, and specific divisions like transportation or women.

Economic Growth Resources
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/
Links to resources on economic growth like specific researchers, journals, events, and a great introduction to the topic of economic growth.

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page
http://www.economagic.com/
A multitude of economic data on various countries, that include charts and graphs.

FED 101
http://www.kc.frb.org/fed101/
Fun, interactive site with everything you need to know about the Federal Reserve including the history, structure, and monetary policy, also includes a quiz after each section.

Federal Reserve System
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
This site has everything one would need to know about the Federal Reserve.

FIN Web
http://www.finweb.com/
Many links to finance resources like journals, working papers, finance databases, and similar websites.

Finance Resources on the Web
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/

Global Macroeconomics and Financial Policy Site
http://www.finweb.com/
Current macroeconomic news organized into categories like economic reports, wall street, forex news, currency rates, and also includes information on the Asian crisis and economic analysis of other countries.

International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/
This agency of the UN was developed to organize the world economy. Lots of information on the INS and great resources on the 184 countries belonging to the IMS.

Internet Economic & Statistics Resources (LSU) - Gateway to numerous economic and statistics resources. Includes electronic journals and working papers, as well as major government sources. Mounted by Louisiana State University.

The Library of Economics and Liberty
http://www.econlib.org/
Multitude of resources on economics, books online, data, encyclopedia articles, and 13 topics of economics like macro, micro, law, history, and growth.

National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/
This is an economic research organization, read the latest publications, online digest, or search the multitude of data available.

NetEc - International effort to make working papers in economics available. This site is a mirror of the original at Manchester Computing Centre (UK) and is located at Washington University, St. Louis.

Nouriel Roubini's global macroeconomics and financial policy site
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/

RePEc: reseach papers in economics
http://repec.org/

Resources for Economists on the Internet
http://rfe.wustl.edu/EconFAQ.html
Managed by the American Economic Assoication this web site has a mulititude of links to economic resources on the web.

St. Louis Fed: economic data-FRED
http://research.stlouisfed.org/index.html

Trade Resources (Yahoo)
Gateway to Yahoo's listing of trade resources.

USDA Rural Economic and Community Development - This is the home page for the rural business and economic agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Of particular interest to businesses in rural America.

Wall Street Central
http://www.wscentral.com/
This site enables easy searching of stock prices and latest news.

World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org/