Research Resources for Economists

Some special internet search engines

Google Scholar Beta „Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.“

Scirus Scirus is a science-specific search engine, searching more than 200 million science-specific Web pages and offering some special functionalities designed for scientists and researchers. In particular, it offers access to reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals.

... academic research in economics is found here

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) „Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.“

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) „ ... is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 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. All RePEc material is freely available.“

EconWPA (Economics Working Paper Archive) „... service is 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. Other areas are added when demand dictates. Irregularly updated graphs of submissions and older 2002 graphs of number of submissions. “

Inomics® „Inomics is an Internet service especially tailored to the needs of economists. At this site you can find job openings for economists, conference announcements, a human-edited directory as well as a database of research papers in economics. “

...selected economic data and time series are found here

World in Figures -- World in Figures provides wide range of updated business, economic, social, political, opinion and environmental data and time series.

Economagic.com -- A economic time series "portal".

CountryWatch.com -- "CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. […] a key set of political, economic, and business information, daily news and data for its clients in the form of Country Reviews^TM, the Country Wire^TM and CountryWatch Data.”

Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania -- The offers capital stock data, sub-national income estimates, hedonic price estimates, relative price differences by expenditure aggregates, world distribution of income, as well as an applications of PPPs to historic GDP estimates.

The World Factbook -- The World Factbook offers country profiles including demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data. A publication of the C.I.A.



...other resources are

The World Bank
Bank for International Settlements
International Monetary Fund
The Federal Reserve Board
The European Central Bank
Deutsche Bundesbank

New York Stock Exchange Market Information
FTSE Indices & Market Data
Deutsche Börse Group Statistics + Analysis

... here are the links to some prominent research associations

Economic Associations:

American Economic Association
European Economic Association
Verein für Socialpolitik ACES - Association for Comparative Economic Studies



Finance Associations:

AFA - American Finance Association
EFA - European Finance Association
EFMA - European Financial Management Association
DGF - German Finance Association
AFFI - French Finance Association

...and research organisations (alphabetical order)

AIER - American Institute for Economic Research
CERP - Center for Economic and Policy Research (Washington, United States)
CeRP - Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (University of Turin, Italy)
CERT - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation
CESifo Group
DIW Berlin - German Institute for Economic Research
ECGI - European Corporate Governance Institute
ICER - International Center for Economic Research (Turin, Italy)
IFS - Institute for Fiscal Studies
Japan Center for Economic Research
NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research
NBR - The National Bureau of Asian Research
NIESR - The National Institute of Economics and Social Research
ZEW - Center for European Economic Research

...and finally some finance stuff

Research-Finance.com -- Journal articles and working papers in finance, edited by John P. Scordo, Esq.

FinanceProfessor.com -- A discussion page of finance news, academic articles, and other things, edited by Jim Mahar

FENews -- Financial Engineering News is a free bimonthly publication covering the news and innovations in the fields of financial engineering and risk management.

MathFinance -- The homepage of Uwe Wystup and Andreas Weber that aims to be "the bridge between investment banking and academic research in mathematical finance". In particular, the page offers a formula catalogue for financial options, many academic links, and a list of many prominent text-books in in the area of mathematical finance.