Some Important Research Resources for Economists
Macroeconomic Data
1. St. Louis Federal Reserve – http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Data on the U.S. money supply, interest rates, price level, exchange rates, employment and
unemployment
2. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) – http://www.nber.org/
 Copies of the most recent working papers by economists (for a small charge).
 Information on U.S. business cycles at http://www.nber.org/cycles.html/ and
http://www.nber.org/cycles/recessions.html.
 Links to other data sources at http://www.nber.org/links/data.html.
3. Federal Reserve System – http://www.federalreserve.gov/
 Links to Federal Reserve Banks at http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm
 Links to data and publications at http://www.federalreserve.gov/rnd.htm
 Search engine to find research published by the Federal Reserve System at
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html
Labor Market and Demographic Data
1. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) – http://www.bls.gov/
Data on employment, unemployment, price and inflation, wages, occupations, etc.; excellent
technical documentation for all data series.
2. U.S. Census Bureau – http://www.census.gov/
 Summary data on U.S. population, race, income, housing, employment, etc.
 Economic census – data on U.S. businesses and industries
 Search for data in American Fact Finder at
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
International
1. International Monetary Fund – http://www.imf.org/
2. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – www.oecd.org/std
3. World Bank – http://www.worldbank.org/
4. Penn World Table – extensive data on the economies of 188 countries, available at
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
General
1. Resources for Economists on the Internet – http://rfe.org/
2. Another link from the NBER – http://www.nber.org/links/resources.html
Indexes of Journal Articles in Economics (available only through a library subscription)
Econlit (OCLC First Search) – comprehensive index of articles in economics
JSTOR.org – online archive of all articles ever published (through about 2000) in the leading 52
journals in economics.