General Resources for Macroeconomics
and Financial Economics

Last Updated: 14 April 2007

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• On-Line Resources
  1. Macro and Financial Economics Websites with a Focus on the U.S.
     1. Recent Theoretical Developments
     2. General Macro/Financial Policy Issues
     3. Current Economic News
     4. Data Sets and Data Analysis
     5. Financial Markets and Institutions
     6. Miscellaneous Other Sites
  2. Websites Focusing on International Economic Data and Events
  3. Websites Providing Macro and Financial Economics Information for Specific Regions and Countries Other than the U.S.
  4. Websites Providing General Economic Resources
• Journals Publishing Macro-Related Articles
  1. Contributed-Paper Economic Journals
  2. Journal of Economic Literature
  3. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  4. List of Pointers to Economic Journals
• Library Resources
  1. U.S. Data
  2. International Data

On-Line Resources

1. Macro and Financial Economics Websites with a Focus on the U.S.

A. Recent Theoretical Developments

• Robert King, "New Classical Macroeconomics" (html,8pp), entry in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

• N. Gregory Mankiw, "New Keynesian Economics" (html,7pp), entry in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

• N. Gregory Mankiw, "The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer" (pdf,102K), Working Paper, Harvard University, May 2006.

• Leigh Tesfatsion, "Agent-Based Computational Modeling and Macroeconomics" (pdf preprint,148K), pp. 175-202 in David Colander (ed.), Post-Walrasian Macroeconomics: Beyond the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006.
  Abstract: Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. This essay discusses the potential of ACE modeling tools for the study of macroeconomic systems. Points are illustrated using an ACE model of a two-sector decentralized market economy.

  Michael Woodford, "Revolution and Evolution in Twentieth Century Macroeconomics (pdf, 119K), presented at the conference Frontier of the Mind in the Twenty-First Century, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  Note: Woodford is the author of Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy (Princeton University Press, 1999), an influential new attempt to address macroeconomic stabilization policy from within a rational expectations framework.

  A Web site on Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) maintained by Leigh Tesfatsion (Econ, Iowa State University) provides pointers to materials related to the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents.

  The Economic Growth Resources Website maintained by Jonathan Temple (Nuffield College, Oxford) provides pointers to economic growth resources on the internet, including data, literature, and working papers.

  A Web site on the Econonomics of Networks is maintained by Nicholas Economides (Stern School of Business, NYU).

  A Web site on the Formation of Economic and Social Networks is maintained by Leigh Tesfatsion (Economics, Iowa State University).

  A Web site on Information Economics is maintained by Hal Varian (SIMS, UC Berkeley).

  A Web site on Learning and the Embodied Mind is maintained by Leigh Tesfatsion (Economics, Iowa State University). Highlighted at this site is research on learning representions for strategically interacting agents in multi-market contexts, and research on behavioral economics more generally as motivated by human-subject experiments.

  A Web site on Macro Basics and the Evolution of Macroeconomic Theory is maintained by the Department of Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Online essays are provided covering the development of macroeconomic theory in the 1930s, the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, with a planned additional essay for the 1990s.

  A Web site on Post Keynesian Thought is maintained by the Communications for a Sustainable Future (CSF) group at the University of Colorado.

  The Quantitative Macro and Real Business Cycle Home Page maintained by Christian Zimmermann (U of Quebec at Montreal) provides pointers to work on stochastic dynamic general equilibrium theory motivated by the methods and aims of real business cycle theory.

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B. General Macro/Financial Policy Issues

• The annual Economic Report of the President is available online for current and past years.

• See the Budget Report Site for information on current and past U.S. budgets made available by the U.S. Office of Budget Management.

• The Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (U.S. State Department) issues reports on a variety of economic issues.

• The Brookings Institute in Washington D.C. is a private, independent, nonprofit research organization that "seeks to improve the performance of American institutions, the effectiveness of government programs, and the quality of U.S. public policies." Macro source materials available for downloading at the Brooking Institute's Web site include Brookings policy briefs as well as research reports on foreign policy and governmental studies.

• The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of U.S. government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affections low-income and moderate-income people.

• The Congressional Budget Office (U.S. Congress) provides information regarding the finances and programs of the U.S. Federal government.

• The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) maintains a Web site that highlights the recent NBER-sponsored publications of economists associated with the NBER, outlines major NBER programs and projects, provides information on NBER business cycle dating, and lists pointers to related Web sites of interest.

• The New Economy Index provides resources relating to structural transition that the U.S. economy is currently undergoing in response to advances in information technology (IT).

• The Roubini Global Economics (RGE) site is maintained by Nouriel Roubini (Stern School of Business, New York University). It provides links to a variety of macro source materials, with a stress on current macro policy issues facing the U.S.

• Brad DeLong's Web site (Econ, UC Berkeley) provides pointers to various interesting macro source materials, including a paper entitled "Old Rules for the New Economy" that discusses what he perceives to be the most important new aspect of the post-industrial U.S. economy -- the fact that information processing and distribution have become one of the leading sectors.

• Paul Krugman's Web site (Econ, Princeton University) provides access to many of his nontechnical (and controversial) writings on important international policy issues of the day. For example, Krugman argues that the "Asian growth miracle" of the past decade is a myth and largely dismisses the idea of a "New Economy."

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C. Current Economic News

• Business Week is a weekly economic news magazine, with a stress on the U.S.

• The Economist is a highly regarded economic news magazine with an international orientation.

• The Wall Street Journal is a daily U.S. newspaper featuring both domestic and international news.

• The Financial Times publishes global business news and analysis.

• The New York Times is a daily U.S. newspaper featuring both domestic and international news.

• CBS maintains CBS Market Watch, a site devoted the news and commentary on current economic events.

• CNN Financial Pages

• The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis provides a variety of news features and general information regarding the U.S. economy.

• Staff economists at the RFA (Regional Financial Associates) in West Chester, Pennsylvania, maintain a Web site designed for economics students titled The Dismal Scientist. This site provides analysis of major economic events around the world as well as economic profiles of local areas by zip code.

• The Economic Briefings site provides pointers to commentary on current newsworthy economic events. The site is maintained by John Irons as part of the About.com guide to online resources.

• The Global Economic Forum provides commentaries on current economic events by Morgan Stanley economists (Steven Roach).

• The Institute for International Economics (IIE) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. The IIE attempts to anticipate emerging issues and to be ready with practical ideas to inform and shape public debate. Linked to the IIE home page is a "hot topics" site that provides commentaries, reports, and links focusing on important topical issues in international economics.

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D. Data Sets and Data Analysis

• The Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) at the University of Essex maintains a supplementary site for a Quantitative Finance course that focuses on How to Process Financial Data. The website provides pointers to key types of financial data. It also provides user-friendly instructions to assist graduate and post-graduate students in the use of standard and cutting-edge techniques for financial data analysis.

• The Economagic Economic Time Series Page maintained by Economagic Inc. provides access to an extensive variety of economic time series data (primarily U.S.) with customized graphing and printing facilities.

• The Library of Congress maintains a site titled Databases and E-Resources that provides a comprehensive listing of free, easily available time-series data (primarily U.S.) useful for economic research.

• A monthly compilation of economic information prepared by the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) for the Joint Economic Committee can be found at Economic Indicators: Main Page

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a public database giving current and historical data for a large variety of economic variables, including inflation and consumer spending, employment and unemployment, wages, productivity, exports and imports, and foreign labor statistics.

• The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) provides comprehensive information about the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), including downloadable and interactively accessible data, at a site titled National Economic Accounts. The BEA also provides a data page giving a Summary Overview of the U.S. economy in recent years and in recent quarters.

• The United States Interational Trade Commission (ITC) provides direct access to data and reports on U.S. international trade at a website titled Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb

• STAT-USA: Internet provides access to current and historical economic and financial releases and to economic data both for the U.S. and abroad.

• The U.S. Federal Reserve Board maintains up-to-date Financial Time Series Data available for downloading in a format suitable for Excel spreadsheet table and graphical representations.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis provides a database of over 1000 U.S. economic time series in a variety of easy-to-use formats (e.g., MS Excel and text formats), also viewable in chart form, at a site titled FRED II (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

• Market Research International (Beaumont, Texas) supports a site titled the Financial Forecast Center. This site provides freely available forecasts for stock prices, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and other key economic indicators. Current economic indicators and historical data/graphs are also provided.

• The Congressional Budget Office Website provides detailed data pertaining to U.S. Federal government expenditures and the financing of these expenditures, past and present, as well as projected budget surpluses and/or deficits under alternative possible expenditure and financing scenarios for the future.

• The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) disseminates official information from all three branches of the U.S. Federal Government.

• World Bank Data Consistency and Definitions Site

• The Economics and Statistics Administration is an entry point to several services, including the Bureau of the Census household and business demographic data and to STAT-USA (which requires a subscription), the Federal Government's premier provider for electronic trade and economic information. In past years, STAT-USA has been available by site license to the ISU community -- check with Econ Department computer lab administrators about current ISU site license status.

• A list of pointers to Useful Economics Sites is maintained by the Department of Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. These sites cover "good starting places," current U.S. data series, international data, historical U.S. data series, general sources, market information, and company information.

• The FedWorld Information Network provides a comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring U.S. government information.

• The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Web site features a searchable index to over 5000 NBER working papers and books issued since 1978, a macroeconomic history database (3500 different time series), the Penn-World Tables of country data, as well as other materials.

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics maintains a Web site on Foreign Labor Statistics that provides a public database giving international comparisons of foreign labor statistics.

• The U.S. Census Bureau maintains a Web site on Foreign Country Statistical Agencies.

• The Pacific Exchange Rate Service, maintained by Werner Antweiler (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), provides access to current and historic daily exchange rates through an on-line database retrieval and plotting system. Other resources include: a list of the currencies of the world; analyses and trend projections for the Canadian Dollar, the U.S. dollar, and the Euro; surveys related to exchange rate issues; and links to other online exchange rate services.

• Economic History Services is a fileserver that provides resources and promotes communication among scholars in economic history and related fields.

• The Inflation Calculator Page enables you to calculate the average rate of inflation over past periods in U.S. history from 1913 through 1998 using the consumer price index (CPI).

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E. Financial Markets and Institutions

• Campbell R. Harvey (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) maintains a Hypertextual Finance Glossary that includes over 6,000 entries in alphabetical order, with over 16,000 hyperlinks.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRB-NY) supports two online publications: (a) Current Issues in Economics and Finance, a newsletter-style publication offering concise and timely analyses of economic and financial topics; and (b) Economic Policy Review, a policy-oriented research journal that focuses on macroeconomic, banking, and financial market topics. Both publications are freely available at http://www.newyorkfed.org/rmaghome.

• Frederic S. Mishkin (Columbia University, NY) maintains a Web site on the Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets that features audio clips, teaching tips, links to relevant data sources, and Federal Reserve Web sites.

• The Federal Reserve Board maintains a Web site that explains its structure and operations and also provides recent press releases, testimony, and speeches by Federal Reserve officials.

• The most important Federal regulations imposed on depository institutions in the United States are listed and explained in a Regulation web site maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRB-NY) maintains a Web site titled Fedpoint Publications that provides an extensive list of pointers to FRB-NY publications on the operations of the Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States. Examples of topics covered include: Buying and selling of Treasury securities; reserves; currency processing and destruction; and open market operations.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco maintains a Web site titled U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction. This site describes U.S. monetary policy as it is currently conducted by the Federal Reserve System (Fed) by addressing a series of issues, including the structure of the Fed, the Fed's goals, the tool's used by the Fed to implement its monetary policies, and how these monetary policies affect the U.S. economy.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis maintains a Web site titled Monetary Policy Links that provides a list of links to recent publications on monetary policy appearing in a variety of professional and academic outlets.

• The U.S. Treasury maintains a resources website on Treasury Bills, Notes, and Bonds. Included at this site are introductory materials explaining the basics of Treasury securities, purchase methods, auction rates, and information about government securities market regulations.

• A Website on the History of Money is maintained by Glyn Davies and Roy Davies (University of Exeter, UK). See, also, the Web site maintained by Roy Davies titled Money: Past, Present, and Future which provides sources of information on monetary history, contemporary developments, and the prospects for electronic money.

• Martin Shubik (Economics, Yale University) is in the process of constructing an on-line Museum of Money and Financial Institutions. The objective of the site is to provide an informative, interesting, and entertaining virtual science museum to promote the understanding of money and financial institutions through interactive exhibits.

• The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) maintains a Web site on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Banking, Finance, and Investing.

• Mark Bernkopf (Arlington, Virginia) maintains a Web site on foreign central banks.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains a Web site on U.S. Foreign Exchange Intervention. This is Fedpoint publication number 44, one of the many Fedpoint publications provided at the Fedpoint Publications Web site listed above.

• Nouriel Roubini (Stern School of Business, New York University) maintains a Web site on the East Asian crisis that provides an extensive list of pointers to lecture materials, research articles, and news commentary. Included at this site is an interesting detailed study by Steven Radelet and Jeffrey Sachs (74 pages, adobe format) entitled The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis maintains a Web site titled Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) that provides pointers to a variety of data bases (e.g., exchange rate data, commercial banking data, monetary data, etc.) as well as to its own publications and statistical releases.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago provides a micro database, available for free, that includes the balance sheets and income statements for all U.S. banks that are federally insured. The information starts in 1976 and continues until the present and is stored as SAS XPORT files. The Web site also contains documentation on all variables, a short description on how to form consistent time series for many of the major series, and separate files that identify the dates and outcomes of all U.S. bank mergers that have occurred since 1976.

• James Garven (Business Administration, Louisiana State University) maintains a guide to online financial economics resources at a Web site titled FINWeb. Included among these resources are journals, working papers, databases, other other finance-related Web sites.

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F. Miscellaneous Other Sites

• Ray Fair (Yale University) maintains a Web site on the Fair Econometric Model that permits interested researchers to simulate this model under alternative structural assumptions.

• WebEc-Macroeconomics is a Web site maintained at Washington University, St. Louis, that provides an extensive annotated listing of pointers to macro-related resources.

• The History of Economics page provides onine access to resources for teaching, scholarship, and research in the history of economics and the history of economic thought. See also the History of Economic Thought Web site maintained by Gonçalo Fonseca and Leanne Ussher (Economics Department, New School University, New York, NY).

2. Websites Focusing on International Economic Data and Events

• Resources for Economists on the Internet (sponsored by the American Economic Association) maintains an annotated list of pointers to World and Non-U.S. Data

• The World Bank maintains extensive resources on issues related to world growth and development. See, for example, the World Bank sites devoted to Macroeconomics and Growth and Beyond Economic Growth: Meeting the Challenges of Global Development. Accompanying the latter site is a useful Glossary of Basic Terms related to world economic growth and development.

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization among countries based on voluntary membership. As of 2001, 183 countries were members of the IMF. The stated goals of the IMF are: to promote monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustments. The IMF maintains on-line resources regarding its own organization and function, the current economic situation of its member countries, and current world events.

• United Nations Statistics Division

• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an organization that coordinates policy among developed countries.

• The CIA World Book of Facts.

• CountryWatch.Com (founded and managed by personnel associated with the United States Military Academy) provides continually updated political and economic coverage for each of the 191 countries of the world.

• European Union in the US is an official site sponsored by the European Union that provides information specifically directed towards Americans regarding the history, organization, and activities of the European Union.

• The European Central Bank maintains a general resource site on the introduction of the euro titled the Euro Site.

• Nicholas Roubini (New York University) maintains a resource site titled European Monetary Union and the Euro that provides notes, discussion questions, and readings related to the recent introduction of the euro among the member countries of the European Monetary Union.

• GapMinder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualizes human development. The site is maintained in collaboration with universities, UN organizations, public agencies, and non-governmental organizations by site-founders Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling (Stockholm) in February 2005.

3. Websites Providing Macro and Financial Economics Information for Specific Regions and Countries Other than the U.S.

General:

This site provides Links to Organizations and Statistical Agencies for many different countries and regions of the world.

Asia:

The Asian Development Bank

Australia:

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Brazil:

Central Bank of Brazil

Statistics (CIA-World Fact Book)

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

Canada:

Statistics Canada (CANSIM)

Croatia:

Central Bureau of Statistics (Croatian Government Site)

Ministry of Economy (Croatian Government Site)

P.R.China:

Chinese National Bureau of Statistics

Ministry of Labor and Social Security of P.R. China (in Chinese)

People's Bank of China

Europe:

The Euro Homepage maintained by Giancarlo Corsetti (Department of Economics, Yale University, New Haven) provides links to a wide variety of source materials related to the European Monetary Union (EMU).

The European Commission

Hungary:

Hungarian Central Statistical Office

India:

India One Stop

Ministry of Finance (India)

Ireland:

Ireland News Site (Economist Magazine)

Italy:

National Institute of Statistics (Italy)

Japan:

Japan Information Network

Economic Planning Agency of Japan

Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center (Japan)

Ministry of Labor (Japan)

Ministry of Health and Welfare (Japan)

Malaysia:

Statistics (Malaysian Industrial Development Authority)

Malaysia Economy

Mexico:

Banco de México

Mongolia:

The Bank of Mongolia

Mauritius:

Government of Mauritius

Nigeria:

Statistics (Country Watch)

Statistics (CIA-World Fact Book)

Poland:

Polish Official Statistics

The Polish Agency for Foreign Investment (PAIZ)

National Bank of Poland

Russia:

Russian State Committee on Statistics (Goskomstat)

Statistics Page (Central Bank of Russia)

The RosBusinessConsulting Analytic Service (in Russian) provides a collection of analytic publications by in-house and outside experts on Russia.

Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia Economic Statistics (CIA-World Fact Book)

South Korea:

Korea Institute of Finance

Bank of Korea

Korea Development Institute

Sweden:

National Institute of Economic Research

Statistiska Central Bryarn (Statistics Sweden Homepage)

Turkey:

State Institute of Statistics (in Turkish)

Prime Ministry State Planning Organization (in Turkish)

Turkish Treasury (in Turkish)

Turkish Republic Central Bank (in Turkish)

The Turkish Constitution (in Turkish)

4. Websites Providing General Economic Resources

• The ISU Economics Department Website provides links to various sites offering economic resources, with a particular stress on agricultural economics.

• The WWW virtual library of Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE), maintained by Bill Goffe (University of Southern Mississippi), provides over 700 annotated and catalogued listings of resource materials for economists that are available on the internet.

• EconomicSearch.Com provides a collection of useful links for economics students and faculty separated into categories such as money and banking, statistics and data analysis, etc.

• A Web site on Useful Information for Economists is maintained by David Giles at the Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

• ECONLinks, maintained by Scott Simkins (Economics, North Carolina State U), provides access to basic economic and financial information on the Web for students in economics and business courses.

• The Rutger University Resource Page includes numerous links to economics resources.

• The extensive Economics Working Papers Archive (Econ-WP) maintained by Bob Parks (Washington University at St. Louis) provides rapid dissemination of new research for both faculty and students.

• NetEc (Economists on the Internet) contains a searchable base of information on economic papers available for downloading from the internet through Web sites maintained by economic researchers.

• New Economics Papers (NEP) is a family of mailing lists that disseminate new papers in economics, including papers from the NBER, from all U.S. Federal Reserve banks, and from many other departments and institutions.

• The Scout Report for Business and Economics is a biweekly publication that offers a selective collection of internet resources covering a variety of economics and business topics.

• The Handbooks in Economics Web site maintained by North-Holland/Elsevier Science provides tables of contents for all voumes of the Handbooks in Economics Series published to date as well as chapter summaries.

• Inomics is an internet service for economists administered by Thorsten Wichmann (Berlecon Research, Germany) that offers a search engine for economics information, a listing of job openings for economists from all over the world, and announcements of economic conferences. It began operation in June 1998.

Journals Publishing Macro Related Articles

1. Contributed-Paper Economic Journals

Macro-oriented articles are sprinkled throughout most of the general mainstream economic journals such as the Journal of Political Economy (JPE), the International Economic Review (IER), and the American Economic Review (AER). More specialized articles can be found in the Journal of Monetary Economics (JME), the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE), the Journal of Public Economic Theory (JPET), the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG), Macroeconomic Dynamics (MD), the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (JEDC), the Emerging Markets Review, the Review of Financial Economics, and the Global Finance Journal.

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2. Journal of Economic Literature

Each issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) begins with two or three invited survey articles on various economic topics. Articles appearing in recent journal issues are listed, sorted once by journal source and again by subject matter. Abstracts are provided for a selected subset of these articles. There is also a listing of recently published books relevant for economists, some of which are reviewed or abstracted.

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3. Journal of Economic Perspectives

Each issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) contains an assortment of invited articles discussing current topics of interest. The articles tend to be well-written, lively, and informative expository introductions, with a minimum of technical detail, but with a useful list of references for further study. JEP can be obtained very cheaply (along with the AER and JEL) by becoming a member of the American Economic Association.

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4. On-Line Listings

An on-line list of links to economic journals is available. See, also, the JSTOR journal search site. for online access to journal articles, reviews, and opinion pieces.

Library Resources

1. U.S. Data

The Economic Report of the President (ERP), put out each February;

Economic Indicators (a monthly supplement to ERP);

Business Conditions Digest (monthly);

Survey of Current Business (monthly, Bureau of Economic Analysis);

Reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (branch of the Labor Department);

Federal Reserve Bulletin (put out by Federal Reserve Board).

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2. International Data

Holdings by CARD at ISU;

United Nations publications (wide variety);

World Bank reports;

International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports.

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