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This page provides links to useful sources of information
in economics. You can access and download economic data, and
read newspapers and working papers through this page.
Back to Economic Resources Main Page.
Executive Office of the President
of the United States
The White House
- White House Briefing
Room
This page provides access to daily press briefings, press releases
as well as the latest government statistics
Economic
Statistics Briefing Room
Council of Economic
Advisors: Economic Report of the President
You can search the Economic Report of the President for the
years 1996, 1997 and 1998 by words or phrases through this site.
University of California provides this easy viewing access.
You can also download individual tables in spreadsheet or pdf
formats from this site.
You can download individual tables in spreadsheet format from
this website maintained by University of California, San Diego.
Budget documents and historical tables can be downloaded in
pdf and spreadsheet formats from this site.
Press
Releases
This page provides pdf access to USTR press releases from
1995 to present.
This page provides pdf access to various USTR reports.
Some Departments of the United
States Government
Department of Commerce
You can conduct an A-Z search for census documents in the
internet through this site. This page also has links to the fee-based
CenStats and CenStore.
This website provides free access to a plethora of census
publications and data in pdf format (e.g. Annual Survay of Manufactures,
Government Finances etc.)
1997 Statistical
Abstract of the United States
This site provides data in pdf format.
This Univeristy of Virginia service provides access to data
from the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books.
National Income and Products Accounts data, Industry and Wealth
data, International Accounts data, and Regional Accounts data
are available on this website.
This University of Virginia service provides graphical reperesentation
of NIPA data.
This site provides data on trade outlook trends, commodity
trade by counrtry and region, and state and metropolitan exports.
This is a very useful source of economic data which provides
complete access to the National Trade Data Bank but it requires
subscription.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Various series, surveys and regional data are availabe through
this website
Policy
This page provides information on macroeconomic conditions
in other countries, international issues, international and U.S.
policies and the U.S. positions on various issues.
Department of Treasury
Various tax publications are available through this site.
This site provides access to data files compild from tax and
information returns filed with the IRS.
Few Independent U.S. Government
Agencies
Central Intelligence
Agency
Federal Reserve
Board
Federal
Reserve Banks
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
Financenet
United States General Accounting
Office
United States International
Trade Commision
United States Securities and
Exchange Commission
Some Legislative and Judicial Branch
Websites
United States Senate
United States
Supreme Court
Cornell University maintains this site which provides access
to Supreme Court decisions.
Resources at Some Non-governmental
Institutions
This is an indispensible and the most comprehensive source
of information on the internet for a student of economics.
NBER Online
Data
Tax Foundation
Lexis-Nexis
Congressional Universe
This site provides free access to recent data. This access
includes U.S. National Income and Product Accounts, the Flow
of Funds Accounts, and reserves, credit, interest rates and monetary
data from the Federal Reserve. It also provides access to state
Gross State Product and Personal Income data from the Bureau
of Economic Analysis, and state and metro area employment by
industry from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Resources at Other Colleges and
Universities
This page lists links to various organizations including international
and non-governmental oraganizations
University
of Maryland EconData
Several hundred thousand economic time series, produced by
a number U.S. Government agencies and distributed in a variety
of formats and media, can be found here.
University
of Michigan Documents Center Statistical Resources
This website provides numerous useful links to statistical
resources on the internet.
Panel
Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan
The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample
of US individuals and the families in which they reside. The
data has been collected annually since 1968.
Other
Data Centers
This page also provides links to resources at other colleges
and universities.
International Organizations
and Economic Information
This website provides access to central banks, finance ministries
and economic institutions of various countries.
Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development
University of Toronto provides access to this database which
maintains macroeconomic data for 152 countries.
World Bank
Working Papers in Economics
Washington University provides this access to working papers.
This Washington University site provides information about
printed and electronic working papers.
Newspapers and Magazines
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