Franklin & Marshall College Library

eResources for Economics

Contents

  1. Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
  2. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks
  3. Selected Online Resources
  4. General Resources
  5. Labor Studies
  6. The Fed
  7. Statistical Sources
  8. Full-Text Journals

Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Bibliographies

Selected Online Resources

General Resources
Labor Studies
Labor Unions and the Internet
From Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, this excellent site provides links to information about labor unions, collective bargaining, government offices, statistical data, and publications.

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
The Fed
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Links to reports, articles, and data, including material from the Federal Reserve Bulletin.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Includes the “Livingston Survey” of economic forecasts.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Contains information on foreign exchange rates, commercial paper, and interbank loan rates.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Contains the newsletter Agletter, and the Payment Systems Research Database.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
This site houses the Fed in Print database, and links to selected articles.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This site houses the FRED II database.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Contains “Instruments of the Money Market.”

Statistical Sources
BEARFACTS (Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Facts)
Consists of computer-generated narratives for states, counties, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), and BEA Economic Areas. The narratives describe an area's personal income using current estimates, growth rates, and a breakdown of the sources of personal income.

Business Cycle Indicators
A compilation of the leading economic indicators, from The Conference Board.

FedStats
Access to statistical data from over 70 agencies of the federal government.

FRASER
The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research is a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to expand on its mission to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

International Financial Statistics *Limited to 5 Simultaneous Users.
A standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. The database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas.

LABORSTA
View and extract data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories.

United Nations Statistics Division
A good place to begin searching for international economic data.

United States Economy at a Glance
Includes economic information on the National, State and Regional levels.

World Development Indicators
A data source on the global economy, this resource contains statistical data for over 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960 to the latest compiled for over 200 countries as well as 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

Full-Text Journals

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