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The Albert Sloman Library: 

• Access
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• Resources for economics
• Data  and statistical sources accessible from the Library
• IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences ) - a powerful search engine for journal articles.
• Datastream

General University Links:

• How do I change my password? (Computing Services)
• Course Materials Repository for Economics: the place to look for all on-line course material
• Module directory: information about all Essex modules
• Stata guide: online support for using Stata at Essex.
• Basic IT skills: enhance your IT skills online.
• The Economics Society: run by students for students, with the support of the department
• Web and Learning Technology: for information about on-campus services in web-page development
• Student Support: guidance and assistance for students
  • Guidance for staff - Mental Health Crisis Intervention, Protecting Students Under 18 and Vulnerable Adults, and the University's Drugs and Alcohol policy for students
• Students' Union: services for students provided by students
• Learning Technology Team: information about learning and teaching technologies
• Planning and Academic Development Unit:
  • Quality matters: support for maintaining and enhancing quality of the educational provision
    • Examinations and Assessment
  • L & T: support for Learning and Teaching strategies at Essex
• Data Protection: information about the law on data protection
• SOCRATES-ERASMUS: study in Europe (or at Essex from the EU)
• Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents
• The Data Archive
• The Institute for Social and Economic Research

Of Wide Interest to Economists

Economic research

• Estro: Essex Student Research Online
• ExLab: this link enables you to join the database of volunteers for economics experiments
• SSRN Social Science Research Network
• Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
• Theoretical economics - an open-access journal in economic theory
• The information economy: resources compiled by Hal Varian at Berkeley
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics - a large bibliographic database dedicated to materials on the Internet
  • RePEc Ideas: access the RePEc database
  • Econpapers: EconPapers provides a way of accessing the information contained in the RePEc database.
  • Statistical Software Components: Lots of Stata (and other) modules to perform statistical tasks

Economic education

• Econ Journal Watch: scholarly comments on academic economics
• Economics Network: The Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy
• econphd.net: support resources aimed at graduate students
• Tutor2u: Guidance designed for economics students (especially beginning students)
• EconLinks:Dr T's Econ Links (US)
• Bized: a business and economics service (UK)
• QAA: The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
  • Economics Benchmark Statement (PDF)

General resources

• Resources for Economists on the Internet
• WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics
• BUBL: A national information service for the higher education community
• Inomics: Job openings, conference announcements, a search engine for economics information
• UK universities: site sensitive map to locate any UK university
• How much is that? calculate purchasing power, inflation rates, exchange rates from the past to the present.
• Academic jobs EU: advertisements for academic and related jobs.
• Inside Careers: Graduate career opportunities.
• TimeWeb (mimas): access to macroeconomic data for OECD countries. For more information see:
  • Library: access from the Albert Sloman Library at Essex.
  • TimeWeb (bized): guidance for obtaining and analysing time-series.
• Some economists' personal websites:
  • Samuel Brittan (Economic policy commentary)
  • Ariel Rubinstein (Top class economic analysis)
  • Bradford DeLong (Berkeley) (Eclectic book reviewer and economic historian)
  • Peter Phillips (Yale) (Proper econometrics)
  • Robert J. Shiller (Yale) (Finance, and financial data). A website to complement his book: The New Financial Order.

Research Centres and Institutes

• Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) IMF data are available online from ESDS International
• Europa: European Union's Web Site
• European Investment Bank
• Bank for International Settlements
• Federal Reserve Board: the U.S. Central bank
  • Member banks: a site-sensitive map for the 12 Federal Reserve Districts
• National Institute of Economic and Social Research
• Bank of England
• European Central Bank
• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Bank of Canada (English)
• Reserve Bank of New Zealand
• Bank of Japan (English)
• Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Centre for Economic Performance (LSE)
  • Publications
• Financial Markets Group (LSE)
• Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD - LSE)
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA.
• American Economic Association
• Royal Economic Society
• Santa Fe Institute
• Institute for Employment Research (IER), Warwick.

Data Sources

• Data  and statistical sources accessible from the University of Essex Albert Sloman Library
• Incomes Data Services providing information (for the UK) on employment issues
• IMF data from ESDS International
• OxLAD Oxford Latin American History Database
• Current Population Surveys: Access to several US official data sources administered by the Bureau of the Census.
• Wooldridge data: Datasets used in Wooldridge Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (MIT Press, 2002)
• Journal of Applied Econometrics: non-confidential datasets for all papers published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics since 1994.
• Data on the Net (at UCSD): links to over 850 websites offering Social Science numeric data
• Economic data Access to lots of data series (mostly US macro/finance time series).
• TimeWeb (mimas): Access to OECD main economic indicators. For more information see:
  • Library: access from the Albert Sloman Library at Essex.
  • TimeWeb (bized): guidance for obtaining and analysing time-series.
• Council of European Social Science Data Archives
• NAPES National Asia Pacific Economic and Scientific Database at the Australian National University (Demonstration)
• CIA Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIA World Factbook 1999
• OECD statistics
• Eurostat
• ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (Michigan)
• Univ of Michigan Document Center: Access to lots of US data.
• MIMAS: Manchester Information and Associated Services: JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester, providing a free service for higher education throughout the UK.
• NISS: National Information Services and Systems
• Economics Growth Resources: A website dedicated to research on economic growth.
• Penn World Table: Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania
• r.cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe: free access to official EU statistics for UK academic researchers.
• SSDC: Social Sciences Data Collection (San Diego)
• UK Official National Statistics:
  • StatBase - online encyclopaedia of official statistics
  • DataBank - subscriber service for economic data
• US Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
• US Bureau of Economic Analysis
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics
• US Census Bureau
• US Department of Agriculture
  • Economic Research Service
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service
  • US State Fact Sheets
• Japan Statistical Yearbook (English)
• Austrialian Bureau of Statistics
• Statistics Canada (English)
• Statistics New Zealand

Development and International Economics

• Euro-American Association of Economic Development Studies
• EconomicExpert.com - economics-related information, articles and analysis on the world's economies, industry status and global data
• SRDE Student Research on Development Economics
• Trade and Development Gateway
• USAID Development links
• GATT digital library, 1947-1994
• More links for Development websites
• Social Capital Gateway -  resources for the study of Social Capital
• Virtual Developing Country An introduction to ideas in development economics
• United Nations
• UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund
• Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
• World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER): The United Nations University
• International Labor Organisation (ILO)
• World Trade Organisation
• International Economics
• Institute for International Economics (Washington DC)
• International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG)
• World Bank
  • Policy Research Working Papers
  • Poverty lines
  • Africa Region Findings
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Social Change: Economic and demographic measuring social change
• FAOStat Database at the Food and Agriculture Organisation
• Penn World Table: Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania
• Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS): a World Bank resource for micro-household data

Finance

• Case studies - Sunguard BancWare Erisk case studies
• APSIM  Asset Pricing and portfolio choice SIMulator - W. F. Sharpe's website to accompany his book Investors and Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices and Investment Advice, Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Behavioral finance Details of the Shiller/Thaler conferences
• FinancialWeb A portal for sources of information about the financial world
• Capital Flow Analysis Flows of funds analysis for the US capital markets
• DailyFX - news about foreign exchange market fluctuations
• Fine art prices the Mei/Moses Fine Art Index
• Bond pricing Dave Backus's notes on bond markets
• Bonds R. Stafford Johnson's draft chapters on Bonds
• London Stock Exchange
• Virt-X: an electronic stock exchange
• New York Stock Exchange
• American Stock Exchange
• NASD National Association of Securities Dealers (US)
  • Data: market data from the NASD
  • NASDAQ: stock price quotation system
• Financial Times-Stock Exchange Indices
• Dow Jones Averages
• Standard and Poor's Indices
• Chicago Board of Trade
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• Eurex - European Derivatives Exchange
• Euronext.liffe formerly London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
• New York Mercantile Exchange
• New York Board of Trade
• London Metal Exchange
• Oxford Financial Research Centre

News Online

• BBC
• Ananova: virtual newscaster
• Moreover: news headlines from over 1500 sources
• Arts & Letters: Arts and letters daily review
• Scitech: Science and technology daily review
• Bloomberg: Business and financial information
• The Economist: online version of the weekly magazine
• Electronic News-Stand
• Asia Business News
• BusinessWeek
• CNN
• Electronic Policy Network
• Electronic Telegraph
• Financial Times
• Forbes magazine
• The Guardian and The Observer
• The Independent
• International Herald Tribune
• NBC
• New York Times
• PBS
• Reuters
• The Sunday Times
• The Times
• Washington Post

Web Search Engines

• Alta Vista
• EINet Galaxy
• Excite
• FAST Search
• Infoseek
• Lycos
• Google (good for finding people)
• Google scholar
• MetaCrawler
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo (All Sites)
• Yahoo (UK Sites Only)

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