Interesting Links

Data:

• FRED Economic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

• IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database

• OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)

• Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

  • Overview of Available Data

  • Working tools of the FDZ

• Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency

• German Federal Statistical Office

  • Dashboard Deutschland

  • GENESIS-Online

• Eurostat

• World Bank Open Data

• Statistics of the Bundesbank

Paper Series:

• CESifo Working Papers 

• FAU Discussion Papers in Economics

• HdBA Discussion Papers in Labour Economics

• IAB-Discussion Papers

• IZA Discussion Papers

• LASER Discussion Papers

Blogs etc.:

• IAB-Forum (de)

• IAB-Forum (international part)

• VOX CEPR's Policy Portal

• Ökonomenstimme (In September 2022, the operation of the Ökonomenstimme was discontinued. The link leads to the archive of all posts published on the platform.)

Associations etc.:

• German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)

• Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER)

• Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (de)

• Scottish Economic Society (SES)

• Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) (de)

• Hochschullehrerbund (hlb) (de)

Economic forecasts for Germany (in German):

• Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)

• Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW)

• Kieler Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW Kiel)

• Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. (ifo)

Miscellaneous:

• DeepL (translator)

• Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)

• Googe Scholar

• Overleaf

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