Academic Research Links

• Important Sites for Business, Management and Economics Researchers

• Resources for Economists on the Internet

• A complete list of all economic journals

• Statistical Links Worldwide

• Free Online Courses Worldwide

• Case Studies (Anderson Economic Group)

• Statistical Data Sources of my MS Research

      Economic Glossary

• International Economics Glossary -- University of Michigan

• International Economics Glossary -- University of Washington

• Economics and Finance Glossary

• Economic Glossary -- United Nations

• Microeconomicand Macroeconomic Terms

• Glossary of Trade-Related Terms

• MyGlossary

• PPP

• Economic Terms

• Economic Terms (by Baumol, Blinder)

• HK Monetary and Banking Terms

      Finance Glossary

• Finance Glossary

      Dictionary                                                                  

• Webster Dictionary

Magazines/ Journals

      Journals

• EconLit (Searching Engine for Academic Journals)

• JSTOR

• E-Journals (Stanford Network Only)

• Journal searching: IDEAS

      Magazines

• Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (An excellent source of current perspectives)

• The Economist

• Business Week

• New York Times

      Mathematical Formula

Resources for Economists

Resources in the Area of Finance

      Links to Lists of Financial Journals

• - the Virtual Finance Library, with good links and a list of finance journals

• - ECONBase, provides a useful search engine for examining the abstracts of articles published in Elsevier journals.

• Finance Journal - provides a list of links to finance journals

• Finance Journal- provides a list of links to finance journals

• - The Numa directory of derivatives journals - lots of useful links and contacts for academic and practitioner journals on derivatives

• - Lists of links to finance journals and magazines

• - This is a repository for journal articles. Many of the important journals in economics and finance are stored here. The service is free to members of universities who subscribe to it. JSTOR operates a "moving wall", usually of 5 years, so that only articles published 5 years or more ago are accessible. 

• Econlit is the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economic literature, including a long listing of journals in economics and finance with links to the publishers' web sites.

  Some Sources of Financial Literature on the Internet

      Universities

      Almost all Universities around the world now make copies of their discussion papers available electronically. A few examples             from finance departments are:

• - Department of Finance, Stern School, New York University

• Wharton Financial Institutions Centre

• - University of California at Berkeley

• - University of Michigan Documents Centre, containing an array of useful literature and data sources

      US Federal Reserve Banks and the Bank of England

• - Bank of England - containing their working papers, news and discussion

• - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - including information on economic and research data and publications

• - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - a great deal of useful US data, including monetary, interest rate, and financial data, available daily, weekly, or monthly, including long time histories of data.

• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - including interest data and useful links

• - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - including macroeconomic, interest rate, monetary and bank data

• Federal Reserve Board of Governors

• - Federal Reserve Bank of New York

      International Bodies

• - the International Monetary Fund - including working papers, forecasts, and IMF primary commodity price series.

• - World Bank working papers in finance

• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development working paper series, searchable

      Miscellaneous

• - a list of literally hundreds of journals, some in finance and economics, including their URLs.

• International Business Resources on the WWW - including a "finance" section, a "world stock exchanges" section, and a "statistical data sources" section.

• - The Corporate Finance Network - links to information on global and international finance, 

• and links to the web pages of many equity markets, including those of small 

• or developing countries

• - Finance and Development Research Program - interesting research output and 

• links on various issues in finance, but especially relating to developing countries, 

• such as banking crises, regulation etc.

• FinWeb - internet 

• sources on finance, including journals and working papers

• WoPEc - huge database of working papers in areas of economics, including finance

• - bibliographic database for economics, reportedly including over 110,000 searchable items

• - WWW Virtual Library, WebEc, containing a "Financial Economics" section 

• and a "Mathematical and Quantitative Methods" section

• - An interesting link to software - an interesting site provided by the Wharton School, and containing information on forecasting, including sources of forecasts, and links to software (some free)

• - National Bureau of Economic Research - huge database of discussion papers and links including data sources.

• This Database has lots of useful finance-related information - for example, financial news, 

• summaries of journal articles, some practice tests and questions etc. 

• Financial Economics Network (FEN) is the Financial Economics Network (FEN) site, which is part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and includes a searchable database of working papers split by subject area, professional and job announcements.

Some Sources of Financial Data on the Internet

      Many of the URLs listed above include extensive databases - for example, the Federal Reserve Banks. Furthermore, many        

      markets and exchanges have their own web pages detailing data availability.

• - Bureau of Economic Analysis - includes a large quantity of US data, especially macroeconomic, with a historical database.

• Many new and unknown internet sites offer data. Such data are typically extremely expensive and may be of dubious quality and therefore readers are advised to steer clear of these.

• Financial Data  gives a long listing of sources of financial data. 

• Finance and Accounting -also gives a useful list of finance and accounting web sites.

• Statistical data on the web-provides a long list of links to statistical data on the web.

Software

Statistical Distributions

Computer Programs

        RCH

• • Bruce Hansen's Computer Programs

        Chow & Lin Interpolation

• • Gauss Computer Program

  • RATS Computer Program

        Cointegration

• • Bruce Hansen's Computer Programs

        GMM

• • Bruce Hansen's Computer Programs

        Makov Switching Model

• • James Hamilton's Software

  • Bruce Hansen's Computer Programs

        Threshold Autoregressive Models

• • Bruce Hansen's Computer Programs

  • Pierre Perron's Computer Programs (Structural Break Models)

        Nonparametric Density Estimation

• • Bruce Hansen's Computer Programs

 User's Guides of Statistical Software

       EVIEWS

• QMS -- EVIEWS Homepage

• Jean-Christian Lambelet's Macroeconomic Modelling Web

• Johnson R.R. (U. of San Diego), A Guide to Using EVIEWS

       GAUSS

• GAUSS -- Old Site

• GAUSS -- New Site (User Manual)

• GAUSS tutorial

• GAUSS Graphics Utilities

• GAUSS Procedures

• GAUSS Application Module Documentation

• Increasing workspace

       HTML

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML

       LATEX

• LATEX homepage

• LATEX -- beamer class

• Latex: Macros and Packages

• Sample Thesis Template

• Thesis Style (Stanford University)

       MATLAB

• Matlab: General Tutorials

• Functions in Various Toolboxes

       RATS

• RATS source programs

       SAS

• SAS Functions

• SAS version 8 Online Documentation (ID: onlinedoc, pwd: sas)

• SAS: User's Guide

• SAS Support

• SAS: Codes for Ploting Graphs

       S Plus

• S Plus Reference

       SPSS

• SPSS user's guide

       STATA

• STATA user's guide

       TSP

• TSP: User's Guide

       Other Important Links

• Gateway to U.S. Government Agencies

• USA Immigration Services