Links
Data
FRED Download, graph, and track US and international time series from various sources.
Federal Reserve Board Monetary, financial and output data.
BLS Data on wages, prices, productivity, and employment and unemployment rates.
BEA Data on GDP and components as well as other macroeconomic data.
IMF, International Financial Statistics (IFS) Country data for members.
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI) National, regional, and global development data.
Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices for the world's major economies.
IPUMS Census and survey data.
Bank for International settlements Effective Exchange Rate Indices
Resources for Economists Lists more than 2,000 resources, including links to data sources.
Economic Indicators and Releases
The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Data Files
Blogs
NEP-DGE Blog (Christian Zimmermann)
Nouriel Roubini Global Economics
Real Time Economics from The Wall Street Journal.
Real Time Economic Issues Watch from Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Resources for Learning Stata and R
Introduction to Stata, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Stata cheat sheets, Dr. Tim Essam and Dr. Laura Hughes
Stata, UCLA IDRE, includes FAQs, learning modules, a quick-reference guide, annotated output, textbook examples.
R, UCLA IDRE, includes FAQs, learning modules, a quick-reference guide, annotated output, textbook examples
Other Readings
Monetary Policy Report to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Federal Open Market Committee meeting calendars and information.
Speeches of Federal Reserve Officials
The Evolution of U.S. Monetary Policy - Hetzel
The Federal Reserve’s “Dual Mandate”: The Evolution of an Idea - Steelman
Monetary Policy and the Dual Mandate - Mishkin
The Most Dangerous Idea in Federal Reserve History: Monetary Policy Doesn't Matter - Romer and Romer
Why the Fed needs a new monetary policy framework - Summers
Should the Fed keep its balance sheet large? - Bernanke
Did Quantitative Easing Work? - Yu
Lessons Learned? (Crises of 1929-1933 vs. 2007-2009) - Wheelock
Over the Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis - Mishkin
Crisis and Responses: The Federal Reserve in the Early Stages of the Financial Crisis - Cecchetti
What tools does the Fed have left? Part 1: Negative interest rates - Bernanke
What tools does the Fed have left? Part 2: Targeting longer-term interest rates - Bernanke
The Federal Reserve and Panic Prevention - Gorton and Metrick
Dealing with Monetary Paralysis at the Zero Bound - Rogoff
The Federal Reserve's Policy Actions during the Financial Crisis and Lessons for the Future - Kohn
Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble - Ben Bernanke
Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis: A Primer - Bullard et. al.
Monetary Policy Principles and Practice
Short notes on sound monetary policy principles and practice.
Monetary Policy: What Are Its Goals? How Does It Work?
Historical Approaches to Monetary Policy
Principles for the Conduct of Monetary Policy
Policy Rules and How Policymakers Use Them
Challenges Associated with Using Rules to Make Monetary Policy
Monetary Policy Strategies of Major Central Banks
John Taylor Rules - Donald L. Kohn
The History of the Federal Reserve System
Contains the Fed's detailed historical timeline of important economic events over the past century.
Federal Reserve Credit Programs During the Meltdown (2007-2010) - Weinberg
Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2007–2010) - Duca
The Great Recession (December 2007–June 2009) - Rich
The Great Recession and its Aftermath (2007–) - Weinberg
The Great Moderation (1982–2007) - Hakkio
Oil Shock of 1973–74 (October 1973–January 1974) - Corbett
The Great Inflation (1965–1982) - Bryan
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (Humphrey-Hawkins) - Steelman
Federal Reserve Reform Act of 1977 (November 16, 1977) - Zhu
Employment Act of 1946 (February 20, 1946) - Steelman
Recession of 1937–38 (May 1937–June 1938) - Waiwood
The Great Depression (1929–1941) - Richardson
The Fed's Formative Years (1913–1929) - Wheelock
Federal Reserve Act Signed by President Wilson (December 23, 1913) - Staff of the Kansas City Fed