Penn World Tables from NBER (Heston and Summers)

Penn World Tables and other international data from EPAS at University of Toronto (Heston and Summers)

Information about all of the countries that belong to the OECD.

News and Information about bank activities, Publications (full-text searchable), topics in development, country-specific information

NBER WAIS searchable database. Select "Online Data" and then NBER Macro-Economic History Database, Penn World Tables, or Business Cycle Dating Information. The History Database data are stored in the Micro-TSP .DB format. This is ASCII and individual series are easily edited into other forms. Documentation for each series is stored with the series itself.

Extensive, long-term historical indices on stock markets, interest rates, exchange rates and inflation rates. Database provides historical data on over 50 countries and goes back to the 1690s. Exchange rates of all national currencies are presented in terms of the U.S. dollar. You can also change the basis from the U.S. dollar to another currency of your choice.

International business information and intelligence service corporation providing * research * consulting * publishing * training * plus links to other websites for doing research in the field of international business and economics, including political risk, and also international affairs.

The World Bank Home Page has information about the Bank activities in various countries around the world. Also includes a Growth Research Web Site and data for downloading.

Source for Canadian data (census, economics data) and Penn World Tables

This is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget. Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also.

A new, optimistic view on an old subject. This website emphasizes the importance of economic growth and seeks to dispel some myths about deficits.

Contains a simple, neat, point-and-click presentation of the entire Federal budget. To explore the budget, click the button. When downloading is complete (buttons take a few minutes), explore choices to balance the Federal budget. Find solutions to reduce the National Debt. Learn how Federal budget dollars are spent on Education, Health Care, Defense, and the Environment.

The Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to eliminating federal budget deficits and ensuring Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are secure for all generations. Has lots of information on the budget and debt.

A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget, including the budget fiscal year 1996, discussion of deficits and debt, deficity reduction, and an historical budget summary. Text document.

This is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget. Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also.

IFS Virtual Economy
At the heart of the UK Virtual Economy are sophisticated computer models which are very similar to those the Chancellor and his advisors use to prepare the Budget and to keep the economy on track.

All of the budget numbers and agency requests submitted to Congress. Links to historical data series on the deficit, expenditures, and revenues.

CBR was established by a group of taxpayers to arm citizens with knowledge to attack government program failure and to promote economic, political, and social growth.

Data plus all kinds of good ideas and curriculum materials for teaching economics!

Banking information, job opportunities, news and publications, research, and statistical information.

The Internet's most complete directory of central bank sites from all over the world. For bankers, economists, academics, policymakers, regulators, financial journalists, consultants and others. In addition to central bank home pages, includes links to information about central banks.

This page references online finance courses, multimedia & software, downloadable slides, textbooks, bookstores, articles, simulators & games and information on publishers. From Ohio State University

The CME is the first futures and options exchange on the World Wide Web. Here you can find daily settlement prices of all CME futures and options, marketing page with product information, educational programs, and more.

More than 300 links to finance and economics departments, more than 200 statistical and data agencies, more than 100 links to stock exchanges, 120 links to central banks, online quotes, currency converter, etc.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for more financial data.

This Web site provides up-to-date information on a wide range of financial information.

This is also the site for The Stanford Bank Game that will be of interest to those teaching Money & Banking.

Quoteserver provides free quotes (just type in the ticker symbol of the stock you are interested in). Also found here are investment tools and the current NASDAQ Composite Index data.

This site has nice graphs of price and volume of stock market outcomes.

Access to extensive and searchable information about stocks and other investments.

HOOVER'S BUSINESS PROFILES gives you comprehensive profiles of over 1,000 major companies, including company history, CEO background, primary competitors and annual financials. Links to descriptions of largest 100 firms.

Dun and Bradstreet also sponsors a site for companies on line at Companies Online. Here you can search for a particular company or browse by industry.

S&P News focuses on the activities of 6,500 of the most actively traded public companies. Coverage concentrates on announcements that impact existing securities or that involve the issuance of new securities (by subscription and monthly fee only).

This page demonstrates the rewards of saving and investing in stocks. It has a section for educators with instructions on how to select stocks and how to set up a simulation stock market using actual stock values. It has a real-life example to show you how to build a stock portfolio full of 2-, 4-, and 8-baggers.

A comprehensive and easy-to-use online charting service, giving you FREE and UNLIMITED access to charts, reports, indicators and quotes on US stocks, mutual funds and major market indices.

The U.S. Business Advisor exists to provide business with one-stop access to federal government information, services, and transactions. Their goal is to make the relationship between business and government more productive.

This page demonstrates the rewards of saving and investing in stocks. It has a section for educators with instructions on how to select stocks and how to set up a simulation stock market game for students using actual stock values. It has a real-life example to show you how to build a stock portfolio full of 2-, 4-, and 8-baggers.

This site has nice graphs of price and volume of stock market outcomes.

S & P Personal Wealth Web Site

Investment Challenge is a realistic stock market simulation dedicated to enhancing investment education at the National level through interactive, online simulation.

A guide to investment and financial resources on the web.

Designed to teach young and old alike, what the stock market is, and how it can work for them. It includes tutorials on the stock market and how to pick good stocks. It also provides information on a select group of companies to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune. Last of all, it provides a FREE 20 minute delayed Stock market simulation on the World Wide Web. Includes pages on how to examine company profiles and stock market simulations. Has a simulation that uses real-time accurate stock data (20 minutes delayed.

The National Institute for Consumer Education, from the College of Education at Eastern Michigan University, is a professional development center and resource clearinghouse in consumer, economic and personal finance education. The mission of NICE is to empower people through education to become informed consumers, reasoned decision makers and participating citizens in a global marketplace. This site has some very nice lessons on consumer issues, such as college financial aid, student budgets, saving for college education, etc.

Covers these topics: Banking, Bonds, Brokers, Buying a House, Consumer Tips, Credit Cards, Insurance, International, Investing, Magazines, Mutual Funds, Options, Retirement, Stock, Quotes, Taxes, and Technical Analysis.

Includes interactive worksheets that will help you compare your income and spending, assess your net worth, examine your debt and much more.

General introduction to personal finance includes Budget / Plan: basics, guidelines; Example Budget, Retirement Planning; Investment: best categories, risk/reward, asset allocation, Mutual Funds; Reference: books, files for download, financial links, and periodicals; and Glossary: definitions of selected financial terms and securities.

Information on loans, credit, morgages, car buying, retirement, etc, and links to discussion groups on various related topics.

Features a fine collection of loan resources and provides calculation programs (eg "what will it take for you to become a millionaire?"), daily rate quotes, and advisory reports. Includes areas for car, home, and credit cards and answers lots of standard questions.

Lots of information about things like IRAs, retirement planning, buying a car on the Internet, tips on helping kids save, etc.

Dedicated to non-commercial investor education. Many "how to" pages, section for young people, and a quiz on your IQ (Investment Quotient), ending with national survey results and discussion.

National Financial Services Network Personal Finance has information about loans (home, car, education), consumer credit, insurance, securities, savings accounts, electronic banking, and personal Finance Software. Also searches for best rates by state.

Large and very comprehensive glossary of investor words.

What Every Investor Should Know (from the US Securites and Exchange Commission).

Yahoo Finance and Investment References and Guides.

Kiplinger Online calculators for financial decisions. Take a look at the page for college financing, too!.

A guide for educators from Nasdaq and NICE: financial decisions, how markets work, investment choices, etc. Also includes lessons for educators to use.

The purpose of this web site is to provide would-be and start-up entrepreneurs with some handy tools and resources to make the task of planning and starting a small business easier. This site has also been designed for the purpose of promoting small business information and planning electronic guidebooks.

City.Net is a comprehensive international guide to communities around the world. City.Net provides timely access to information on travel, entertainment, and local business, plus government and community services for all regions of the world. A great source for information about other countries and cities.

Demographic Profiles of Cities and States are available for states, metro areas, counties, and cities.

The White House Web site provides text of releases on economic policy, environmental policy, foreign affairs, jobs, healthcare, science and technology, and other current news items. The speeches of the president, proposed budget for 1996 are also on this site.

The Library of Congress Web site provides the full text of legislation for House and Senate bills searchable by keywords or bill number, the full text of the Congressional Record, daily accounts of proceedings on House and Senate floors, and the text of How Our Laws Are Made by Edward F. Willett, Jr., House Law Revision Counsel. More generally, the Library of Congress Web pages also provide historical collections and descriptions of some of the Library’s special collections, and several exhibits. Also very useful is LOCIS, the Library of Congress Information System, which is searchable by keywords.

Environmental Economic Information

Economics Journals, Economists Directories, Working Papers

This section includes information about pre-prints and working papers, other Departments of Economics, directories of economists, economics journals, library resources, and the JEL article classification system.

The American Economic Association's bibliography of Economic Literature. Also hosts the Journal classification system (EconLit) and the EconLit liet of economics journals.

Economics Working Papers Archive at Washington University (Bob Parks)

Search Working Papers by Keyword
Source for Penn World Tables

A project to list and link web sites and home pages by economists' names. Provides a searchable page by name. Run by Kuan-Pin Lin. Add your name via a form on the page.

This site also lists and links web sites and home pages by economists' names. Run by John Irons. Add your name via a form on the page.

Full texts of some 36 economics journals directly accessible on-line.

Christian Zimmerman's extensive index of economics institutions on the WWW.

Maintained as a primary link for non-U.S. WWW servers in other academic Economics Departments by Lief Bluck and David Giles of the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria, CANADA.

(Searchable by Keyword)

This directory is based on the list of all Ph.D. programs in Economics (U.S. and Canada) in Peterson's Guide, and provides links to nearly all of them.

Comprehensive list of economics journals on the web from Helsinki.

This is the home page of the leading journal focusing on economic education. Along with information about submission and subscription, tables of content are provided to assist you to find the topic of interest. This journal is also a leader in providing published papers online.

This is the journal home page with abstracts and related information. Information about submitting and editorial policies are on the editorial home page.

Searchable database for researchers in economic education maintained by William Walstad at the National Center for Research in Economic Education at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

These pages are reviews of the available microcomputer programs that can be used for teaching economics. Most of the software is provided by textbook publishers as ancillary material for college principles of economics textbooks. The software reviewed is limited to programs produced and distributed by textbook publishers and other organizations.

The CTI Economics is one of 24 subject based centres working to encourage the use of learning technologies in UK higher education.

Serves as a medium of open discussion for everyone interested in Business and Economics problems, including communication between Practitioners and Business/Economics Academicians.

Ross Emmett's major web resource for the history of economics, sponsored by the History of Economics Society.

Source of information and links on Law and Economics, from Tim Stanley at Stanford.

A guide to economic growth resources--data, literature, working papers, etc.--on the Internet. From Jonathan Temple, Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University.

Varian's research papers on the information economy, plus links to pages on finance, economic information, etc. Or go directly to The Information Economy for "The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues."

A web site based on the newsletter, Classroom Expernomics. Expernomics is a bi-annual newsletter devoted to the classroom applications of experimental economics. By Greg Delemeester, Marietta College, and John Neral, Frostburg State

Economic Science Laboratory, College of Business and Public Administration, at the University of Arizona. This World Wide Web server contains information related to the field of experimental economics in both research and teaching applications, including data and free software for teaching economics using experimental economics.

An on-line resource for antitrust information linking economic research, policy, and cases. Contributions to the page are also possible.

Antitrust cases summaries and links to other atitrust sites. By Anthony D. Becker, Middlebury College.

This is a guide to selected reference and secondary materials in the field of economics. While these materials are at Tulane, the list is valuable for use with any library.

NCSS Online features information and news for social studies educators in the United States and internationally.

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