RESOURCES FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE INTERNET ISSN 1081-4248 Vol. 2, No. 3 May, 1997 Bill Goffe Dept. of Economics and International Business University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Bill.Goffe@usm.edu (601) 266-4484 (office) (601) 266-4920 (fax) This document lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. In selecting these resources, I exercise some editorial judgment and select items that either offer a substantial amount of information, or are specialized to a specific area. For more broadly defined resources, I list several guides in the section titled "USEFUL RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET." A particularly good place to look for a broader array of business and economic resources is WebEc. 1 COPYRIGHT 2 WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE 3 SUGGESTIONS 4 ANNOUNCEMENT 5 INTRODUCTION 6 CONVENTIONS USED HERE 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8 NEW IN THIS VERSION 9 U.S. MACRO AND REGIONAL DATA + 9.1 FEDSTATS 9.2 Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR) - White House * 9.3 Economic Indicators 104th Congress 9.4 Econ Data & Links 9.5 EBB at the Commerce Department 9.6 U.S. Department of Commerce (STAT-USA) 9.7 Bureau of Economic Analysis 9.8 EconData 9.9 Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT) 9.10 Council of Economic Advisors * 9.11 1997 Economic Report of the President via GPO Gateway at UCSD 9.12 Business Cycle Indicators from Media Logic * 9.13 NBER's Macro-Historical Database 9.14 Regional Economic Information System + 9.15 County and City Databooks, Interactive Data Resources, University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center + 9.16 Economic Chart Dispenser + 9.17 Economic Time Series Page + 9.18 National Income and Product Accounts, Interactive Data Resources, University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center * 9.19 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 9.20 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta + 9.21 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 9.22 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 9.23 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 9.24 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 9.25 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City * 9.26 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 9.27 Federal Reserve Bank of New York * 9.28 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia + 9.29 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 9.30 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco * 9.31 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 9.32 National Economic Research & Data Services (NERDS) 10 OTHER U.S. DATA + 10.1 FEDSTATS + 10.2 The Federal Web Locator + 10.3 Joint Economic Committee 10.4 National Archives Center for Electronic Records 10.5 Social Security Administration (OSS-IS) 10.6 Missouri State Census Data Center - Summary U.S. Census Info 10.7 U.S. Census Bureau + 10.8 Government Information Sharing Project 10.9 U.S. Department of the Treasury 10.10 The Office of the United States Trade Representative 10.11 United States International Trade Commission (USITC) 10.12 USDA Economics and Statistics System (Cornell University) 10.13 USDA Agriculture Economic Research Service 10.14 National Transportation Statistics 10.15 Energy Information Administration (DOE) + 10.16 Energy Resources Board (DOE) 10.17 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 10.18 National Trade Data Bank 10.19 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS) 10.20 Panel Study on Income Dynamics + 10.21 Study of American Families, 1994 + 10.22 General Social Survey 10.23 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 10.24 The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) 10.25 CRSP Data Access and Analysis 10.26 Thomas Publishing - FOMC Minutes and Beige Book 11 WORLD AND NON-U.S. DATA 11.1 International Economics Gateway * 11.2 Central Bank Resource Center 11.3 World Economic Window (Bonaparte Inc.) * 11.4 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) 11.5 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) * 11.6 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 11.7 World Bank 11.8 World Bank Social Indicators of Development 11.9 World Bank Social Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE) 11.10 Economic Growth Research (World Bank) 11.11 World Bank's Technet: Think Tank Electronic Conferences 11.12 World Bank Living Standards Measurement (LSMS) 11.13 BizEd Net - CSO Data (U.K.) 11.14 World Bank Latin America and Caribbean Region Technical Department 11.15 Asian Development Bank 11.16 Eurostat 11.17 Inter-American Development Bank 11.18 Penn World Tables at the EPAS Computing Facility at the University of Toronto + 11.19 United Nations Statistics Division/DESIPA 11.20 The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/GATT (ITC) 11.21 UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) 11.22 Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN 11.23 PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service Retrieval Interface 11.24 Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services (MIDAS) 11.25 ESRC Data Archive 11.26 Statistics Canada 11.27 Statistics Canada CANSIM 11.28 Canadian Industry Overviews 11.29 Ministry of Finance (Mexico) 11.30 Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780 11.31 H.M. Treasury (U.K.) 11.32 Praedicta - Israeli Economic Data + 11.33 Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 11.34 The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) 11.35 Summary Information on the Dutch Economy at Rabobank 11.36 Central Bank of Turkey 11.37 Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Business & Economy Data 11.38 India Economic Survey 1996 and Budget + 11.39 Bundesbank + 11.40 Statistik Regional (German Regional Statistics) + 11.41 German Federal Statistical Office 11.42 Reserve Bank of New Zealand 11.43 New Zealand Treasury 11.44 Australian Bureau of Statistics + 11.45 Bank of Japan 11.46 Japanese Macro Data 12 FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS 12.1 Other Sources * 12.2 misc.invest FAQ 12.3 FINWeb 12.4 Financial Data Finder at Ohio State 12.5 Wall Street Research Net + 12.6 Wall Street Directory + 12.7 Finance Area by Top Services International * 12.8 Global Financial Data 12.9 Briefing by Charter Media 12.10 Bloomberg Personal 12.11 EDGAR (SEC) 12.12 Martin Wong's and George Holt's Market Report 12.13 Public Domain Financial Data 12.14 Polish Stock Market 12.15 QuoteCom Data Service 12.16 Security APL QuoteServer 12.17 JP Morgan 12.18 Student Investment Club at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 12.19 New Zealand Investment Center 12.20 InTechTra's Hong Kong Stocks Reports 12.21 Fidelity Investment 12.22 The Vanguard Group, Inc. 12.23 NETworth 12.24 Schwab Online 12.25 E*Trade Securities, Inc. 12.26 Lombard Institutional Brokerage, Inc. 12.27 Banks of the World via the Institute for Finance and Banking at the University of Gottingen 12.28 MoneyLine - Real Time Fixed Income Data 12.29 Market Broadcasting Corporation - Real Time FX, Fixed Income, and Money Market Data 13 ECONOMIC CONSULTING AND FORECASTING SERVICES 13.1 Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network + 13.2 WEFA Group 13.3 Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC * 13.4 FAIRMODEL + 13.5 Foster Associates + 13.6 Regional Economic Models (REMI) 13.7 National Economic Research & Data Services (NERDS) 13.8 Olsen & Associates High Frequency Foreign Exchange Data + 13.9 Green Interest Rate Swap Management 13.10 Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum 13.11 Credit Lyonnais Economic and Financial Newsline * 13.12 Frankfurt Money Strategist 13.13 AmchamNet - American Chamber of Commerce-Brazil 13.14 STA Research 13.15 Global Market Network (supplier of I.D.E.A. financial market analysis) 13.16 Triangle Economics Research 13.17 Pizzano & Company, Inc. 13.18 Bank of Hawaii Economic Research Center + 13.19 London Economics + 13.20 Oxford Economic Consulting + 13.21 BCS Consulting Enterprise 14 WORKING PAPERS 14.1 Introduction * 14.2 WoPEc - Electronic Working Papers in Economics (part of NetEc) * 14.3 Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA) + 14.4 HoPEc - Home Page Papers in Economics (part of NetEc) 14.5 Downloadable Finance and Economics Working Papers 14.6 Internet Style "Papers" 15 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASES AND INFORMATION * 15.1 BibEc - Printed Working Papers in Economics (part of NetEc) 15.2 Working Papers in Economics and Management 15.3 University of Minnesota Economics Research Library Working Paper Database * 15.4 Journal of Economic Literature and EconLit * 15.5 CARL's UnCover 15.6 JEL Classifications 16 WORKING PAPER, PUBLICATION, AND REPORT NOTIFICATION SERVICES 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (econ-wp) 16.3 WoPEc-Announce * 16.4 BibEc 16.5 Pool Listing Service in Game Theory 16.6 International Journal of Game Theory Abstracts 16.7 USDA Economics and Statistics System 16.8 sci.finance.abstracts 16.9 Economics Research Network (ERN) (part of SSRN) 16.10 Financial Economics Network (FEN) (part of SSRN) 16.11 Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) (part of SSRN) 16.12 UnCover Reveal (CARL) 16.13 North-Holland 17 INFORMATION ABOUT CONFERENCES + 17.1 Roland's Overview of Conferences and Meetings on Economic Theory 17.2 Conferences in Econometrics + 17.3 1998 American Economic Association Meeting (AEA) + 17.4 Third International Conference on "Computing in Economics and Finance" + 17.5 Quantitative Methods in Finance 1997 Conference + 17.6 Third International Conference on Financial Econometrics + 17.7 EIIT - Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference + 17.8 General Equilibrium: The Causes & Consequences of Incomplete Markets (8th Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory) + 17.9 Business & Economics Society International 1997 Conference + 17.10 ISF '97 - The 17th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting + 17.11 1st Berlin Internet Economics Workshop 17.12 Race, Gender, and Introductory Economics 17.13 Summer Conference of IAFFE 18 WEBEC - ECONOMICS JOURNALS ON THE INTERNET 19 ON-LINE JOURNALS 19.1 Student Economic Review 19.2 Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 19.3 JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) 19.4 IDEAL (Academic Press) 19.5 Applied Economics 19.6 B>Quest (Business Quest) 20 JOURNAL DATA AND PROGRAM ARCHIVES 20.1 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Archive 20.2 Journal of Applied Econometrics 21 ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS 21.1 Introduction 21.2 Association American University Presses 21.3 Presses on the Web * 21.4 Elsevier/North-Holland 21.5 Kluwer Academic Publishers 21.6 University of Chicago Press 21.7 Blackwell Publishers 21.8 MIT Press 21.9 Springer 21.10 Academic Press + 21.11 Edward Elgar Publishing + 21.12 Camden Books - Antiquarian and Scholarly Books 22 ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS 22.1 International Economics and Finance Society 24.2 The International Society of Dynamic Games - ISDG 22.3 Economic History Newsletter 22.4 electronic Health Economics Analysis Letters (eHEAL) 23 ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER NEWS MEDIA * 23.1 Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education) 23.2 Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service 23.3 Times Fax from the pages of the New York Times 23.4 New York Times * 23.5 Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition + 23.6 Barron's Online 23.7 The Financial Times 23.8 The Economist 23.9 Finance & Development 23.10 CNN 23.11 World News Connection (WNC) 23.12 Slate 24 ECONOMIC SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS + 24.1 Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) - Associations and Societies 24.2 American Economic Association (AEA) + 24.3 Econometric Society 24.4 Economic History Server operated by the Cliometric Society + 24.5 History of Economics Society * 24.6 Society for Computational Economics (SCE) 24.7 Regional Science Association (RSA) 24.8 Southern Appalachian Committee on Resource and Environmental Economics (SAPPCREE) 24.9 Financial Management Association * 24.10 American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) 24.11 Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics * 24.12 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) 24.13 Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 24.14 The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) 24.15 Productivity Analysis Research Network (PARN) * 24.16 International Association for Feminist Economics 24.17 International Economics and Philosophy Society 24.18 The International Society of Dynamic Games - ISDG * 24.19 American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) 24.20 Southern Economic Association (SEA) + 24.21 Eastern Economic Association 24.22 Western Economic Association International 24.23 International Society for Ecological Economics 24.24 Economic Science Association 24.25 National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE) 24.26 National Association of Business Economists (NABE) 24.27 The Public Choice Society 24.28 International Health Economics Association (iHEA) 24.29 Canadian Economics Association (CEA) 24.30 The Canadian Economic History Server 24.31 Canadian Law and Economics Association 24.32 UK Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 24.33 Societa Italiana degli Storici dell'Economia (Society of Italian Economic Historians) 24.34 European Economic Association 24.35 The European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) * 24.36 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc (AARES) + 24.37 Finnish Society for Economic Research + 24.38 The Association for Cultural Economics International 25 ACADEMIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTES + 25.1 NetEc 25.2 Hoover Institution 25.3 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute 25.4 Carolina Population Center (UNC-Chapel Hill) 25.5 Universities Water Information Network (UWIN) * 25.6 Regional Research Institute (West Virginia University) 25.7 Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz (LEEPS) 25.8 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona 25.9 Ludwig von Mises Institute * 25.10 The Austrian Economics Program at New York University 25.11 Canadian International Labour Network (CILN) 25.12 Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment (CREFE) 25.13 ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau (U.K.) 25.14 Centre for Economic Forecasting (London Business School) + 25.15 National Institute of Economic and Social Research 25.16 Sheffield Centre for Economic Modelling and Forecasting 25.17 Centre for Policy Modelling 25.18 Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics 25.19 Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) 25.20 Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) 25.21 Center for the Study of Law and Economics 25.22 Nijenrode Forum for Economic Research (NYFER) 25.23 IKE Group (Aalborg University, Denmark) 25.24 Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO) 25.25 Experimental Economics Laboratory, Univ. of Trento, Italy 25.26 Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) 25.27 ERCOMER - European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations 25.28 Centre for Economic Research (CCSO) - University of Groningen and University of Twente 25.29 Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the Environment (CESSE) 25.30 Theoretical Research Institute (Australia) Exchange Rate Target Zone Database + 25.31 Center for Rationality 25.32 Social Policy Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney 26 NON-ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY ORGANIZATIONS + 26.1 Policy.com * 26.2 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 26.3 Rand 26.4 Santa Fe Institute Economics Program + 26.5 The Heritage Foundation 26.6 Brookings Institution + 26.7 The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 26.8 Resources for the Future 26.9 EPA Economy and Environment Program 26.10 Institute for International Economics 26.11 Institute for Policy Innovation + 26.12 The Independent Institute 26.13 Employee Benefit Research Institute 26.14 Fraser Institute 26.15 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 26.16 The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) 26.17 Infrastructure and Spatial Economics - CPB Research Unit for Policy Studies 26.18 Belgian Planning Bureau 26.19 The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) 26.20 The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW) 26.21 Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) 26.22 The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) 26.23 The Kiel Institute of World Economics 26.24 Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research * 26.25 Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) 26.26 Economic Planning Agency (Japan) 26.27 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 27 SINGLE SUBJECT ECONOMIC SITES 27.1 Introduction 27.2 Communications for a Sustainable Future * 27.3 Antitrust Policy, An online resource linking economic research, policy issues, and cases + 27.4 Antitrust Case Summary Browser 27.5 Telecom Information Resources on the Internet 27.6 The Information Economy (by Hal Varian) 27.7 International Trade & Business WWW Reference Pages 27.8 The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) * 27.9 The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page 27.10 Studies using Applied General Equilibrium models (SAGE) 27.11 Model User Group International (CGE Modeling) 27.12 Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page 27.13 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page 27.14 Jim Ratliff's List of Game Theory Resources on the Net 27.15 Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and Applications (CITG) 27.16 Computational Economic Modeling 27.17 Health Economics - Places to Go 27.18 Law and Economics 27.19 Stan Liebowtiz on Path Dependence and Network Externalities 27.20 The Informal Credit Homepage 27.21 Openair-Market Net: The World Wide Guide to Farmers' Markets, Street Markets, Flea Markets and Street Vendors * 27.22 REESweb : Russian and East European Studies - Business, Economics, and Law Resources * 27.23 RESECON: Land and Resource Economics Network 27.24 Economic Growth Resources 27.25 Agricultural Economics Virtual Library 27.26 In-Sites - Resources for Agricultural Economists 27.27 Banking on the WWW 27.28 RISKWeb 27.29 Marshall Studies Bulletin 27.30 Institutional and Behavioral Economics 27.31 Turkish Economics Page 27.32 History of Economics Internet References 27.33 Social Interaction Economics & Computing (SIEC) 27.34 International Trade Data + 27.35 Policy Analysts' Guide to Useful Web Pages: Economic and Other Tools for Policy Analysis + 27.36 Econemtric Resources on the Internet + 27.37 Econometric Links - Econometric Institute + 27.38 Spirituality, Economics and Politics (Social Sciences and Religion in Dialogue + 27.39 The Economic Development Resource Page + 27.40 WWW Pages With EU Information and Pointers Into the Web + 27.41 BizEc - Select Resources in Business Administration (part of NetEc) + 27.42 Clearing and Setttlement System Research 28 MULTIPLE SUBJECT ECONOMIC SITES 28.1 Introduction * 28.2 WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics (part of NetEc) 28.3 Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University 28.4 Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept. 28.5 Social Science Information Gateway 28.6 Bob Parks' A Random Walk Around Economics on the Net 29 DIRECTORIES TO UNIVERSITIES, BUSINESS SCHOOLS, ECON DEPARTMENTS, AND ECONOMISTS 29.1 American Universities Home Pages 29.2 College and University Home Pages 29.3 Marr and Kirkwood Official Guide to Business School Webs 29.4 Yahoo Directory of Business Schools * 29.5 Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) * 29.6 Economics Departments Outside the U.S. 29.7 Economics Departments In the U.S. + 29.8 Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) 29.9 Economics Departments with PhD Programs 29.10 Directory of Economists on the Internet (Sam Houston State) 29.11 American Economics Association (AEA) Directory of Members 29.12 International Directory of Finance and Economics Professionals 29.13 Directory of Canadian Economists and Economics Departments 29.14 Directory of International Economists 29.15 Economists with Web Pages 29.16 Economists on the World Wide Web 30 JOB INFORMATION FOR ECONOMISTS * 30.1 Job Openings for Economists (JOE) 30.2 Academe This Week (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Job Listings * 30.3 E-JOE European Job Openings for Economists + 30.4 Economics Ph.D. Job Candidates, by School 31 UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY ON-LINE CATALOGS 31.1 Libweb (Library Information Servers via WWW) 31.2 Library of Congress 32 SOFTWARE PROGRAM LIBRARIES 32.1 Netlib 32.2 Statlib 32.3 University of Illinois at Chicago Statistical Library (UICSTAT) 32.4 Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) * 32.5 UCLA Xlisp-Stat Archive * 32.6 GAUSS Library at American University 32.7 Free C, C++ for Numerical Computation 32.8 CodEc - Code for Economics and Econometrics (part of NetEc) 32.9 Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA) 33 TEACHING SUPPORT AND RESOURCES 33.1 Iowa Electronic Markets + 33.2 University of British Columbia Election Stock Market (UBC-ESM) 33.3 Scott Simkins' ECONlinks 33.4 AmosWorld 33.5 Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. * 33.6 CTI Centre for Economics 33.7 EcEd Web * 33.8 The Economics and Business Education Association (EBEA) 33.9 University of Melbourne Dept. of Economics "Resources for University Teachers of Economics" 33.10 Classroom Expernomics + 33.11 Experiments with Economic Principles 33.12 Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) - Census Data and Exercises for College Classes 33.13 World Bank EDI Forums on Macroeconomic Policy and Management 33.14 National Federal Budget Simulator 33.15 Ken White's Coin Flipping Page 33.16 Portland State University's Applied Economics and Econometrics Lab * 33.17 FAIRMODEL 33.18 oo...Micro! 33.19 The Election Calculator 33.20 Al DeCook's Economics Textbook Information 33.21 Resampling Stats + 33.22 "Macroeconomics" by Roger E.A. Farmer + 33.23 Walras Law and Macroeconomics + 33.24 Learning Skills on the Internet + 33.25 Economics Club at the University of Michigan-Flint (Trading Cards) + 33.26 Cents Financial Journal 34 CLASS MATERIAL - SYLLBI, ETC. * 34.1 Introduction 34.2 World Lecture Hall - Economics 34.3 Syllabits:Economics 35 USENET NEWSGROUPS AND OTHER DISCUSSION SYSTEMS 35.1 USENET + 35.2 Slate 36 MAILING LISTS 36.1 Introduction 36.2 A - General Economics and Teaching 36.3 B - Methodology and History of Economic Thought 36.4 C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods 36.5 D - Microeconomics 36.6 E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics 36.7 F - International Economics 36.8 G - Financial Economics 36.9 H - Public Economics 36.10 I - Health, Education, and Welfare 36.11 J - Labor and Demographic Economics 36.12 K - Law and Economics 36.13 L - Industrial Organization 36.14 M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting 36.15 N - Economic History 36.16 O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth 36.17 P - Economic Systems 36.18 Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics 36.19 R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics 36.20 Z - Other Special Topics 37 STATISTICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SOFTWARE 37.1 Introduction + 37.2 AUTOBOX * 37.3 BCI Data Manager Version 2.0 37.4 Aptech (GAUSS) 37.5 Estima (RATS) 37.6 GAMS 37.7 Laissez Faire Software 37.8 Leading Market Technologies - EXPO & EXPO/SE 37.9 Limdep Manual * 37.10 LINDO 37.11 Mathsoft - S Plus & MathCad 37.12 MathWorks (MATLAB and SIMULINK) 37.13 Minitab 37.14 The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd (NAG) 37.15 Numerical Recipes 37.16 Quantitative Micro Software 37.17 SAS 37.18 SPSS 37.19 SHAZAM 37.20 Stata * 37.21 TSP International + 37.22 VORSIM (Spreadsheet Simulation) 37.23 Wolfram Research, Inc. (Mathematica) 37.24 Xlisp-Stat 38 WORD PROCESSING 38.1 TeX and LaTeX References 38.2 TeX Macros for Economics and TeX/LaTeX Sources 38.3 TCI Software Research - T3, Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific WorkPlace 39 SOFTWARE FOR THE INTERNET 39.1 uuencode/uudecode 39.2 gzip 39.3 Eudora 39.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 39.5 xpdf - a PDF Viewer for X Window Systems 39.6 WinZip 39.7 Netscape 40 RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET 40.1 On-Line Guide: "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet" (formerly "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet") 40.2 John December's "Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication" 40.3 Common Internet File Formats * 40.4 Usenet FAQs 40.5 Usenet Info Launch Pad 40.6 Deja News 40.7 Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides + 40.8 InfoJunkies Anonymous 40.9 Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap 40.10 Yahoo! 40.11 Open Text 40.12 Lycos 40.13 LISZT - Directory of E-Mail Discussion Groups 40.14 Four11 40.15 WhoWhere? 40.16 A Beginner's Guide to URLs 41 NEAT STUFF 41.1 Introduction 41.2 JokEc - Jokes About Economists and Economics (part of NetEc) * 41.3 BigYellow 41.4 ZIP+4 Lookup (U.S. Postal Service) 41.5 FedEx Tracking 41.6 UPS 41.7 ESPNET SportsZone 41.8 Travelocity 41.9 Witt Capital 41.10 ONSALE 41.11 Amazon Books 41.12 Ask-A-Geologist + 41.13 Cyberian Outpost + 41.14 MapBlast! 1 COPYRIGHT This guide is Copyright 1993 by William L. Goffe . It may be freely redistributed in whole or in part for any purpose. If distributed in part, it must include this copyright notice. It may not be sold, or placed in something else for sale, without the permission of the author. This guide is provided as is without any express or implied warranty. 2 WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE This guide can be found in a number of places. They include: HTML: (the first four sites contain a searchable index for the entire guide) # http://econwpa.wustl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Missouri) # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/EconFAQ.html (U.K.) # http://COBA.SHSU.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Texas) # http://www.econ.nyu.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (New York) # http://www.umich.edu/~ilir/r4e/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Michigan) # http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (California) # http://ruby.wabash.edu/SCHOLAR.SYS/WWWW/PAGES/depart/economic/ econFAQ/econFAQ.html (Indiana) # http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/Economics/EconData/ .www/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Maryland) # http://www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Flordia) # http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Finland) # http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Goffe/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (U.K.) # http://www.elsevier.nl/econbase/othergophers/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Netherlands) # http://www.econ3.uni-bonn.de/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Germany) # http://www.uwa.edu.au/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Australia) # http://www.ntu.ac.sg/nbs/ae/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.shtml (Singapore) # http://www.scpol.unina.it/economia/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Italy) # http://www.hun.edu.tr/~economy/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html (Turkey) FTP: Via anonymous ftp, connect to rtfm.mit.edu, change to the /pub/usenet/sci.econ.research directory, and retrieve the file econ-resources-faq. It also has the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/sci.econ.research/econ-resources-faq. E-MAIL: Write SENDME ECONOMICS.INTERNET-RESOURCES in the body of an email message sent to FILESERV@SHSU.edu, or write to econ-wp@econwpa.wustl.edu with get econ.faq in the subject line. MAILING LISTS: There are two lists for the distribution of the ASCII form: rfe-all, and rfe-summary. The first distributes the entire ASCII guide, and the second list just contains the table of contents, instructions on how to obtain the guide, and a few notes on major new resources. These two lists will only be used to distribute "Resources for Economists." Thus, this may be the ultimate in a low volume list. To subscribe to rfe-all, send email to Majordomo@wuecon.wustl.edu, and in the body (not subject line) of your email message, write subscribe rfe-all To subscribe to rfe-summary, send email to Majordomo@wuecon.wustl.edu, and in the body (not subject line) of your email message, write subscribe rfe-summary To unsubscribe from either, send email to Majordomo@wuecon.wustl.edu, and in the body of the message, write unsubscribe rfe-summary or unsubscribe rfe-all Finally, I'd be happy to send it out via email to all who request it. I also encourage folks to obtain a copy from one of the economics sites mentioned above. You'll find a huge amount of other material of interest there. 3 SUGGESTIONS I have done some initial work on how to improve the presentation of material in is guide. Thus, if you happen to have any comments, I would appreciate hearing about them, and would hope to include them in an "upgrade." 4 ANNOUNCEMENT I, Bob Parks , and George Greenwade , are available for visits and talks on the Internet. Please contact any of us if you are interested. 5 INTRODUCTION Updated issues of this guide, distributed at the start of the quarter, are available on a number of places on the Internet. The section "WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE" describes the various places it can be found. This document lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. In selecting these resources, I exercise some editorial judgment and select items that either offer a substantial amount of information, or are specialized to a specific area. For more broadly defined resources, I list several guides in the section "RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET." A particularly good place to look for a broader array of business and economic resources is WebEc. This is my 15th stab at this guide. I am very interested in any corrections, suggestions, omissions, and hints anyone might have. Some of the information is not as complete as I would wish. Further, some of the resources I have not investigated thoroughly and I cannot vouch for them. While I catalog many mailing lists, I have little information about the volume and types of discussions. If you are new to the Internet, see the sections "SOFTWARE FOR THE INTERNET," and "RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET." 6 CONVENTIONS USED HERE The location of all items as URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). In general, they are of the form method://host/location, where method is telnet, gopher, ftp (anonymous unless otherwise stated), and http (for World Wide Web resources). Host refers to the computer that is the server for the data; for instance, I currently use whale.st.usm.edu. Finally, the location denotes the directory or directories and the file name. For telnet, there may be additional material for a password and userid. In that case, the URL is telnet://userid:password@host/location. Finally, some URLs require the "port" number on the server. This will follow the host with a colon preceding it. Since material on sites often moves, if you can't find it, you might have to search a bit for it. If you're completely new to the Internet, I'd suggest that you also take a look at the sections "SOFTWARE FOR THE INTERNET," and "RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET." Also be sure to consult local guides. Items in " " are typed directly as commands, or denote directories and files. The context should make this clear. Information about compressed files, converting binary files to text so they can be emailed and converted back to binary, and locations of software (including web software) can be found in the section "RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNET." 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge many who have commented and made suggestions on previous issues of this guide. Without their help, there would be fewer resources listed and the existing descriptions would be more difficult to read. In particular, I would like to thank Forrest Smith for suggesting I undertake this project, Hal Varian for suggesting the web version, and Thomas Krichel, George D. Greenwade, Lauri Saarinen, and Bob Parks for constant suggestions. Debbie Sharp provided valuable research assistance during the 1994-5 academic year, while Luis Hernando Herrera provided valuable research assistance during the 1995-6 academic year. Currently, Paul Robbins is providing valuable technical assistance, and Chris Rasmussen is providing valuable support. More generally, I have received assistance from Darrin Abernathy, Thomas P. Aebersold, Erik Van Aert, Gaj Alessandro, Ken Alexander, Mona Andersen, Werner Antweiler, Rafael de Arce, Andrew Arch, Paul Arvis, Rick Ashley, Azeem Azhar, Alberto Baccini, Brenda Bailey, Cedric Banker, Alex Bannister, Jim Barbour, Owen Barder, Dave Barrett, Deb Barry, Laure Barthel, Dick Bash, Kit Baum, Cary Bean, Hanno Beck, Kai Becker, Matt Becker, Tony Becker, Robert Bednarzik, Steve Benson, Howard M. Benz, Joyce Berg, Mark Bernkopf, Kurt Beron, Hakan Berument, Ted Bilek, Beth A. Billy, Chris Birchenhall, Douglas Bittinger, Roy Bixler, Stanley Black, Glenn Blomquist, Larry Blume, Peter J. Boettke, Lech Borkowski, Ted Bos, Jean Bourdon, Julii Brainard, Eric Branckaert, Harker Brautighan, Bob Bressan, Francis Buckley, Kristeen Bullwinkle, Robert Bunge, Christian Burks, Brent Burmester, Alexander Byron, Sergio Cagol, Paul Calvert, Nauro Campos, David Carrier, Hubert Castelain, Arie ten Cate, Catrina F. Catus, David Chester, Edward Cheung, Jack Chizmar, E. Kwan Choi, Keith Church, T. Matthew Ciolek, Dave Clark, Geoffrey E. Cleave, Michael Clemens, Carl Close, Fred Collopy, Chris Cooper, Arnold R. Cowan, Don Cram, Clay Cravens, David W. Crawford, Carmel Cregg, Dean Croushore, Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz, Clint Cummins, Rosemary Thomas Cunningham, Carlo Dade, Joe Daniel, Gareth Davis, Al DeCook, Alex Deacon, Emmanuel Deschamps, Mark Dickie, Cynthia P. Dietzmann, Robert Dixon, Stratford Douglas, Thomas Dowling, Roger A. Downey, Sean Dunne, Carol Dvoracek, Judy Eargle, Bill Easterly, Lisa Eaton, Nicholas Economides, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Mary C. Edwards, Chris Elbers, John Elder, Mike Emslie, Mathew Englander, Menong Enverga, Jared Enzler, Guido Erreygers, Michel Euriat, Karen Ewens, Ray C. Fair, Nitai Farmer, Ned Farrington, Daniel Feenberg, Nicky Ferguson, Peter Ferguson, Gary Ferrier, Luis Fierro, Matthew Flynn, Bob Forsythe, Peter Foti, John Frain, Stephen D. Franklin, Robert O. Frasca, James H. Freeman, Joe Friedman, Luke Froeb, Yukio Froehlich, Drew Fudenberg, Larry Fuller, Mauro Gallegati, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Maurice Garneau, James R. Garven, Hans Geeroms, Tom Getzen, Paul Gilbert, David Giles, Tom Giovanetti, Paul Gleason, Eric Glynn, David Golumbia, Jean Gomm, Gerhard Gonter, Jeff Gordon, Thomas Gramstad, Jim Gray, Robin Greeley, Seth Greenblatt, Bill Greene, Stuart Greenfield, Steve Greenlaw, Seth Grimes, John Gross, Rob Grunewald, Bruce Guthrie, Laura Guy, Hansjoerg Haas, Leslie M. Haas, Ezra Hadar, Chris Ernest Hall, Jamie M. Hall, Bob Hammond, Carol Hammond, David M. Hammond, Robin D. Hanson, Sergiu Hart, Dave Hartland, Markus Hatterscheid, Jon Haveman, Jon Haveman, Frank Heemskerk, Christian Helmenstein, Rick Henning, Doug Henwood, John A. Hill, Joe Hirschburg, Scott Hoenig, Charlie Hofacker, George Hofsink, Bill Holmes, T.A.Z. Howard, David Howell, Michael Howell-Moroney, Paul C. Y. Huang, Friedrich Huebler, Jeanette Hull, Brad Humphreys, Ashraf Nazir Hussain, John Van Huyck, Prue Hyman, Gordon Irlam, John S. Irons, Todd Irwin, Alan G. Isaac, Masumi Ishikawa, Moldovan Istvan, James A. Jacobs, James Jacobs, Joe Jadlow, Vickram Jain, Warren Jensen, Peter M. Joftis, Dean Jolliffe, John Kane, Mary Patricia Kane, Pat Kane, Helen Kantarelis, Nicholas Karatjas, Grace Katagiri, Barry P. Keating, Angelina Keil, Bill Kelly, Jon David Kendall, Ray Kiddy, Buddy Kilpatrick, C. P. Kitsos, Jacob Klerman, Mark Klinedinst, Lorrie A. Knight, Karl Kollmann, Ruud H. Koning, Lukasz Konopielko, Michael Kosz, Marc Krawatsky, Claire Kreider, Hans Wim Kroodsma, Tony Ku, Pasi Kuoppamaki, Kevin Lacobie, Nicole Ladewig, Skip Laitner, Dave Lambert, Julian Lamont, Gary F. Langer, Alessandro Lanza, In Ho Lee, S. L. Lee, Kenneth Leong, Michael Levi, Denise Lievesley, Kuan-Pin Lin, Tom Lindley, Ron Linssen, Peter Ljungman, David Lloyd-Jones, Walter Loffler, Wendy P. Lougee, John Lozowsky, Mark Lundin, Colin MacArthur, Ian MacArthur, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, James G. MacKinnon, Richard MacMinn, Charlotte Mack, Craig Mackenzie, Hugh Madden, Richard Leigh Mains, Wayne Marr, Thomas Martinovsky, Clive Massey, David G. Mathiasen, Lucy Matthew, Peter McCawley, Justin McCoy, Paul McMahan, Bill Meade, Douglas S. Meade, Thom Meeks, Thomas Meeks, Sherry Melecki, Margaret Menchen, Frieda Mendelsohn, Jorg Meyer-Stamer, Fethy Mili, Ken Miller, Thad Mirer, Ty B. Mitchell, Peter Mitter, Bruce Mizrach, Mathias Moersch, Keith Morgan, Bob Morse, Scott Moss, Michael Curtis Munger, Raleigh Muns, Robert Myers, Sterling Nakano, Jeroen Nas, Karim Nauphal, Phil Neal, Eric Neumayer, Neuheimer Nicholas, Peter Nolan, Dennis O'Conner, Inge O'Connor, Henry Ohlsson, Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Yuji Onuki, Marius Ooms, Tim Opler, Annika Ostergren, Nick Oulton, Ron Overman, Lisa Pargas, Tim Parker, Tom Parris, Rocco Pasquale, Fioravante Patrone, Joelle Patten, Valery P. Pavlov, Cem Payaslioglu, Sally Pearson, Mark Perry, Huascar Fialho Pessali, Torsten Peters, Keith L. Peterson, Lucio Picci, Richard Porter, Manoj Potapohn, Margaret Prendergast, Edward S. Prescott, Ed Price, Karl B. Radov, Rob Raisch, Shyamala Raman, Laura Randall, Eric Rasmusen, Sam Rea, Dave Reilly, Robert Reinsel, Terry Rephann, Karen Rich, Paul Riches, Alan R. Riley, Fernando Rizzo, Phil Roan, Ken Robb, Michel Roche, Richard C. Rockwell, Wolfgang Roeckelein, Christiane Roehler, Ken Rogers, Hugh Ronalds, Vern Roningen, Colin Rose, Larry Rosenburg, Joyce Rosendahl, Joachim Rosenmuller, David R. Ross, Al Roth, Philippe Roussiere, Teague Ruder, Randolph R. Russell, Robert Rycroft, Gerard Salou, Vittorio Santaniello, Luc Savard, Fernando Savasini, William Savino, Barry Schachter, Edwin Schalk, Oren Schlieman, Gerald E. Schluter, A. Allan Schmid, David Schmidt, Frank Scholtens, Terry Schroepfer, Michael Schulman, Bill Schwert, Dave Scocca, Carole Scott, Glen Segell, Pam Selthun, Esther-Mirjam Sent, Ray Seyfarth, Jean Shackelford, Milt Shapiro, Ajay Shaw, John A. Shaw, Ross Shaw, Yuko Shimamoto, Jack Siler, Scott Simkins, Stuart Simmons, Angela Skeete, George Slotsve, Timothy Smeeding, Simon Smelt, Jay Smith, Una Smith, Sarah Snider, Jennifer Soller, Andrew Solnick, B. Solomon, Kim Sosin, Bruce Speyer, Hari Srinivas, Erich Staib, Timothy Stanley, Graham Stark, Dick Startz, Marten Stavenga, J. Steenwinkel, Gianluca Stefani, Michael Sterling, Jean-Philippe Stijns, Melissa Stockton, Johannes Strasser, Roland Strausz, Wolfram Struewe, Glenn Sueyoshi, Richard Suzman, Mark Sylva, Hirata Takako, Sailesh Tanna, I. Menguc Tanriseven, George Tauchen, Bryan Taylor, Jonathan Temple, Leigh Tesfatsion, Russ Thibeault, Dawn Thilmany, Mark Thissen, Michael Thoen, Henry Thompson, Harald Trabold, Vasily Trenev, Sunay Tripathi, Jens Ulrich, A. Sinan Unur, Frank Urbanowski, Amaury de la Vaissiere, Patrick VanHoudt, Hylke Vandenbussche, Patrick Vanhoudt, Lilian van der Vardt, Chris Varvares, Michelangelo Vasta, Bart Verspagen, Vittorio Viaggi, Edward Vielmetti, Rob Vienneau, Bill Vilberg, Larry W. Virden, Zoltan Vorosbarany, Peiling Wang, Yasutora Watanabe, Lisa Weekes, Henry Weigel, Daniel Weinberg, Larry Weiser, Ivo Welch, Mark Weller, Eric Wexler, Will Wheeler, Ken White, Lori White, Thorsten Wichmann, Pete Wilcoxen, David Wildasin, Leslie Williams, Sam Williamson, Wendy Williamson, Joachim Winter, Melville Wolfson, Art Woolf, Karen Wright, Robert Wright, Edith Wu, Nancy Wulwick, Rich Wyrwa, Michael Yaffey, Yasuyuki Yakushiji, Dolores Yent, Stephen Yeo, Grace York, Richard Young, Jan Zauha, Gennaro Zezza, Christian Zimmerman, and Stan Zin. 8 NEW IN THIS VERSION New resources in this issue are denoted with a + in the first column of the title or mailing list, while significant changes to resources mentioned previously are denoted with a * in the title of that resource and this sort of type denotes the actual changes in that section. Note that changes in the mailing list section are not marked. For this issue, there are several items of particular note. FAIRMODEL has now expanded to 32 countries outside the United Sates. For easy access to many time series, the "Economic Time Series Page" by Ted Bos has started operation. For working papers, papers from the very important series by the National Bureau of Economic Research are now on-line. The Journal of Economic Literature is now on-line, but as of yet, you cannot access their database through their web site. Finally, the bibliographical information on hard copy working papers offered by BibEc is now available in mailing list form (organized by JEL categories) via the notification service of EconWPA. The U.S. government set up FEDSTATS, a guide to data from some 70 federal agencies that generate data. Finally, specialized indices are playing a larger and larger role; EDIRC recently reached the 2,000 mark in listed departments, institutes, and research institutes on the net. 9 U.S. MACRO AND REGIONAL DATA + 9.1 FEDSTATS + + This site, run by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical + Policy, lists detailed information from 70 different federal statistical + agencies. Besides information on this site, you can search for statistical + information several different ways -- these include via a search engine + (with data from these agencies), a listing of data via programs (including, + of course, economic ones), and a general listing of data from A to Z. + The site also lists contacts at the various agencies, and you can both list + and search for press releases. + + # http://www.bea.doc.gov/ 9.2 Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR) - White House This part of the White House web site offers summary data and graphs of macroeconomic series. While the series are relatively short, it is convenient to have summary information in one place with links to the originator. Data is organized in the following categories: output; income; employment, unemployment, and earnings; production and business activity; prices; money, credit, and securities markets; transportation; and international statistics. # http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html * 9.3 Economic Indicators 104th Congress This is another site with summary data on the current and recent past performance of the U.S. economy ("The Economic Indicators are prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic advisors and is published monthly.") * # http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/info/econind.html 9.4 Econ Data & Links This site, run by John A. Shaw, offers current economic data and links for a number of different variables. Most of the data is from the U.S., but there is also world, California, and Fresno, California data. To quote from the author, "Over the years I have found that I cannot always remember the current value of a particular economic statistic. This page was created to provide quick access to a variety of up-to-date statistics... In addition, when it was feasible the links in the table were chosen so the user has access to time series or data for other areas and to related data. Often you will have to follow the links or peruse a document or table to get to the particular statistic ..." # http://www.csufresno.edu/Economics/econ_EDL.htm 9.5 EBB at the Commerce Department The current telnet interface is basically that used for the dial-up bulletin board. Thus, one must capture the information from the screen or use a bulletin board type download (such as Kermit). I have not tried the latter and can offer no advice. To capture all screen data on a Unix system, one can do "telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov | tee ebb.data" where tee takes the screen data and places it in the file "ebb.data" as well as on the screen with a plain ASCII download. Costs for this service range from $65 to $850 a year depending upon the time of day, dataset, and number of hours per day. Limited guest accounts are available; use "GUEST" as the password. Guests do not have access to all files. A web interface is available as well from the STAT-USA site also offered by the Commerce Department (it is described below). In general, it offers more data in a nicer interface. Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager, described below, is a Windows program that lets you manage the BCI and Current Business Statistics (BSDC) parts of this database. This database is also part of STAT-USA. # telnet://ebb.stat-usa.gov 9.6 U.S. Department of Commerce (STAT-USA) This is the main site for information from the Department of Commerce. In all, they offer 300,000 different reports and statistical series. Besides their own data, they offer data from 50 other federal agencies. Access to most of this site is via subscription, however, their data is not copyrighted, so it is available at other places (many are described in this guide, including the BEA site that offers frequently requested data). Unlimited usage is $150 per year or $50 per quarter for a single user. Site licenses for educational, government and other users are available. This site is organized in several different ways. First, they offer data released that day. Then they offer "Frequently Requested Statistical Releases," which has the following categories: # General Economic Releases # Fiscal & Monetary Releases # Financial Market Statistics # Price & Productivity Releases # Industry Statistics # Employment Statistics # Regional Statistics. They then offer "Information by Subject:" "Export & International Trade," "Domestic Economic News & Statistical Series," and "Business Leads & Procurement Opportunities." They also offer the following databases: # National Trade Data Bank # Economic Bulletin Board # Global Business Procurement Opportunities # Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information. Finally, they offer several publications: # Survey of Current Business # Global Trade Outlook # Economic Report of the President # Budget of The United States The Budget of The United States is freely available; you do not need a subscription to access it. # http://www.stat-usa.gov 9.7 Bureau of Economic Analysis This service is offered in conjunction with the Commerce Department's STAT-USA site. Unlike that site, material on this one is freely available. However, it does not offer the full range of information of STAT-USA; rather it contains the most requested data. Specifically, it has recent data (from the last few quarters) from the National Income and Products Account (NIPA): real GDP and its components, personal income, and corporate profits. There is also historical data for real GDP, (but no components) final sales, and several price indices and deflators. In addition, they offer charts of some of their data. For balance of payments accounts, they offer "U.S. International Transactions" and "Trade in Goods and Services" data from the last few years. They offer various charts as well in this area. Finally, they offer per-capital and total personal income data for the last few years for states and various regions. For more detailed data, you'll have to either subscribe to STAT-USA, or obtain the data from someone who does (other parts of this guide describe various places where you can obtain this data; oddly enough, as U.S. government data cannot in general be copyrighted, this is entirely legal). Finally, they offer extensive documentation on their methodologies and guides to their data, as well as information on themselves. # http://www.bea.doc.gov/ 9.8 EconData This database, collected by INFORUM, a project building an