+ have special expertise in this area. This site details their + expertice, gives examples of their work, and lists upcoming seminars. + + # http://www.remi.com/ 13.7 National Economic Research & Data Services (NERDS) This site offers formatted National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA, which includes such variables as GDP), the Fed's Flow of Funds Accounts, their monetary data, input-output data, and regional data. Such formatting makes the data particularly useful in statistical and spreadsheet programs (although some packages might experience some problems importing the material). At this site, you can retrieve the latest data; time series versions are available on disk for a fee. Additional datasets are planned for the future. They also offer economic analysis and forecasting services. These cover the gamut from regional development to national forecasting. They also offer their own program for these services. Numerous examples are offered on-line. # http://www.econ-line.com/ 13.8 Olsen & Associates High Frequency Foreign Exchange Data Rather than summarizing their company, here's how Olsen & Associates describe themselves: "(O & A) is a world leader in high-quality economic research in the field of financial markets. In particular, O & A specializes in the forecasting and historical analysis of foreign exchange rates, but soon also interest rates and market indices. We also provide trading models which give explicit recommendations for a number of currencies and specific trading profiles. O & A's innovation and research has led to cutting-edge forecasting and trading model technology and risk management products. "Over the past eight years with over 120 man-years of effort, O & A has developed and operated a real-time foreign exchange decision support system covering 84 currencies, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This is the O & A Information System (OIS). The fully supported system offers price and volatility forecasts, historical analysis, and specific trading recommendations with user-friendly graphical interfaces." Some of their forecasts and analyses are available without paying a fee (though you must register). In addition, you can find just about any foreign exchange rate for a given day since January 1, 1990 (including, it seems, rates on the previous day). Obviously, this feature is very useful. But, perhaps of greater interest to researchers is the high frequency exchange rate data they sell for a quite reasonable fee. The dataset, called HFDF93, was originally made available for their "High Frequency Data in Finance" conference, held March, 1995. Specifically, it has data from "1. Exchange rate quotes for USD-DEM, USD-JPY and DEM-JPY; 2. Three month maturity interbank deposit rate quotes for USD, JPY and DEM; and 3. Money Market Headline News (text)." The data spans the year from Oct. 1, 1992 to Sept. 30, 1993, is 112 megabytes in size, and they charge $200 for this dataset (which allows them to cover some of their costs). Data is available on tapes (DAT or 8mm Exabyte) or via ftp. They can be contacted at the address given below. When requesting the data, one should include a short abstract of the proposed work. In addition, they have other data, and internal and published papers, that are publicly available. # http://www.olsen.ch/ # Information on HFDF93: hfdf@olsen.ch # Information on papers and other data: info@olsen.ch + 13.9 Green Interest Rate Swap Management + + This company advises on interest rate swaps. To quote, "We do an + in-depth analysis of your debt portfolio and advise as to alternative + transactions. We also facilitate closings and administer + documentation." Thus, while quite specialized, they do offer a very + useful service. + + # http://home.earthlink.net/~green/ 13.10 Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum This is a regular service to Morgan Stanley customers. It offers a daily view on economic affairs and events around the world. On each business day, a number of issues are discussed. Back issues are available as well. # http://www.ms.com/GEF/index.html 13.11 Credit Lyonnais Economic and Financial Newsline Crédit Lyonnais offers financial and economic analyses and forecasts of different countries, as well as on the international economy as a whole. More is planned for the future. # http://www.creditlyonnais.fr/ * 13.12 Frankfurt Money Strategist This newsletter specializes "is the only independent English-language investment research report from the European Continent focusing exclusively on European Monetary Union, the German Bundesbank and German/European politics." A very substantial sample is available here, and delivery of the report takes place via email. * # http://194.238.79.234/fms/ 13.13 AmchamNet - American Chamber of Commerce-Brazil This site offers a variety of information on U.S.-Brazilian relations. Of particular interest to economists is "Boston on Line" (in the "Economic Scenario" area which is in the "About Brazil" area) which has a general background information on Brazil, and a weekly report on Brazil from the Bank of Boston. Other material includes material about Brazil from Rosenberg and Associates. # http://www.amcham.com.br 13.14 STA Research This company, as part of its futures and options trading for clients, makes available a variety of current data and short term forecasts (when available) for many economic and agricultural variables. It is organized by economic and agricultural data that will be released in the U.S. and other countries in both the coming week and month. One portion, the "Weekly Economic Report Outlook," is available via a mailing list. It is described in the mailing list section. # http://stafutures.com # Information: staresearch@syncentral.com 13.15 Global Market Network (supplier of I.D.E.A. financial market analysis) This largely fee-base service offers analyses of U.S. bond and money markets, emerging markets, currency markets, commodities, and foreign exchange strategies. The analyses are supplied by I.D.E.A., which is widely respected. # http://www.idea-globalmarket.com 13.16 Triangle Economics Research This consulting firm specializes in environmental economics. They have a particular focus on damage assessment and health valuation. You can read about their staff and organization, their work, and read their working papers (they are in Adobe Acrobat pdf format). # http://www.ter.com 13.17 Pizzano & Company, Inc. This company, founded in 1988, specializes "in information technology development for business forecasting, market analysis and demand planning." They have three major focuses: financial market forecasting, market forecasting, and litigation consulting. Besides reading about them, you can also read some of their reports. # http://www.pizzano.com/index.htm 13.18 Bank of Hawaii Economic Research Center This sites offers a number of analyses and reports of both Hawaii and a number of other Pacific islands. There is substantial data as well, and you can even tailor data requests. # http://www.boh.com/econ/ + 13.19 London Economics + + This firm, "the largest and most successful independent economics + consultancy in the UK," details itself here. They have a full-time + staff of 70, and more than 40% of their business is from outside the + U.K. (they also have offices in Melbourne and Boston). An area of + special skills is "industries where regulatory or fiscal structure + have a strong impact on performance." However, they are also quite + wide ranging - their services range include litigation support, + strategy, energy, water, and infrastructure. + + # http://www.londecon.co.uk/ + 13.20 Oxford Economic Consulting + + This firm was formed "in 1981 by a group of academics and professional + forecasters." It has partners in the U.S., China, and in Europe. Its + reach is large; its products include "PC-based models, regular + reports, conferences, specialist reports and analysis of the + international economy, and consultancy." As one would expect, they + also prepare forecasts and large econometric models (demonstration + software for their World model is available here). Currently, they + offer their "World Economic Prospects Monthly Review" and the "Oxford + Weekly UK Indicator" on-line. + + # http://www.oef.co.uk + 13.21 BCS Consulting Enterprise + + This Canadian firm has a number of areas of expertice. They include + "defence economics, economic and business forecasting, economic + modelling and quantitative analysis (Including national and community + level Input-Output models), program evaluation and management, + peacekeeping and U.N. issues, regional and sectoral economics and + socio-economic data analysis and management." They also assist small + and home offices with information technology, including Intranet and + Internet work. You can read about their various products here (such as + impact analysis at national and local levels, and decision management + algorithms) as well as read a list of their papers. + + # http://www.infomatch.com/~bsolomon/bcs1/bcs.htm 14 WORKING PAPERS 14.1 Introduction Since more than 240 organizations and individuals have put their economic working on the Internet, it is no longer practical to list each site here. Rather, you should check with the the sites listed here that specialize in working papers. The first, WoPEc, is a database of working papers on the net. Thus, it simply collects bibliographical material on working papers at different sites. Users can query it to locate papers. Currently, WoPEc lists more than 4,000 papers. The second is EconWPA, which puts up papers for those who don't wish to run a site. It is the single largest collection of working papers in economics. Information on papers in EconWPA is automatically included in WoPEc. The third is "Downloadable Finance and Economics Working Papers," which provides links to different types of working paper archives, and the fourth is HomPEc, which specializes in working papers on personal web sites. Those who run working paper sites should be sure that information on their papers is included in the WoPEc database. Thus, they should follow the lead of EconWPA. Putting papers on the net, without registering them, is a bit like running a library without a card catalog. By registering your papers, you'll be assured of more people becoming aware of them. * 14.2 WoPEc - Electronic Working Papers in Economics (part of NetEc) WoPEc, is managed by Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz and moderated by Thomas Krichel. It is a database of on-line economic working papers. It has links to more than 4,000 papers at different sites on the Internet. Thus, one can search this site, and then click to the location with the actual working paper, and then read or retrieve it. WoPEc is now mirrored (along with the rest of NetEc) in the U.S. at the Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA), and in Japan, and all papers submitted there are included in WoPEc. New additions to WoPEc are described in the WoPEc-Announce mailing list, described in the mailing list section of this guide in subsection "A - General Economics and Teaching". Needless to say, along with EconWPA, it is one of the most useful resources for economists on the Internet. (Thomas Krichel kindly provided this summary, which was slightly edited.) # http://netec.wustl.edu/WoPEc.html # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc.html # http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/WoPEc.html # Information: WoPEc@netec.mcc.ac.uk * 14.3 Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA) This electronic archive of working papers in economics is run by Bob Parks and Larry Blume, with support from the Economics Department of Washington University in St. Louis. It uses software developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where literally thousands of working papers in physics are stored. This archive is best accessed through the web (though email, gopher, and ftp access is available as well). Papers are grouped in 26 subject areas, and different methods of searching for papers are available (including via the material in the papers' abstracts). In addition, there are areas for datasets and computer programs. Information on new papers and abstracts (see below) is distributed over mailing lists. The easiest way to submit papers to it is via the web interface (email and ftp submission is available too). Papers may be submitted in any format, and the copyright stays with the author or authors. If you have a properly configured web client (such as Netscape), you can read most of the papers fully formatted on-line (both PostScript and Adobe Acrobat formats are available). The web server also has entries for other papers which are available on the Net. This site works closely with WoPEc. Papers submitted here will also be in NetEc's WoPEc system (a database of on-line papers in economics; it currently lists more than 4,000 economic working papers), and this site mirrors NetEc for speedier access in North America. This site has now branched out into the abstract and announcement "business." Announcements and abstracts are distributed over the mailing lists that also list working papers, and they can be searched * for here as well. In addition, newly announced hard copy working papers * from BibEc are distributed over the announcements section of EconWPA. * With this feature, you can keep up to date on hardcopy working papers. # http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpawelcome.html # gopher://econwpa.wustl.edu:70/1/ # telnet://gopher@econwpa.wustl.edu # General Information: with "help" as the subject # Information On Abstracts with "get help_abs" as the subject # Information On Announcements with "get help_abs" as the subject # Information On Subscribing to Lists with "get help_lists" as the subject + 14.4 HoPEc - Home Page Papers in Economics (part of NetEc) + + This part of HoPEc specializes in cataloging working papers on + individuals' home pages. It tries to keep up with this volatile part + of our profession. At last count, it had material from well more than + 200 authors. + + # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/HoPEc.html 14.5 Downloadable Finance and Economics Working Papers This site lists papers in these subject areas by the type of archive: single topic, single subject, repositories, and organizations. # http://www.netcom.com/~bschacht/onlinewps.html 14.6 Internet Style "Papers" This section contains "papers" on economic subjects, or "papers" that use economic analysis, with various features common to the Internet (such as hypertext) in their presentation. Hopefully with time, they will be included in existing archives, like the Economics Working Paper Archive. This sort of section is best handled by a full web page, so see the page in WebEc that deals with this material, which is given below. # http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webeczp.html 15 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASES AND INFORMATION * 15.1 BibEc - Printed Working Papers in Economics (part of NetEc) BibEc includes more than 44,000 entries of bibliographical information from well more than 400 different hard copy working papers series. These series include those major universities and research institutions, including the Fed in Print database of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. In BibEc it corresponds to the print publication of the same title published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It indexes major publications of all the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks. Coverage goes back to 1986, with scanty coverage earlier than that. In BibEc, FIP is found under the "U.S. Federal Reserve." * New entries BibEc entries are distributed via announcement lists from * EconWPA. When subscribed to them, readers can receive recent reports * of working papers in fields of interest. Coverage of BibEc dates from 1988, with the exception of NBER working papers (all are covered), UCSD from 1981, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London (all are covered). Searches can be made by keywords, and like other parts of NetEc, there are several mirrors around the world. This is one of the most valuable resources for economists on the Internet. Fethy Mili, a librarian at the Universite de Montreal, maintains this extensive collection of "metadata" on hardcopy economic working papers. He is to be commended for entering the data. # http://netec.wustl.edu/BibEc.html # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BibEc.html # http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/BibEc.html # Information: Fethy Mili # Information about FIP: Diane Rosenberger 15.2 Working Papers in Economics and Management This database of working papers in both economics and management is quite extensive. As of early 1996, it contained some 25,000 items from some 400 institutions, with 8,000 new items per year. One can search it over a number of different parameters. It is a subscription based service, but 1992 papers can be searched for free. # http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~lyabd/ 15.3 University of Minnesota Economics Research Library Working Paper Database While this database of working papers is not as large as others, (they receive an average of 250 papers a month) new material is said to be entered into it much more quickly. There are entries for each month of the current year, and for previous years. Some of these files are quite large; to search them, you'll need to use the search function on your browser. # http://www.econ.umn.edu/~econlib/ * 15.4 Journal of Economic Literature and EconLit (JEL) * This site, while it does not offer this essential database, does tell * everything you might need to know about it. This includes a list of * exactly what it indexes (including the list of journals), the JEL * classification system, the dates of coverage, search hints, and how to * access EconLit (both on-line and via CD-ROM, with a special price for * AEA members). Note that EconLit is available through some library card catalogs through an offering from OCLC. Specifically, look for "FirstSearch," then move to the "Business and Economics" area. Response to some searches can even be emailed. # http://www.econlit.org/ * 15.5 CARL's UnCover This system, run by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL), now owned by Knight-Ridder, offers a useful service: a large searchable database of periodicals (claimed to be the world's largest, with more than 4,000 citations added each day). They have about 500 serials with "economics" in the title. Coverage dates back to 1988; if a serial was added since then, coverage begins at the date in which it was added. Perhaps more importantly, the articles can be ordered and delivered via fax. Credit card payment is accepted (payments include copyright fees). Thus, this could be very useful for those with poor libraries. It appears that most articles cost from $10 to $15. Searches are free, however. If you are using the telent interface, after logging onto the system move to "1. UnCover (Article Access and Delivery)." * # http://uncweb.carl.org/ # telnet://database.carl.org # Information: help@carl.org 15.6 JEL Classifications The Department of Economics and the Institute for Policy Analysis at the University of Toronto have kindly made available the complete JEL classification index. # http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/ecipa/JEL.html 16 WORKING PAPER, PUBLICATION, AND REPORT NOTIFICATION SERVICES 16.1 Introduction This section deals with various services that announce working papers and forthcoming publications. As such, it repeats some other parts of this guide, but since this is a very useful service, it makes sense to be a bit redundant. 16.2 Economics Working Paper Archive (econ-wp) This archive of working papers has the ability to notify interested people when a submission is made in a given area or all areas. The entry for this archive in the section on working papers gives instructions on how to obtain instruction for this service. 16.3 WoPEc-Announce This list announces complete electronic working papers that are available on the Internet. WoPEc is part of the NetEc project, which works to make economic information widely available on the Internet. At last check, WoPEc (described elsewhere in this guide) listed more than 4,000 working papers in economics available on the net.) The details of this list are described in the mailing list section of this guide. # Submissions and Information: Jose-Manuel Barrueco Cruz * 16.4 BibEc BibEc, another part of NetEc, lists bibliographical information on nearly all working papers in economics, is distributed weekly on the mailing list Corryfee (described in the mailing list section). The entire database is available and searchable on-line at NetEc. New * arrivals are also distributed via the notification lists at EconWPA * (so you can specialize to just those areas you wish to receive). Fethy Mili, of the University of Montreal, kindly generates this data. 16.5 Pool Listing Service in Game Theory This mailing list, which lists working papers in game theory, is run by Dr. Fioravante Patrone, Dipartimento di Matematica, Genova, Italy. He can be reached at the address given below. The list, including past issues, can be retrieved via ftp and the web. # http://fismat.dima.unige.it/citg/citg.htm # Information: patrone@dima.unige.it 16.6 International Journal of Game Theory Abstracts This mailing list contains abstracts of papers in future issues of this journal, as well as abstracts of papers accepted for publication. The details of this list are described in the mailing list section of this guide. 16.7 USDA Economics and Statistics System Through this system you can receive reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They are sent within three hours of their publication; of course network delays might delay their delivery somewhat further. In all, nearly 70 reports are available. To receive a list of available reports, send email to , and put "lists" (without the quotes) in the body of the message. You will also receive information on how to subscribe. For a complete catalog (which describes each report, send email to the same address, but instead use the command "send catalog". These reports are also available at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, described elsewhere in this guide. 16.8 sci.finance.abstracts This Usenet newsgroup is "especially for authors of and readers interested in unpublished scientific research papers in financial economics. Authors can post the abstracts of their papers along with instructions for readers to obtain the full paper." Anyone with access to Usenet (and since the latest versions of Netscape come with a Usenet newsreader, this means anyone with a direct connection to the Internet) can read access this newsgroup. Unlike commercial services, no fees are involved, so the potential readership is not limited to those who pay subscriptions. This service is in fact a fine example of how the Internet can reduce the costs of distributing academic information. At the site mentioned below, information about this newsgroup and an archive of past postings can be found. To access the newsgroup itself, you only need enter "sci.finance.abstracts" in your Usenet newsreader. # http://www.public.iastate.edu/~arnie/sci-finance-abstracts.htm # Information: Arnold R. Cowan 16.9 Economics Research Network (ERN) (part of SSRN) This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network), which also has the Financial Economics Network (FEN), Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is directed by Martin Feldstein and Michael Jensen. It "is dedicated to increasing communication among economics scholars, practitioners, and policymakers throughout the world." Via electronic mailing lists, ERN publishes abstracts of working papers and accepted papers in many fields: # Agricultural Economics # Development Economics # Econometrics # Economic and Business History # Environmental Economics # European Economics # Health Economics # Industrial Organization and Regulation # International Finance # International Trade # Labor # Latin American Economics # Macroeconomics # Microeconomics Theory # Organizations & Markets # Public Economics In addition, they have Announcements and Job Openings lists. At this site, you can enter information about your paper with a web form. However, they do require that they have a copy of the paper in electronic or paper form before the abstract is distributed. Currently, the labor, macro, development, IO, international finance and trade, micro theory, monetary, public, environmental, health and announcement, and job openings are operational. They are currently "alpha" testing a searchable database of previously posted material. They have arrangements with a number of publishers permitting use of publication abstracts. All lists are freely available during their start-up phase. # http://www.ssrn.Com/ 16.10 Financial Economics Network (FEN) (part of SSRN) This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network), which also has the Economics Research Network (ERN), Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is directed by Michael Jensen and Wayne Marr. Via electronic mailing lists, FEN publishes abstracts of working papers and accepted papers in many fields: # Working Papers: # Corporate Finance and Organizations (WPS-A) # Banking and Financial Institutions (WPS-B) # Capital Markets (WPS-C) # Derivatives (WPS-D) # Real Estate (WPS-E) # Accepted Papers: # Corporate Finance and Organizations (APS-A) # Banking, Economics and Methodology (APS-B) # Capital Markets (APS-C) # Derivatives (APS-D) # Real Estate (APS-E) They also offer other information: job listings (FEN-JOB) and professional announcements (FEN-ANN). Besides subscribing to FEN's mailing list, one can search back issues on their web server (currently in "alpha" test) Their annual fees are as follows for each list: student, $5; personal $10; institutional and library, $20. In addition, to receive any list, you must pay a annual membership fee: student, $10; personal $25; institutional and library, $50. The job listing and announcements are available to any member. Finally, exceptions may be made for hardship cases. One can sign up on-line. # http://www.ssrn.Com/ 16.11 Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) (part of SSRN) This organization, part of SSRN (Social Science Research Network), which also has the Economics Research Network (ERN), Financial Economics Network (FEN), and Accounting Research Network (ARN), is directed by Ronald J. Gilson and A. Mitchell Polinsky. "The goal of LSN is to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners throughout the world." Via electronic mailing lists, FEN publishes abstracts of working papers and accepted papers in many fields: # Law and Economics # Corporate, Securities, and Finance Law # Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Creditors' Rights # Criminal Law and Procedure # Constitutional Law # Tax Law and Policy # Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Procedure # Cyberspace Law # Environmental Law and Policy # Law, Humanities and Culture # Administrative Law # Tort and Product Liability # Intellectual Property # Employment and Labor Law They also offer Professional Announcements and Professional Job Openings lists. Currently, Constitutional Law, Tax Law and Policy, Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Environmental Law and Policy, Law, Humanities and Culture, Administrative Law, Tort and Product Liability, Intellectual Property, and Employment and Labor Law are being planned. # http://www.ssrn.com 16.12 UnCover Reveal (CARL) The UnCover database, part of the CARL organization, consists of some 17,000 scholarly journals. With this service, for a fee of $20 a year, you can receive via email the tables of contents from up to 50 of those journals every week. You can also set up as many as 25 different "search strategies" for all articles appearing in the UnCover database; successful "hits" are emailed as well. Institutional subscriptions are available too. You can arrange (via fax or email) for articles of interest to be faxed to you. # http://www.carl.org/reveal/ 16.13 North-Holland North-Holland offers a notification service for all of its economics journals. In addition, one can search for recent articles among their journals. The entry on North-Holland in the section on publishers describes how to use this service. 17 INFORMATION ABOUT CONFERENCES + 17.1 Roland's Overview of Conferences and Meetings on Economic Theory + + This very extensive list is an excellent place to look for + conferences. Many of the meetings are broader than pure theory. + + # http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/w3/w3bester/roland/econ_co.htm 17.2 Conferences in Econometrics This listing of conferences in econometrics, collected by Marius Ooms, is part of a larger listing of econometric resources. The conference section is udpated every two weeks or so and it quite extensive. # http://www.eur.nl/few/ei/links/ + 17.3 1998 American Economic Association Meeting (AEA) + + This meeting, part of the ASSA (which includes the AEA), will be held + in Chicaog on January 3-5, 1998 in Chicago. This site has information + on the the program. + + # http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm + 17.4 Third International Conference on "Computing in Economics and Finance" + + This conference, the annual meeting of the Society for Computational + Economics, to be held June 30 - July 2, 1997, deals with all aspects + of computing in economics and finance. At this site you will find + advanced information on the conference, such as the call for papers, + accomodation information, the registration form, the agenda and + sessions for the conference, and infomation on various awards. There + is also information on the area. In the future, the program will be + on-line. + + # http://bucky.stanford.edu/cef97/ + 17.5 Quantitative Methods in Finance 1997 Conference + + This conference, to be held August 20 to September 3, 1997 in + Australia, has opened this site with detailed information on the + meeting. You'll find every sort of detail you might need: the + preliminary program, registration information, local arrangements, and + the like. + + # http://www.bus.uts.edu.au/conferences/conf97.html + 17.6 Third International Conference on Financial Econometrics + + This conference, to be held July 13-15, 1997, deals with all aspects + of financial econometrics. Everything one needs to know about the + conference can be found here - information about Juneau, the + invitation, submission guidelines, deadlines, the program committee, + conference information, accommodations, information on the airline of + the conference, registration information, and the registration form. + + # http://web.uvic.ca/econ/juneau.htm + 17.7 EIIT - Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference + + The 4th annual EIIT conference will take place at the University of + Chicago in November of 1997. As more information about this conference + becomes available, it will be published at this site; this information + includes hotel and conference registration forms, a call for papers, + and the exact date. Other information at this site includes the + programs for the three prior conferences. The conference is jointly + hosted by Jon Haveman at Purdue University and David Hummels at the + University of Chicago. John Haveman kindly supplied this entry. + + # http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/EIIT.html + 17.8 General Equilibrium: The Causes & Consequences of Incomplete Markets + (8th Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory) + + This conference, to be held on June 16-25, 1997, is designed for + graduate students and junior faculty interested in how the concepts of + general equilibrium can be extended to incomplete markets. Informatio + on the conference can be found here. + + # http://www.as.huji.ac.il/html/Eco_School.html + 17.9 Business & Economics Society International 1997 Conference + + Information about this conference, to be held July 18-22, 1997, can be + found here. It includes information on submitting abstracts and papers + as well as the hotel and conference registration forms. + + # http://www.assumption.edu/html/Faculty/Kantar/HKANTAR2.HTML + 17.10 ISF '97 - The 17th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting + + This conference is sponsored by the International Institute of + Forecasters and the Central Bank of Barbados. Here, you can find + detailed information about the meeting: a list of speakers, material + on workshops and panel discussions, the conference program, and + material about registration and amenities. + + # http://www.bajan.com/isf97 + 17.11 1st Berlin Internet Economics Workshop + + This conference will be held October 24 to Saturday October 25, 1997. + It is being organized by Berlecon Research, the Institute of Public + Economics and Public Policy at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and + Kulturbox, Berlin. The deadline for abstracts is June 30, and the + final program will be available August 15. + + # http://www.kbx.de/berlecon/iew/ 17.12 Race, Gender, and Introductory Economics This set of faculty development conferences, partially funded by the NSF, are designed "to help faculty develop the teaching skills, classroom strategies, and content driven examples needed to bring race and gender issues into introductory economics courses in a professionally sound, non-divisive manner." The conferences will take place during the 1996-97 academic year, and will be on the East Coast. # http://macweb.acs.usm.maine.edu/economics/nsf.html 17.13 Summer Conference of IAFFE This conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics, will be held in Taxco, Mexico on June 20-22, 1997. As more material about the meeting becomes available, it will be placed here. # http://www.bucknell.edu/~jshackel/iaffe/97conf.html 18 WEBEC - ECONOMICS JOURNALS ON THE INTERNET Lauri Saarinen, of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, maintains this site page with extensive information about journals. It includes both material about journals and on-line journals. # http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/journals.html 19 ON-LINE JOURNALS 19.1 Student Economic Review This journal, edited and written by students from the Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, is fully accessible on the web. Versions of each article are available in both html ("hypertext markup language," the web standard) and rtf ("rich text format," from Microsoft Word). The latter is more suitable for complex text, but the former is more common (to read an rtf document interactively, you have to set up an rtf viewer as a helper application in your web browser). It is impressive that a student journal is one of the first fully accessible economic journals on the Internet. The students wish to thank Dr. Paddy Waldron of Trinity College for his help in this project. Peter Nolan, the Deputy Production Editor, played a large role in bringing it to the web. The second URL lists a backup site. # http://www.bess.tcd.ie/ser.html # http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/econrev/ser.html # Information: econrev@vax1.tcd.ie> 19.2 Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics This journal, sponsored by MIT Press, began publication in September, 1996. It is run like any other journal, except in its distribution: over the Internet through the web. Subscriptions for individuals are $40, and are $130 for institutions. The table of contents, bibliographies, and abstracts are freely available. # http://mitpress.mit.edu/SNDE/WWW/journal/index.html # Information (subscriptions): # Information (papers): Bruce Mizrach 19.3 JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) This project will "develop, deploy, and evaluate a digital library capable of supporting the needs of humanities and social science disciplines." The following economics journals, dating from their inception to 1990, will be digitized: journals to be digitized are: The American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. For the first year trial, this collection will be available at the University of Michigan, Denison University, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, and Williams College. One hopes that it will quickly be expanded. This project is being run by the University of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies, College of Engineering, and the University Libraries and the Information Technology Division, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. It is also a being run in conjunction with a grant the University of Michigan has received from the NSF for work on digital libraries, and the University of Michigan Digital Libraries (UMDL) project, which includes a number of private industry partners. Plans are to make the back issues (specifically, all issues up to five years ago) of the AER generally available. # http://jstor.umdl.umich.edu/ 19.4 IDEAL (Academic Press) IDEAL is an acronym for International Digital Electronic Access Library, and is a project of Academic Press to put academic journals on the Internet. Complete access is allowed members of a consortium of universities that have a site license for the journals. Non-members can read tables of contents and abstracts. Their economic offerings include Cambridge Journal of Economics, Contributions to Political Economy, Explorations in Economic History, Games and Economic Behavior, International Contributions to Labour Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Journal of Urban Economics, New Economy (Dryden Press London), and Ricerche Economiche. # http://www.apnet.com/www/ap/aboutid.htm 19.5 Applied Economics The entire contents of this journal are available. Non-subscribers can read and search abstracts, and subscribers can obtain the papers in Adobe Acrobat format. # http://www.chapmanhall.com/ae/ # Subscriptions (North & South America): info@rapidsci.com # Subscriptions (elsewhere): stmsubs@itps.co.uk 19.6 B>Quest (Business Quest) This new journal, from the School of Business, West Georgia College, is now operating. "The target audience for this journal is professors in the various business disciplines, professors of economics, and business executives." Papers should be relatively non-technical. # http://www.westga.edu/~bquest/ # Information: Carole E. Scott, Editor 20 JOURNAL DATA AND PROGRAM ARCHIVES 20.1 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Archive Programs and data from publications in this journal can found here. Current authors are expected to place their data and program here. # ftp://ftp.duke.edu/jbes/ # Information: jbeshelp@acpub.duke.edu 20.2 Journal of Applied Econometrics Authors of papers accepted after 1994 are required to put the data from their paper here unless there is a very good reason (such as excessive size or confidentiality considerations). There is some data from earlier papers. # http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae # ftp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae # Information: James MacKinnon 21 ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS 21.1 Introduction In this section, I list several prominent or hard to find economics publishers. If you're looking for a publisher not listed here, take a look at the Association American University Presses site. In addition, the Cambridge University Press kindly provides a site called "Presses on the Web" that has a number of links as well. 21.2 Association American University Presses This organization of academic publishers has 110 members, including eleven non-U.S. members. Information on the publications from these publishers is now being added to this server in an integrated database. Currently, it lists some 50,00 books from publishers. It can be searched in many different ways. Serials are listed as well. In addition, this site has a number of links to servers of academic publishers. # http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu 21.3 Presses on the Web Cambridge University Press kindly provides this site that has a number of presses (both university and commercial) on the web. # http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/Connections/External.html * 21.4 Elsevier/North-Holland Elsevier/North-Holland offers two services on the Internet for economists as an adjunct to their paper publishing. The first, "Contents Alert Economics," is a mailing list concerning forthcoming articles in 33 of their economic and finance journals. For each forthcoming article, it has the full title, authors, authors' affiliation, key words and JEL codes when available, volume/issue/page numbers, the dates for receipt and acceptance of the forthcoming article, and the publication date of the issue. Contents Alert Economics comes out at approximately weekly intervals. Subscription information is below. The second service, ECONbase, is a searchable database that allows you to search for current information on articles in the 33 Elsevier/North-Holland journals. It contains information on articles published after January 1, 1994, and each year some 2,000 articles are added. For each article, ECONbase provides the same information as "Contents Alert Economics." All can freely access the table of contents, while other information is available only in the Subscriber Section, which has controlled access. Another service is information on their Handbooks in Economics Series. You can read about their role in academic discourse, a list of all the titles, the editors of them, and a questionaire on how they can be integrated into the web. Free access to the Subscriber Section is available to academics (i) who have a personal subscription to a North-Holland economics journal, (ii) who have a member subscription to one of the journals in ECONbase, (iii) whose institution has a subscription to three of the journals covered by ECONbase, or (iv) who are an editor or editorial board member of one of North-Holland's economics journals. If you meet one of these qualifications, you may subscribe by entering the section titled "Getting Access to the Subscriber Section," which is available on both their web and gopher servers (on the web server, it is one of the items on the main page, (near the bottom) and on the gopher server, it is after the "Miscellaneous" entry). Erik Van Aert kindly supplied this information. Instructions: Contents Alert Mailing List: send email to econbase-e@elsevier.nl In the subject line of the body of the message, write subscribe casecon-c Help: send email to econbase-e@elsevier.nl In the new subject line of the body of the message, write help Comments or questions: send email to econbase-e@elsevier.nl In the new subject line of the body of the message, write Message * # http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/sae/econbase 21.5 Kluwer Academic Publishers This site, still under construction, has their catalog and extensive information on their journals (including tables of contents and even include LaTeX style sheets. In addition, there is ordering information for customers. # http://www.wkap.nl/ 21.6 University of Chicago Press This site contains an electronic catalog of their books in print, subject area catalogs (including economics), and other material. In addition, it has links to catalogs of other university and academic publishers as part of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Combined Catalog Project. # http://press-www.uchicago.edu 21.7 Blackwell Publishers This site currently lists extensive information on Blackwell books, textbooks, and journals, as well other material from and about this publisher. Some material overlaps with the "Blackwell Economics Articles Index." # http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk 21.8 MIT Press This server appears to list all the material in their current catalog. One can order books on-line with as well. # http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/ 21.9 Springer Through both their gopher and email services, one can check on new publications by Springer. For the email service, send your email to svserv@vax.ntp.springer.de. On the first line of the message, write "HELP", and on the second, write "DIR/SPRINGER-NEWS". # gopher://trick.ntp.springer.de:70/11/springer-news/wir # ftp://trick.ntp.springer.de/pub/springer-news/wir 21.10 Academic Press This publisher offers a number of features at this site. This include on-line ordering, a catalog of their books, information about themselves (including exhibits they will be attending), and even have an on-line drawing. # http://www.apnet.com/ + 21.11 Edward Elgar Publishing + + This publisher specializes in economics and other related social + science areas. Here they offer their catalog, information on how to + contact them, a list of conferences they will be attending, and + information on how to order. + + # http://www.e-elgar.co.uk + 21.12 Camden Books - Antiquarian and Scholarly Books + + This bookstore, in Bath, England, specializes in both "antiquarian and + scholarly books;" a number are in economics. These are broken into 3 + sections: Political Economy & Political Thought, Modern Economic + Thought, and Economic History. Some of the works are originals of + classics. + + # http://antiquarian.com/camdenbooks/ 22 ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS 22.1 International Economics and Finance Society For subscriptions to this monthly newsletter, contact Henry Thompson, . 24.2 The International Society of Dynamic Games - ISDG For this society's electronic newsletter, contact . 22.3 Economic History Newsletter For this newsletter, send email to with the line "join history-econ your name" in the body of the email. 22.4 electronic Health Economics Analysis Letters (eHEAL) This newsletter, from International Health Economics Association (iHEA), typically lists jobs, conferences, and forthcoming articles. Subscriptions are only available to members of iHEA. For information on membership, contact Thomas Getzen . 23 ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER NEWS MEDIA * 23.1 Academe This Week (Chronicle of Higher Education) This electronic version of the Chronicle of Higher Education offers a * subset of the print version (the full print version is available * on-line to paid subscribers). One of the most useful parts might be the job ads. # http://chronicle.merit.edu/ 23.2 Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service This is the electronic version of the British publication The Times Higher Education Supplement. It includes extensive summary information from the print version (this appears on the Friday before publication) as well as all job advertisements (they appear on the Tuesday before publication). Old advertisements are kept on hand as well. # http://www.timeshigher.newsint.co.uk/ 23.3 Times Fax from the pages of the New York Times This somewhat oddly named service offers a daily 8 page summary of the New York Times (it even has the crossword puzzle). To maintain a newspaper look-and-feel, an Adobe Acrobat reader is required. It is currently freely available after registration. # http://nytimesfax.com/ 23.4 New York Times This site offers almost the entire New York Times (a few items in this on-line version are not offered in the print version, and vice-versa). Currently, for U.S. users, it is free; for non-U.S. subscribers, it costs $35/month. Their guide to sites on the Internet is particularly nice. The crossword puzzle requires software that they supply. # http://www.nytimes.com/ * 23.5 Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Besides the entire contents of the print Wall Street Journal, this site offers the Personal Journal (where you select items of interest, such as companies, topics, columns, and features for what is in effect your own issue), company briefing books (on more than 9,000 companies), stock, mutual fund, and bond quotes (it can even track a personal portfolio), a database of the past two week's articles, and even an expanded sports section. This is now a fee-based service; for subscribers of the paper edition, the cost is $29/year, and for those who don't subscribe to the print edition, it costs $49/year.