analysis. This involves research into a wider range of economic issues, forecasting of short-term economic developments, and evaluation of long-term economic processes, such as German reunification, European integration and Germany's growing involvement in the world economy. " At this site you can read about the Institute, read recent issues of their Economic Bulletin, abstracts of the papers published in the Institutes Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, and selected research findings. You can also find out about the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), a longitudinal study of Germans with about a sample of about 5,000 households (the data is available, subject to some restrictions on usage due to privacy laws). There is also information on the Cooperation Bureau for Economic Research on Eastern Europe, which is housed at the Institute, and on WIDAB, which is a interface to comprehensive databases, which is used at the Institute. # http://www.diw-berlin.de 26.23 The Kiel Institute of World Economics This institute specializes in research on business cycles and many different facets of economic growth (there are additional areas of expertise as well). The institute dates from 1914. At their site, you can read about their focus areas, lean about their organization, see a list of their publications, and connect to their library. # http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/IfW/ 26.24 Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research This site has all sort of links to servers on this topic. They include exchanges, their research in the area (including abstracts of past work and notification when current work is completed), and economic information on countries in this region. # http://www.netrus.net/users/gmorles/index.html * 26.25 Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) This organization "is Australia's largest applied economic commodity research agency." Their activities include economic research, commodity forecasting, funded research, and surveys. Besides reading about their activities, you can also read about their publications organized by different areas. There is also an extensive bibliography on contingent valuation. * # http://www.abare.gov.au/ 26.26 Economic Planning Agency (Japan) At this site you can read about the New Economic Plan, a guide to the Economic Planning Agency, a hypertext version of "The Economic Survey of Japan," numerous white papers, information on many papers from the agency's Economic Research Institute, and details on how to order the "Annual Report on National Accounts, 1995" on either floppies or CD-ROM. There are also summary plots on the economic performance of the Japanese economy. # http://www.epa.go.jp/ 26.27 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) This organization's purpose can easily be determined from its title: the promotion of trade with Japan. The current emphasis is on assisting exporters to Japan. While the material on this site describes their history and organization (including contact around the world), most of the site is devoted to explaining their activities, which are quite numerous. These include programs to assist importers to Japan, cooperation and exchanges with developed and developing countries, and communication within Japan. Finally, they have material on their publications, and pointers to economic information. # http://www.jetro.go.jp 27 SINGLE SUBJECT ECONOMIC SITES 27.1 Introduction This section lists sites that are primarily oriented towards one specific subject and are not directly run by an organization or association. 27.2 Communications for a Sustainable Future This site contains several entries that will be of interest: "International Political Economy," "Post-Keynesian Thought" (PKT), "The Economics of Climate Variability and Global Change" (Clim-Econ), "Debt," "Ecol-Econ" (ecological economics), and "LongWaves" (long waves of economic growth). The last two are archives of mailing lists of the same name; the last also contains related links. "International Political Economy" contains a variety of material in this field, such as material about many different parts of the world, various treaties, and newsletters. It also has publications from the German Development Institute. In general, the material is quite extensive. PKT contains a variety of material from that field, along with archives of the mailing lists PKT and PEN-L. Clim-Econ and Debt carry similar material. # http://csf.colorado.edu/ # gopher://csf.colorado.edu:70/1/ 27.3 Antitrust Policy, An online resource linking economic research, policy issues, and cases "This web page is designed to solve three problems: the alienation of antitrust academics from practitioners, the alienation of law, economics, and public policy from each another, and the difficulty that everyone has in keeping up with recent developments." Under the editorship of Prof. Luke Froeb, they offer the following areas: Merger Simulation, Mergers, Price Fixing, Vertical Restraints, Other Information, and an area for interactive discussion. Looked at another way, they offer antitrust case documents, enforcement guidelines and speeches, economic bibliographies, and current events. * # http://www.antitrust.org + 27.4 Antitrust Case Summary Browser + + This site "provides a collection of U. S. Supreme Court case summaries + dealing with violations of antitrust statutes." The material is + organized a number of different ways. Links are provided to other + sites in this field as well. + + # http://www.stolaf.edu/people/becker/antitrust/antitrust.html 27.5 Telecom Information Resources on the Internet This server, run by Jeff MacKie-Mason, "contains references to information sources relating to the technical, economic, public policy, and social aspects of telecommunications. All forms of telecommunication, including, voice, data, video, wired, wireless, cable TV, and satellite, are included." Most of the document is a set of links that deal with this information in detail. There is a very substantial amount of information here, and much of it would be of interest to economists in this area. # http://www.spp.umich.edu/telecom-info.html 27.6 The Information Economy (by Hal Varian) The general theme of this site is the information economy. You'll find a great amount of material on the economic analysis of computer networks and broadly related areas such as commerce on the Internet, the government's role, publishing, etc. In sum, it is a very good place to visit. Specifically, the subject headings are "Announcements, Background, Accounting, US Government, International, Commerce, Intellectual Property, Electronic Publishing, Miscellaneous, Network Economics, Pricing, Other Resources, Slides and notes from talks." # http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon # Suggestions: infoecon@sims.berkeley.edu 27.7 International Trade & Business WWW Reference Pages This offering, run by Werner Antweiler the Policy Analysis Division, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia (and named PACIFIC for Policy Analysis Computing & and Information Faciltiy in Computing) offers a number of Internet resources in this area. First are resources they provide: Dictionary of International Trade and Business (with some 2,000 entries), extensive exchange rate information (described elsewhere in this guide), the GATT agreement, SITC categories, SIC categories for international trade, and the Harmonized Commodity Description And Coding System. They also provide links to a number of other Internet sites dealing with international trade. # http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/trade/ 27.8 The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) "The Global Trade Analysis Project provides data, a standard model and software, and training for multi-country CGE analysis." The model has 37 sectors and 24 regions. Support for this work is provided by a number of different organizations around the world. The model, the data, and extensive information on it are available here. # http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/gtap/index.htm # Information: * 27.9 The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page This site is organized by Christian Zimmermann and is a very nice example of what one person can do on the web to make information available to the profession (in addition, it has a clever bit of humor). In just a short while, it has added an extensive amount of very useful information to people in this field. I would think that everyone in this area will find something of interest here. There are directories and home pages of people in this field; one can even add your name to the database on-line. There are also lists of centers in this field, RBC papers on-line, recent books, relevant journals, data, computer code, and calls for papers. One very useful resource is a frequently updated bibliography of the field. It is in html, and has more than 600 entries. This is a nice illustration of how the net can be used to support research - it is much more current than any paper publication can possible be. There is also a message board for discussion in the area. Finally, it has a very complete listing of other single subject sites in economics. It also has a section on macro jobs. Besides links to JOE, etc., it also lists positions advertised on the web and has a section for listing vitaes. # http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14160/rbc/ 27.10 Studies using Applied General Equilibrium models (SAGE) "SAGE is a database of studies using applied general equilibrium models. It was created to disseminate studies AGE models built throughout the world and provide students, researchers, professors and civil servants with a quick and powerful tool for accessing references to AGEs according to the country studied, the subject of analysis and the specific approaches used." Currently, the database has bibliographical information on over 600 studies (both published and unpublished), and can be searched by the authors' name and keywords. It is run by John Cockburn, Luc Savard, Pierre Couillard and Bernard Decaluwi, all of Department of Economics, University Laval, Quebec. # http://paradi1.ecn.ulaval.ca/ 27.11 Model User Group International (CGE Modeling) This organization is devoted to computational general equilibrium modeling. You can read about their most recent conference, job announcements, course outlines, and links to related sites. # http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~mug/index.html 27.12 Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page This site contains much more than just the usual pointers to other related material and a scattering of related information. At this site, one can learn a fair amount about game theory, experimental economics, and their intersection. # http://www.pitt.edu/~alroth/alroth.html 27.13 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page At this site you can read David Levine's working papers (many are with Drew Fudenberg). The papers are in Microsoft Word format, but there is a link to Microsoft, where you can download a free viewer for such documents. There is a link here to Drew Fudenberg's page, where you can read the abstracts of these papers. # http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/ 27.14 Jim Ratliff's List of Game Theory Resources on the Net This is one more listing of game theory resources on the Internet. It covers game theory in general, books journals and papers, courses on the subject, mailing lists, and game theorists on the net. # http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/jratliff/GameTheoryResources.html 27.15 Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and Applications (CITG) This site includes a number of resources in game theory. They include the abstracts of the International Journal of Game Theory, past and current issues of the POOL (the listing service in game theory), past and current issues of the ISDG (The International Society of Dynamic Games) Newsletter, information on meetings and seminars, the newsletter of this centre, a bibliography (in Italian), and a mirror of the game theory section of the Working Paper Archive. # http://fismat.dima.unige.it/citg/citg.htm 27.16 Computational Economic Modeling This site lists places with resources for computational economics. Categories include announcements, workshops, some working papers, and a catch-all category of interesting links. # http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/index.html 27.17 Health Economics - Places to Go This site offers a very wide collection of resources on the Internet in health economics. The topics are divide into several areas: Health Economics, Evaluation of Health Care Technologies, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Information, Public Health and Epidemiology, Managed Care/Health Care Industry, Medical Resources, and Miscellaneous. Each area lists a number of different resources. # http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/vwliv/hec.html 27.18 Law and Economics This site has pointers to numerous law and economics resources on the net. They include associations, on-line working papers, bibliographies, mailing lists, and a variety of other material in both these fields. It also includes the full indexes of the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies. # http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~tstanley/lawecon.html 27.19 Stan Liebowtiz on Path Dependence and Network Externalities Here you can read about Stan Liebowtiz and Steve Margolis' work in this area, that has attracted a considerable amount of recent interest. Papers are also available. # http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/ 27.20 The Informal Credit Homepage This site offers a number of resources on informal credit, microcredit, etc. Sections include a bibliography, documents and case studies in the area, libraries, Internet resources, and mailing lists. # http://titsoc.soc.titech.ac.jp:80/titsoc/higuchi-lab/icm/ 27.21 Openair-Market Net: The World Wide Guide to Farmers' Markets, Street Markets, Flea Markets and Street Vendors While much of this resource is likely of interest to specialists in this field, some of it is likely to be of interest to economists in general. # http://www.openair.org/ * 27.22 REESweb : Russian and East European Studies - Business, Economics, and Law Resources This site contains a substantial variety of material from many disciplines on Russia and Eastern Europe. The actual reference given here is to their listing of economic material in this part of the world (you can click back to their main page from there, however). Besides material of interest to academic economists, there is general business material as well. * # http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html * 27.23 RESECON: Land and Resource Economics Network This server is for those "with an interest in the economics of land and other natural resources. It is primarily an association serving the academic and professional economics community..." The primary method of discourse is the RESECON mailing list (described in the mailing list section). Past postings are archived, and other material is available as well, and is expected to grow. Perhaps the most useful is material on submission policies of different journals in the field. * # http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/rmporter/nre/ natural_resource_economics.html 27.24 Economic Growth Resources This site has a number of useful resources for those interested in this topic. It includes datasets, a list of general developmental resources, information on the "Journal of Economic Growth," extensive reading lists (key references, and literature surveys), an area for the latest research, information on the mailing list "economic-growth," working papers, and other links of interest. # http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/Growth/ 27.25 Agricultural Economics Virtual Library This page lists a very large number of sites for agricultural economists. They are grouped in the following categories: "Mega Resources" (i.e. each resource covers many areas in the field), journals, mailing lists, extension services, agricultural markets, news, trade and policy, associations, and department of agricultural economics. Since each category lists a large number of resources, agricultural economists will find a large amount of useful material here. # http://www.ttu.edu:80/~aecovl/ # Information: Jason Beddow 27.26 In-Sites - Resources for Agricultural Economists This site also offers a large number of sites of interest to agricultural economists. They are categorized in the following sections: institutes, departments and extension services, GATT and NAFTA, general agriculture, international institutions and organizations, internet resources, subdisciplines in the field, statistical agencies, and various Internet sites. # http://kierkegaard.ifas.ufl.edu/ 27.27 Banking on the WWW Material on this site is devoted to banking. It is broken up into the following categories: Guides and General Information, Banks of the World, Supervising and Deposit Insurance, Academic Research on Banking, Banking and Finance in Electronic Media, Law and Banking, and Miscellaneous. However, perhaps the most useful categories are the first two that have a large number of links to banks. # http://www.wiso.gwdg.de/ifbg/banking.html 27.28 RISKWeb This service is the web counterpart of RISKNet, a mailing list devoted to risk and insurance issues (it is described in the mailing list section). Besides considerable material on the mailing list, one can search "the Journal of Risk and Insurance Article Abstracts (1986-present), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Article Abstracts (served by permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers, Inc.), the RMI-WPA (Risk and Insurance Working Paper Archive, Insurance Fraud Research Register and the RISKNet biographical information database." There are also links to working paper and teaching archives, announcements, and a job center, all in this area. Finally, there are also links to other Internet sites in this area. # http://www.finweb.com/ 27.29 Marshall Studies Bulletin This is the on-line version of the University Florence's annual publication on Alfred Marshall. It also has material on the the history of economic thought in Britain in the last two centuries. It has the current and back issues, some electronic text by Marshall, and information on newsletters and meetings. # http://www.cce.unifi.it/rivista/welcome.htm 27.30 Institutional and Behavioral Economics This site, devoted to institutional economics, has material on working papers, reviews, and course outlines pertaining to the field. There is also an area for announcements, such as meetings. # http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/instecon.htm 27.31 Turkish Economics Page This site provides all sorts of links relating to Turkey. Besides a wealth of economic data, there are also links to organizations, news, other data sources, and general links that will be of interest to those interested in this country. # http://www.siue.edu/~itanris/econtr.html 27.32 History of Economics Internet References This site lists references to sites that deal with the history of economics (not economic history). The subjects include general references, Marxism, neoclassical economics, Keynesianism, and specific topics. There is also material on related organizations and future conferences. # http://cfec.vub.ac.be/cfec/hope.htm 27.33 Social Interaction Economics & Computing (SIEC) This site is devoted to a new approach to economic modeling - "economics without representative agents." They offer a reading list, information about a conference held on the subject, working papers in the field, and related sites on the net. # http://economia.unian.it/~fabio/siec.html 27.34 International Trade Data This site is designed for those doing work in empirical international trade. One major focus is a "comprehensive set of industry concordances." There are also pointers to significant international datasets. This site is maintained by Joh Haveman of Perdue University. # http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/Trade.html + 27.35 Policy Analysts' Guide to Useful Web Pages: Economic and Other Tools + for Policy Analysis + + This site focuses on "the most helpful pages we know of for equipping + and refining the tools of policy analysis." There are several + different categories for different types of services. In addition, + they offer an extensive list of books in this area. + + # http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sm_nz/guide.htm + 27.36 Econemtric Resources on the Internet + + This site offers a wealth of information on econometric and general + economic available on the net, and it is a component of "Econometrics: + An Applied Approach." For "pure" econometrics, there is information on + data and software. There is additional information on economic + associations, economic institutions and research organizations, a very + nice list of economic journals, working papers, federal and + international organizations, and mailing lists and newsgroups. + + # http://www.oswego.edu/~kane/econometrics/ + 27.37 Econometric Links - Econometric Institute + + This site has several categories of interest to econometricians. First + is information on how to find econometricians. Second is pointers to + papers, and next is links to software and newsgroups. Following that + is a very extensive set of links to conferences in the discipline, and + next is journals. Finally, there is information on mailing lists. It + is a fine site for those in this area. + + # http://www.eur.nl/few/ei/links/ + 27.38 Spirituality, Economics and Politics (Social Sciences and Religion in + Dialogue + + This site deals with the intersection of the social sciences (with a + large section on economics) and religion. Areas include links to areas + of interest, a bibliography, and quotes in this area. A mailing list + is planned. + + # http://ww.total.net/~burdus/spir1.html + 27.39 The Economic Development Resource Page + + This sites specializes in "international economic development and + relief." It lists a numerous organizations that deal with these issues + around the world. + + # http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/8715/ + 27.40 WWW Pages With EU Information and Pointers Into the Web + + This site covers numerous issues of European integration, which of + course includes numerous economic issues. Many of the entries are + relatively "high" level, so a great amount of information can be + reached from here. + + # http://fgr.wu-wien.ac.at/nentwich/euroint2.htm + 27.41 BizEc - Select Resources in Business Administration (part of NetEc) + + This site, another part of NetEc, specializes in resources in business + administration. Categories include Finance and Accounting, General + Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Operations and Technology, and + Economy. Each category is arranged by the frequency that data is + reported - daily, weekly, or monthly. Information in this database can + also be searched. + + # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BizEc.html + 27.42 Clearing and Setttlement System Research + + This page, run by Jim Moser, details various issues in clearing and + settlement of financial instruments. It includes both a bibliography + and research papers. + + # http://shoga.wwa.com/~mosers/ 28 MULTIPLE SUBJECT ECONOMIC SITES 28.1 Introduction This section lists sites that provide links to the many different economic resources on the Internet. Some also provide different sorts of information. * 28.2 WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics (part of NetEc) This site is part of the NetEc project, which makes available and accessible materials on the Internet for economists. This is just one of its very valuable and useful efforts. This site is a very comprehensive, if not the most comprehensive, web sites of economic information. For one looking for web resources in economics, or * economic resources in general, this is a fine place to start. Among * its many unique features is its interactive "Event Calendar" - you can * enter various economic events on-line so others can learn about them. * The web resources are arranged and searchable according to the Journal * of Economic Literature Classification System. (Lasse Saarinen kindly * contributed to this description.) # http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/ 28.3 Economics Gopher at Sam Houston State University This gopher contains a variety of material that might be useful for teaching, such as summaries of the 1990 Census, the proposed U.S. budget, 4-digit SIC codes, the CIA World Factbook, the GATT and NAFTA agreements, calls for papers, meeting announcements and notices. It is, an absolute wealth of useful information. Further, it contains an extensive set of connections to data sources and in particular to all other known economics gophers. It is also a "mirror" of key material such as LABSTAT, EconData, NEEEDc, NetEc, and the NBER. As a result, it is THE gopher one should search first. It also includes a list of economists and their email addresses. Finally, it has a very extensive collection of TeX/LaTeX information. # gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu:70/11gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS] 28.4 Washington Univ. at St. Louis Econ. Dept. This gopher is closely tied to the Economics Working Paper Archive at Washington University. It contains a number of links to other useful gophers, both economic and of interest to economists, such as the Federal Register, archives of mailing lists on SAS and statistics, access to the UIC Stat archives (described elsewhere), and many Internet resources. # gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/1/ 28.5 Social Science Information Gateway This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and is based at the University of Bristol. It catalogs many different social science resources on the Internet. Overall, there are eighteen different categories, including economics. This part lists many useful resources. For many, you must be registered. # http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/ 28.6 Bob Parks' A Random Walk Around Economics on the Net With a web browser such as Netscape, which supports "push/pull", you can very easily cruise different economic resources on the net. Every 30 seconds, a different, randomly selected site will appear in your browser. It is a lot of fun to watch them go by. # http://wuecon.wustl.edu/~bob/econwalknet.html 29 DIRECTORIES TO UNIVERSITIES, BUSINESS SCHOOLS, ECON DEPARTMENTS, AND ECONOMISTS 29.1 American Universities Home Pages This site maintains a very current list of U.S. university home pages. It is organized by Mike Conlon. # http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html 29.2 College and University Home Pages This site contains a very current list of colleges and universities home pages around the world. The list is arranged both alphabetically and geographically. It is organized by Christina DeMello. # http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html 29.3 Marr and Kirkwood Official Guide to Business School Webs Wayne Marr of the Financial Economics Network (or FEN), and Hal Kirkwood have put together this very useful guide to business school sites on the web. They clearly have done a lot of work in putting it together. # http://www.ssrn.com/BSCHOOL/ 29.4 Yahoo Directory of Business Schools This portion of Yahoo lists numerous business schools. # http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_Schools/ * 29.5 Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) * This list, operated separately from the above two, more than 2,000 economic institutions: departments, institutes, and research institutes. The list is arranged by country; the U.S. section lists * more than 500. # http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14160/economics/index.html * 29.6 Economics Departments Outside the U.S. Lief Bluck and David Giles of the Department of Economics, University of Victoria, British Columbia, lists "home pages" (that is, web sites) of different departments and colleges of economics outside the U.S. * # http://web.uvic.ca/econ/depts.html 29.7 Economics Departments In the U.S. Ed Price, of the Department of Economics & Legal Studies in Business, Oklahoma State University, lists home pages of economics and agricultural economics departments in the U.S. # http://price.bus.okstate.edu/econdept.htm + 29.8 Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) + + This site, part of the Raymond M. Haas Center for Business Research + and Economic Development at the University of West Flordia, lists + members of this association. + + # http://www.cbred.uwf.edu/auber.htm 29.9 Economics Departments with PhD Programs This site, run by Thad Mirer of the University of Albany, is is based on one from Peterson's Guide to Graduate Study, 1995. It lists programs in the U.S. and Canada. # http://www.albany.edu/econ/eco_phds.html 29.10 Directory of Economists on the Internet (Sam Houston State) This directory contains a list of economists who use the Internet. It includes their affiliation, regular and email address, phone and fax numbers, and research areas. The directory can easily be searched. Its main site is at the Sam Houston State University Gopher (described above, where the Economics section is run by George Greenwade), and is located on many economics gophers. On this gopher, there is an entry to fill out this information interactively via telnet, or you can fill in the following template and send it to Gopher-Mgr@SHSU.edu. In the template, each field should begin in column 9. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Name: Lastname, Firstname Middlename-or-initial Postal: Your postal address second line (if necessary) third line (if necessary) fourth line (if necessary) City, State, Country ZIP E-mail: Phone: (Area code) Prefix-Telephone_Number FAX: (Area code) Prefix-Telephone_Number Research Areas: Your areas of research interest, delimited by commas NOTE: (optional) Any special information you would like to add ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # gopher://Niord.SHSU.edu/11gopher_root%3a%5b_DATA.ECONDIR%5d 29.11 American Economics Association (AEA) Directory of Members This electronic version of the directory is offered by the AEA and the Economics Department at the University of Texas in Austin. It contains addresses, phone numbers, research fields, biographical data, and e-mail addresses. Data is from the 1996 Membership List, (which has email addresses) and 1993 Survey of Members (not to be redone until 1997). Note that updates should NOT be sent here, but to the AEA. The directory has a fairly sophisticated search capability, but only the first 256 matches will be returned. However, one must be a bit thoughtful in using it. For instance, if I wanted to find all economists in Mississippi, I might search for MS. However, this will not match Miss. or Mississippi, and it will match Adams and those with MS degrees. Thus, searches are not restricted to one particular field and are not case sensitive. # http://eco.utexas.edu/AEA # gopher://mundo.eco.utexas.edu:70/11/aea # Information: aea@eco.utexas.edu 29.12 International Directory of Finance and Economics Professionals This site, run at UCLA, is a directory of both finance and economics researchers. Currently, most of the database consists of finance professionals, but it intends to expand to economists. One can easily add or subtract a listing. # http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/dir/ 29.13 Directory of Canadian Economists and Economics Departments This service, run by the Canadian Economics Association, lists both Canadian economists and their departments. In the Fall of 1996, the directory of economists will include the membership of the CEA. # http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/cea/ 29.14 Directory of International Economists This directory lists the email addresses of economists with an international focus. There is also a short listing of organizations with the same focus. # http://www.ag.iastate.edu/journals/rie/dir.htm 29.15 Economists with Web Pages This site, run by John Irons, lists the home pages of a number of economists. If you wish to add yours, you can email John or use a form on the page. There is some overlap with the next listing. # http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/irons/ecgeek.html # Information: John Irons 29.16 Economists on the World Wide Web This site, run by Kuan-Pin Lin, lists the home pages of a number of economists. If you wish to add yours, you can email him or use a form on the page. There is some overlap with the previous listing. # http://eclab.ch.pdx.edu/ecwww/ # Information: Kuan-Pin Lin 30 JOB INFORMATION FOR ECONOMISTS * 30.1 Job Openings for Economists (JOE) This electronic version of JOE offers all the material in the printed version. In addition, this electronic version makes it much easier to search for specific information, but if one wishes, one can also browse the entire document in its usual form. Before you use it, be sure to read the directions dealing with the details of searching for information, and the classification codes for the job listings. * # http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm 30.2 Academe This Week (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Job Listings This section of the electronic version of The Chronicle of Higher Education lists job openings. # http://chronicle.merit.edu/.ads/.links.html * 30.3 E-JOE European Job Openings for Economists This site, a joing project of the Technical University of Berlin and the European Economic Association (EEA), lists job openings for economists in Europe. It has a particularly nice search interface. In * addition, those looking for jobs can subscribe to an e-mail * notification service. # http://maynard.ww.tu-berlin.de/e-joe/ # Information: + 30.4 Economics Ph.D. Job Candidates, by School + + This sites lists the "other side" of this market - those looking for + jobs. It is arranged by school. + + # http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jwpatty/jobcand/index.html 31 UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOGS 31.1 Libweb (Library Information Servers via WWW) From this site, you can connect to a number of libraries that have set up Internet sites. Besides academic libraries, they offer useful additional information: web sites of library resources that are not libraries (Nexis, OCLC, Dialog, Silver Platter, etc.). # http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ 31.2 Library of Congress The Library of Congress has set up a gopher that includes a wealth of information, including their card catalog. They also offer an extensive set of links to other resources (the economics oriented ones are generally described elsewhere here) and substantial information on the U.S. Government, including Congress. It appears one can use their photocopy service long distance. # http://www.loc.gov # gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/1/ # telnet://gopher@marvel.loc.gov # ftp://ftp.loc.gov 32 SOFTWARE PROGRAM LIBRARIES 32.1 Netlib Netlib is a numerical software library with approximately 50 megabytes of code. The routines, mostly in Fortran, are generally of high quality (many were developed at U.S. national labs or by professional numerical analysts). The popularity of Netlib is attested by the number of times it has been contacted - at last count, nearly five millions times. Packages include Linpack, Eispack, and their successor, Lapack (including a pre-release version in C), fftpack, the Harwell sparse matrix routines, Hompack, Lanczos, and Minpack. There are many other more specialized libraries. There is also code from various texts (but not Numerical Recipes), and code from the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (more than 500 different routines here alone). There are also many directories organized not by package, but by subject (each entry is code by different authors). Finally, there are various tools for Fortran and C users. In all, there are nearly 150 directories covering nearly every imaginable area in numerical computation. Any user of numerical methods would be well advised to be familiar with it. Netlib is available via email, ftp, gopher, and the web. Introductory material on Netlib can be found in the first entries of the web, ftp, and gopher interfaces. For an email. introduction, write send index in the body of a message addressed to one of the sites listed below, and in return you will receive general directions. You can search the contents of Netlib via email (the method is explained in the email directions) and via the web interface. The latter is more flexible, but you must carefully read the directions. The netlib2 ftp site, web and gopher sites contain uncompressed files. # http://www.netlib.org/ # gopher://netlib2.cs.utk.edu:70/1/ # ftp://netlib2.cs.utk.edu # Email: # netlib@ornl.gov # netlib@research.att.com # netlib@unix.hensa.ac.uk # netlib@nac.no # netlib@draci.cs.uow.edu.au 32.2 Statlib Statlib is a system similar to Netlib (in fact, it uses roughly the same email software) for statistical software. Major holding include algorithms from Applied Statistics, numerous classic datasets (although few are economic), software for Minitab and S, and a variety of other software under a heading named "general." For the email interface, send the phrase "send index" in the body of your message. # http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/ # gopher://lib.stat.cmu.edu:70/1/ # ftp://lib.stat.cmu.edu # email: statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu 32.3 University of Illinois at Chicago Statistical Library (UICSTAT) This statistics library contains a variety of software (much of it in SAS), An index can be reached at the Washington Univ. Economics Gopher (described above) under the heading "UIC Stat Archive" and files can be transferred from there as well. # gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/11/uicstat # ftp://uicvm.cc.uic.edu/uicvm (you must do a "cd" to uicstat before a directory listing is shown) # Information: Barry Grau 32.4 Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) This database contains information on almost 9,000 numerical routines from about 80 packages. It can be searched interactively in several different ways and is frequently updated. It is run by the U.S. National Institute of Standards. # http://gams.nist.gov/ # telnet://gams@gams.nist.gov * 32.5 UCLA Xlisp-Stat Archive This archive of programs for this package is divided into several * sections. It includes links to other Xlisp sites, code, contributed * programs, and documentation. * # http://www.stat.ucla.edu/develop/lisp/xlisp/xlisp-stat/ * 32.6 GAUSS Library at American University This library is devoted to GAUSS programs. Be careful to read the file titled "READ ME FIRST" describing the conditions and terms of programs in it. In particular, it is for public, non-commercial code, the code should be clearly attributed, and documented. This file contains details on how to submit code to the library. Even though it is new, code in this library already contains a substantial amount of material. * # http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/econ/gaussres/GAUSSIDX.HTM + 32.7 Free C, Cfor Numerical Computation Ajay Shah writes this guide to C and C++ numerical software that is freely available on the Internet. # ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/FAQ/numcomp-free-c 32.8 CodEc - Code for Economics and Econometrics (part of NetEc) CodEc, part of the volunteer effort NetEc, contains computer programs of interest to economists. Different hardware platforms, programming languages, and application languages are supported. They include C and C++, DOS and Windows executables, Fortran, Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, Rats, Shazam, and Xlisp-Stat. In all, there are about 20 different programs and packages, some of which are quite extensive. For instance, it includes Hal Varian's Mathematica Notebooks for "Microeconomic Analysis," Matlab routines from Hansen and Sargent's "Recursive Linear Models of Dynamic Economies," routines from Estima (who produces Rats), Lin's "GAUSS Programming for Econometricians" (with routines for least squares, simultaneous least squares, arima models, and nonlinear optimization),Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager, Rizzo's GAUSS routines for Tobit and Probit models, King's maximum likelihood routines for GAUSS, C++ matrix classes by both Chris Birchenhall and Robert Davies, King's "count+duration" regression software, Haerdle's "XploRe" for nonparametric regression and data-analysis as well as other programs. Information on the programs is identified by "software information" files that identifies the author, a description, software required, etc. CodEc also provides links to other code archives as well as links to some companies that offer programs frequently used by economists. Dirk Eddelbuettel kindly helped edit this entry. # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/~adnetec/CodEc/CodEc.html # Information: Dirk Eddelbuettel 32.9 Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA) This site at UC Berkeley is partially funded by the NSF. It is designed to " facilitate the interchange of computational algorithms that have economic applications. In addition to serving as a central location for experimental software, we want to work with developers of algorithms, at Berkeley and elsewhere, to produce standards for documentation and testing that will facilitate the exchange of new methodologies and solutions to complex computational problems. Authors of software that have potential applicability in economics are encouraged to submit algorithms that conform to our documentation and testing paradigm." One unique aspect of ELSA is that where possible, code is tested, so users have some assurance of quality. Researchers can easily submit their code to the archive; they have detailed instructions on how to do so. The archive also includes some data, and they round out their collection with a section on "Manuals, FAQs, and Working Papers" in the field. # http://elsa.berkeley.edu/ 33 TEACHING SUPPORT AND RESOURCES 33.1 Iowa Electronic Markets This service is run by the Accounting and Economics Departments of the University of Iowa. It has been used in more than 70 classes in 30 universities around the world. At last count, there are more than 5,000 investors. There are two general types of markets: those based on financial markets, and those based on political markets. Currently, in the former, there are the Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and the S&P 500. In the latter, there are none are currently active, but of course there was a large number of markets in the Fall of 1996 with the U.S. national elections. The liquidation value of all contracts is determined by the value of the underlying fundamental on a set date, and trading takes place interactively through a telnet connection. This excellent teaching tool is open only to university and college staff, faculty and students. While the purpose is education and research, trades require actual money (from $5 to $500 may be invested). The developers feel that by using real money for trades, there is an increased motivation to learn about the underlying fundamentals. There are no commissions or fees and trading is continuous. Trading takes place in English, German, Austrian, Norwegian, and Swedish. The web site contains complete information on the IEM. Trading itself takes place via a telnet session, and here are two telnet interfaces: iem2 for vt100 type terminals, and iem for other terminal types. They hope to have a Java interface running soon. # http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/index.html # telnet://iem2.biz.uiowa.edu # telnet://iem.biz.uiowa.edu # email: iem@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu (mail addressed here will cause the Trader's Manual to be sent to you) + 33.2 University of British Columbia Election Stock Market (UBC-ESM) + + Like the Iowa Electronic Markets, this market, used for education, is + based on an election. In this case, the election is the Canadian + national election, scheduled for June 1. Several different contracts + are available, and investment range from $5 to $1,000. Plans are to + use it for other elections in the future. + + # http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/ubc-esm 33.3 Scott Simkins' ECONlinks This site, run by Scott Simkins, is a very useful place for undergraduate students to look for data and other material for their finance and economics classes. With more and more information on the Internet for those interested in these areas, this site is a useful subset of those resources for teaching. # http://aurora.ncat.edu/~simkinss/econlinks.html 33.4 AmosWorld This site, run by Orley Amos at Oklahoma State, lists a large number of economically oriented web sites with a focus on educational sites. One useful feature is the search capability - you can search this site for economic material with keywords of your choice. # http://amos.bus.okstate.edu/ 33.5 Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. This non-profit organization clears copyright permissions. They operate as a broker between the rightsholder and the user of the copyrighted material. Perhaps their most useful service for teaching is their "Academic Permissions Service," which clears copyrights for course packets and classroom use. They currently clear some 300,000 requests per year. The entire transaction can be done on-line. # http://www.copyright.com/ * 33.6 CTI Centre for Economics This web server is devoted to those doing work in using computers in the teaching of economics. For instance, it has an extensive catalog of economics software, information on workshops and seminars, and details on various electronic forums for those interested in this subject. In addition, there is an almost complete Windows package for principles courses. Finally, this group also publishes a "paper" journal "Computers in Higher Education Economics Review." This journal is also available on the web. * # http://www.sosig.ac.uk/cticce/ 33.7 EcEd Web Besides a large amount of instructional material at all levels (i.e. both K-12 and college). One entry of particular note is the Virtual Economics Library, which is based on a CD-ROM developed by the National Council on Economic Education for K-12 use. It has a number of resources for all ages in the K-12 area. In addition, there are many links to what economists are doing with the Internet in the classroom. There is also information on economic education in Nebraska and the University of Nebraska at Omaha Center for Economic Education. # http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/ * 33.8 The Economics and Business Education Association (EBEA) This U.K. organization with 3,300 members is "the professional subject association for teachers and lecturers of economics." This web site contains information on their events, conferences (international, annual and branch), workshops, and projects. Of particular interest is the monthly news bulletins on the association's activities. * # http://www.bized.ac.uk/ebea/ 33.9 University of Melbourne Dept. of Economics "Resources for University Teachers of Economics" At this department's web site, you can also obtain resources used by this department for teaching. They include a small input-output model of the Australian economy and data from Barro's 1991 QJE article on economic growth. In addition, there are many pointers to other resources on the teaching of economics. # http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/ecowww/home.html 33.10 Classroom Expernomics This is a newsletter detailing classroom experiments in college economics classes. The newsletter comes out twice a year, and each issue contains several well described classroom experiments to illustrate economic principles. # http://www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom.html + 33.11 Experiments with Economic Principles + + This site details information on this book by Ted Bergstrom and John + Miller; the book is designed for teaching principles via classroom + experiments. This site offers information on the book, such as how to + obtain sample copies, getting a customized version, use of the text in + different situations, on-line article newspaper articles that connect + to various chapters, data, and the like. + + # http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/miller/eep/eep.html 33.12 Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) - Census Data and Exercises for College Classes This organization, located at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, and supported by the NSF and the Department of Education, is devoted to using "real" datasets in social science classes (specifically low level ones). The datasets are quite varied,