Research Guides: Economics: Databases and Websites

Databases

See our list of Economics databases. Search within the Best Bets at the top of the list -- these are our most frequently-used databases. Interdisciplinary research can be performed by searching our Popular Databases. Not sure which database to use? Ask Us.
Google Scholar allows you to find scholarly articles and is linked to our various databases.
Reports from think tanks such as the Economic Policy Institute, Peterson Institute, and Urban Institute can be found by searching the Web.

Working Papers

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The largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Indexes working papers, journal articles, books, and more from publishers as well as economics departments, institutes and research centers (including The New School). Organized by Christian Zimmermann at the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
NBER Working Papers This link opens in a new window
The NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization. Sixteen of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics and six of the past Chairmen of the President's Council of Economic Advisers have been researchers at the NBER. The more than 1,000 professors of economics and business now teaching at universities around the country who are NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. These Bureau associates concentrate on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

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Websites

Fintech: Financial Technology Research Guide
Library of Congress guide. Financial technology otherwise known as fintech or FinTech, is the technology and innovation that aims to compete with the traditional delivery of financial and banking services with new innovations like cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding.
Gapminder
Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.
Joint Economic Committee
The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) was created when Congress passed the Employment Act of 1946. Under this Act, Congress established two advisory panels: the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) and the Joint Economic Committee. Their primary tasks are to review economic conditions and to recommend improvements in economic policy. Videos and testimony can be found on this website.
RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet (AEA)
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists more than 2,000 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described.
Vox
CEPR’s policy portal – was set up in June 2007 to promote "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists". Vox's audience consists of economists working in the public sector, private sector, academia and media – as well as students of economics in the broad sense. Vox columns cover all fields of economics broadly defined and is widely read (the site receives about a half million page views per month).

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