Yale University Library Research Guides: Economics: Introductory Research Guide: Welcome!

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Start your economic research with Yale Library resources! Find books, journal articles, data, and time series. This guide links to databases, newspapers, working papers, country, and economic information.

RFE (Resources for Economists), a mega searchable list of all things economic, is supported by the American Economic Association.

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Frequently Used Economic and Finance Databases

Bloomberg Professional
Bloomberg Professional provides real-time and historical financial market & economic data, with international coverage of all sectors. Use it to find company financials, stock market indices, news, analyst reports, and much more.
Blue Chip Economic Indicators ®
Monthly U.S. economic outlook by top analysts
Central Banking (News and Data)
An Industry’s leading information resource – coverage of the market, with in-depth analysis of all the latest industry news.
Conference Board
Essential economic data coupled with business management research and insights
EconLit
Published by the American Economic Association, this database provides literature from journals, working papers, dissertations (from 1987), books and book reviews.
EIU ViewPoint (Economist Intelligence Unit)
This new database combines two popular EIU databases: CountryReports and CountryData. Find macroeconomic forecast, national account data, and policy for 189 countries.
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
Mostly U.S. economic data since 1991. Covers over 816,000 US and international time series from 107 sources. Historic time series go back farther.
Global Financial Data
Economic and financial time-series database covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series. Data on stock markets available from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500, and inflation from 1264. Data is available as a downloadable spreadsheet or graph.
Handbook Series Package: Handbooks in Economics Series [BSHES]
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Iconic book series dealing with all matters of economics from econometrics to policy to business cycles.
International Financial Statistics
Available since 1948, this database provides country data for most IMF members including exchange rates, monetary statistics, prices, production, labor, international liquidity, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts and population.
NBER Working Papers
Founded in 1920, this think tank produces research to "encourage ... investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge ... in the fields of economic, social, and industrial science."
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
The Gold Standard of definitions, concepts, equations, biographies and more! All signed essays from esteemed professors.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components.
SSRN
Repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities and more.
UN Comtrade
Free access to detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables. All data is accessible through API.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Wharton Research Data Services, often referred to as WRDS, is a research platform that provides access to a variety of different datasets across multiple disciplines. While access to the WRDS platform is made available by the Yale School of Management, all Yale University faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and may use the currently available data. Access to WRDS requires users to have an individual account.