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Courses / Tutorials (7)
- An Online Course in Macroeconomics

- Economicsearch.com Tutorials

- FED101: The Federal Reserve Today

- Macro & Micro Economics

- Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy

- MBA Lectures in Macroeconomics

- Understanding the International Macroeconomy

Links (37)
- A Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms

- A Thousand Years of Work & Money

- Biz/ed Glossary and Diagram Bank

- Biz/ed Question Bank - Economics

- Bureau of Economic Analysis

- Case Studies in Economic Sanctions

- Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

- Development Report Card for the States (DRC)

- Digital Economy 2000: Commerce Department's Third Annual Report On IT Revolution

- Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network

- EconDash.com

- EconLinks

- Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page

- Economic Stats Briefing Room

- Economics of Networks

- Economy.com's FreeLunch

- Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text

- Fed Beige Book

- FED101: The Federal Reserve Today

- FRASER™ (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)

- FRED, an Economic Time-Series Data Base

- Global Leaders for Tomorrow Europe 2050 Task Force

- Global Macroeconomics and Financial Policy Site

- Interactive Index of Economic Freedom

- Jokes About Economists and Economics

- Labour Economics Gateway (LEG)

- Metropolitan New Economy Index

- Milken Institute Online

- Money: What It Is and How It Works

- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

- National Economic Trends

- Online Glossary of Research Economics

- Rational Expectations

- Resources for Economists

- The American Customer Satisfaction Index

- The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY)

- World Bank Privatization Database

Articles (207)
- A Defense of Economics

- A Nation of Spendthrifts? An Analysis of Trends in Personal and Gross Saving

- A Productive Debate

- A Simple Model of International Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Risk, and Portfolio Choice

- A Surprise in the Price of Knowledge

- A Whole New Currency Game

- Accounting For Tastes: A Simple Theory of Advertising As A Good Or Bad

- Advances in Technology Impact Value of Workers' Skills

- After the Bubble Burst: A Groundbreaking Analysis

- Airports as Engines of Economic Development: Great Airports Are Critical for a Region

- All For One? Currency Fitting with Dollarization

- All Systems Go

- An Appropriate Ethical Model for Business and a Critique of Milton Friedman's Thesis

- Anglobalization

- Argentina: Can It Go From Bad to Worse?

- As The Economy Turns

- Automation's Next Wave

- Banking on International Financial Stability

- Below the Radar: Underground Markets for the Poor

- Beyond Cheap Labor: Lessons for Developing Economies

- Bubble Trouble - And What Policymakers Should Do About It

- Business Ethics - The Founding Principles

- Buying Strawberries in Winter: Globalization and the Gains from Variety

- Carlota Perez: The Thought Leader Interview

- Cheat Sheet: A Civilian's Guide to the Economy

- China and India: The race to growth

- China Can Help the U.S. Tackle Its Social Security Crisis

- City Planet

- Competitive markets and The Rule of Three

- Conducting Monetary Policy - Remarks by Governor Edward M. Gramlich

- Corporate Hedging: The Impact of Financial Derivatives on the Broad Credit Channel of Monetary Policy

- Darkness Before The Dawn

- Debunking layoff myths

- Defining the New Economy - And determining its relevance to policymaking

- Deflation And The Oversupply Of Everything

- Deirdre McCloskey's Market Path to Virtue

- Derivative Wisdom

- Designing a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs?

- Disruptive Technologies, Competitive Dynamics: A Demand-Based Approach

- Dissecting the Decline

- Do Highly Educated Immigrant Entrepreneurs Help the U.S.

- Do Mergers Lead to Monopoly in the Long Run? Results From the Dominant Firm Model

- Do stock markets really fund fresh investment?

- Does the Progressivity of Taxes Matter for Economic Growth?

- Don't blame trade for US job losses

- EBF History Lesson: Medieval Economics Revisited

- Economists Learn Matchmaker Role

- Ecuador: Greenback Magic?

- Elastic Plastic: How Consumers Respond to Changes in Credit Card Limits and Rates

- Embracing the Strategic Tool That is Game Theory

- Eurosclerosis Revisited

- Exploding the myths of offshoring

- Facing Up to the Possibility of Deflation

- FDI Statistics

- Fifty Years of Development (.pdf)

- Financial Education Starts at Home

- Five Puzzles in the Behavior of Productivity, Investment, and Innovation

- Five Things You Must Know About the Fed

- For Richer or For Poorer: Working Spouses and Labor Inequality

- Free Trade Isn't Fair

- Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

- Freedom's Road

- Future Value: The $7 Trillion Challenge

- Game Theory - An Introduction

- Give Me Shelter

- Global Migration Patterns and Job Creation

- Global Securities Markets Present Tough Challenges for Investors and Regulators

- Globalization and the world economy

- Globalization and Wage Premia: Reconciliating Facts and Theory

- Globalization Ledger™

- Grand Illusion

- Grants versus Loans for Development Banks

- Hidden flaws in strategy

- Hidden Power

- How Computers Are Changing Your Career(s)

- How serious are the alternatives to globalisation?

- How Stable Is the Predictive Power of the Yield Curve?

- How The World Works

- How Well Do 401(k) Plans Work, and Who Benefits Most From Them?

- Ignore That Rate Curve

- In Defense of the US Current-Account Deficit

- In the Shadows

- India - From Emerging to Surging

- India-From emerging to surging

- Inside the (Twisted) Mind of the Average Consumer

- Inside the Bank of Japan

- Integrating Southeast Asia's Economies

- Is Small Business the Future of America?

- Is the Information Revolution Dead?

- It's a Small World After All?

- It's Out of this World! Global Expansion Comes with a Laborious Price Tag

- Japan's Lost Decade: Lessons for America

- Joseph Stiglitz and Pete Peterson: What's Wrong With the U.S. Economy and How to Fix It

- Justice and the Global Economy: Three Competing Schools of Thought

- Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing

- Lowering the Bar

- Making New Markets

- Managing the Derivatives Risk

- Mapping the Global Capital Markets

- Market Forces

- Market Mechanics: A Guide to U.S. Stock Markets

- Markets and New Product Development: A New Institutional Economics Perspective

- Maximising the Value of Innovation

- Measuring Globalization

- Measuring the Impact of Resilience to Predict GDP of Developing Nations

- Micro lessons for Argentina

- Missing Markets: Strategies for Exploring the World's Biggest Neglected Business Opportunites (.pdf)

- Monetary Policy's Role in Exchange Rate Behavior

- Money Changes Everything

- More, Bigger, Faster

- Netting A Profit

- No right answer?

- No Risk, No Reward

- One Simple Test of Samuelson's Dictum for the Stock Market

- Out With the Old And In With the New: The Countdown to E-Day

- People Prefer Inflation To Prospect of Job Loss

- Promoting Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning What Works

- Red Ink

- Redefining Economic Downturns

- Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

- Reducing Budget Deficits (Remarks by Federal Reserve Board Governor Edward M. Gramlich)

- Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke - Trade and Jobs

- Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

- Rethinking Stock Returns: New Evidence on Value Versus Growth

- Reversing Japan's Downward Spiral

- Roger Cass, The Last Optimist

- Russia and the WTO: A National Business System Perspective

- Setting Your Sites on Global Data

- Sizing the Emerging Global Labor Market

- Small Business 2001 - The Gazelle Theory

- Stock Indices

- Stock Prices and Fundamentals in a Production Economy

- Strategy for the Next Decade - It's Deja-Cash Flow All Over Again

- Talking 'Freakonomics' with Steven Levitt

- Thailand Builds a Bond Market

- The 'Rule of Three' in Europe

- The 14-Year Bear Itch

- The Age of Social Transformation

- The Bottom of the Pyramid

- The Bright Side of Bubbles

- The Cluster Effect: Can Europe Clone Silicon Valley?

- The Demographic Deficit: How Aging Will Reduce Global Wealth

- The Diamond of Sustainable Growth

- The Dollar's Depths, Explained

- The Dynamic Relationship Between the Federal Funds Rate and the Treasury Bill Rate

- The Economic Effects of Long-Term Fiscal Discipline

- The Economic Impact of an Aging Europe

- The Economic Impact of an Aging Japan

- The Economics of Worker Migration

- The Economy | Revealed: Why understanding economics is hard

- The Fed Model: Flawed!

- The Future of the Euro-Dollar Relationship Depends a Lot on the U.S.

- The Globalization Debates

- The Great Stock Illusion

- The Great Thrift Shift

- The Hunter Gatherers of the Knowledge Economy: The Anthropology of Today's Cyberforagers

- The impact of corporate risk management on monetary policy transmission: some empirical evidence

- The Inevitability of Managed Trade

- The Insider's Guide to Economic Forecasting

- The Keiretsu System: Cracking or Crumbling? (.pdf)

- The Morning After

- The Mythical Benefits of Debt Reduction

- The New Growth Economics

- The New Old Economy: Oil, Computers, and the Reinvention of the Earth

- The Panic Spreads

- The Philosopher of Progress and Prosperity

- The Political Economy of Capitalism

- The Political Economy of Open Source Software

- The Power of Productivity

- The Practice of Central Bank Intervention: Looking Under the Hood

- The Price of Time: From Shopping to Social Security

- The Productivity Riddle

- The Pros and Cons of Full Dollarization

- The Regulator Who Isn't There

- The Relationship Between the Federal Funds Rate and the Fed's Federal Funds Rate Target

- The Roaring Nineties

- The Role of Central Banks in Fostering Efficiency and Stability in the Global Financial System

- The Rule of Three and Four

- The Science of Economics

- The Skills Imperative: Talent and U.S. Competitiveness

- The Tort Mess

- The Value of Control

- Trading Technology: Multinationals Lead the Way

- Trusting Transactions

- UNCTAD Least Developed Countries Report

- Understanding the Linkage Between ROI and the Economic Rate of Return

- Volatility: An Eerie Calm

- Wealth Distribution and the Role of Networks

- Weapon of Math Destruction

- What Happened to the Bull Market?

- What Is an Economy For?

- What Price Economic Growth?

- What We Owe to Chinese Classical Economics

- What You Want, When You Want It

- What's Behind Edward C. Prescott's Nobel Prize?

- When the Gold Standard Lost Its Lustre

- When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

- Where Have All the Keynesians Gone?

- Where Schumpeter was nearly Right - the Swedish Model and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

- Who Do You Trust?

- Who Wins in Offshoring

- Why Good CIOs Make Bad Decisions

- Why the U.S. dollar keeps falling, and why we should care

- Why US deficits get worse

- Will the U.S. Trade Deficit Inevitably Lead to Monetary Crisis?

- Will We All Be Unemployed?

- Yes, There Is a New Economy

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Market Research (75)
- "Creative Professionals" in the Workforce
- A Comparison of Labor Force Participation Rates
- A Look at Small Business by Age
- Annual New Business Start in the U.S.
- Average Output per Worker
- Bankruptcies Up, Biz Filings Down in 2002
- Business Failure Facts (U.S.)
- Checking China's vital signs
- Child Labor Statistics
- Cost of U.S. Tort System ("Bring on the Lawyers")
- Country Happiness Ranking
- Currency Subsitution
- Defined-Benefit and Defined-Contribution Plans in the US
- Distribution of Consumption Trends in U.S.
- DoC Puts Q1 2004 E-Retail at $15.52B
- DoC Puts Q4 E-Retail at $17.2B
- E-Commerce in the US Economy
- Elastic Plastic: How Consumers Respond to Changes in Credit Card Limits and Rates
- Entrepreneuship Facts
- Facts from the Farm
- Falling Wages Reshape Labor Costs
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Foreign Investment Shifts Course
- Franchising Facts
- High-growth Companies and Regions (US)
- How Bad Is Online Fraud?
- Impact of ATMs on Bank Teller Employment
- Income Trends in the U.S.
- Insourcing 101
- International Market Comparisons: Depth and Liquidity
- Is Global Inequality Rising?
- IT Industries' Contribution to GDP
- Japan and U.S. Productivity Comparison
- Knowledge Workers in the U.S.
- Labor Cost Differentials Across the Globe
- Luxury Market / Income Inequality
- McKinsey on the Impact of Offshoring to Global Employment
- Much Ado About Dividends
- Number of Entrepreneurs in the U.S.
- One-person Business Facts
- Online Retail Sales
- Opportunities for Improvement in Productivity - Manufacturing vs. Services
- Paper Checks and Electronic Payments in the U.S.
- Paper Checks and Electronic Payments in the U.S.
- Profiling the Global Innovation 1000
- R&D Rolls On
- Russia's Middle Class
- Small Biz Are Big Spenders
- Small Biz, Small Growth
- Small Business and Employment in the US
- Small Business Statistics and Web Sites
- Small to Medium Manufacturing Companies in the U.S.
- Technology Innovation Adoption Periods
- Telecommuting Stats 2004 (U.S.)
- The Costliest Places To Run a Business
- The Fed and US Banking Transactions
- The High Price of Success for Silicon Valley
- The Real Economics of Offshoring
- The Ricochet Economy
- The Tort Mess
- Total Worldwide Commerce Statistic
- U.S. 401(k) Market
- U.S. Business Failures Continue To Decline
- U.S. E-Commerce & Retail Sales (Q4 2001)
- U.S. M&A Deals
- U.S. Online Retail Sales - Q4 2003
- U.S. Online Sales Keep On Growing
- US E-Retail Sales Climb in Q2
- US Employment and Wages by Job Type
- US R&D Spending 2003
- Using Credit Cards in the US
- Various Statistics
- Wealth Statistics
- What Businesses Are Small Companies Really In?
- Worldwide B2B E-Commerce to Surpass $1T in 2003

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