Bureau of Economic Analysis

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency of the Department of Commerce. Along with the Census Bureau and STAT-USA, BEA is part of the Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration. The mission of BEA is to produce and disseminate accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide government, businesses, households, and individuals with a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity. BEA’s national, … [ Read more ]

Online Glossary of Research Economics

Peter B. Meyer of the Economics Department at Northwestern University has created this searchable glossary of research economics terms. The glossary is meant to be used like a dictionary: users type in research terms they don’t understand, and hopefully, the term will be among the Online Glossary of Research Economics’s over 1,000 entries. Typing “help” into the search field will provide a list of relevant … [ Read more ]

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works; site organized into 5 sections: publications, research, people, data, and links. The data sources and links are useful and free, the working papers section contains some very interesting material, but unfortunately they are not free. Still, for corporate needs, they may be the solution. … [ Read more ]

Resources for Economists

An extensive human-edited guide of economics-related information on the web. Sponsored by the American Economics Association and edited by Bill Goffe. 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.

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

Excellent report that suggests e-business and the extraordinary dynamism of industries that produce IT products and services are harbingers of a new era of higher, sustained growth with low inflation and low unemployment. The report also analyzes the forces behind these developments; has some excellent market statistics (also summarized in MBAdepot’s Mkt Research section)

Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text

An overview of economics for beginners, this site is based of the lecture notes of Roger Ashton McCain III, a professor of economics at Drexel University. The text’s 31 chapters are divided into two sections which cover both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Each chapter includes an overview and multiple choice questions to quiz users’s comprehension, and the text includes hypertext icons that lead to citations, observations, … [ Read more ]

Milken Institute Online

non-profit economic think-tank; research interests incl. corp. finance, regional economic performance & demographics, employment, education, financial institutions, and globalization; many pubs avail. in PDF for download

Fed Beige Book

Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector.