Useful Websites for Students of ECON 305, 338, and 630

1.   Macroeconomic Data on U.S. Economy

 Economic Report of the President

http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/

FRED Database of Macroeconomic Data

http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/

Federal Reserve Banks:

http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/

http://www.ny.frb.org/

http://www.frbchi.org/

Economic Time Series Page

http://www.EconoMagic.com/

The Dismal Scientist

http://www.dismal.com/data/data.asp

2.  Macroeconomic Data on the Global Economy

Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum

http://www.msdw.com/

 The World Bank Group

http://www.worldbank.org/

International Monetary Fund

http://www.imf.org/external/

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

http://www.oecd.org

Asian Development Bank

http://www.asiandevbank.org

QuoteCom Data Service

http://www.quote.com

Interactive Charts and Graphs of Macroeconomic Series

http://bos.business.uab.edu/charts.htm

3.  Leading Magazines and News on Economics and Finance

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/index.html

The Wall Street Journal

http://interactive.wsj.com/home.html

4.   Leading Economic analysis of World Economies

On US Economy 

New Economy

"Speed Trap: The fuzzy logic of the 'New Economy'," by Paul Krugman

http://slate.msn.com/Dismal/97-12-18/Dismal.asp

"How Fast Can the U.S. Economy Grow?" by Paul Krugman

 http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/howfast.html

"The New Economy: What It Really Means," by Stephen B. Shepard, the Editor-In-Chief of BUSINESS WEEK. 

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/46/b3553084.htm

Measuring new economy

http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/about/newec.pdf

Articles by Alan Blinder on New Economy

http://www.prospect.org/authors/blinder.html

Is the Stock Market Overvalued?

Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan

http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/19961205.htm

"Is the Stock Market Too High?" By J. Bradford De Long 

http://Slate.msn.com/Gist/96-12-21/Gist.asp

Trade Deficit

"What's So Favorable about a Favorable Balance of Trade?" by Melvyn Krauss 

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/selections/973/krauss.html

Zero Inflation Policy

"The Crusade That's Killing Prosperity," by Lester Thrurow 

http://www.prospect.org/archives/25/25thur.html

 On Asian Financial Crisis

 "Opportunities Out of Crises: Lessons From Asia," by Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers (3/98)

http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/pr2309.htm

 Alan Greenspan's analysis of the causes of the crisis (1/30/98)

http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/boarddocs/testimony/19980130.htm

The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Systemic Implications by Morris

Goldstein (6/98)

http://www.iie.com/publications/category.cfm?category_id=5

 On Japan Economy

Japan's Economic Crisis

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/jpage.html

Bank of Japan and Economic Planning Agency of Japan

http://www.economagic.com/japan.htm

 On European Union

Central Bank of Europe

http://www.economagic.com/ecb.htm

EMU and the Euro (new home page by Giancarlo Corsetti)

http://www.econ.yale.edu/~corsetti/euro/Euroit.htm

Unemployment in the Euro Area

 http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/1999/01/0599ch4.pdf

Profile of the European Union

http://www.eurunion.org/profile/eu.pdf

On the world Economy

World Economic Outlook (IMF)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/01/index.htm

International Capital Markets (IMF)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/icm/1999/index.htm

World Economic Outlook (May 1999), IMF

Chapter 4: “Chronic Unemployment in the Euro Area: Causes and Cures”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/1999/01/0599ch4.pdf

World Economic Outlook (October 1999), IMF

Chapter 3: “Growth Divergences in the United States, Europe, and Japan: Trend or Cyclical?”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/1999/02/1099ch3.pdf

World Economic Outlook (May 2000), IMF

Chapter 3: “Asset prices and Business Cycle”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/01/pdf/chapter3.pdf

Schools Briefs on Globalization (Economist)

http://www.economist.com/bookshop/schools/schools_brief.html

  “Opportunity and Challenge in the Global Economy,” The Economic Report of the President, Chapter 6 (Council of Economic Advisors) February 2000

http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop

International Economic Trends

http://www.stls.frb.org/publications/iet/

Interim Report: Notes on the U.S.Trade Balance of Payments Deficits (Strategic Analysis

Report, Jerome Levy Economics Institute) 2000.

http://www.levy.org/docs/sreport/stratan.html

Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies (Institute of International Finance) April 2000

http://www.iif.com/PublicPDF/cf_0400.pdf

5.  Others

Economist Jokes

http://www.etla.fi/pkm/JokEc/JokEc.html