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Economics and Finance Research Guide

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Library Catalog (CLIC): The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
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ABI Inform *: Indexes more than 2,000 journals and trade publications in all aspects of U.S. and international business and economics (1971-present).
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Business Source Premier *: Indexes thousands of business publications (years vary by source), plus company and industry profiles, country reports, market research, and SWOT analyses.
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Econlit *: Covers 700+ journals, books, working papers, and dissertations in economics from the American Economic Association (1969-present).
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Wall Street Journal: Full text of the Eastern edition (1984-present).
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Company Information Research Guide

Another research guide with resources to find information on specific companies. Included are subscription databases for current articles, stock and financial information, tips on how to research privately held companies, and supplemental websites.

Encyclopedias & Reference - Domestic

Business Statistics of the U.S.: Two-thousand economic time series from federal government sources; statistical profiles of major industry groups; historical data going nearly 40 years back.
Reference Collection HC 101 A131222
Investment Companies Yearbook: A listing of thousands of mutual funds with 10-year performance records.
Reference Collection HG 4497 W47 (year)
Moody's Bank & Finance Manual: Financial data as reported by banks, insurance companies, investment companies, and unit investment trusts.
Reference Collection Storage HG 4961 M65 (1955-2002)
Standard & Poor's Analysts Handbook: Contains selected income account and balance sheet items and ratios for the S&P industry group indexes from 1965 to date.
Reference Collection HG 4905 A66
Value of a Dollar: Records the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present.
Reference Collection HB 235 U6 V35 (yr)

Encyclopedias & Reference - International

African Development Indicators: Macroeconomic data covering 20 years: national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external debt, government finance; public enterprises; labor force; social indicators. (World Bank)
Reference Collection HC 800 A1A356
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance: Click on Business and then select the Encyclopedia
International Financial Statistics Yearbook: Reports annual data for the last 30 years. Tables include consumer prices, exchange rates, government accounts, imports, interest rates, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, production, prices.
Reference Collection HG 61 I59
International Relations Research Guide: Related economics and financial information from an international relations/ political science perspective.
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics: Reference Collection HB 61 P17 1987
World Economic and Social Survey: An examination of the macroeconomic world situation with tables, charts and explanatory text.
Reference Collection HC 59 A169 (yr)
World Development Indicators (WDI Online): Statistics for developing nations: health, education, welfare, natural resources, economic growth, etc. Ten to thirty years' comparative data. (World Bank)
Reference Collection HC 59.15 W656 (yr)
World Stock Market Exchange Factbook: Historical securities data from 45 stock exchanges going back 20-25 years.
Reference Collection HG 4551 W67

Web Sites

Bank Interest Rate Comparisons: http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/high_home.asp
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bulletin back to 1997, selected statistics, working papers, research, surveys and reports.; http://www.federalreserve.gov
Bureau of Economic Analysis: Data collected by the U.S. government. Historical and current National Income and Product Accounts, statistical regional data and U.S. international trade data. Includes Survey of Current Business.
http://www.bea.doc.gov/
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Contains 12,600 data series in the Labstat database. Includes: employment projections, earnings, productivity, consumer expenditures and prices, and industrial relations.
http://stats.bls.gov/
Consumer Price Index: 1946 to present, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/data/cpi/cpiaucns
Currency Rate Converter: http://www.xe.net/ucc/full.shtml
EconData.net: U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration site linking to more than 550 sources of U.S. regional, state and local socioeconomic data.
http://www.econdata.net/
Econometric Links of the Econometrics Journal: Includes links to software, datasets, conference announcements, statistics, etc.
http://econometriclinks.com/
Econospeak - Blog: http://econospeak.blogspot.com/
Economic Trends - Blog: http://www.economictrends.blogspot.com/
EDGAR - SEC filings & forms: Public company filings were phased in between 1994-1996 and continue to the present. Searchable by header keywords, company name and Central Key index (CIK). Includes mutual fund filings and prospecti.
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
FINWeb: A one-stop financial economics site with links to major finance and economics journals, working papers and databases.
http://www.finweb.com/
Forbes: Forbes 500, Forbes Global 500, 200 Best Small Companies, 400 Best Big Companies, and 500 Largest Private Companies.
http://www.forbes.com
Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/
Google Finance: http://finance.google.com
Yahoo Finance: Historical quotes back 6 years, markets, stock screener. Downloadable data into Excel.
http://finance.yahoo.com/

Associations & Organizations

American Economic Association: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/
ASEAN: http://www.aseansec.org
CFA Institute: http://www.cfainstitute.org/
International Monetary Fund: http://www.img.org
World Bank Group: http://www.worldbank.org/
World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/

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