Economics Subject Guide: Websites

At the BEA you can find information on the U.S. economy as well as on an international scale.
Included you can also find news releases, papers on hot topics, and much more.

U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. It collects, analyzes, and disseminates economic information.

Provides data on economic topics including business and the workforce.

basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities

Here you can find a vast amount of information for economics analysis. For example, the IMF website includes; reports, publications, and working papers by IMF employees as well as information such as news and data on the 189 member countries.

(years 2002 to present available)

Provides data on a multitude of topics including demographic, business and industry, and socioeconomic variables. Also included in this site are easy to use tools to navigate data.

A search engine for government websites.

Economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics.

The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

XPLAIND.com is a free educational website. It has tons of articles explaining basic concepts in economics in easy to understand language.

Can access tons of information provided by the fed here including recent developments, statistics, news, reports, etc...

Reports on different variables of the Hudson Valley economy.

Over 400,000 papers just on the subject of economics, in a multitude of topics, all accessible through this website.

Site provided by Liberty Fund Inc. that is devoted to economics. Featured in this site are definitions, articles, news columns, a podcast and more.

Here you can find a ton of reports on a smorgasbord of economic topics including, public goods, financial/ monetary systems, trade, tech, and so much more!

The AEA is an association dedicated to the discussion and publication of economics. This association has brought us impactive journals such as the Journal of Economic Perspectives which is freely available to view on their site and the crucial database for economic literature EconLit.

Market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries prepared by trade and industry experts at U.S. embassies worldwide.

Online database that disseminates economic literature. Included in the database are working papers, journals, and books.

This site allows access to REPEC which has a large amount of working papers, books, and journal articles on the subject of economics.

A sister site to EconPapers this focuses more on ease of use than what is new in the field.

A service by RePEc that categorizes different papers into bibliographies of the most important literature on different subject. These can be a bit older but definitely worthwhile to look through to gain a better perspective on your topic.