Macroeconomic Analysis Miscellaneous

Economics Departments, Bureaus, Institutes and Research Centers
       University of Maryland, Economics Department: link
       University of Brasilia, Economics Department: link
       EDIRC - worldwide list of economics departments, institutes and research centers: link 
       Bank of England: link
       Federal Reserve System: link
       (Others) Central Banks Around the World: link  
       U.S. Census Bureau: link  
       Congregational Budget Office: link
       BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis: link  
       NBER - The National Bureau of Economic Research: link
       ECRI - Economic Cycle Research Institute: link
       IPEA - Brazilian Research Institute: link
       IFS - The Institute for Fiscal Studies: link
       CEMMAP - The Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice: link  
       CEMFI - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros: link
       Cowles Foundation: link 
       Netherlands Bureau of Economic Analysis: link
       Groningen Growth and Development Centre: link
       Development Gateway: link 
       Heritage Foundation: link
       The Urban Institute: link
       Santa Fe Institute: link
       IRP - Institute for Research on Poverty: link
       Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: link
       IDEA - Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: link

Associations and societies
       AEA -American Economic Association: link 
       Econometric Society: link 
       Royal Economic Society: link 
       LACEA - Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association: link
       ANPEC (Brazilian): link

International Organizations
       WB - World Bank: link
       IMF - International Monetary Fund: link
       IADB - Inter-American Development Bank: link
       UN - United Nations: link
       ILO - International Labor Organization: link 
       BIS - Bank for International Settlements: link
       OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: link
       OAS - Organization of American States: link
       ADB - Asia Development Bank: link      
       WTO - World Trade Organization: link 
       ECLAC - Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean: link 
       USAID - United States Agency for International Development: link 

Working Papers   
       NBER: link
       SSRN: link 
       RePEc: link
       WoPEc: link 
       S-WoPEc: link
       BibEC: link
       EconPapers: link  
       EconWPA: link
       OECD: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: link1, link2
       Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: link 
       Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of New York: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: link
       IFS: link 
       Cowles Foundation: link
       CEMMAP: link 
       IMF: link
       World Bank: link 
       Institute for International Economics: link 
       University of Maryland: link 
       Inomics - EconSearch: link 
       CatchWord: link  

Economic Data  
       World Bank - World Development Indicator (last 5 years and restricted access): link
       World Bank - Global Development Network Growth Database: link
       World Bank Research Datasets: link
       World Bank - Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS): link
       World Bank - Doing Business: link
       World Bank - Investment Climate Portal: link
       World Bank - Gender Statistics: link
       World Bank - Education Statistics: link
       World Bank - Health Nutrition and Population: link
       World Bank - Data on Poverty: link
       World Bank - Governance data: link
       Economic Time Series Page - Economagic: link
       FreeLunch - FREE access to over 1,000,000 economic and financial data series: link
       Penn World Tables 5.6: link
       The Federal Reserve Board - Releases and historical data: link 
       Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - Economic Data: link  
       Academic Matters - University of Oregon (Databases): link  
       Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt: link  
       IPEADATA (Portuguese, but with international data as well): link 
       EUROSTAT: link 
       The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Time series database: link 
       Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - FRED II: link 
       NBER database: link
       U.S. Census Bureau - Economic Census: link  
       Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): link 
       NIPA - National Income Product Accounts (BEA): link
       Survey of Consumer Finances: link 
       PSID - Panel Study of Income Dynamics: link
       IPUMS - Minnesota Population Center: link
       BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics: link 
       CEX - Consumer Expenditure Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics): link 
       NLS - National Longitudinal Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics): link
       CPS - Current Population Survey: link
       EconData - Guide to regional economic data on the web: link
       Economic WEB Institute: link
       LABORSTA (ILO) - Online labor market statistics (over 200 countries + territories): link
       Key Indicators of The Labor Market (KILM - OECD): link  
       Center for International Development at Harvard University - Research Datasets: link
       Center for International Development at Harvard University - National Statistics Offices by countries: link
       Economic Growth Research - World Bank: link
       National Statistics - The Official UK Statistics Site: link 
       MIMAS - Collection of datasets: link
       SIDRA - IBGE database: link
       General Data Sources - Department of Economics (University of Victoria): link
       US Stock Market - Site-by-site: link
       Resource for economists database: link
       INFORUM - University of Maryland: link
       Economics, Internet Resources - Mansfield University: link
       World Trade Organization - Trade Statistics: link
       IDB - International Database - U.S. Census Bureau: link
       Data Sets and Data Resoources - Xavier Sala-i-Martin's site: link
       Job Flows Data for the US - John Haltiwanger's site: link
       Political Budget Cycles - Alan Drazen's site: link
       Statistical Resources, Finance and Banking - University of Michigan: link
       Econ Links - Historical Economic Data: link
       FDF - Financial Data Finder: link
       Global Financial Data - Historic Financial Database: link
       Hard-to-Find Historic Financial market data: link
       University of California, San Diego - Data on the Net: link
       GeoInvestor - Global Financial & Economic Database: link
       NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics: link 
       Survey of small business finances (Federal Reserve Board):  link
       National Association for Business Economics (NABE - Micro/Industry Links):  link
       Base de Dados Historicos (Anuarios Previdencia Social - Brasil): link
       International Institute for Corporate Governance (Yale School of Management): link
       Brazilian Electoral Data (IUPERJ): link
       DIEESE (Brazilian labor market data): link
       Index of Economic Freedom (Heritage Foundation): link
       CDC Wonder: link
       Archive of Criminal Justice Data for the US: link
       STAT-USA (Department of Commerce): link
       General Data Sources (Department of Economics, U. Victoria, Canada): link
       US Country and City Databooks: link
       Social Science Statistical Data: link
       ARF - Area Resource File (health data for the  US) : link
       National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (US): link
       Conference Board: link
       Crime data source in criminal justice: link 
       The interactive Currency Table: link

Numerical Methods in Economics and Econometrics
       Statistical and Computational softwares: link
       Christian Zimmermann - QM&RBC: link
       Professor Uhlig's Toolkit for analyzing nonlinear economic models: link 
       Codes for Ljungqvist-Sargent Recursive Macro Theory - Sargent's site: link
       Applied Computational Economics and Finance - Miranda and Fackler: link
       DSGE MATLAB code - Franz Hamann: link
       Society fo Computational Economics: link
       Numerical Recipes in C++: link
       Numerical Recipes in Fortran: link   
       CodEC - Programs for Economics and Econometrics: link 
       Gauss Source Code Archive at American University: link
       Econometric Laboratory - University of Caligfornia, Berkeley: link
       Econometric Resources on the Internet: link 
       Huge Collection of TSP codes -  Grouped by Subject: link
       MATLAB Econometrics Toolbox - James P. LeSage: link
       MATLAB Codes for Macroeconomists - DiCecio's page: link
       Boston College Department of Economics – Statistical Software Components: link
       Matlab Toolboxes (S Baum): link
       Gauss and Matlab Codes for Advanced Users - : link
       DPD 98 - Dynamic Panel Data Estimation, by Arellano and Bond: link
       Sata Lessons: link
       State-Space Models with Regime-Switching: Kim and Nelson (1998): link
       Levinsohn-Petrin production function estimator (STATA code and documentation) - Amil Petrin's page:: link

Software (Vendors) 
       Aptech Systems (GAUSS): link
       STATA: link
       Mathworks (MATLAB): link
       E-views: link
       STAMP - Structural Time Series Models: link
       LIMDEP and NLOGIT: link
       Microfit: link
       Estima (RATS): link 
       SHAZAM: link
       SAS: link
       TSP: link


Java Applets
       Applied Regression Analysis (UCLA): link
       Principles of Microeconomics (UCLA): link       
       Principles of Microeconomics (Univ. South California): link       
       General Economics: link       
       Applets for Neural Networks and Artificial Life - really interesting: link
       Social Interactions Prisoner's Dilemma - nice application of Genetic Algorithms to Economics: link
       Calculating Global Consumption Growth : link 
       GameTheory.Net: link

Check it out
       JOE - Job Openings for Economists: link 
       Global Poverty Monitoring (World Bank): link 
       World Bank Pensions: link
       GameTheory.net: link 
       RFE  - Resources for Economists on the Internet: link
       Economic Forecasts for Latin America - Latin Focus: link
       WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics: link
       Economics Departments with Ph.D. Programs in American and Canadian Universities: link
       Economic Journals: link
       Labour Economics Gateway: link
       Economic History Services: link  
       Handbooks in Economics: link 
       JEL Classification System: link 
       Codes, Research Papers and lots of stuff via anonymous FTP (by John Rust): link 
       Accessing Full-text Articles in Economics Journals at UMD (by Michael Pries): link 
       Social Security Programs Throughout the World: link
       Eldis Gateway to Development Information: link
       Math, Statistics, and Computational Science - NIST: link
       Biz/ed: link
       StatGuide Glossary - PROPHET: link
       The History of Economic Thought Website: link
       Economics, Money and Fun: link
       Econ PhD Net: link
       Economist Corner (selected articles): link
       Mankiw 5 edition (Macro Textbook): link
       National Criminal Justice Reference Service (US): link
       Guide to Directed Search Theory (John Kennes' page): link

Computer links 
      Virus Watch: Microsoft (Windows update)
      Viewers: Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview, Acrobat Reader 
      File-sharing: Gnutella, WinMX, Kazaa, Morpheus,
      UNIX: Help for First Time Users, LINUX 
      Secure Remote Login: NBER SSH Client, WinSCP  
      Search Engines: Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, All The Web  
      Plain-Text Editors: TextPad, Emacs, Jcreator, 
      For Terps (UMD): Software Licensing (OIT), Software Licensing (OACS)
      Others:JavaSun, Java IT Toolbox, Applets by Terry McConnel,  GNU System, WinZip 8.1,
      Others II:  Dynamic Drive, JavaScript Kit, Astalavista,  Alpha Downloads,  

 Press                                              
      Newspapers: The Washington Post, Correio Braziliense, O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, Today's Front Pages  
      Magazines: Time, Newsweek, The Economist, Isto e, Epoca, Veja, Carta Capital  
      Others: PBS, BBC, Radiobras (agencia Brasil), CNN, Reuters, The Dismal Scientist, Finantial Times  
  
 Useful Stuff
     Dictionaries: Oxford Advanced Lerner, Merriam Webster, Ectaco (many languages), Phrasal Verb Page    
     Weather: The Weather Channel, National Weather Service, AccuWeather 
     Health: WebMD Health, Food and Nutrition Info Center, First Aid 1, First Aid 2 
     Directions: Yahoo Maps, MapQuest
     Traffic: National Traffic and Road Closure Info (FHWA) , Coordinated Highways Actions Response Team (CHART)  
     Others: Track a flight,  Wikipedia (The free encyclopedia), Tips on buying a used car (US), Ritz Pix (Photo Prints)