Monetary and Financial Data Links:

Carleton Data Resources:

· Librarians for Data

· Library website for the Fall ’06 seminar

· Library website for the Fall ’10 seminar

International and Governmental Organizations:

· International Financial Statistics by IMF—spend some time learning how to use its interface to get the right data in the right format

· Federal Reserve databases

o FRED and ALFRED (at St. Louis Fed)

o Real-time data sets (at Philadelphia Fed)

o Historical financial and monetary data (Board of Governors)

· Other US agencies:

o Bureau of Economic Analysis

o Bureau of Labor Statistics

o Census Bureau

o Energy Information Agency at the Department of Energy

· Foreign Central Banks:

o European Central Bank

o Eurostat

o If you are interested in specific country data, be sure to explore its central bank and statistical agency websites

· OECD [Note if the data are available on a limited free-trial basis, do not initiate until you know exactly what you need, then download everything that you may need potentially]

Research Data Collections:

· NBER

· CEPR

· Penn World Table

· American Economic Association Web Data

· Sometimes journals make the data used in published articles available: JMCB, JAE

· Individual Researchers: Shiller (housing, stock market), Romer (fiscal and monetary shocks), Fama and French (stock return factors), Kilian (oil shocks)

· Explore the websites of people to whose research your work most closely relates

· Historical Statistics of the United States (may need to pay)

· LexisNexis

Financial Data:

· Yahoo

· Free Lunch