Common Sources of Data for International Finance Topics
- Bank for International Settlements - StatisticsGlobal securities and exchange statistics
- BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Primary agency for official data on the US workforce. - C. Engel's home pagewith links to data used in some of his papers
- Census Bureau Web Site
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A portal to statistics and data collected by the Census Bureau. - List of International Macro Datasets at the CEPR(For international macro) Center for Economic Policy maintains this list with brief descriptions of data relevant to a number of topical areas.
- EIA: U.S. Energy Information AdministrationSource for U.S. government data and reports.
- Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations and the full text)
Gathers census statistics that were gathered in the United states from colonial times to the present.
- J. Frankel's home pagewith links to data used in some of his papers
- M. Obstfeld's home pagewith links to data used in some of his papers
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
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Search OECD datasets and publications descriptions.
- Penn World TablesExceptional dataset with purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years beginning in 1950.
- WDI: World Development Indicators This link opens in a new window
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A great place to look first for comparative international data over time. Data for some series go back to 1962.
- World Bank Microdata Library
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- World Values Survey Online Data Analysis This link opens in a new window
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Surveys individuals in countries around the world on attitudes, values, trust, and demographics.
