Economics and Business Subject Guide
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Finding Books
Searching
Searching TIGER by keyword or subject is often the fastest way to find books about your topic.
For books that we don’t own here at Colorado College, or books that are checked out or otherwise unavailable, use Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog
. You’ll find books (and CDs, DVDs, etc.) in libraries across Colorado that you can request and have sent to the Tutt Library circulation desk where you can check them out.
For books not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can request through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat
.
Please ask a librarian if you need help with TIGER, Prospector, or WorldCat.
Finding Articles
Searches for current scholarly article in Economics and Business should begin with one of the following databases:
Business Source PremierCoverage: 1965 - currentA comprehensive index of indexing and abstracts for over 3,800 periodicals, most full text. Coverage of marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics, international business, and more.
EconLitCoverage: 1969 - currentCovers over 400 economics periodicals.
The Wall Street JournalCoverage: 1984 - currentDaily business/financial and political news and reports with global coverage.
For archival access to many of the major scholarly articles in the fields use JSTOR
. To locate additional Sports Economics articles, try SPORTdiscus
. Working papers are another format for scholarly research in Economics. One source for those is NBER Working Paper Series
.
Finding Company Information
MergentonlineCoverage: 1989 - currentU.S. and International company and industry information. 15 year financial backfile. Reports can be downloaded into Excel.
Hoover's OnlineCoverage: currentCompany financial information with links to official company web pages.
Morningstar.comCoverage: currentUp-to-date prices for stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs (exchange traded funds). Analyst reports. Morningstar's strength lies in its analysis of mutual funds. The Portfolio X-Ray tool lets you choose a group of stocks and funds to judge the balance of investments in a portfolio.
Finding Statistical Data
Country data:
WDI OnlineCoverage: 1960 - current500 time-series indicators for 210 economies plus regional and income groups. Retrievable data in spreadsheet format, display maps and graphs, and export data. Note: Access to this resource may not work using Internet Explorer 7. Try Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox.
International Financial StatisticsCoverage: 1948 - currentProvides users with time series which summarize each country's balance of payments, with collateral data on its principal components (trade and reserves), and data on the principal cause and effect elements (monetary expansion and contraction, government surpluses and deficits, production, prices and interest rates).
UN Statistics Division Common DatabaseCoverage: 1958 - currentStatistical compilation for the United Nations. Contains selected data series from 30 specialized international sources, including labor, agricultural, nutritional and industrial statistics. Years of coverage vary with data series/countries selected.
SourceOECDCoverage: 1998 -Statistical databases and monographs published by OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Central Bank Websites
Links to Central Banks with websites. Some information may be in English but not all have that option.
European Central Bank
The main purpose of European Central Bank (ECB) statistics is to support the monetary policy of the ECB and other tasks of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
U.S. Economic Data:
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Economic time series data. Most available for download.
FRED
Major U.S. economic indicators from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Historical Statistics Of The United StatesCoverage: 1600s - currentAnnual time series of the U.S. population, economic indicators, social conditions, and government. From colonial times to the present.
Statistical UniverseCoverage: N/AAccess to US statistical information.
Other Links to Statistical Resources
Statistics
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