INTERMEDIATE ECONOMETRICS (ECO 4422)
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LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

The selected sources listed below are useful for finding economic data and the statistical methods used to analyze data.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG  Subject searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu select "Subjects, All."  Type in the following Library of Congress subject headings (with dashes for subheadings):                Econometrics                  Econometrics--Periodicals    Author or title searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu select "Author, Corporate" or "Title begins with." (Example:  OECD or "International Financial Statistics Yearbook") REFERENCE BOOKS International Financial Statistics Yearbook.  Washington, D.C.:  International Monetary Fund.  1979- (REF HG61.I57) OECD Economic Outlook.  Paris:  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.(REF HC10.O72)

GOVERNMENT WEB SITES

Business Conditions Digest   This WEB site provides access to the monthly reports in the PDF format from 1968 to 1989 regarding "business cycle developments" in various economic sectors such as construction contracts, new building permits and employment.  These reports are published by the Department of Commerce.

Consumer Price Indexes  Provides detailed information on CPI statistics, published by the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.  CPI reports are available in plain text or the PDF formats, from 1994 to the present.

Economic Indicators  This monthly compilation of U.S. economic statistics is published by the Joint Economic Committee of the Council of Economic Advisors and is available on the WEB, with reports dating back to 1948.

Economic Report of the President  This annual report provides textual and statistical information about the economic progress of the United States and is written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

EDGAR Database of Corporate Information (SEC)
This is the official WEB site of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The latest and historical filings can be located by selecting the link “Search for Company Filings.”

STAT-USA    This WEB site is a service of the Department of Commerce and is a good resource for finding business, trade and economic statistical information.  It is comprised of two parts including:  "State of the Nation" and "GLOBUS & NTDB."

Survey of Current Business  This publication is published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and is available electronically through their WEB site.  It contains detailed information about the U.S. economy.  The issues from 1994 to the present are available in a PDF format. 

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at (http://www.fau.edu/library) by selecting “Research Resources” and then "Indexes/Databases." When accessing the databases remotely, select the link for the “EZproxy” server.

ABI/INFORM Complete
Gives references to journal articles on various economic topics from several ABI/INFORM databases including Dateline, Global, Archive and Trade & Industry. It contains some full text articles.

AccessUN   Provides references to the U.N. documents, including statistical reports about various countries.

Business Dateline
This database is helpful for finding information from local or regional publications on economic issues. When searching this database it is best to use a “keyword” search, which is a broader approach.

CountryWatch   This is good resource for finding economic, demographic and social information about various countries around the world.

EconLit   Gives references to articles on economic topics in more than 400 economic journals, books and some dissertations.  Coverage is from 1989 to the present.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
Includes current articles from news wires, newspapers, magazines and journals in the “Business News” section of this database. Most effective way of searching is by typing keywords in the “Headline.”

LEXIS-NEXIS Statistical   Provides summaries and links to statistical information in U.S. government publications.

MarketLine Business Information Centre (MBIC)  This database is helpful for finding information on global issues that would impact companies and industries. It gives access to economic data from 50 countries. 

Mergent Online
This database is especially useful for locating detailed financial information on public companies, including a section on SEC filings.  There are also reports on countries that include economic and trade data.

PAIS International   Provides information, including economic data, from publications for over 120 countries around the world.  Publications indexed are journal articles, books, government documents, conference reports and others.  

Political Risk Yearbook Online    Gives reports on more than 106 countries, which include political and economic risk analyses.

Wall Street Journal 1984-Present
Provides full text access to articles, which can be searched by subject or keywords.

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the “Electronic Databases” listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of the information?
2. How accurate is the information?
3. How reliable is the information?
4. How current is the information?
5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

BF76.7.P83 2001 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
5th ed. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.

APA Style Electronic Formats

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