8 Mart 2009 Pazar

KAYNAK WEB SİTELERİ

Useful Sites:

Hoover Institute
Cato Institute
Brookings Institute
American Economic Association
Heritage Foundation
Hayek Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute
The Library of Economics and Liberty
National Bureau of Economic Research
Project Syndicate
George Mason University
James M. Buchanan Center
The Center for Study of Public Choice
Free Trade Organization
International Journal of Central Banking
Institute of Economic Affairs
Adam Smith Institute
European Central Bank
World Trade Organization
Federal Reserve Economic Research and Data
Berkeley (Working Papers)
EconWPA (Economics Department of Washington University)
World Bank – Documents and Reports
The Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Papers
TCMB TartışmaTebliğleri
NBER Working Papers
IMF Working Papers
Fed-in-Print (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Ekonomik Araştırmalar Merkezi (ERC)
Centre for Financial Studies
BIS Working Papers
Econturk.org
Ekodialog
Ceteris Paribus
Institute for International Economics
EconPapers
World Bank Journals
OECD
International Economics Network
Journal of Bank Management
TBB Bankacilar Dergisi
TBB Bankacılık Eğitim Sitesi
Türkiye Bankalar Birliği
KKTC Merkez Bankası

Journal and Databases:
J-Stor
IDEAS
SSNR
EconPapers
NBER
CEPR
VOX
IMF
World Bank
Other databases of e-journals
Other general databases

Datasources:
Eurostat
US Census Bureau
ECB statistics
FED statistics
OECD (Economic Outlook Database)
World Bank
United Nations
Bank of International Settlements
NBER Data
Harvard - MIT Data Center
UNCTAD Statistics
UNDP Fast Facts
Harvard Center for International Development
Economagic

General Online Resources:
Math concepts, formulas, applications
Engineering Statistics Handbook
Matlab
Matlab Econometrics Toolbox
Mathematica
Maple
Gauss
Economic concepts
Economic concepts and definitions
History of economic thought
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
Software Guide for Economists
Textbook Guide for Economists
Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Economics

KKTC İstatistikleri:

Ekonomik ve Sosyal Göstergeler
KKTC Merkez Bankası Verileri
Kurlar ve Pariteler
Tüketici Fiat Endeksleri
İnşaat İstatistikleri
Hanehalkı İşgücü Anketi Geçici Sonuçları (Ekim 2004)
Sağlık İstatistikleri
Tarım İstatistikleri
Kamu Personeli İstatistikleri

The data links are organised in four sections:
UK sites for data
International sites for data
Market data
Portal sites with links to other sites

UK sites for data
The following three sites are the main ones for accessing free data (mainly macroeconomic) on the UK economy. The sites also contain some international data.

1. National Statistics
National Statistics data sets are freely available. By visiting a part of the site called 'Time Series Data' (at the URL below), you can access all the tables from all the main publications, such as Economic & Labour Market Review (ELMR) (formerly Economic Trends and Labour Market Trends) the Blue Book, the Pink Book, Financial Statistics, etc.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/TSDIntro.asp
On entering the site you are given two main options. The first is to Access Individual Series. If you opt for this, a panel will be displayed. Having selected the publication (e.g. Economic Trends), you then have to select the table; then the series; and then the time period. This will involve clicking on 'Go' several times.
The second option is to download an entire release (e.g. of Economic Trends). If you opt for this, then you have a choice of downloading it in a simple zipped text file. This is not easy to use. The alternative is to download it into Navidata 3.1. This software makes it easy to transform or graph series. You can use it to compose tables from a number of different series. Download the software from:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdnavidata.asp
Once you have Navidata 3.1 on your PC, your downloaded series can be unzipped into the Navidata folder. You then use Navidata to construct the tables or graphs that you want.
A step-by-step guide on using Time Series Data is at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdhelp.asp
If you know the four-digit code for a series (which you will find at the top of each column in the paper publications or in the lists from each publication in the panel in Time Series Data), you can call up the series by going into 'Advanced Search' and entering the code in the 'Search For' box and selecting 'Time Series (using ID)' in the 'Scope of Search' box. This then lists the publications in which the series occurs (with links to the series).
Other well-known publications are available as complete PDF documents, many with links included that allow you to download an Excel file of the data. Series in PDF include: the Blue Book, the Pink Book, Economic & Labour Market Review, Scottish Economic Statistics, Financial Statistics, Family Spending, Social Trends, Regional Trends, Agriculture in the United Kingdom, the Annual Abstract and the Monthly Digest of Statistics. The available PDF documents can be found on the 'Virtual Bookshelf' part of the site at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/OnlineProducts/default.asp
It may be useful to know how to import a table from PDF into Excel. Also, with an Excel file containing many rows or columns, it may be useful to keep the header rows (or columns) of the spreadsheet static while the rest of the figures can be moved with the scroll bar or mouse wheel.
New releases can be downloaded from:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ReleaseCalendar/currentreleases.asp
Latest economic indicators can be downloaded from:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/instantfigures.asp

2. Bank of England Statistical Interactive Database
The Bank of England publishes a large range of banking, monetary and financial statistics in its Statistical Interactive Database. There are two easy ways of accessing the statistics in the database. The first is by category of table using the following link:http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mfsd/iadb/BankStats.asp?Travel=NIx
First you click on a category (e.g. Money and lending); then select a series (e.g. Monthly growth rates of M4 and M4 Lending) by clicking on the "+" sign to open up the options and then again with the selected option; then check the relevant series and click on 'show data' at the bottom of the screen; then select the date range and then the format in which to view the table (HTML, Excel, XML or CSV).
The second method is to use the A to Z listing using the following link:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mfsd/iadb/AtoZ.asp?Travel=NIx
First you choose which of four alphabetical lists to use. Then select a country or subject (e.g. M4); then a particular series (e.g. LPMAUYM); then, after clicking on 'show data' at the bottom of the screen, select the date range and the format to view the table. Again the available format are HTML, Excel, XML and CSV.

3. The Treasury
The Treasury site is also a very useful source of UK data. The main site can be accessed via the following link. The Economic Data and Tools and the Budget sections are particularly useful.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
In the Economic Data and Tools section you will find Latest Economic Indicators.http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/data_index.htm
Apart from giving you recent data releases, it also contains the Pocket Data Bank. This is a very useful weekly publication (see Weekly Economic Indicators) that downloads as an Excel Workbook file, with 27 tables in separate spreadsheets. It contains time- series data for a range of national and international indicators, going back, in most cases, to 1990. Other data sets include forecasts for the UK economy and statistics on public finance and spending.
There is also a separate section on the site for the Budget and Pre-Budget Reports and the Comprehensive Spending Review (use the links in the site's left-hand navigation panel). The full reports, tables and charts can be downloaded.

International sites for data
The following sites give access to international data. Some of the data are for individual countries; some are for groups of countries.

4. European Central Bank Statistics
On the ECB site you will find a statistical section containing a number of series. The index can be accessed via the following link:
http://www.ecb.int/stats/html/index.en.html
The Monthly Bulletin and Annual Report are particularly useful.
http://www.ecb.int/pub/mb/html/index.en.html
http://www.ecb.int/pub/annual/html/index.en.html

5. European Economy
The European Economy supplements, also available in hard-copy form, can be downloaded from the Europa portal site. They are contained in the Economic and Financial Affairs Directorate site (ECFIN DG). The home page of the directorate is:
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/index_en.htm
Annual Macroeconomic Database (AMECO)
AMECO contains a large range of annual time-series data for the 27 EU countries, the EU candidates, the EEA countries and the other OECD countries. There are approximately 700 indicators in the dataset. Many of the indicators go back to 1960 and forecast ahead for two years. The data can be viewed online (using Java) and is accessed from
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/db_indicators8646_en.htm

6-monthly forecasts
By clicking on the following link, you will arrive at the 6-monthly forecasts for each of the 27 EU countries, the euro area, the 27 EU countries as a whole and also the USA and Japan. Apart from containing a comprehensive verbal economic report (plus tables) of each country and the the EU as a whole, there is a comprehensive statistical annex with 62 tables of time series data, plus forecasts for the next two years.
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/specpub_list9253.htm
(Note that, with large PDF files such as this, it is much quicker to save the file first and then to open it in the Adobe Acrobat Reader. To save the file, right click the link and go to Save Target As... and then choose your folder and file name.)
European Economy Statistical Annex
The Statistical Annex to European Economy is updated six-monthly. It contains 112 tables with macroeconomic data for each of the EU27 countries, the applicant countires (Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia), the euro area (the current 15 and the previous 12), the 15 EU countries that were members prior to 2004 and also the USA and Japan. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following:
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publ_page8701_en.htm
Click on the little "+" sign to the left of European Economy and select the latest year. Then click on the latest Statistical Annex to European Economy. Then click (or right click to save) in the box.
It may be useful to know how to import a table from PDF into Excel. Also, with an Excel file containing many rows or columns, it may be useful to keep the header rows (or columns) of the spreadsheet static while the rest of the figures can be moved with the scroll bar or mouse wheel.
Business and Consumer Surveys
The European Economy site also contains monthly business and consumer surveys. These come in two separate sets: Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) and Business Climate Indicator (BCI).
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/db_indicators8650_en.htm
You can also access longer time series. You can download these as 8 sets of zipped Excel files, one for each type of indicator (economic sentiment, industry, services, consumers, retail trade, construction, financial services and investment) or as two complete sets (seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted). The series give monthly data from 1985 and, for some series, quarterly data too. See the Index in the first worksheet of each file for the meaning of the codes used in the tables. The tables give indicators for each of the 27 EU countries, for the euro area and for the EU as a whole. You will find all these at:
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/surveys9185_en.htm

6. OECD Statistics Portal (including OECD Economic Outlook)
On this site you will find a whole range of statistics for each of the 30 OECD countries, the euro area and the OECD as a whole. The statistics are arranged by topic group, including national Accounts, Finance, Agriculture, Development, International Trade, Labour, Prices, Public Management and Short-term Economic Statistics.
http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
OECD Economic Outlook
From the above page you can also link to the OECD Economic Outlook. This six-monthly publication contains a Statistical Annex with annual macroeconomic data for each of the OECD countries. The data typically cover 20 years with forecasts ahead for the next two years. There are 63 tables in Excel spreadsheets, grouped into workbooks in 8 separate files. They are normally available a few weeks after the publication of the paper version. There is also normally a gap of a few weeks from the time the previous edition is withdrawn to the time the new edition appears. During this period a 'flash file' is available with summary statistics and forecasts for each of the member countries.
The latest Statistical Annex files can be downloaded from:
http://www.oecd.org/document/61/0,2340,en_2825_32066506_2483901_1_1_1_1,00.html
A useful publication with a range of statistics for the latest year and for the previous 12 years can be found in OECD Factbook. The tables can be individually accessed from:
http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_34374092_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
From the above page, click on "Access It! FREE Online"
Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Shorter-term macroeconomic data on each of the OECD countries can be found in the OECD's Main Economic Indicators (MEI). Although the complete publication is available only by subscription, some of the key data can be found at:
http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,2340,en_2825_495677_15569334_1_1_1_1,00.html#Free_On_line_Short_Term_Indicators
Also publicly available data can be downloaded from:
http://stats.oecd.org/mei/

7. World Bank data sets
The World Bank site contains a vast database of economic, social and other development statistics for all countries of the world. Although much of the data on the site is available only by subscription, by clicking on 'Data' on the left-hand panel of the following, you can access a range of free statistics, both by country and by topic:
http://www.worldbank.org/data/
The World Bank also publishes its annual World Development Report. The reports contain a 'selected indicators' appendix with a range of development data for all countries of the world. You can download the rpoerts for each year from the following:
http://www.worldbank.org/wdr/
The complete set of World Bank World Development Indicators and World Bank Global Development Finance data are available free via the Economic and Social Data Service, which requires you to login trhough the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research. You will first need to register. This is free. (Details are given on the site). Then to login, you specify your university or college and then use your university/college username and password. In some universities, you will need to use your Athens username and password instead.
http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/access/access.asp
A useful publication of the World Bank is the Little Green Data Book. This gives key indicators of the environment for each of over 200 countries and for groups of countries organised by region and by income. See:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTEEI/Resources/LGDB2008.pdf

8. IMF data sets
Country reports for all countries of the world can be found via the following link:
http://www.imf.org/external/country/
Three particularly useful publications are the World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report and Annual Report. Each of these has a large statistical annex and can be accessed via the following link (see links in the right-hand column of the screen).
http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
The complete set of IMF Direction of Trade Statistics and IMF International Financial Statistics are available free via the Economic and Social Data Service, which requires using you university/college username and password (you will have to register first: details are given on the site):
http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/access/access.asp

9. WTO international trade statistics
The resources section of the WTO site contains trade statistics by country, by region and by sector. There are two main parts to the site. The first is a searchable database for various time series data. These include data on mechandise and commerical services trade at:
http://stat.wto.org/StatisticalProgram/WSDBStatProgramHome.aspx?Language=E
From this part of the site you can also access trade profiles of individual countries at:
http://stat.wto.org/CountryProfile/WSDBCountryPFHome.aspx?Language=E
and tariff profiles at:
http://stat.wto.org/TariffProfile/WSDBTariffPFHome.aspx?Language=E
The second main part of the site contains annual trade statistics, which you can download as PDF or Excel files. See:
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its08_toc_e.htm

10. UNCTAD statistics
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) site has an online database. Some parts of this require subscription, but you can access customisable international trade and finance statistics from the Handbook of Statistics section free of charge at:
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1890&lang=1
The Handbook of Statistics can also be downloaded as PDF files from:
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=10193&intItemID=1397&lang=1&mode=downloads
You can also access customisable foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics at:
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=3199&lang=1
and download the World Investment Report in PDF files at:
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=10502&intItemID=4629&lang=1&mode=downloads
The above report contains many tables on global and regional FDI, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and transnational corporations (TNCs).
Annexes A and B to the World Investment Report contain a range of additional FDI, M&A and TNC statistics. See:
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/wir2008p3_en.pdf

11. NationMaster
This is a compilation of more than five thousand data series, from sources including the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. As well as profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, you can browse the data by topic including education, economy, crime, mortality or health. The site offers a facility to create correlation reports and scatter-plots on the fly.
http://www.nationmaster.com/
Under FACTS & STATISTICS select a Category (e.g. Economy) and then a series (e.g. Aid as % of GDP). If you select Advanced View you can choose various countries and two series and compare them. Alternatively, use the top navigation bar. For example, you could select Statistics or Countries.

12. CIA World Factbook
If you don't mind that this information comes courtesy of the CIA, this is a very useful site, giving a host of economic and other data, country-by-country. Simply select a country from the drop-down menu.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

13. Economist Country Briefings
For a somewhat less controversial source of country information, this part of The Economist site is excellent. Again, you simply click on a country to get a selection of statistics (under Country Profile), plus briefing articles.
http://www.economist.com/countries/

14. FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
Economic data for the whole of the USA, updated daily from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/

Market data
The following sites provide data on UK and international markets for individual commodities, shares or products.

15. Yahoo Finance
The following link is to the home page, from which you can access the various sections of the site, including equity (share) markets, currency markets and commodity markets.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/
On the investing part of the site you can access equity and other financial markets.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/uk_trading.html
For example you can see charts and tables for the FTSE 100. You can also look up individual shares at:http://uk.finsearch.yahoo.com/uk/index.php?s=uk_sort&nm=Enter%20Company%20or%20Symbol&tp=S&r=*

16. Telegraph shares and markets
This is a well presented and clearly navigable site for finding share and commodity prices and tailoring the data.
http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/
For example, you can see what is happening to each of the major stock market indices and all the individual shares in that particular index at:
http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/indices/
You can draw time-series charts of any share for periods of 1 day to 10 years. These can be in different formats, such as line charts, candle charts or high-low charts. You can add overlays of moving averages and add charts at the bottom of the screen for a range of other indicators on that share, such as volume and moving average (VOLMA), moving average convergence/divergence (MACD), fast stochastic (Fast Stoch) and rate of change (ROC).
http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/charts/
You can show 'heat maps' which rank shares in indices by percentage change at::
http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/heatmaps/
You can use the Stock Screener to display particular types of stock, filtered by size, sector and various types of share data at:.
http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/stockscreener/
Also you can build your own portfolio at:
http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/login/

17. Energy Information Administration
This is a US government site, but it gives international as well as US data on electricity, coal, gas, nuclear power and oil. See:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
For individual country analyses, see:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html
World crude oil prices can be found at:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_wco_k_w.htm
For example, historical prices for Brent crude are at:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/rbrteM.htm

18. The London Metal Exchange
You can download Excel spreadsheets of prices, stocks and traded volumes for each month of the current year for each metal at:
http://www.lme.co.uk/dataprices_historical.asp

19. BBC Market Data
The BBC news site has a section with market data at:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/hi/business/market_data/overview/
You can find current prices and charts of price movements over the past one, three or twelve months of stock markets, shares, currencies and commodities.

20. UK house prices
There are two excellent sites for time-series data of house prices.
Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS)
The house price index site shows the movements in house prices since 1983 both nationally, by region, by county, by town, by property type and by type of buyer. Data are given monthly, quarterly and annually. Data can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets from:
http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/HistoricalDataSpreadsheet.asp
Nationwide house prices site
This gives quarterly movements in national house prices since 1952. More detailed series distinguishing type of property, type of buyer and region are given from more recent years (1973, 1983 or 1991). See:
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/hpi/historical.htm

Portal sites with links to other sites
These sites provide links to other sites with a range of economic data.

21. Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
"The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a [UK] national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes."
To gain free access to the datasets linked from ESDS you will need to use your university/college username and password. You will first need to register at:
http://www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/login.asp
ESDS is in four parts:
ESDS International
This gives access to a huge range of international macroeconomic data from the World Bank, Eurostat, the IMF, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the ILO, the OECD and UNIDO. It also gives access to various micro datasets, including Eurobarometer Surveys. See:
http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/access/access.asp
ESDS Government
This gives access to UK government surveys, including the Labour Force Survey, the General Household Survey and the Family Expenditure Survey. See:
http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/surveys/
ESDS Longitudinal
This gives access to major UK surveys following individuals over time, such as the British Household Panel Survey and the British Cohort Study (of people born in 1970). See:
http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/access/introduction.asp
ESDS Qualidata
"The service provides access and support for a range of social science qualitative datasets." See:
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/access/introduction.asp

22. OFFSTATS
This is a New Zealand site with links to a host of statistical sources from around the world.
http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/
You can browse by country, by region of the world and by subject. The subjects include both economic and non-economic ones.

23. Davidson Data Center and Network (DDCN)
"Davidson Data Center and Network (DDCN) is an integrated, fully searchable database on transition and emerging markets. DDCN archives and provides free access to socio-economic micro and macro data on transition economies."
http://ddcn.prowebis.com/browse_subject2.asp (Browse by Subject)http://ddcn.prowebis.com/browse_country.asp (Browse by Country)

24. Economagic
This US site contains a vast range of US, Australian, Japanese and ECB data, plus LIBOR data in various currencies. The site allows you to manipulate the data: e.g. convert monthly data to quarterly or annual data; convert levels to rates of change; dump data into Excel spreadsheets; and graph the data. Click on Transform this Series to convert the data. Have a play with it. It's easy to follow the instructions.
http://www.economagic.com/

25. RFE Data Links
RFE is part of AEAWeb - information for economists provided by the American Economic Association. From the Data page on the Resources for Economists (RFE) part of the site, there are links to very many online data sources, categorised by region. Categories include US Macro and Regional Data, World and Non-USA Data, Finance and Financial Markets, Journal Data and Program Archives.
http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/showCat.php?cat_id=2

26. Development Gateway Foundation

This is an online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide. The tools on this website bring together people and organizations around the globe who are working to improve life in developing countries.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/
The following gives links to national and international organisations that offer data, or information about data, on their site.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/cg/country-gateways/dataandstatistics.do