Data Links

 

*   Eco5.com

             Data archive, working papers, forecasts, job markets.

*   CBOE: Chicago Board Options Exchange

*   Kenneth French’s data library: financial time series

*   Economagic: Time series data.

*   EconData.Net : portal to many macro/finance time series.

*   Business Statistics: business related data and links.

*   Oanda Currency: private service that provides free exchange rate data.

*   Yahoo! Finance: surprisingly, a substantial source of free daily stock market data.

*   Pacific Exchange Rate Service: free exchange rate data provided by the University of British Columbia.

*   US Census Bureau

*   Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

*   Federal Reserve of Saint Louis: FRED Data Bank

Extensive array of time series data; seasonally adjusted or unadjusted; real or nominal.

*   Economics data links by EconEdLink (data and education resources)

*   National Center for Health Statistics

Maintained by the Center for Disease Control, provides substantial data on

health related topics.

*   Internal Revenue Service

*   Current Population Survey [CPS]

Provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.A. Contains multiple panels

of a wide variety of labor/health statistics.

*   National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]   General Data

                  The NBER is a prestigious private organization dedicated to providing

                  statistical information concerning the U.S. economy.

*   Bureau of Labor Statistics

         Maintained by the U.S. department of Labor, the BLS provides

            substantial data and research on a variety of labor topics.

*   Freelunch.com

Contains a plethora of easy-to-download data, including historical

and contemporary macroeconomic and financial data.

*   Quantitative Macroeconomic, Time series, National Indicators, Finance (CREFE-UQAM)

             Provided by the Université du Québec À Montréal. Contains a substantial

             data base including macro-economic standards and financial time-series.

*   Economic Data Archives

Extensive array of popular and hard-to-find economic data (much is

seasonally adjusted).

*   Financial Time Series Archives