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   Resources for Economists on the Internet, Vol. 2, No. 2 October, 1996
                     Bill Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>

                                Part 6 of 10

   This document lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to
   academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
   In selecting these resources, I exercise some editorial judgment and
   select items that either offer a substantial amount of information, or
   are specialized to a specific area.

   This guide is Copyright 1996 by William L. Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>.
   It may be freely redistributed in whole or in part for any purpose. If
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     # http://econwpa.wustl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html             (Missouri)
     # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/EconFAQ.html                           (U.K.)
     # http://COBA.SHSU.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html                    (Texas)
     # http://www.econ.nyu.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html              (New York)
     # http://www.umich.edu/~ilir/r4e/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html       (Michigan)
     # http://www.finweb.com/econfaq/EconFAQ.html                   (Texas)
     # http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html 
                                                               (California)
     # http://ruby.wabash.edu/SCHOLAR.SYS/WWWW/PAGES/depart/economic/
              econFAQ/econFAQ.html                                (Indiana)
     # http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/Economics/EconData/.www/
              EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html                               (Maryland)
     # http://www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html          (Flordia)
     # http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html      (Finland)
     # http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Goffe/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html       (U.K.)
     # http://www.elsevier.nl/econbase/othergophers/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html 
                                                              (Netherlands)
     # http://www.econ3.uni-bonn.de/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html          (Germany)
     # http://www.uwa.edu.au/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html               (Australia)
     # http://www.ntu.ac.sg/nbs/ae/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.shtml        (Singapore)
     # http://www.unina.it/economia/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html            (Italy)

    The section titled "WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS GUIDE" lists other methods of
    obtaining this guide.

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25 ACADEMIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTES
                                       
25.1 Hoover Institution

   This site describes the many activities of this institution. This
   includes a broad overview, material from their newsletter, press
   releases, their catalog of printed material, and extensive material on
   their different programs. In addition, they have fairly extensive
   biographies of their scholars.
   
     # http://www-Hoover.Stanford.edu
       
25.2 The Jerome Levy Economics Institute

   This institute, independently endowed, is affiliated with Bard
   College. Its purpose is described in its bylaws: "To pursue knowledge
   of economics that will enable nations to enlarge personal freedom,
   promote justice, and maintain stable economies with full employment
   and rising standards of living." You can read about their Forecasting
   Center (which is in the spirit of Jerome Levy's original work), their
   research programs, numerous conferences and events, and their
   publications. You can also read about their mission.
   
     # http://www.levy.org/
       
25.3 Carolina Population Center (UNC-Chapel Hill)

   This organization studies population issues in a broad context. In
   fact, a minority of the staff is demographers; thus the work is quite
   interdisciplinary. Besides reading about the center, information about
   some of their projects (sometimes even including data) is available.
   The Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey studies "the impact of
   Russian economic reforms on the nutritional and economic well-being of
   the Russian population." Data from the first part of the project and
   other material is available on-line. The China Health and Nutrition
   Survey is a similar project for China; data and other information is
   available as well. Finally, while data from the Cebu Longitudinal
   Health and Nutrition Survey is not on-line, information on ordering a
   CD-ROM is on-line.
   
     # http://www.cpc.unc.edu/
       
25.4 Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)

   This site contains a substantial amount of information for those
   interested in water as a resource. It include the Water Resources
   Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the U.S. Geological Survey, a
   directory of water resources experts, an extensive calendar of "water"
   events, and information on the National Institutes for Water Resources
   (NIWR), information on other water organizations, water databases and
   archives, and links to other water organizations.
   
     # http://www.uwin.siu.edu/
     # gopher://uwin.c-wr.siu.edu:70/1/
       
25.5 Regional Research Institute (West Virginia University)

   This site provides a variety of material for those interested in
   regional science. It includes vitaes on the senior researchers in the
   Institute, overviews of research projects, information on
   publications, substantial information on The International Regional
   Science Review (including abstracts of back and forthcoming issues),
   information on their mailing lists, and connections to related
   gophers.
   
     # gopher://WVNVM.WVNET.EDU/11/wc/wvu/uwv_tst2.menu_res/uri
       
25.6 Center for the Study of Population at Florida State University

   This site offers a variety of services for demographers. Not only is
   information from this Center covered, but this site has many links to
   similar sites on the Internet. It has details on abstracts of working
   papers in the field (including ordering information), extensive links
   to data sources, software, professional announcements, and the
   Electronic Employment Exchange for demographers (which covers both the
   supply and demand sides of the market).
   
     # gopher://gopher.fsu.edu:70/11/FSU/Popctr
     # Information: Carl Schmertmann <schmertmann@fsu.edu>
       
+ 25.7 Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz (LEEPS)
+
+  This organization is located at UC Santa Cruz. It has been working
+  with experimental economics since 1986, and is noted for its emphasis
+  on learning, its use of hundreds of Unix workstations, and its small
+  scale. Here you can read about the people involved with the
+  organization, the projects themselves, and information on their
+  papers.
+  
+    # http://cash.ucsc.edu/
       
25.8 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona

   This site describes the basic idea of experimental economics and
   provides links to other sites of interest. In addition, the software
   area has several packages that would be useful for both teaching and
   research in this area.
   
     # http://www.econlab.arizona.edu/
       
25.9 Ludwig von Mises Institute

   This organization, founded in 1982, is located at Auburn University.
   At this site, you can read "The Austrian Economics Newsletter,"
   material about "The Free Market" (their monthly policy newsletter sent
   to Institute members) and the table of contents of "The Review of
   Austrian Economics" (a Kluwer journal). You can also read about how to
   join and support the Institute, about upcoming events, how to order
   books from the Institute, and information on a fellowship. Finally,
   you can introductory material about the Austrian school.
   
     # http://www.mises.org
       
25.10 The Austrian Economics Program at New York University

   This site offers information on their program: their research
   interests, their teaching emphasis, and their publications. There is
   also information on their faculty and graduate students.
   
     # http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/boettke/aep.htm
       
25.11 Canadian International Labour Network (CILN)

   This organization is devoted to "effects of labour-market laws and
   institutions (e.g., labour legislation, unions, unemployment
   insurance) on labour-market outcomes (e.g., the distribution of wages,
   the level and structure of unemployment, and the distribution of
   resources within the family)." It is a joint project of the Canadian
   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, (SSHRC), McMaster
   University, the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto, and by
   Human Resources Development Canada. One aim is to develop large
   databases for numerous countries in this area. Besides information on
   the project, you can read about future conferences.
   
     # http://labour.ciln.mcmaster.ca/
       
25.12 Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment (CREFE)

   "The RCEEF seeks to establish links between the labour market and
   economic fluctuations. Main research themes are: family decisions and
   the labour market; labour market dynamics and economic fluctuations;
   Canadian labour market; labour contracts, institutions and
   employment." Material at this site includes information on its
   members, research programs and grants, publications, a newsletter (to
   be distributed electronically), information on conferences and
   seminars, and a list of working papers.
   
     # http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/crefe
       
25.13 ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau (U.K.)

   This organization studies a number of macro models of the U.K.
   economy. To quote, "The main purpose of the Bureau is to improve the
   accessibility of macroeconomic models of the UK economy, to promote
   general understanding of the properties of these models, and to
   undertake its own comparative and methodological research. The current
   portfolio comprises six models, two of which are `official' models
   (those of the Bank of England and HM Treasury), the other four being
   constructed and maintained by independent groups (London Business
   School, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Oxford
   Economic Forecasting and Strathclyde University). All of these are
   implemented on the University's mainframe computer.
   
   Currently, one can learn about the organization, read recent
   newsletters, and watch a demonstration of PC-Ready Reckoner, a PC
   program which summarizes three of their models. It should be quite
   useful as a teaching aid.
   
     # http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~mbras/
     # Information: mbraq@csv.warwick.ac.uk
       
25.14 Centre for Economic Forecasting (London Business School)

   This organization operates a forecasting model of the U.K. and other
   major OECD countries, and also engages more generally in economic
   research. Besides information on their activities, they also provide
   information on their recent discussion papers.
   
     # http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/cef/cef.htm
       
+ 25.15 Sheffield Centre for Economic Modelling and Forecasting
+
+  This organization offers a model of the U.K. economy, from which
+  forecasts are made. At their site, you can read a short summary about
+  the model, and the actual forecasts (which contains some past macro
+  data for the U.K.). They also have links to related sites.
+  
+    # http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scemf/
       
25.16 Centre for Policy Modelling

   This Centre focuses on "decision-making in environments which are too
   complex to be analyzed by models based on standard economic and
   related analytical techniques. This has been made possible by the
   design and implementation of a computer-based modeling language called
   SDML (Strictly Declarative Modelling Language)." At this site you can
   find background material on SMDL, details on several projects it is
   being used on, and discussion papers.
   
     # http://www.fmb.mmu.ac.uk/cpm/
       
25.17 Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics

   To quote, "The CEP is inter-disciplinary, with researchers from
   economics, industrial relations, psychology, sociology and management.
   The research produced focuses on a wide range of areas, notably labour
   markets, unemployment, wages, human resources, international trade and
   the transition economies." More specifically, "The CEP is
   inter-disciplinary and primarily aims to examine: firstly, why some
   firms persistently succeed while others do not; and secondly, at the
   level of the nation, why some countries' economies work better than
   others." The director is Richard Layard.
   
   Available material includes information on their working papers,
   schedule of events, information on conferences, lectures and seminars,
   extensive material on their research programs, and will soon have
   information on databases and those affiliated with the centre.
   
     # http://cep.lse.ac.uk/
       
25.18 Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE)

   "Rather than modeling man as an ideally rational, optimizing agent in
   the style of neoclassical economics, the Centre pursues a programme of
   pure and applied research directed at the manner in which real people
   adjust their behavior over time as their circumstances change. The
   overall objective is to promote the study of models of interactive
   learning with a view to providing a new foundational basis for
   modeling in economics and related social sciences. We see game theory
   as a largely unexploited focus for such study." At this site you'll
   find an introduction to the Centre (including their staff and
   divisions), working papers, and information on how to reach them.
   
     # http://ada.econ.ucl.ac.uk/
       
25.19 Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)

   This group, located at the University of Kent at Canterbury, works on
   health topics. Specifically, "The core of the research is the
   examination of equity and efficiency: how resources can be made to
   produce the best outcomes, and how needs can be assessed and met." As
   you might expect, much of the research involves health-economics.
   
   At this site you can find information on the staff, material on their
   books, monographs, and discussion papers (more than 1,000 of the
   latter; only available in hardcopy), their Bulletin, details on their
   current projects, and upcoming events and seminars.
   
     # http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/PSSRU/
       
+ 25.20 Center for the Study of Law and Economics
+
+  This organization, a part of the Universitt des Saarlandes, offers
+  information about its current activities, the people involved with it,
+  their discussion paper series, and links to related sites.
+  
+    # http://www.uni-sb.de/rewi/fb2/csle/
       
25.21 Instituto de Prediccion Economica

   This organization, affiliated with the Autonomus Universitie of
   Madrid, makes forecasts and reports on the Spanish economy. The
   forecasts are both short and long term.
   
     # http://www.uam.es/estructura/centros/UAM/Klein/paginas/Klein.html
     # Information: ceprede@vm1.sdi.uam.es
       
25.22 Nijenrode Forum for Economic Research (NYFER)

   This organization, affiliated with Nijenrode University in the
   Netherlands, is oriented towards macro issues that are difficult to
   deal with using traditional models. As one would expect, there is a
   heavy policy and forecasting emphasis. The information they offer
   includes press releases, information on their publications, ordering
   information for their offerings, and material about themselves.
   Befitting their emphasis, much of the material is in Dutch.
   
     # http://www.nijenrode.nl/nyfer/
       
25.23 IKE Group (Aalborg University, Denmark)

   This organization, whose title roughly translates into English as
   "international competitiveness," has been in existence since about
   1980. As the title implies, they study economic change in a variety of
   ways. Currently, they have some 22 members.
   
   At their web site, you'll find information on this organization (in
   terms of their annual reports) and their member's research interests
   and publications.
   
     # http://www.business.auc.dk/ike/ike.html
       
25.24 Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO)

   This organization is a joint project of the University of Economics
   and Business Administration (Vienna, Austria), the Slovak Academy of
   Sciences (Bratislava, CSFR), and the University of North Carolina at
   Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC). As befitting the changes in that part
   of the world, it emphasizes interdisciplinary research. Of interest to
   economists is their data on Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria,
   Hungary, Poland and Romania (some of the data is of a summary nature).
   
     # gopher://olymp.wu-wien.ac.at:70/11/.cerro.ind
       
25.25 Experimental Economics Laboratory, Univ. of Trento, Italy

   This lab is using the web to communicate its results in "economics,
   computation and organizational behavior." Currently, it describes
   their approach to these issues, along with a list of recent
   publications, information on lab members, and their international
   collaborators. In the near future, you will be able to play economic
   games here.
   
     # http://black.cs.unitn.it/
       
25.26 Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
      (MERIT)

   This institute, which studies technological change, offers a variety
   of different services on their web and ftp servers. One get their
   working papers (in PostScript), read about their mission, their PhD
   program (run in conjunction with INTECH) and staff. You can also find
   out about their upcoming events, and look at aggregate data on trends
   on science and technology. They also offer a program for time series
   management, MADMAN (Menhir's Arithmetical Database MANager).
   
     # http://meritbbs.rulimburg.nl
     # ftp://meritbbs.rulimburg.nl
       
25.27 ERCOMER - European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations

   This organization studies migration in Europe. At their site, you can
   read about their staff, funding, training for researchers, their
   meetings and conferences, and material about their books.
   
     # http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/
       
25.28 Centre for Economic Research (CCSO) - University of Groningen and
      University of Twente

   "CCSO is a research group of economists and econometricians of the
   Economics Department of the University of Groningen and the University
   of Twente. The group works on the field of empirical general economics
   and has developed a number of large-scale macroeconometric models."
   They offer their information about themselves (including their
   participants), working papers, a list of their articles and books,
   information on upcoming seminars and workshops, and information about
   their GUESS package ("for the analysis of large-scale non-linear
   macroeconomic models;" it runs on PCs).
   
     # http://www.eco.rug.nl/ccso/homeccso.html
       
25.29 Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the Environment (CESSE)

   This center, affiliated with the Universiti Libre de Bruxelles,
   studies such topics as environmental economics and sustainable
   development. You can read about their various activities and studies,
   as well as bibliographical material on some of their papers. They also
   offer material about their staff. Finally, they provide a very
   extensive set of links to related sites.
   
     # http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/cesse.html
       
25.30 Theoretical Research Institute (Australia) Exchange Rate Target Zone
      Database

   This site offers an extensive searchable bibliography (with abstracts)
   on the literature dealing with exchange rate target zones. It also has
   supplementary information on the research output of Australian
   economics departments.
   
     # http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/tri/
       
25.31 Social Policy Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney

   This organization studies a "wide range of social issues" in
   Australia. There is some focus on "identifying those individuals and
   groups whose needs are especially great." To carry this out, they
   undertake a wide range of activities, including publications, reports,
   and seminars.
   
   At this site they offer information on themselves, their projects and
   research agendas, newsletters, and title of publications.
   
     # http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au
       
26 NON-ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY ORGANIZATIONS
                                       
26.1 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

   Currently, this site contains datasets of interest. Directly from the
   web site you can search and retrieve data from the Penn-World Tables,
   Mark 5.6, through a very nice interface. The NBER Macro History
   Database is also available here (it is described elsewhere in this
   guide), as information on business cycle turning point. From their ftp
   site (reachable from the web site), the following is available: the
   Survey of Consumer Finance, trade and immigration data from Abowd and
   Freeman, Barro and Wolf data ("Economic Growth in a Cross Section of
   Countries"), Barro and Lee data ("A Panel of 138 Countries"), Gray and
   Bartelsman Productivity Database, and a variety of firm level data by
   Bronwyn H. Hall.
   
   On the web site you can also read about the NBER, search the staff and
   NBER Research Associates directories, and read detailed information
   about their publications. You can search the list of NBER working
   papers and reprints from their gopher.
   
   For the Penn World tables, an extensive set of macros for the Excel
   spreadsheet program can be found in pub/pwt55.spreadsheet. For more
   information on this set of macros, contact the author, Sailesh Tanna
   <skt@le.ac.uk>.
   
   Bob Parks has kindly made the Penn World Tables available, in raw,
   Excel, and MicroTSP files, at the Washington University at St. Louis
   Economics Department gopher (described elsewhere in this guide). Be
   sure to read his documentation.
   
   One can only hope that someday NBER working papers will be available
   here or on another working paper archive. Perhaps some sort of
   fee-based system can be implemented.
   
     # http://nber.harvard.edu/
     # gopher://nber.harvard.edu:70/1/
     # telnet://gopher@nber.harvard.edu
     # ftp://nber.harvard.edu/pub/nber
       
26.2 Rand

   This sites describes the many activities of RAND. Of particular
   interest to many is the selected list of publications. One can search
   for papers, read abstracts, and even order them.
   
     # http://www.rand.org/
       
+ 26.3 Santa Fe Institute Economics Program
+
+  This subset of the Santa Fe Institute offers information on its
+  researchers, workshops (including graduate ones), and working papers.
+   
+    # http://www.santafe.edu/~leb/econ.html
       
26.4 Brookings Institution

   Here you can read about Brookings, their scholars, their research
   programs, their publications, and press releases (many of which are
   announcements for their books). They also have a nice set of links to
   the Internet.
   
     # http://www.brook.edu
       
26.5 Resources for the Future

   One can read press releases, details about their seminar series,
   extensive information about the RFF, excerpts from several books,
   Congressional testimony, and selected articles by the RFF at this
   site.
   
     # http://www.rff.org/
       
26.6 EPA Economy and Environment Program

   This section of the U.S. Environmental Protectin Agency is devoted to
   carrying "out research and analyses of the interactions and
   relationships between the economy and environmental pollution control
   as well as other aspects of environmental economics." A number of
   reports are available on many different topics.
   
     # http://www.epa.gov/docs/oppe/eaed/eedhmpg.htm
       
26.7 Institute for International Economics

   This Washington-based think tank is quite influential in trade and
   related issues. You can read about their authors and staff, their
   books (including ordering information), and read their press releases.
   
     # http://www.iie.com
       
26.8 Institute for Policy Innovation

   This conservative leaning organization offers many of their position
   papers and other documents on current policy issues here. Most are in
   Adobe Acrobat format, so if you have one of Adobe's freely available
   viewers, you can read the entire, fully-formatted document on-line.
   
     # http://www.ipi.org
       
26.9 Employee Benefit Research Institute

   "Established in 1978, the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
   is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to original
   public policy research and education on economic security and employee
   benefits." This site offers information about the Institute, its
   membership, its publications and educational activities, its fellows
   program, its Lillywhite Award, and links to related areas.
   
     # http://www.ebri.org/
       
+ 26.10 Fraser Institute
+
+  This institute, located in Vancouver, is "The source of market
+  solutions for public policy problems." It has a full time staff of 25,
+  2,600 supporters, and its researchers have produced more than 200
+  books and thousands of articles. Besides information about the
+  institute, you can read about upcoming events, their press releases,
+  and information about all their publications. They also offer a
+  section for students.
+  
+    # http://www.fraserinstitute.ca
       
26.11 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

   Currently, the Centre offers their "Diary of Forthcoming Events" and
   "Abstracts of Recent Discussion Papers," on several mailing lists,
   including CORRYFEE, and by request to the address given below.
   
   Plans are in the works for a gopher and web server.
   
     # Information: Stephen Yeo <ubte09e@ccs.bbk.ac.uk>
       
26.12 The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

   This U.K. organization specializes in studies of fiscal policy. In
   addition, it is an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Centre,
   and it has played a substantial role in recent public debates. This
   site offers a large amount of information on their activities: staff
   information, membership information, press releases, job
   announcements, information on IFS, conferences (with on-line
   registration), on-line summaries of recent work, and a list of
   publications (with on-line ordering).
   
     # http://www1.ifs.org.uk/
       
26.13 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

   You can read extensive information on the the OECD's activities,
   publications, and their data products here. There are some summary
   statistics and graphs in the "Statistics" area of "Activities."
   Particularly noteworthy is the entry "Short-term Economic Statistics"
   which has graphs of a number of macroeconomic variables for all OECD
   countries. News releases and newsletters can be found in the "News and
   Events" area.
   
     # http://www.oecd.org
       
26.14 Infrastructure and Spatial Economics - CPB Research Unit for Policy
      Studies

   This Dutch organization "performs policy research on infrastructure
   investments, transport and traffic, the spatial structure of the
   national economy, and the regional planning of industrial and
   commercial areas. It is an initiative of CPB and four Dutch
   ministries..." At his site you can read about their past, current, and
   future projects. They also have abstracts of their studies.
   
     # http://www.inter.nl.net/hcc/M.A.Koning/unit.html
       
26.15 Belgian Planning Bureau

   This organization's "main objective is to analyse the parameters which
   influence the economic evolution and to evaluate the effects of
   economic policy decisions for the purpose of improving rationality and
   transparancy of the decision-making." It is formally part of the
   Belgium government, but operates with independently of the government.
   They forecast the Belgium economy, perform associated research, and
   they collect statistical information. You can read about their mission
   and staff (including their e-mail addresses), read some of their
   reports, and obtain some software they use: IODE (Intigrateur d'Outils
   de Diveloppement Economitrique).
   
     # http://www.plan.be/
       
26.16 The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

   This organization was founded by Hayek and Mises in 1927. "Its goal is
   to investigate the conditions and trends of economic performance and
   development in Austria and abroad by means of advanced methods, and to
   disseminate the results of these investigations so as to promote the
   general comprehension of the functioning of the national and
   international economy." It has a staff of about 40 economists, and
   research covers virtually all areas of economics. WIFO also organizes
   conferences and workshops.
   
   WIFO also has the most extensive collection of economic data on the
   Austrian economy, some of which comes from international
   organizations, and some is collected by WIFO. But, the data is only
   available internally.
   
     # http://www.wsr.ac.at/wifo-html/
       
+ 26.17 The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW)
+
+  This institute focuses on central and eastern Europe. "The Institute's
+  special expertise - detailed personal knowledge of the countries of
+  the former eastern bloc - helps assess economic trends, search for new
+  business opportunities and reduce uncertainty in entering markets." On
+  the Internet, they offer information about themselves and their
+  projects. Perhaps the most useful is their extensive database of
+  economic information for this part of the world. However, currently,
+  it is accessible only to members of the Institute. They also offer
+  abstracts of their publications, and an on-line card catalog of their
+  library.
+  
+    # http://www.wsr.ac.at/wiiw-html/
       
26.18 Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

   This organization "is a non-profit foundation endowed by the ENI
   Group, the Italian public energy and chemical company. FEEM has grown
   out of the need to extend knowledge of energy and environmental
   issues. This goal is achieved in two ways, through conducting research
   in these areas and promoting interaction between academic, industrial
   and public policy spheres." At this site you can read their recent
   newsletters and annual reports, find out about their staff, read the
   list of working papers, see a list of seminars and workshops, read
   about LIVIA (a "Computer Laboratory for Environmental Impact
   Assessment"), and also read about European Association of
   Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).
   
     # http://www.feem.it/
       
26.19 The German Institute for Economic Research

   "The Institute was established to serve the general public interest by
   observing and researching economic developments both in Germany and
   abroad. It assists governmental and industrial decision-making through
   empirical studies and policy analysis. This involves research into a
   wider range of economic issues, forecasting of short-term economic
   developments, and evaluation of long-term economic processes." At this
   site you can read about the Institute, read recent issues of their
   Economic Bulletin, find out about the German Socio-Economic Panel
   (GSOEP), a longitudinal study of Germans with about a sample of about
   5,000 households (the data is available, subject to some restrictions
   on usage due to privacy laws). There is also information on the
   Cooperation Bureau for Economic Research on Eastern Europe, which is
   housed at the Institute, and on WIDAB, which is a interface to
   complicated databases, which is used at the Institute.
   
     # http://www.diw-berlin.de
       
26.20 The Kiel Institute of World Economics

   This institute specializes in research on business cycles and many
   different facets of economic growth (there are additional areas of
   expertise as well). The institute dates from 1914. At their site, you
   can read about their focus areas, lean about their organization, see a
   list of their publications, and connect to their library.
   
     # http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/IfW/
       
26.21 Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research

   This site has all sort of links to servers on this topic. They include
   exchanges, their research in the area (including abstracts of past
   work and notification when current work is completed), and economic
   information on countries in this region.
   
     # http://www.netrus.net/users/gmorles/index.html
       
26.22 Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)

   This organization "is Australia's largest applied economic commodity
   research agency." Their activities include economic research,
   commodity forecasting, funded research, and surveys. Besides reading
   about their activities, you can also read about their publications
   organized by different areas. There is also an extensive bibliography
   on contingent valuation.
   
     # http://www.netrus.net/users/gmorles/index.html
       
26.23 Economic Planning Agency (Japan)

   At this site you can read about the New Economic Plan, a guide to the
   Economic Planning Agency, a hypertext version of "The Economic Survey
   of Japan," numerous white papers, information on many papers from the
   agency's Economic Research Institute, and details on how to order the
   "Annual Report on National Accounts, 1995" on either floppies or
   CD-ROM. There are also summary plots on the economic performance of
   the Japanese economy.
   
     # http://www.epa.go.jp/
       
26.24 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)

   This organization's purpose can easily be determined from its title:
   the promotion of trade with Japan. The current emphasis is on
   assisting exporters to Japan. While the material on this site
   describes their history and organization (including contact around the
   world), most of the site is devoted to explaining their activities,
   which are quite numerous. These include programs to assist importers
   to Japan, cooperation and exchanges with developed and developing
   countries, and communication within Japan. Finally, they have material
   on their publications, and pointers to economic information.
   
     # http://www.jetro.go.jp
       
27 SINGLE SUBJECT ECONOMIC SITES
                                       
27.1 Introduction

   This section lists sites that are primarily oriented towards one
   specific subject and are not directly run by an organization or
   association.
   
27.2 Communications for a Sustainable Future

   This site contains several entries that will be of interest:
   "International Political Economy," "Post-Keynesian Thought" (PKT),
   "The Economics of Climate Variability and Global Change" (Clim-Econ),
   "Debt," "Ecol-Econ" (ecological economics), and "LongWaves" (long
   waves of economic growth). The last two are archives of mailing lists
   of the same name; the last also contains related links.
   
   "International Political Economy" contains a variety of material in
   this field, such as material about many different parts of the world,
   various treaties, and newsletters. It also has publications from the
   German Development Institute. In general, the material is quite
   extensive. PKT contains a variety of material from that field, along
   with archives of the mailing lists PKT and PEN-L. Clim-Econ and Debt
   carry similar material.
   
     # http://csf.colorado.edu/
     # gopher://csf.colorado.edu:70/1/
       
27.3 Antitrust Policy, An online resource linking economic research, policy
     issues, and cases

   This site, organized by Luke Froeb of Vanderbilt University, along
   with a varied editorial board, deals with merger and antitrust policy
   from the perspectives of law, public policy, and economics. There are
   four types of information: antitrust documents, enforcement guidelines
   and speeches, economic bibliographical material, and antitrust issues
   in the news. These types of information are found in four different
   areas: mergers, price fixing, vertical restraints. In addition, there
   is a discussion area.
   
     # http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Owen/froeb/antitrust/antitrust.html
       
27.4 Telecom Information Resources on the Internet

   This server, run by Jeff MacKie-Mason, "contains references to
   information sources relating to the technical, economic, public
   policy, and social aspects of telecommunications. All forms of
   telecommunication, including, voice, data, video, wired, wireless,
   cable TV, and satellite, are included." Most of the document is a set
   of links that deal with this information in detail. There is a very
   substantial amount of information here, and much of it would be of
   interest to economists in this area.
   
     # http://www.spp.umich.edu/telecom-info.html
       
27.5 The Information Economy (by Hal Varian)

   The general theme of this site is the information economy. You'll find
   a great amount of material on the economic analysis of computer
   networks and broadly related areas such as commerce on the Internet,
   the government's role, publishing, etc. In sum, it is a very good
   place to visit. Specifically, the subject headings are "Announcements,
   Background, Accounting, US Government, International, Commerce,
   Intellectual Property, Electronic Publishing, Miscellaneous, Network
   Economics, Pricing, Other Resources, Slides and notes from talks."
   
     # http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon
     # Suggestions: infoecon@sims.berkeley.edu
       
27.6 International Trade & Business WWW Reference Pages

   This offering, run by Werner Antweiler the Policy Analysis Division,
   Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British
   Columbia (and named PACIFIC for Policy Analysis Computing & and
   Information Faciltiy in Computing) offers a number of Internet
   resources in this area. First are resources they provide: Dictionary
   of International Trade and Business (with some 2,000 entries),
   extensive exchange rate information (described elsewhere in this
   guide), the GATT agreement, SITC categories, SIC categories for
   international trade, and the Harmonized Commodity Description And
   Coding System. They also provide links to a number of other Internet
   sites dealing with international trade.
   
     # http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/trade/
       
+ 27.7 The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
+
+  "The Global Trade Analysis Project provides data, a standard model and
+  software, and training for multi-country CGE analysis." The model has
+  37 sectors and 24 regions. Support for this work is provided by a
+  number of different organizations around the world. The model, the
+  data, and extensive information on it are available here.
+   
+    # http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/gtap/index.htm
+    # Information: <conner@agecon.purdue.edu>
       
27.8 The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page

   This site is organized by Christian Zimmermann and is a very nice
   example of what one person can do on the web to make information
   available to the profession (in addition, it has a clever bit of
   humor). In just a short while, it has added an extensive amount of
   very useful information to people in this field. I would think that
   everyone in this area will find something of interest here. There are
   directories and home pages of people in this field; one can even add
   your name to the database on-line. There are also lists of centers in
   this field, RBC papers on-line, recent books, relevant journals, data,
   computer code, and calls for papers. One very useful resource is a
   frequently updated bibliography of the field. It is in html, and will
   soon have 600 entries. This is a nice illustration of how the net can
   be used to support research - it is much more current than any paper
   publication can possible be. Finally, it has a very complete listing
   of other single subject sites in economics.
   
   It also has a section on macro jobs. Besides links to JOE, etc., it
   also lists positions advertised on the web and has a section for
   listing vitaes.
   
     # http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14160/rbc/
       
27.9 Studies using Applied General Equilibrium models (SAGE)

   "SAGE is a database of studies using applied general equilibrium
   models. It was created to disseminate studies AGE models built
   throughout the world and provide students, researchers, professors and
   civil servants with a quick and powerful tool for accessing references
   to AGEs according to the country studied, the subject of analysis and
   the specific approaches used." Currently, the database has
   bibliographical information on over 600 studies (both published and
   unpublished), and can be searched by the authors' name and keywords.
   
   It is run by John Cockburn, Luc Savard, Pierre Couillard and Bernard
   Decaluwi, all of Department of Economics, University Laval, Quebec.
   
     # http://paradi1.ecn.ulaval.ca/
       
27.10 Model User Group International (CGE Modeling)

   This organization is devoted to computational general equilibrium
   modeling. You can read about their most recent conference, job
   announcements, course outlines, and links to related sites.
   
     # http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~mug/index.html
       
27.11 Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page

   This site contains much more than just the usual pointers to other
   related material and a scattering of related information. At this
   site, one can learn a fair amount about game theory, experimental
   economics, and their intersection.
   
     # http://www.pitt.edu/~alroth/alroth.html
       
27.12 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page

   At this site you can read David Levine's working papers (many are with
   Drew Fudenberg). The papers are in Microsoft Word format, but there is
   a link to Microsoft, where you can download a free viewer for such
   documents. There is a link here to Drew Fudenberg's page, where you
   can read the abstracts of these papers.
   
     # http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/
       
27.13 Jim Ratliff's List of Game Theory Resources on the Net

   This is one more listing of game theory resources on the Internet. It
   covers game theory in general, books journals and papers, courses on
   the subject, mailing lists, and game theorists on the net.
   
     # http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/jratliff/GameTheoryResources.html
       
27.14 Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and Applications (CITG)

   This site includes a number of resources in game theory. They include
   the abstracts of the International Journal of Game Theory, past and
   current issues of the POOL (the listing service in game theory), past
   and current issues of the ISDG (The International Society of Dynamic
   Games) Newsletter, information on meetings and seminars, the
   newsletter of this centre, a bibliography (in Italian), and a mirror
   of the game theory section of the Working Paper Archive.
   
     # http://fismat.dima.unige.it/citg/citg.htm
       
27.15 Computational Economic Modeling

   This site lists places with resources for computational economics.
   Categories include announcements, workshops, some working papers, and
   a catch-all category of interesting links.
   
     # http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/index.html
       
27.16 Health Economics - Places to Go

   This site offers a very wide collection of resources on the Internet
   in health economics. The topics are divide into several areas: Health
   Economics, Evaluation of Health Care Technologies, Health Policy,
   Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Information, Public Health and
   Epidemiology, Managed Care/Health Care Industry, Medical Resources,
   and Miscellaneous. Each area lists a number of different resources.
   
     # http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/vwliv/hec.html
       
27.17 Law and Economics

   This site has pointers to numerous law and economics resources on the
   net. They include associations, on-line working papers,
   bibliographies, mailing lists, and a variety of other material in both
   these fields. It also includes the full indexes of the Journal of Law
   and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies.
   
     # http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~tstanley/lawecon.html
       
27.18 Stan Liebowtiz on Path Dependence and Network Externalities

   Here you can read about Stan Liebowtiz and Steve Margolis' work in
   this area, that has attracted a considerable amount of recent
   interest. Papers are also available.
   
     # http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/
       
27.19 The Informal Credit Homepage

   This site offers a number of resources on informal credit,
   microcredit, etc. Sections include a bibliography, documents and case
   studies in the area, libraries, Internet resources, and mailing lists.
   
     # http://titsoc.soc.titech.ac.jp:80/titsoc/higuchi-lab/icm/
       
27.20 Openair-Market Net: The World Wide Guide to Farmers' Markets, Street
      Markets, Flea Markets and Street Vendors

   While much of this resource is likely of interest to specialists in
   this field, some of it is likely to be of interest to economists in
   general.
   
     # http://www.openair.org/
       
27.21 REESweb : Russian and East European Studies - Business, Economics, and
      Law Resources

   This site contains a substantial variety of material from many
   disciplines on Russia and Eastern Europe. The actual reference given
   here is to their listing of economic material in this part of the
   world (you can click back to their main page from there, however).
   Besides material of interest to academic economists, there is general
   business material as well.
   
     # http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rsecon.html
       
27.22 RESECON: Land and Resource Economics Network

   This server is for those "with an interest in the economics of land
   and other natural resources. It is primarily an association serving
   the academic and professional economics community..." The primary
   method of discourse is the RESECON mailing list (described in the
   mailing list section). Past postings are archived, and other material
   is available as well, and is expected to grow. Perhaps the most useful
   is material on submission policies of different journals in the field.
   
     # http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/rmporter/resecon_home.html
       
27.23 Economic Growth Resources

   This site has a number of useful resources for those interested in
   this topic. It includes datasets, a list of general developmental
   resources, information on the "Journal of Economic Growth," extensive
   reading lists (key references, and literature surveys), an area for
   the latest research, information on the mailing list
   "economic-growth," working papers, and other links of interest.
   
     # http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/Growth/
       
27.24 Agricultural Economics Virtual Library

   This page lists a very large number of sites for agricultural
   economists. They are grouped in the following categories: "Mega
   Resources" (i.e. each resource covers many areas in the field),
   journals, mailing lists, extension services, agricultural markets,
   news, trade and policy, associations, and department of agricultural
   economics. Since each category lists a large number of resources,
   agricultural economists will find a large amount of useful material
   here.
   
     # http://www.ttu.edu:80/~aecovl/
     # Information: Jason Beddow <beddow@ttu.edu>
       
27.25 In-Sites - Resources for Agricultural Economists

   This site also offers a large number of sites of interest to
   agricultural economists. They are categorized in the following
   sections: institutes, departments and extension services, GATT and
   NAFTA, general agriculture, international institutions and
   organizations, internet resources, subdisciplines in the field,
   statistical agencies, and various Internet sites.
   
     # http://kierkegaard.ifas.ufl.edu/
       
27.26 Banking on the WWW

   Material on this site is devoted to banking. It is broken up into the
   following categories: Guides and General Information, Banks of the
   World, Supervising and Deposit Insurance, Academic Research on
   Banking, Banking and Finance in Electronic Media, Law and Banking, and
   Miscellaneous. However, perhaps the most useful categories are the
   first two that have a large number of links to banks.
   
     # http://www.wiso.gwdg.de/ifbg/banking.html
       
27.27 RISKWeb

   This service is the web counterpart of RISKNet, a mailing list devoted
   to risk and insurance issues (it is described in the mailing list
   section). Besides considerable material on the mailing list, one can
   search "the Journal of Risk and Insurance Article Abstracts
   (1986-present), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Article Abstracts
   (served by permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers, Inc.), the
   RMI-WPA (Risk and Insurance Working Paper Archive, Insurance Fraud
   Research Register and the RISKNet biographical information database."
   There are also links to working paper and teaching archives,
   announcements, and a job center, all in this area. Finally, there are
   also links to other Internet sites in this area.
   
     # http://www.finweb.com/riskweb.htm
       
27.28 Marshall Studies Bulletin

   This is the on-line version of the University Florence's annual
   publication on Alfred Marshall. It also has material on the the
   history of economic thought in Britain in the last two centuries. It
   has the current and back issues, some electronic text by Marshall, and
   information on newsletters and meetings.
   
     # http://www.cce.unifi.it/rivista/welcome.htm
       
27.29 Institutional Economics

   This site, devoted to institutional economics, has material on working
   papers, reviews, and course outlines pertaining to the field. There is
   also an area for announcements, such as meetings.
   
     # http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/instecon.htm
       
27.30 Turkish Economics Page

   This site provides all sorts of links relating to Turkey. Besides a
   wealth of economic data, there are also links to organizations, news,
   other data sources, and general links that will be of interest to
   those interested in this country.
   
     # http://www.siue.edu/~itanris/econtr.html
       
27.31 History of Economics Internet References

   This site lists references to sites that deal with the history of
   economics (not economic history). The subjects include general
   references, Marxism, neoclassical economics, Keynesianism, and
   specific topics. There is also material on related organizations and
   future conferences.
   
     # http://cfec.vub.ac.be/cfec/hope.htm
       
+ 27.32 Social Interaction Economics & Computing (SIEC)
+
+  This site is devoted to a new approach to economic modeling -
+  "economics without representative agents." They offer a reading list,
+  information about a conference held on the subject, working papers in
+  the field, and related sites on the net.
+   
+    # http://economia.unian.it/~fabio/siec.html
       
+ 27.33 Central Bank Resource Center
+
+  This site, run by Mark Bernkopf, deals with all aspects of central
+  banking. This includes an extensive list of central banks from around
+  the world (an amazing number are on-line), "Multilateral Financial
+  Institutions," "Research and/or Training Establishments," "General
+  Resources," "Resources on Electronic Cash and the Monetary System,"
+  and "Conferences." There is also an interesting story on the First
+  Bank of the United States.
+   
+    # http://adams.patriot.net/~bernkopf/
       
+ 27.34 International Trade Data
+
+  This site is designed for those doing work in empirical international
+  trade. One major focus is a "comprehensive set of industry
+  concordances." There are also pointers to significant international
+  datasets.
+   
+    # http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/Trade.html
       
